Austin Condo Report

Council sets goal for plastic bag reductions

Jude — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:50:27 +0000

“The Austin City Council adopted a plan to reduce the number of plastic
bags entering the city solid waste system by 50 percent in the next
year.”

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Rollingwood exists the dark ages and gets sewer sevice!

Jude — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:08:09 +0000

It perhaps surprised no one when Gary Keller, the chairman of Keller
Williams Realty, bought two lots in Rollingwood, razed the existing
houses and built a 7,700-square-foot Italianate estate for his family
in 2004.

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Annex San Jose Coming to South Congress

Jude — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:22:34 +0000

The long anticipated condo project near the Hotel San Jose finally has a flashy website and a big billboard. The project will apparently include 77 condos ranging in price from $300k-$900k and may break ground before the end of this year. The condos will be south and west of the hotel (South Congress and Gibson). They are being designed as a collaboration between San Antonio’s Lake|Flato Architects (they also did the hotel) and Austin’s Hurt Partners Architects.

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Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival Events: The Delicious Details

Jude — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:17:44 +0000

Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival
Thursday, April 10-Sunday, April 13
Various Venues (Austin)
Four Days of Culinary Events
[info] | [tickets]

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February Condo Sales

Jude — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:41:50 +0000

February	dt	1b	5	6	7	ut
sales	6	8	1	14	1	8
high psf	381	299	238	425	255	276
low psf	246	141	238	133	255	217
avg psf	315	204	238	250	255	246
avg dom	88	71	35	94	178	51

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Arthouse expanding

Jude — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:38:00 +0000

Arthouse says the expansion will triple its total space from 7,000 square feet to 20,830 square feet. The two-story building, built in 1850, is four blocks south of the Capitol building. In 1920, it housed the Queen Theater and it was turned into Lerner Shops department store in the 1950s.

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Villa Muse developers eye other cities

Jude — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:32:48 +0000

City Council really screwed this up.

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Downtown living demand is strong, study shows

Jude — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:37:30 +0000

The steel and glass residential towers set to reshape the downtown Austin skyline aren’t a pipedream. They’re coming–and they’re going to be filled, a new study shows.

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February Sales

Jude — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:03:37 +0000

February	dt	1b	5	6	7	ut
sales	6	8	1	14	1	8
high psf	381	299	238	425	255	276
low psf	246	141	238	133	255	217
avg psf	315	204	238	250	255	246
avg dom	88	71	35	94	178	51

CL: find of the day

Jude — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:44:33 +0000

The urbanist in me is big fan of residing near the Commuter Rail. I’m also a huge fan of KRDB’s work.

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