The long and winding road to the City of Austin’s development of a roughly 19-acre land assembly in the historic St. John neighborhood with mixed-income housing and park space only has a few twists and turns left. You’ll agree that’s good news considering the timeline at play here — the adjacent tracts at 7211 and 7309 North Interstate 35, once respectively occupied by a Home ..read more

On July 19, 1976, University of Florida graduates Jerry Strader and Scott Leist opened the first Conans Pizza at 29th and Guadalupe Streets near the University of Texas, instantly winning over pizza-starved students and everyone else with its Chicago-inspired deep-dish pan pies and strangely compelling whole wheat crust. Despite the closure of that original location in 2018, Conans is ..read more

At its meeting earlier today, Austin’s City Council passed a resolution initiating a number of potential modifications to the city’s Downtown Density Bonus Program — that’s a set of optional guidelines first established in 2014 allowing developers to build taller and bigger buildings downtown in exchange for meeting various community benefit requirements, like pedestrian-friendly street designs, superior energy efficiency, and affordable housing. The resolution instructs Austin’s ..read more

Although he’s often called the originator of Austin’s urbanist movement, Chris Riley is really just a guy who believes in the potential of cities as places for people. As a former City Council member, co-founder of the Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association, and a friend of everyone involved with this site since the beginning, Chris revealing that his cancer ..read more

Efforts by the Austin Independent School District to repurpose one of its large land holdings for affordable housing development are moving forward, with a rezoning case for a nearly 20-acre AISD property in the Govalle neighborhood of East Austin known as the Anita Ferrales Coy Facility at 4900 Gonzales Street securing the approval of Austin’s Planning Commission earlier this week. The rezoning, now scheduled ..read more

If you drive regularly on Cameron Road between East 51st Street and Rundberg, or Dessau Road, which is what that same road’s called once you hit the north side of Rundberg all the way up to Parmer Lane, you’re probably aware in the abstract that it’s a pretty difficult transportation corridor — busy, congested, maybe even risky ..read more

Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic was an Austin tradition for a while, or at least an Austin-area tradition, but after consistently hosting the event here from 2015 to 2023 — with 2020 and 2021 skipped for pandemic reasons, naturally — Texans were shocked to learn a few months back that the 2024 picnic would take place in Camden, New Jersey. Although ..read more

Do you remember playing in the street? Sorry if this sounds too much like one of those memes about drinking from the hose, but seriously, that’s something kids used to do. The thrill of reclaiming these neighborhood spaces without the fear of getting hit by a car is within our grasp this summer thanks to the city’s Living Streets Program, which is ..read more

Here’s a completely true thing you can say that will greatly irritate many people: Condos are pretty rare in Austin. Although they’re the boogeyman of choice for locals lamenting the relentless march of time, the fact is that the vast majority of new multifamily residential construction in Austin delivers apartments for rent, rather than condos ..read more

Two residential developments planned roughly two miles apart on the Central Austin corridor of North Lamar Boulevard are marking groundbreakings this month, with both projects bringing a combined total of 605 new apartment residences to the area — yet another sign that even a softening housing market hasn’t stopped many planned multifamily residential developments from ..read more