About half of the land around Rainey Street near downtown is up for sale by Perry Lorenz, Robert Knight and the Knight Real Estate Corp. The area is already home to the Milago condos. The MACC and the Shore are under construction. Construction of the Legacy Apartments is expected to start soon. Despite that, except for one modern interloper, Rainey Street between Driskill Street and River Street probably has the best collection of unaltered... more ›

Local developers Perry Lorenz and Larry Warshaw (responsible for many Eastside condo projects) and Rick Engel (co-owner of Austin Java) have a contract to buy the Shady Grove RV Park from Susan Toomey Frost, and plan to turn the area into ... wait for it ... condos! The nearby Pecan Grove and Mobile Manor trailer parks, though, are not yet scheduled for condification. The plan, shown above, would create two strips of condos perpendicular... more ›

According to this week's Statesman, another Eastside loft development is being bandied about. The so-called TwentyOne24 is to be built at East Sixth and Robert Martinez Jr., a stone's throw from their already finished project, the Pedernales Lofts (and the bar that we simultaneously love and hate, The Peacock). Prices for the residential units are estimated at between $150,000 to $240,000, and will likely come with the standard "loft" amenities now found in virtually... more ›