Saturday marks the opening of Wheelchair Epidemic, a group show featuring exclusive black and white photos taken at Antone’s, 80s Austin punk scene photos by documentary photog Bill Daniel, and various music-inspired drawings, paintings and mixed media collages. more ›

Plans have been released for a new 44-story condo/hotel/museum tower on Third Street between Brazos and San Jacinto. It would be the second such tower by ACE (Art Commerce Entertainment) Unlimited - they did a similar tower in Louisville, Kentucky. The plans call for a nearly even split between hotel rooms and condos, plus a restaurant, café, contemporary art museum, and artist lofts (below market rentals). Various architects are involved in the project: Deborah... more ›

Seaholm Power, LLC has released new renderings of the proposed Seaholm Power Plant redevelopment, which it will present to City Council tonight. The site plan includes an extension of the city street grid, filling the gap in Third Street, connecting West Avenue to Cesar Chavez and adding a new street, Seaholm Drive, between Third Street and Cesar Chavez. Both new streets get pedestrian/bicycle crossings at their intersections with Cesar Chavez, to help integrate this... more ›

Plans for the block between Second and Third Street on the east side of Congress have been released. In the place of Las Manitas, Escuelita del Alma Learning Center, and Tesoros Trading Company, we will have a Marriott hotel, a Marriott Renaissance Hotel and a Springhill Suites by Marriott Hotel. These will complement the Courtyard by Marriott and the Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott being built on Fourth Street. All five Marriotts will... more ›

How high is too high?
This isn't a reflective piece by Cheech and Chong...we're talking about construction downtown, this time a 36-story condominum complex planned for Third Street, a block east of Lamar. Members of the Old West Austin Neighborhood Association want to wait to see city's entire plan for downtown before signing off the "ok" to build the ginormous building. They're afraid of what's coming....in other words, how many other towers are going to block their view. There's currently 13 projects in the works. more ›