Somewhat surprised there isn't an Austin thread. Not sure if we really need one, but I came across this while reading the Business Journal and thought it was a pretty interesting looking building. HUGE parking podium...but a good looking office building on top. Imagine this at BPV... https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news ... x_artPos=1
At what point does it stop? I mean they haven’t even opened several high rise condos that I thought were not selling well. I understand the growth has been crazy in the last 20 years but is the boom ever going to end? And how are lenders still behind projects like this if the rents/prices have fallen off? I don’t see the job numbers still going bonkers. I’m reading all kinds of stories about vacancies in Austin and these developers just keep building hundreds of millions inc speculative properties. This kind of risk taking is happening nowhere else.
A 35 story tower is nothing to them at this point. Midwest legacy cities vying for even one similar size project to have going at a time. It’s like Austin is something separate from the market and developers are just going down there to one up the last person because it’s trendy. It’s very confusing to me.
Anyways, I really dislike all of their tall building designs - I don’t find them probably aging well. It’s kind of redundant when your whole skyline is only glass towers. What makes a skyline great is the builds from different architectural periods.
Metropolitan Square and the Eagleton building are two of my favorite skyscrapers in the US. They don't build them like that anymore and probably never will again.
