Found 2 blog entries tagged as Congress Ave.

This roughly-200,000-square-foot mixed-use development is being planned in South Austin's St. Elmo District. SCREENSHOT OF CITY OF AUSTIN DOCUMENTS

A big mixed-use development is being planned in the St. Elmo District.

The development, known simply by its address of 4201 S. Congress Ave., would feature around 200,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and office space in multiple mid-rise buildings at the intersection of South Congress Avenue and Industrial Boulevard, according to a site plan application filed with the city.

The developer and owner of the property is an entity called 4201 S Congress Ave Owner LLC, the address of which matches that of California-based developer Redcar Properties, which is developing a creative office project farther south in the St. Elmo District. Redcar did not respond to requests for comment.

The eight proposed buildings carry a range of uses and sizes,…

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315 Congress Ave., which could be rezoned to allow for a taller building. DAVE CREANEY

Austin Business Journal shares, "A new tower could be on tap for South Congress Avenue if a zoning change is approved Sept. 26 by the City Council. 

The tower — on a roughly 1-acre tract at 311-315 S. Congress Ave., which is just south of the old Austin American-Statesman building — would contain 488 residential units, 30,000 square feet of office space and 7,500 square feet for "ground floor pedestrian-oriented uses," according to city documents. 

The location is not within the planned unit development for the former Statesman site that is the subject of a lawsuit, although it is nearby.

The potential new zoning on the tract would allow for construction of a building up to 480 feet tall, or almost 50 stories. Currently, the site is the…

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