Big plans are in theworks for downtown’s western edge, with retail, residential, and office developments expected to break ground by midyear. From top, an aerial view of the Austin MarketPlace,a retail-intensive project at Sixth and Lamar scheduled to open in spring 2000; Museum Park, a Scott Young office complex above retail, planned at Fifth and San Antonio; the Nokonah, a Robert Barnstone/Perry Lorenz condominium development at Henderson and Ninth, off Lamar; an aerial view of Post Properties’ Poleyard apartments on Bowie near Fifth; and finally a blow-up of what the Austin MarketPlace might looklike from street-level; .
CREDITS: THE SCHLOSSER GROUP (MARKETPLACE), POST PROPERTIES (POLEYARD); ROBERT BARNSTONE/PERRY LORENZ (NOKONAH); SCOTT YOUNG (MUSEUM PARK).
POP QUIZ: CAN YOU FIND THE ELECTRIC LOUNGE IN TWO OF THESE RENDERINGS?
FOR BONUS POINTS, WHY IS SOMEONE DANCING IN A FOUNTAIN IN THE RENDERING ABOVE?
This article appears in February 5 • 1999 and February 5 • 1999 (Cover).