For the First Time Since 2015, a New Austin Music Census Is Now Open

Survey seeks measurable industry feedback to guide policy and support

"...The first-ever Austin Music Census, circa 2015, is still referenced to this..."

July 15, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Merck in Austin?

Pharma firm considers “Innovation” location, Austin city incentives

"...Friday afternoon, March 31, the city of Austin announced a proposal to provide economic incentives to New..."

April 3, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Clock Runs Out on Music Hub: Mosaic Sound Collective Losing Lease to Development

Owners hold hopes to relocate music industry collective

"...Mosaic Sound Collective, the East Austin music/entrepreneurial hub that opened in 2017, is winding down..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Music Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Point Austin: Instrumental Incentives

The National Instruments deal provides a model for economic development

"...Of the economic incentive deals put together by the city of Austin..."

March 8, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Faster Than Sound: Could Austin Arts & Music Finally Get a Cultural Trust?

It's not here yet, but talks are intensifying. Also, bars and a few live music venues reopen.

"...As the city of Austin continues to divvy COVID-19 relief, music advocates are making..."

May 29, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

As the Region Booms, Farmers Struggle to Feed Austin Locally

As the region booms, farmers struggle to feed Austin locally

"...Texas boom. Their Green Gate Farms property in North­east Austin, which they've rented for 17 years, shrunk from 10..."

Feb. 24, 2023 News Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Austin's Chambermaid

"...excise Chamber member Gary Bradley's Circle C subdivision from Austin's extra-territorial jurisdiction, the Chamber of Commerce Executive Board voted..."

June 16, 1995 News Column by Alex de Marban

Point Austin: Samsung's Domain

The city eagerly raises the corporate incentive flag, and we're all expected to salute

"...had a chance to read and review the proposed "Economic Development Agreement" between the city of Austin and Samsung..."

Aug. 19, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Bad Loan

Las Manitas wins even without city loan

"...city suggested resolving the impasse by using the projected development fees generated by the hotel project (primarily for alley..."

Aug. 24, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Austin @ Large: Money for Love

There's a word for that sort of thing. It starts with an 'F.'

"..."substantial" incentives to keep the corporate headquarters here in Austin. "Substantial" as in the biggest Austin incentive package ever,..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Energy's Strategic Plan

The details of the utility's 50-year vision for the future

"...The much-discussed long-range strategic plan for Austin Energy is a 50-year vision into the future for..."

Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: When a House Is Not a Home

Workers and homeowners seek justice from home builders

"...Michigan-based Pulte Homes resulted in the closing of the Austin administration office. Centex management has scurried back to Dallas..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Raising the Bar

AMD opens its Lantana campus, and the questions continue

"..."They have set the bar pretty high for commercial development on the aquifer, and this is now a bare..."

June 20, 2008 News Column by Michael King

From Liberty Lunch to Homeland Security: Austin's Walk With CSC

Computer Sciences Corp. is now one of America's largest defense contractors. Is this a problem for City Hall?

"...Is the city of Austin -- which recently passed a resolution opposing a unilateral..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The roots of the Seton and CSC conundrums

"...of three blocks of city-owned land to Computer Sciences Corporation, were great solutions to thorny problems. They were, unfortunately,..."

Jan. 25, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Council Preview: City Finds $15 Million to Help Struggling Businesses

Three programs designed to assist economic sectors forced to close early in the pandemic

"...The three $5 million programs are designed to assist economic sectors forced to close early in the pandemic as..."

Oct. 2, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Public Notice: Brave New World

Remaking Austin, one highway and music club at a time

"...Capital Express Central plan to rebuild I-35 through Central Austin and actually, my pagemate Mike Clark-Madison has that covered..."

Jan. 28, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

City Council Approves SAVES Resolution to Rescue Venues, Bars, Restaurants

City will explore potential funding sources for struggling sectors

"...As Austin’s iconic music and arts venues, bars, and restaurants continue..."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Who You Gonna Call?

Small Texas towns look to Austin and Washington to jump-start economic development

"...regulatory exceptions and tax breaks for their industries when economic forces threatened to sink them...."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

All Aboard

New ARA Board Swells With Inclusion

"...`we' now," muses Mark Rogers on the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation's (GNDC) new status as a member of the..."

Feb. 13, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Faster Than Sound: Live Music Preservation Fund Pays 73 Venues

Ongoing funding under Phase 2 to begin in March.

"...Phase 1 of the Austin Live Music Venue Preservation Fund distributed checks to 73..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Economics From the Bottom Up

A profile of Accion Texas, CDC, and other microlenders

"...entrepreneurs who were riding the crest of the biggest economic swell Austin's ever seen convened their second 360 Summit:..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

What the Broken Spoke's Historic Designation Could Mean for Music Venue Preservation

Honky-tonk could join sites eyed for city venue investments

"...city designation that could help secure a more stable economic future for the venue as development and rising property..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Music Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Bygone Buildings

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

"...In go-go Austin, displacement is the rule. A video store seems to..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

Get on the Bus

illustration by Doug Potter

"...Capitol Metro bus for a historical tour of East Austin last Wednesday would have had plenty to argue about...."

July 25, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

The Shark Bites Back

Mitchell Says the Eastside Needs Sharp Teeth

"...Mitchell photograph by Alan Pogue On election day for Austin's 1994 city council races, James Harper and Carol Hadnot..."

April 18, 1997 News Feature

The ARA Myth

Empty Promises on the Eastside

"...needs to be a Plan-with-a-big-P at all, that East Austin is helpless on its own, that investors will never..."

June 20, 1997 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Changing of the Board

"...Herman Lessard, Austin Area Urban League Spencer Hayes, Greater Austin Chamber of..."

Oct. 24, 1997 News Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...the trip and has been actively forging ties between Austin and Georgetown since showing up in Watson's office the..."

July 18, 1997 News Feature

Council Recap: The Beat Goes On, Ever So Slowly

Music scene frustrated at pace of COVID relief

"...grant programs, initially established in October with Council’s Save Austin’s Vital Economic Sectors (SAVES) resolution. In addition to finalizing..."

Dec. 4, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

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