Naked City

The city has hired an architect known for his grand, sweeping designs to build the new City Hall, but size restrictions imposed by a contract with Computer Sciences Corporation may limit its creativity and scope.

"...As per the city's agreement with CSC, which is building office buildings on adjacent blocks to..."

July 7, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

The City Council considers ways to strengthen Austin's Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise Program, which awards contracts for city work to businesses owned by minorities and women.

"...Which brings us to CSC, one of the biggest construction projects the city is..."

Dec. 31, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Downtown Mishmash

Hard Day's Night

"...city rush into making the move? Well, remember the CSC deal?..."

June 11, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Page Two

"...is holding its final public hearing on the massive CSC/City Hall proposal, and in fact, may have already made..."

March 26, 1999 Column by Louis Black

The Year It All Went Wrong

Looking back at club closings in Austin in 1999.

"...a plan to bring software developer Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) and its 1,500 employees to the downtown area as..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Good Earth

TEA for Texas

"...The great CSC contract scare of 1999 is officially over. Before the..."

July 23, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Silicon Labs to Move Downtown, Out of Watershed

Company's decision to move was partly due to concerns about expanding in environmentally sensitive terrain

"...begin moving some of its 500 employees to the CSC site in mid-to-late 2006. The building comes with a..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...CSC, Intel, & Smart Growth..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Column

Naked City

Under fire, designs for the new city hall received a less-than-enthusiastic approval by City Council last week.

"...known, the terms of the city's master agreement with CSC dictate other limitations citizens now find objectionable, and not..."

Feb. 9, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Nonprofit Needs

"...Rene Craft Welcome CSC..."

March 19, 1999 Column

You Do Not Tear Down Landmarks

"...put a large information technology company, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), right where Liberty Lunch currently sits. Two separate six-story..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Naked City

Developers float a proposal to reduce the size of the Green Water Treatment Plant on Town Lake and build something more profitable there, but they'll have to get in line -- the city already sees the site as a prime location for the new central library.

"...San Antonio and Guadalupe Streets, immediately adjacent to the CSC development. But Council Member Will Wynn had to do..."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin.

"...the construction of a private tunnel connecting the three CSC buildings along East Cesar Chavez and Second Street. Why..."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Down to Two

Runoff candidates offer views on city's future.

"...the size of my city hall is determined by CSC. I personally don't like that. But I wasn't in..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

RomaDesign Group prepares to present its revised redevelopment plan for Robert Mueller Airport to theCity Council; now the ex-airport just needs some tenants.

"...swapping Mueller for land over the aquifer. Like the CSC deal, this makes more sense as a political fiat..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Council Watch

Business as Usual: After Bradley, Council Moves on to Other Things

"...the Bradley settlement.The Numbers Game Minority contracting associations and CSC are continuing to disagree about the company's level of..."

April 7, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Visions of the West

"......"

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature

The Lay of the Land

Timing Is Everything

"...developers, AMLI (in the Warehouse District near the proposed CSC site) and Post Properties (at the Poleyard at the..."

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Magic Time

Oh, the sights you'll see at First Night Austin

"...Clickety Cloggers – Clog Dancing!, CSC front entrance, 200 W. Cesar Chavez: Appalachian-style clogging performed..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Your Beautiful New Home

Welcome to the City Hall you thought would never come

"...block, and deviating from the Lego-like regularity of its CSC and AMLI siblings. Most of those gestures, though, bring..."

Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Race and APD, and so much more, for City Hall this week

"...AMLI, which is managing the brand-new shopping street between CSC, the new City Hall, AMLI's two apartment blocks (one..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Lights Are On: Is Anybody Home?

Downtown's boom has busted, yet developers still build.

"...company backed out of building a third office building. CSC has enough difficulty just trying to fill its two..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Devil in the Details

After 10 years, the Great Streets master plan runs into controversy over two-way streets.

"...the Second Street Retail District born out of the CSC/City Hall deal, and the Lance Armstrong Bikeway. See "All..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...We worked very hard to get CSC and Motorola to locate outside the Barton Springs watershed...."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column

Naked City

Against all odds, the design for the new City Hall does everything its architects promised it would do, from providing public spaces, to integrating natural elements, to simply looking good.

"...is an afterthought to the downtown waterfront's annexation by CSC. Oh, no. "In a public-private partnership with Computer Sciences..."

Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Council Watch

Council reluctantly approves retail in the new city hall, with the stipulation that there be no gaudy storefronts on Second Street.

"...square feet of retail on the blocks occupied by CSC and the proposed AMLI apartment building, is barely massive..."

June 16, 2000 News Column by Kevin Fullerton

Downtown Developments

"...What: First of three blocks to be occupied by CSC on city-owned property. Details are still in the works..."

Dec. 24, 1999 News Feature by Amy Smith

Just Say No Way

Same Old Song

"...The second public hearing on the famed CSC-downtown project was even more serene and uneventful than last..."

April 2, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff

That Was the Year That Was

Impatience Is a Virtue

"...to act that got new plans adopted (Smart Growth, CSC, Cedar Avenue accord), old plans dusted off and, after..."

Jan. 1, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff

Panel Upholds Olsen Firing, but Case Doesn't End Here

APD officer loses first round of appeal challenging his firing

"...of the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Apparently, the three-member CSC agreed; on Feb. 29 they upheld Olsen's termination...."

March 7, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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