Public Notice: Two More Years!

What’s the one thing missing from Steve Adler’s resumé?

"...and sharpened its focus on social services. His grand Downtown Puzzle initiative centered on a Convention Center expansion is..."

Dec. 25, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin at Large: Yup, He Goofed! Now What?

For Austin’s own good, we may want to patch up that hole Steve Adler shot in his foot

"...to be made to everybody's benefit. Sometimes it's a Downtown Puzzle; sometimes it's your daughter's wedding. It's not his..."

Dec. 11, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Venues Are Out of Money

Following last week’s Barracuda closure, a domino effect will continue without emergency city funding

"...scene hard. Shuttering of Red River club Plush and Downtown lounge the Townsend preceded in weeks prior. Despite lengthy..."

June 19, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

More Money, More Options for I-35

The decades-long plan to rebuild Interstate 35 through the heart of Austin is picking up speed

"...$4.3 billion in funding. The very next day, the Downtown Austin Alliance revealed the work of an expert panel..."

March 6, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

How the Red River Cultural District Was Made

Decades of off-kilter activity and music activism culminate in our current concert hub

"...both spiritually and physically, as you could get in Downtown Austin."..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Day Trips: Coming in 2020 Across Texas

What Capt. Day Trips is looking forward to in the new year

"...where a bandstand now stands. Visitors can expect several downtown street closures as part of the redevelopment project...."

Jan. 10, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

2019's Big Stories Shaping Austin's Path Into a New Decade

Never a slow news day

"...ago as the central piece of Mayor Steve Adler's "Downtown Puzzle" and in May received unanimous City Council assent..."

Dec. 20, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

County Revives Proposal for Palm School / Expo Center Land Swap

County Judge’s latest offer to city manager expires Dec. 16

"...Now that Austin and Travis County voters have expressed..."

Nov. 22, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Faster Than Sound – Sex Bomb to Sister Ray: Recapping Levitation’s Second Downtown Go-Round

Scenes from Austin’s marquee independent music fest

"...night of Levitation, carefully arranged myriad music scenes like puzzle pieces on the Downtown map. Berets and beanies bobbed..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

City Council Moves Gently on Riverside Redevelopment, Less So on Hotel Occupancy Tax

First meeting after summer break features plenty of theatrics

"...as a key part of solving Mayor Steve Adler’s “downtown puzzle.” But the move to raise the HOT this..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Austin at Large: Let's Take a Vote on That

Forced elections are now routine, but are they "grassroots"?

"...course to rebuild the place and complete the mayor's "Downtown Puzzle," as we reported in depth last week. But..."

July 26, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

To Expand the Convention Center or Not?

Despite unanimous support from City Council, voters will decide the answer

"...in and redesign of the surrounding southeast quarter of Downtown, now dubbed the "Palm District." In its grand –..."

July 19, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Battle Lines Drawn Over Convention Center Expansion

CM Jimmy Flannigan and AIBA ED Rebecca Melançon don't see eye to eye

"...Melançon joins Save Our Springs Alliance among opponents of..."

June 5, 2019 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Council Moves on Convention Center Plans

The 24-page resolution brings together many of the moving parts from last summer’s “Downtown Puzzle”

"...wide-ranging set of measures for the southeast quadrant of Downtown, dubbed – at least for now – the "Palm..."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Council Gives Green Light to Convention Center, Scooter Riders

May 23 meeting tackles "Downtown puzzle," "micro-mobility"

"...Tovo’s already lengthy resolution regarding the southeast quadrant of downtown, home to the Convention Center and other projects. These..."

May 24, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Project Connect's Blue Line to Connect Austin Airport to Downtown

Cap Metro moves forward with high-capacity transit plan

"...from Austin-Bergstrom Inter­na­tion­al Airport, down Riverside Drive, and into Downtown where it will connect with Orange's north/south route on..."

May 24, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Austin City Council Prepped to Tackle Palm District, Micro-Mobility, and More

A preview of the May 23 Council meeting

"...Kathie Tovo’s omnibus resolution covering the southeast quadrant of Downtown – Convention Center expansion, Palm School, Waller Creek, Rainey..."

May 22, 2019 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

City Council Considers the Convention Center

Plans big and small for the city center

"...1992, the Center was at the southeast corner of Downtown – in the years since, it has become the..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

UT Releases Convention Center Study

Council to consider “alternative futures” for Southeast Downtown

"...as a central element of Mayor Steve Adler’s proposed “Downtown Puzzle,” which would leverage additional Hotel Occupancy Tax revenue..."

April 1, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Point Austin: It Ain’t Easy Being Weird

Welcome to Austin – accept our gift of the spirit of change

"...of interrelated efforts, dubbed by Mayor Steve Adler the "Downtown Puzzle," under which tax increment funding provided by the..."

March 15, 2019 News Column by Michael King

The Past, Present, and Future of Waller and Shoal Creeks

Finally doing right by Austin's waterways

"...a survivor of past decades' unstable incarnations of Austin's Downtown creeks as places for people. (Including people without homes,..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

ARCH Support

Eradicating homelessness requires a system

"...near the ARCH and the other services in that Downtown area. Case management for everyone is an expensive proposition,..."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Council: Visit Austin, But How?

Defining oversight for city tourism

"...the early months of the summer scheming up the "Downtown Puzzle" plan, to fund everything from the expansion to..."

June 22, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

What About Austin?

Jan. 8, 2018 Postmarks

Point Austin: Adler’s 2017 Austin Checklist

As 2018 dawns, the mayor compiles a list of accomplishments

"...that would likely become campaign issues: CodeNEXT and the "Downtown Puzzle." On the former, Adler cites "continues to advocate..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Downtown Puzzle: It Ain’t Solved Yet

Can the mayor make the pieces fit together?

"...Although it only hit the headlines this fall, the "Puzzle" – Mayor Steve Adler's name for a multipurpose approach..."

Dec. 29, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

If It Ain't Bruch, Don't Fix It

Just a drummer from Iowa? Just a culinary badass? Hold his beer.

"...the wife of John-Luc Salle, who owned John-Luc’s Bistro downtown, back in the day? – he was my French..."

Dec. 21, 2017 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point Austin: Unfinished Business

Working Austin's weirding ways to New Year's resolutions

"...base – to offer up a prime piece of Downtown real estate and a diverse, fairly flush clientele for..."

Dec. 15, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Council: Welcome to the Holiday Rush

If you think your to-do list is too long, consider City Council's

"...the Convention Center (a key aspect of the mayor's "Downtown Puzzle" proposal) arrive in somewhat tangential form: a proposed..."

Dec. 15, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Some Say the World Will End … in Ice

City Council dodges the ice storm, and much of its agenda

"...complaints reflect the continuing tension over Mayor Steve Adler’s “Downtown Puzzle” and the debate over potential expansion of the..."

Dec. 11, 2017 News Post by Michael King

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