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Residents of a high-end Hays Co. subdivision object to a rock crusher over the aquifer and in their backyards

"...local company's effort to establish a rock-crushing quarry and asphalt production plant over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone and..."

July 25, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Residents claim crusher threatens Edwards Aquifer and roadway safety

"...The quarry itself, operated by Austin-based KDBJ (aka Industrial Asphalt), has been working at limited capacity since it..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Transforming Tent Cities With Windows and Doors

The Other Ones Foundation hopes to install personalized shelters at the Esperanza Community

"...have lived there since 2019, on five acres of industrial asphalt loaned by the state of Texas. "You can..."

Dec. 4, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Demolish, Revive, Reuse

Architect Michael Antenora talks about how saving rubble from going to the landfill changed his designs for Penn Field.

"...Command Center for the U.S. Air Force?) and a light-industrial center (we at the Chronicle should know: Our offices..."

Nov. 28, 2007 Design Post by Richard Whittaker

A Brief Guide to the Yard in South Austin

Encountering the true ATX spirit in our bustling modern metrop

"...public stuff happens – it seems like just another industrial park: a few rows of big metal warehouses and..."

May 13, 2022 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...muscle of his Cody days straight down into the asphalt heart of Too Much Fun, and delivers the goods..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Looking for Solutions for Residents Feeling Extreme Heat

UT-Austin partners with city, community orgs to mitigate local "heat island" effect

"...form for myriad reasons, including cities' abundance of black asphalt, which absorbs more of the sun's heat than natural..."

Sept. 17, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

14 Austin Terror Fest Picks

The best metal for brave ears

"...Deep CrossBarracuda, Sat. 8, 3:45pm On a post-industrial vacation, Michael Cockrell and Jason Joachim anguish at leisure,..."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

About That History? It's Gone.

Developers destroy a little bit more of Eastside history

"...to recommend them as an office site. Bordered by industrial warehouses – including the Pure Castings factory, controversial for..."

May 4, 2012 News Feature by Cindy Widner

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"...redirected to redevelop failing shopping centers, affordable housing, and industrial centers. The city of Austin, ANC, and others would..."

July 27, 2001 Column

Who You Gonna Call?

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

"...fund thousands of acres of new catfish farms, empty industrial parks, and outlet malls.Getting the Dollars to Early That..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Condo Clash

The Gotham Has Neighbors Up in Arms

"...which was proposed by city staff, is LI-PDA (light industrial/planned development area), a little-used category that would free the..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Revenge Is Sweet

Slusher Crashes, Burns on the Southwest Parkway

"...buffoons. It's working. Few use the wide-open stretch of asphalt -- a city survey counted five cars a minute..."

Feb. 7, 1997 News Column by Alex de Marban

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Austin's largest ratepayers, represented by the Federation of Austin's Industrial Ratepayers (FAIR). The results show that Seton Hospital, Advanced..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...suit, a translucent haze rising like heat from the asphalt in the lingering soak of Laura Colwell's vocals. "Singing"..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Implementing the Mobility Bond and Corridor Construction Program, if You Can Wait for It

Going to take a long, long time

"...city hopes to extend it all the way to Industrial Oaks. Construction should also begin around that time on..."

June 8, 2018 News Feature by Jack Craver

Tug Life

Ben Powell's Barge takes a trip along the Mississippi

"...Barge portrays the ballet of industrial America. Powell’s takeaway, he says, is how essential their..."

March 14, 2015 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

Chaos in Tejas

"...and Red River last year ground with a similarly industrial inevitability. Saturday again at Emo's, three of the four..."

June 10, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

'Angie Renfro: Industry!'

Renfro's oils render empty machinery and industrial sites as things of beauty

"...city's foundations, and how, as the world's cities crumble, asphalt jungles give way to real ones." But you needn't..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hill Country Militia

Grassroots homesteaders tighten ranks to fight urban encroachment

"...battled to keep up with development by pouring more asphalt – a practice with a lopsided economic logic, Edwards..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Greg Harman

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Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...• The Texas affiliates of the Industrial Areas Foundation held a conference at the Airport Hilton..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...and starts talking. When he looks out at the asphalt of the Oak Hill Plaza, he sees instead the..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Welcome to the Real World

Rhizome Collective brings activist ideals down to earth

"...at the dead end of Allen Street in an industrial corner of East Austin. Collective members live in one..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Between Round Rock and a Hard Place

Northridge Acres can't find water, water anywhere.

"...gated communities to the east and north, toward the industrial park next door. People don't know exactly why Austin,..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature by Walter Howerton Jr

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"...long, this project is an ongoing project. The original asphalt was removed and the road was graded and oiled...."

March 8, 2002 Column

Putting Himself 'Out Here'

Theatre Arts and English teacher Rick Garcia has put himself "out here," on Austin's fringes, n the off-the-map, lost-worldness of Johnston High School, to reach out to some of the poorest kids in one of Austin's most neglected neighborhoods and make a difference through that rare and vital cocktail: art and education.

"...Road and Arthur Stiles Road serve as a narrow asphalt moat separating tightly packed, untidy single-family houses from the..."

March 9, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Scanlines

Armored Car Robbery

"...deserves to stand alongside noir caper classics like The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing (indeed, its storyline is quite..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...place, known for its chili dogs and onion rings, asphalt floor in the dining room, and the dilapidated milktruck..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

The Reverse Crossover of La Mafia

The Empire Builders

"...equipment. Overhead the sky went gradually grey, matching the asphalt underfoot. Approaching a musician with one of the opening..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Music Feature