Seaholm Powers Ahead, Amid Questions About the 'Public Interest'

Oft-delayed development getting serious at City Council

"...Seaholm – the historic power plant to be transformed by..."

Dec. 12, 2007 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Four for Seaholm

"...old power plant and its environs. As such, the Seaholm criteria are far more suggestive than prescriptive; nothing has..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature

Sea Changes at Seaholm

Chronicle writer Amy Smith lays out the Proposed Seaholm District Master Plan.

"...So for now, city officials are touting the proposed Seaholm Master Plan as simply an idea that we can..."

June 14, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Seaholm Powers Ahead

Plan to transform historic power plant into mixed-use mecca should move one step closer to fruition at City Council Thurs­day

"...Seaholm – the historic power plant to be transformed by..."

Dec. 14, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Designs on Seaholm

"...great pains to stress the word "conceptual" in the Seaholm District Master Plan, produced by the ROMA Design Group..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature

Beili Liu's Sculpture Cloud Pavilion Shimmers at Seaholm

How this glistening steel sculpture by the Austin-based artist became a permanent fixture of an evolving Downtown

"...on a street called Electric Drive in the walkable Seaholm EcoDistrict, the 14-foot-tall Cloud Pavilion features a grouping of..."

May 28, 2021 Arts Feature by Vivie Behrens

Seaholm: The railroad conundrum

Two pieces of long-neglected and barely salvageable railroad track along and on the Seaholm Power Plant site could hold the key to whether the city has a commuter rail system limited to North and Central Austin or one that spans the entire city.

"...and barely salvageable railroad track along and on the Seaholm Power Plant site could hold the key to whether..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Seaholm and Green District: Changes Afoot

Proposed and favored location for new central library is current Seaholm substa­tion site

"...and the city is the current site of the Seaholm substation, an Austin Ener­gy facility that fronts on Cesar..."

Dec. 28, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Seaholm Residents Got Dem Ol’ Noisy Freight Train Blues

Downtowners want to turn down the volume on the adjoining rail line

"...loud trains on its mainline running right through the Seaholm District. Now, a group of Downtowners has taken to..."

Nov. 23, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Seaholm East

Council passes resolution establishing 'guiding vision and policy principles' for two large city-owned tracts in redevelopment district

"...for two large city-owned tracts of land in the Seaholm east redevelopment district: 1) the 4.5-acre site of the..."

Jan. 25, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Festival Daze

A new district throws a party

"...producer – the Electric Company’s Jason Hicks – the Seaholm District Music & Art Fair will celebrate Downtown in..."

Sept. 15, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Delay of Game

Seaholm, Block 21 challenge the Downtown Domino theory

"...half, the models and pretty pictures of possible future Seaholms and Block 21s (or should that be Blocks 21?)..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Downtown Dominoes

The headlines are about Block 21 and Seaholm, but the long-term questions are about what the city of Austin should be

"...City Hall) in what then really was a Warehouse District. But we can pick it up 6 1/2 years..."

April 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

You Call This a Plan?

Seaholm District Master Plan Morphs Into the Lumbermen's Tract Subsidy Program

"...along Town Lake; they cruised past the familiar, now-retired Seaholm Power Plant, and then turned off the road into..."

June 14, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Green With Ambition

Why we need a master developer – not a project developer – to mastermind Seaholm East

"...a "magic" people-place inclusive of everyone? Turn the entire Seaholm East District into a giant solar power plant by..."

May 30, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Park Once, Invest Twice

Two new city-owned parking garages would pay for themselves under enterprising proposal

"...projects soon to go live Downtown. The first is Seaholm: the transformation of the 7.8-acre site of the decommissioned..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Throw the Switch

City Planners Consider Options on the Seaholm Power Plant

"...he discussed the many reuse possibilities for the old Seaholm Power Plant. Perhaps the mayor was thinking that this..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Partners sought for the long-discussed reuse of the Downtown power plant

"..."request for qualifications" for partners to help Austin redevelop Seaholm Power Plant. "We now stand ready to collaborate with..."

May 21, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Seaholm

"...The Seaholm District Master Plan is destined to receive mixed reviews..."

May 10, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Morrison's Ad: Terror at 580 Feet – Times Three!

Laura Morrison explains her controversial, condo-centric commercial

"...Reached for comment, Morrison confirmed the five acres in..."

May 1, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Seaholm: 'We Can Do This'..."

June 21, 2002 Column

Light and Power

The Future of Seaholm

"...highways that hang in the cavernous quiet. This is Seaholm - a power plant that elicits poetry, a public..."

May 8, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Developing Stories

City off to promising start with Seaholm East Redevelopment District

"...soliciting a request for proposals for redevelopment of the Seaholm East Redevelopment District. That's an excellent beginning. Council has..."

March 7, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Playing the Downtown Game

The score so far, and moves still to be made

"...20, all part of the city's nascent Second Street District..."

April 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Big Three Bike Projects – Still Spinning Their Wheels?

Austin still struggles with bicycle mobility

"...the city to Downtown – and specifically to the Seaholm District, poised to become a major transportation hub –..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City

Austin cycling activists worry that bicyclists and pedestrians' concerns will lose out to drivers' interests in the implementation of the Seaholm District Master Plan.

"...making so much noise over the rehabilitation of the Seaholm Power Plant near Cesar Chavez and Lamar. The out-of-commission..."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

Gone and Quartered

Stiffed on Capital Metro money, the city scrambles to fund another $51 million in transportation projects

"...or to reimbursable expenses under developer agreements in the Seaholm District (site of the Seaholm, Gables, Project Green, and..."

April 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

Lumberman's Investment Corporation has offered a compromise to the city on its plans for the Sand Beach Reserve, located just north of Town Lake; the CityCouncil approves a $1.8 billion budget.

"...The disused Seaholm Power Plant, whose restoration -- as a science and..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Point Austin: Dreaming Downtown

The conversation resumes on how to remake the second street district

"...the proposals for development of Block 21 and the Seaholm tract, the prize pieces remaining in the Second Street..."

March 4, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

City prepares to solicit proposals for reusing the Art Deco power plant

"...The on-again, off-again dream of turning the Seaholm Power Plant into a cultural facility reappeared on the..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

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