Naked City

"...most dramatic changes – from unprecedented population growth, to downtown development, to significant neighborhood and environmental battles – and..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Council on Kirk

Council members comment on Kirk Watson's administration.

"...the biggest and most difficult issues: affordable housing, environment, downtown development, and putting something on the ground real quick..."

Nov. 9, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Postmarks

VanScoy's Agenda Part 2

"...see some positive media attention on the Mueller Airport redevelopment. Surprisingly, I do not have much to object to..."

March 12, 1999 Column

Unlikely Allies

Eastsiders and Suburbanites Unite to Fight City

"...and 183 East are on the agenda. Also, the downtown development initiatives will be kicked off as promised...."

Nov. 7, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Tunnel Vision

The New Waller Creek

"...from flooding and turn it into a commercially viable downtown destination -- has hit the table down at the..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Can This District Be Saved?

The revival of the Warehouse District is rooted in Austin's history – and its popularity is also its peril

"...It's Friday night, and Downtown's Ware­house District is hopping. Live music pours out of..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Private Projects, Public Benefits

Could developers become Austin's new benefactors?

"...the city hasn't required much of developers beyond "economic development" – too often a euphemism for business as usual...."

April 6, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Where Are They Now?

The latest on this year's big digs

"...which intends to displace Las Manitas and develop the Downtown block on Congress Avenue (between Second and Third) as..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Prime Time Irony?

The Future of Liberty Lunch

"...develop its four and a half acres of prime downtown lakeview property on and around Liberty Lunch. Obviously, the..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Music Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...east of Lamar, reflect a trend that may revitalize downtown more than any shopping mall ever could...."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Tovo and Casar Unfiltered on CodeNEXT

The Council members' full conversation with the Chronicle

"...in the first presentation (not in this one), how redevelopment would happen, could gentrification be slowed or accelerated, through..."

Sept. 14, 2017 News Post by Nick Barbaro

Urban Planning: A Roundup

How Austin is working toward getting better by design

"...invest in urban-planning efforts. Without the pressures of fast-paced development activity created by a go-go market, a city can..."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Back to the Trenches

AMD tightens its hold on Lantana – and the enviro opposition digs in

"...the Barton Springs watershed has reignited an old, ugly development fight, pitting unbridled economic development interests against environmental preservation...."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Why Rail?

The city is pushing for a 2012 vote to build urban rail. The critics are asking, 'Who needs it?'

"...him, makes an apparently devastating case. O'Toole paints transit-oriented development as a sham, rail as a transit-agency budget-buster, and..."

April 8, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

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

"...makes the whole area an environmentally poor place for development: All the crud that washes off the yards and..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Vision of a New Republic

Plans for the Revitalization of Republic Square

"...vice-president of Southern Union Gas, was chair of the Downtown Austin Alliance in 1997-98, she was determined to focus..."

July 13, 2001 News Feature by Chale Nafus

The Road to Rail

Can light rail in Austin work well with Smart Growth?

"...have, will at least direct growth into our Desired Development Zone, currently undesired because it has lousy infrastructure. But..."

July 21, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Condo Clash

The Gotham Has Neighbors Up in Arms

"...for his leading role in the residential rebirth of downtown. He pioneered the now-booming loft scene and renovated the..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Suburban Blight

Austinites' Escape to the 'Burbs Backfires

"...by sprawl - isn't amenable to the sorts of redevelopment traditionally applied to blighted urban areas. The jillions of..."

March 27, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Working on the Railroad

The regional Transit Working Group is poised to make progress on passenger rail

"...endorsements of transit and density (and their progeny, transit-oriented development) from diverse groups – the Real Estate Council of..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Streetcar Desires

The Austin streetcar has a consensus – it still needs champions

"..."Solving circulator transit Downtown – call it a trolley or a streetcar –..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Mapping the Future

Seven longtime Austinites talk about Smart Growth, neighborhood planning, and the future of Central Austin in an October roundtable discussion.

"...control," says Mark Rogers, director of the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation (GNDC) in East Austin...."

Dec. 3, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Steve Adler: 'New Way Forward'

"...the narrative that was otherwise created, [of "a deep-pocketed Downtown attorney."]) When I first got to Austin, in 1978..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

Streetcar Plan Takes Shape

Rail advocates hope a downtown circulator will help boost usage of the new commuter rail

"...Streetcars, trollies, light rail, and downtown circulators, all serving the same purpose, are hallmarks of..."

Aug. 18, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Off the Beaten Track

Can Light Rail Build Livable Communities?

"...conference, appearing on panels with names like "Transit Friendly Development -- How To Get Started" and "Models for Regional..."

Nov. 21, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Exiled From Main Street

Can Austin's stock of affordable housing keep pace with high-speed growth?

"...Now in 2013, new development is everywhere you look Downtown. But what, exactly is..."

June 28, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

You Call This a Plan?

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

"...well into their eighties, decided to take a drive downtown. They navigated their way up one street and down..."

June 14, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Page Two

"...From almost the first moment I set foot in downtown Portland, Oregon about a year ago, and started hearing..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Column by Louis Black

Elgin Agrarian Community Promises Co-op Living on the Blackland Prairie

“It’s like an urban twist on traditional farming.”

"...sounds like a parody of an Austin utopia, the development is real, and the first phase is planned to..."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Naked City

"...yard is the exact opposite of the dense, transit-oriented development city planners desire near transit hubs. Its proposed use..."

Nov. 2, 2007 News Feature

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