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Feb. 21, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower
Naked City
Austin Stories
"...On Monday, downtown property owners and the Downtown Austin Alliance presented petitions..."
Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature
Naked City
Saving the land around Waller Creek downtown from flooding proves trickier -- and more expensive -- than council members or city staff anticipated.
"...and 40 buildings, mainly on the east end of downtown, lie in the creek's 100-year floodplain. Efforts to restore..."
Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle
Postmarks
We're sorry you feel that way.
"...my case, would like to have more control over development and protection of property values. We would like to..."
Oct. 6, 2000 Column
Impulse Buying
City approves $15 million toward Convention Center Hotel, which the city will own in 30 years.
"...of analysis, a can't-do spirit? The southeast corner of downtown must belong to some other city, because when decisions..."
July 7, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Says developer Robert Knight: "We've stimulated residential and office development, so the consumers are here, now let's let retail..."
June 2, 2000 Column
Postmarks
The Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival is not sexist; the city/Bradley settlement bodes poorly for Barton Springs; golf courses pay their way; and more reader mail.
"...subsidies in order to speed, not slow down, new development in exchange for a legally unenforceable promise to protect..."
March 24, 2000 Column
Where Are They Now?
"...Land Development Code Revision..."
Aug. 20, 1999 News Feature
Light Headed?
What Commuters Want
"...some busway lanes, usually on surface streets in congested downtowns. Busways aren't limited to existing street infrastructure -- the..."
July 23, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Mediatruck Makes Software That Makes Sense
"...Austin-based software company. Their small two-room office is housed downtown in the Scarbrough Building in the heart of a..."
May 14, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade
Don't Fence Me In
Same Old Story
"...Maria Loya, director of community development at El Buen Samaritano, an Episcopal mission that provides..."
April 2, 1999 News Feature by Melissa Sattley
Visions of the West
"......"
Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature
Dotting i's, Circling C's
Simplifying the Tortured History of Circle C
"...Circle C's commercial property, and Gary Bradley of Bradley Development (along with several other investors in a company called..."
Dec. 19, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy
Mind the Bullock
"...I am not an "anti-development" person as a rule, not by any means. I..."
March 28, 1997 Column
Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...million acquisition of the water/wastewater system of FM Properties' developments on Barton Creek. Neither the Sierra Club's Austin Regional..."
Jan. 24, 1997 News Feature
Off the Desk:
"...property on E. 11th and 12th Streets slated for redevelopment) are Phyllis Wilson, a business analyst with the state..."
Feb. 2, 1996 News Feature
Plaza Saltillo’s Affordable Habitat
Habitat for Humanity in line for new density bonuses at two Fourth Street addresses
"...housing units built within the Plaza Saltillo Transit Oriented Development after a unanimous vote from City Council last week..."
Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
Eastward Expansion
Surfing the wave of gentrification on the Eastside
"...residents seem surprised at the brisk pace of new development. Long seen as home to a largely Latino working..."
April 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú
Then There's This: Montopolis Is Cool With Uncool
East Austin neighborhood aims to fend off gentrification
"...a proposed zoning change that would have allowed the development of 45 individual condos at 600 Kemp, a small..."
March 28, 2014 News Column by Amy Smith
Council: Boom Times, Boom Incentives
City considers deals with Websense and Dropbox
"...afternoon (Feb. 20), Council will consider two more economic development incentive deals: one for San Diego-based cyber-security firm Websense,..."
Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Michael King
Room for the Unexpected
With the budget season not yet in full swing, there's still time for hope
"...41,588,858 1,772,337 4.3% Library 27,183,857 957,402 3.5% Planning & Development Review 22,072,835 766,097 3.5% Municipal Court 12,990,893 344,859 2.7%..."
July 1, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Look to Dallas for TOD Success
"...Dear Editor, Austin’s meager success with transit-oriented development can largely be explained by contrasting Austin with Dallas,..."
Dec. 1, 2010 Postmarks
Staking Out the Brack Tract
West Austin residents participate in Brack's planning process but question whether their concerns will be taken to heart
"...of the tract, its relation to Downtown Austin's urban development, and a host of other topics ranging from UT..."
Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham
Watershed Redo
How redevelopment can save the springs ... or not
"...cover limits – it was applicable only to new development, not to properties already built out with shopping malls,..."
Nov. 2, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
No Room at the Complex
Renters scramble for housing as dirt churns on new condos
"...apartment complex (the front line in the battle over development along Lady Bird Lake) – with 750 units renting..."
Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"..."Tough Tacos" ["Point Austin," News, Sept. 29]: I work Downtown, and I have eaten at Las Manitas a few..."
Oct. 6, 2006 Column
Austin @ Large: Every Day Is Halloween
But will only the good corporate kids get the candy?
"...importance to a City Hall that's supposedly made economic development its highest priority...."
Nov. 12, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
Faster and friendlier, Part II: Revisions to the land development code
"...is dropping on City Hall's effort to make Austin's development review process "faster and friendlier," especially for small business...."
Nov. 7, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Who Will Rule Mueller?
Can the city keep the Mueller redevelopment project on course?
"...often not very well. If that's the rule, the redevelopment of Robert Mueller Municipal Airport is the exception that..."
Jan. 25, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
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Focusing the urban growth spotlight on Stratus Properties.
"...locally, major issues affecting this city's future are in development. The question is not growth vs. non-growth. It is:..."
