Council: Downtown Puzzle or Rubik’s Cube?

Dais division brewing over hotel tax spending, tourism industry

"...he’s hoping he can salvage funding for an ambitious “Downtown Puzzle” solution despite doubts from his colleagues...."

Aug. 28, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Putting Together the Downtown Puzzle

A closer look at Mayor Adler’s proposals to solve (and pay for) Downtown conundrums

"...Mayor Steve Adler's complex strategy for a Downtown investment plan has plenty of tentative and moving parts,..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Downtown Puzzle: Live on Red River

Mayor’s plan envisions a brighter future for Downtown clubs

"...the Red River Cultural District, which spans five blocks Downtown and boasts a musical history dating back to the..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

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

Downtown Puzzle: HOT History

Projects under consideration for the historic preservation “funding bucket”

"...Another aspect of the Downtown Puzzle specifically targets "historic preservation," e.g., historic sites or..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Downtown Puzzle: Dell Seton’s Innovation Station

Goodbye to Brackenridge, hello to ...?

"...the street. While not a core piece in Adler's Puzzle, construction on Brack's campus will inevitably impact – and..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Downtown Puzzle: Waller Creek’s Chain of Parks

What’s happened already with the ambitious park and trail project, and what might happen next

"...from Waller Creek during floods, lifting 28 acres of Downtown land out of the floodplain and making it ripe..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Downtown Puzzle: ARCH Support

Can the mayor’s plan generate millions for homeless services and permanent housing?

"...in part to help create housing options for the Downtown area's homeless population – which his office tallied at..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Downtown Puzzle: Convention Epi-Center

Is expanding the Convention Center a smart investment?

"...Kocurek Memorial Austin Convention Center and the rebirth of Downtown Austin are intertwined. Opened in 2002 to succeed the..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: About That Puzzle

Council seeks consensus on a still-hatching Downtown project

"...marketing wing ("Visit Austin") would effectively torpedo his pending "Downtown Puzzle" – a complex proposition (postponed to Sept. 28)..."

Sept. 8, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Qmmunity: The Puzzle of Pride

Putting together all the pieces of queer history with Pride Month events

"...Queer history makes for an interesting puzzle: Every piece represents both trauma and triumph in equal..."

June 2, 2023 Column by James Scott

Public Notice: The Planning Puzzle

Music venues, hospitals, and neighborhood plans

"...events, each reflecting a different facet of the planning puzzle...."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Playing the Downtown Game

The score so far, and moves still to be made

"...Dominoes, poker, a jigsaw puzzle, a Rubik's Cube – Austin's ongoing Downtown saga lends..."

April 9, 2004 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

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

Council: A Toy Store Full of Puzzles

The mayor’s Downtown Puzzle proposal returns to Council this week

"...headline proposal is the return of Mayor Steve Adler's "Downtown Puzzle" resolution, postponed from the contentious Aug. 31 meeting,..."

Sept. 29, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

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: Heating Up the HOT Tax

Mayor moves to defend his solutions to the “Downtown Puzzle”

"...a couple of Items (101 & 103) addressing perennial Downtown issues, and the other (102) contemplating more city action..."

Sept. 1, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Mayor Muses 2017 Goals

"Downtown puzzle," music initiative among his priorities

"...posted a lengthy memo titled "Possible solution to the downtown puzzle," listing roughly a dozen possible approaches to various..."

Dec. 30, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Hot Over HOT

City Council wrangles over Convention Center, hotel taxes, and Downtown's future

"...public oxygen. The argument is over Mayor Steve Adler's "Downtown Puzzle," a central piece of which involves the proposed..."

Sept. 1, 2017 News Column by Michael King

The Mayor's Plan to Fix Everything

Adler to announce Downtown revitalization plan

"...announce a strategy for revitalizing the city’s most centralized Downtown districts while simultaneously purchasing housing for more than 200..."

July 16, 2017 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Austin at Large: Reading the Palm District

A new plan-of-plans puts the spotlight on Downtown’s hard, rough eastern edges

"...to transform, in various ways, the eastern edge of Downtown, which even after floods of boom dollars can still..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

TIFs, TPIDs, and Puppy Love

City Council wrestles with Mayor Adler's Downtown Puzzle

"...this day and evening belonged mostly to Mayor Adler’s “Downtown Puzzle” proposal, postponed from Aug. 31 in order to..."

Oct. 2, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Council: Visitors Welcome?

CodeNEXT, Visit Austin return to City Council

"...conversation is not Visit Austin alone, but Adler's proposed "Downtown Puzzle" and its financial reliance on expanding the Convention..."

Oct. 13, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Council: Seeking Consensus on Hotel Occupancy Tax

City Council’s HOT debate masks deeper divisions

"...to get a swap in place this year. ("Council: Downtown Puzzle or Rubik's Cube?" Aug. 28). That leaves the..."

Sept. 8, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

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

Playback: Sizing Up Music's Bite of the Hotel Tax

Two new municipal funding schemes look to finally impact Austin music

"...Mayor Steve Adler is pushing his "Downtown Puzzle," aka Item 101, which increases HOT taxes 2%..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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

This Old House

Sam Houston and the historic jigsaw puzzle of Boggy Creek Farm

"...information like so many pieces of a historical jigsaw puzzle. They discovered that the original 50 acres were purchased..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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

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