Tweaking the ARA Plan

Seven years after its creation, the Austin Revitalization Authority hopes new revisions to its urban renewal plan can push Eastside redevelopment forward.

"...East 11th and 12th streets, the area targeted for redevelopment under the direction of the Austin Revitalization Authority...."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Creating a 'Corridor'

"...Capital Metro's redevelopment plans for the Saltillo District would create a gateway..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature

That Figures

City Manager Jesus Garza introduces a budget that focuses on roads, utilities, and cops, and skates around a needed tax increase.

"...staff and contracts get transferred out to the new Redevelopment Services department...."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Mueller re-development is a rip-off and "affordable housing" is a sham.

"...Departure"] had it right when it concluded that the redevelopment plan was a win, win, win deal (for the..."

July 7, 2000 Column

Tied to the Tracks

"...connect existing urban centers and destinations, thus fostering compact-city redevelopment around and between them, it would have cost many..."

April 4, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Casting Votes Against Development

"...I read with interest your cover story on downtown infill growth ["Infill on Trial," Vol. 16, No. 24]...."

Feb. 21, 1997 Column

Point Austin: Beside the Point

The streets are mean, and so is the City Council

"...culminate in a prime-time sing-along of Clark's smash hit "Downtown" – only fitting, as that's where the lonesome drifters..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Column by Wells Dunbar

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

A Colossal Wreck

The Intel Building and its discontents

"...Chronicle will recall how AN-2 got this way ("Deconstructing Downtown," April 20, 2001, austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-04-20/pols_feature.html). In January, Intel announced it..."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Zone Defense

City clears the way for Gables Residential and Hotel ZaZa

"...The Downtown Austin Plan should have relieved some of that mutual..."

March 22, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

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.

"...debate – which has consumed time at both the Downtown Commission and the Design Commission in recent weeks –..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Beside the Point

The downtown plan moves forward, but the direction is a little uncertain

"...Sunday she skipped church, and we wound our way Downtown, to Las Manitas. Parking was nonexistent, so we parked..."

Oct. 13, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...over the aquifer between 1997 and 2000. By comparison, downtown Austin has only 7 million square feet...."

April 26, 2002 Column

Who Owns Sixth Street

Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?

"...Esther's Follies. Sixth Street property and business owners, the Downtown Austin Alliance (DAA), and Austin Police Department officials, as..."

May 4, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Downtown de-vitalization, flying Ron Wilson, Hyde Park flood & Ed Herman speaks

"...If it seems like the windows at the downtown Brown Lofts (in the Brown Building at Seventh and..."

March 23, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

The Latest in Density Bonuses: New Teeth

"...In December 2011, City Council passed the Downtown Austin Plan, intended to act as a guide for..."

June 28, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

City Council Preview: Don't Bogart That Space

Counting down the meter minutes

"...Saturdays. Additionally, under the language up for adoption, parking Downtown – defined as Cesar Chavez to 10th and I-35..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Gone and Quartered

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

"...$17,836,857. Those implement the Great Streets Master Plan for Downtown, begun in 2000 to "improve the quality of downtown..."

April 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Sara Hensley Turns Over a New Leaf

The new PARD director has big ideas – to realize them, she'll have to raise big bucks

"...new models for private-public partnerships – like a new downtown Phoenix park paid for by the developer of an..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Point Austin: Beside the Point

Neighborhood activist gives us an earful on proposed downtown high-rise

"...the Zilker Neighborhood Association, and longtime bee in the Downtown development crowd's bonnet, shared with Beside the Point "several..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...the city was seducing Computer Sciences Corporation to a downtown office site, public officials talked a lot about doughnuts:..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Farmers’ Market Report: Feb 1-2, 2014

Marinara, spinach, apples, rainbow trout, and strawberries

"...Lately, I usually buy my tomatoes at the Downtown SFC Market, but this week I waited to buy..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

Homemade History

Las Manitas, the Pérez sisters, and a usable past

"...Vision." It addresses the precise issue raised by pending redevelopment of the Las Manitas block: How can we best..."

July 21, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...wants to close the Green Water Treatment Plant in downtown Austin, which would free up several blocks of city..."

Aug. 5, 2005 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

"...Plaza, he sees instead the site of a future "Downtown Oak Hill" connected to the promised CapMetro park and..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Take Five

In the Place 5 Race, Activism Is the Operative Word

"...between the campaign finance reformer, the bicycle advocate, the downtown Austin advocate, the neighborhoods advocate, or the disabilities advocate...."

April 14, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Tiffing Over the TIF

Waller Creek Rages On

"...out. Included in the council's Nov. 6 package of downtown resolutions was a directive to the city manager to..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Off the Desk:

"...G.M. Resigned to Change The official line at the Downtown Austin Alliance (DAA) is that Jose Martinez left his..."

July 26, 1996 News Feature

Density Bonus Program 'Interim' No More

Council takes wait-and-see approach

"...voluntary for developers – is no more. Central Urban Redevelopment (CURE) district rezoning – the prevailing developer workaround –..."

July 5, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

The Ghost of Developers Past

Rainey Street's struggle to retain its historic integrity has opened up some gems

"...early twentieth century. Middle-class families with means abandoned Austin's Downtown for suburbs north and west of the city. By..."

May 25, 2012 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

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