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Can This District Be Saved?
The revival of the Warehouse District is rooted in Austin's history – and its popularity is also its peril
"...place provided a magnet for all the surrounding adaptive reuse that followed. In a sense, it offers a metaphor..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Ending the Water War
What if enviros and the city partnered on water conservation?
"...those that foster water conservation, catchment, reuse, decentralized treatment, biological..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Cast Away
Pure Castings, Zavala Elementary, pollution, jobs ... and the neighborhood
"...If the city can encourage businesses to recycle and reuse locally produced waste here in town, Solid Waste Advisory..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Plan to Plan for a Zero-Waste City
Leadership will determine the success of long-range strategy
"...it gets turned into something here, and then we reuse it here."..."

July 31, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

No Home for Rhizome ... for Now
Rhizome Collective looks for a new location
"...water plants, constructed wetlands that filter household wastewater for reuse, a room built from straw bales, and an electricity-generating..."

April 3, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Water Treatment Plant No. 4 Is a Colossal Waste of Money
"...to stop this waste? City efforts to substitute nonpotable reuse water for peak summer irrigation and commercial cooling demands..."

Feb. 24, 2009 Postmarks

Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
"...on first reading, to recommend historic zoning and adaptive reuse of the 44-acre Levander Loop site, overruling the city..."

Jan. 2, 2009 News Feature

Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
"...Martinez presented the city's interim study on its Reduce, Reuse & Recycle initiative. Both encouraged more businesses to join..."

Nov. 21, 2008 News Feature

One Sneaky Grandma
The story behind Carole Keeton Strayhorn's election eve phone call
"...Council enacted a new campaign finance ordinance, prohibiting the "reuse of funds raised elsewhere for a city election." Council..."

Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Choice Is Yours
Rubber Repertory's Casket of Passing Fancy makes you 500 offers you can't reuse

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

City Hall Hustle: It Will Be Mayor May Before you Know It
Plugging the holes in the city's campaign finance ordinance
"...one of the new finance ordinance's manifold provisions prevents reuse of funds raised elsewhere for a city election. "Only..."

Sept. 26, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Before the Well Runs Dry
The city moves toward conservation, but is it moving fast enough?
"...city may look to large-scale rainwater harvesting and storm-water reuse tactics now being researched by the Water Utility...."

Aug. 22, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

In Dreams
Camera in hand, D'Ette Cole makes images to bridge the gaps between night and day
"...a very cool mix of timely ingenuity and savvy reuse when it comes to interiors. Collaborating with local craftsmen..."

July 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Johnston Seniors Bid Final Farewell
A bittersweet occasion for Johnston's last graduating class
"...has asked the district to create a plan to reuse the Johnston campus, a plan that could go to..."

June 13, 2008 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Lasting Commitments
The 2008 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
"...for something new, and his philosophy of rescue and reuse has granted a second life to many an Austin..."

May 23, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tarrytown Farmers' Market
Talulah Bleu Tarrytown Florist hosts the West Austin Tarrytown Farmers' Market on Saturdays
"...been a gigantic rehab project, an exercise in adaptive reuse," she says. "It's like a little wild world in..."

May 2, 2008 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Dynamics
"...Version Excursions follows in this timeless tradition – reduce, reuse, recycle. The French-based quintet reworks a dizzyingly diverse collection..."

April 25, 2008 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

Dispersal of Wastewater a Major Problem
"...“fail-safe” treatment methods and routing effluent to true beneficial reuse in subsurface drip-irrigation fields is a model that should..."

April 1, 2008 Postmarks

More Voices: Sinclair Black
"...through Downtown Austin had seeds of brilliance.His projected adaptive reuse of Seaholm Power Plant for a Children's Museum was..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

Parking Enterprise
If approved, Parking Enterprise Fund Resolution will invest in garages available to public, with revenues providing funding for transit, trails, sidewalks, and bike paths
"...Council authorized the adaptive reuse of Seaholm in 1996 to create "a unique and..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Seaholm Powers Ahead, Amid Questions About the 'Public Interest'
Oft-delayed development getting serious at City Council
"...downtown,” and along rail lines. Council authorized the adaptive reuse of Seaholm in 1996 to create "a unique and..."

Dec. 12, 2007 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Park Once, Invest Twice
Two new city-owned parking garages would pay for themselves under enterprising proposal
"...The meatiest developer-funded public benefit is the expensive adaptive reuse of the enormous 1950s Seaholm structure; other public bennies..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Viridian Ventures
Take nothing but pictures; leave nothing but carbon footprints?
"...who have evolved their field with radical concepts like towel-reuse programs, organic cleansers and pest control, and solar everything...."

May 25, 2007 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Naked City
"...the future," said Chris Brown, the AWWA's Conservation and Reuse Division chair, in a press release. The association honored..."

April 20, 2007 News Feature

That Smell
Dallas psych rockers Southwest F.O.B. on The Larry Kane Show.
"...because videotapes of daily shows were often “wiped” for reuse, very little footage of these shows exists today, which..."

April 12, 2007 Music Post by Greg Beets

Lee Leffingwell Makes a Splash
Council member named Conservationist of the Year
"...3rd. Chris Brown, Chair of Texas AWAA's Conservation and Reuse Division, said that as a result of Leffingwell's Task..."

April 10, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Taking the 'Us' out of It
Michael Tucker hears the voices calling him back to the war in Iraq
"...AC: You reuse footage of the raid from Gunner Palace. How different..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Developing Stories: Where Are They Now?
The latest on this year's big digs
"...completing construction; developer Catellus is still seeking an adaptive reuse for the neighboring Browning Hangar. (Anybody have a project..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

What the Ordinance Says
"...the CDO does not require rainwater harvesting or gray-water reuse. Construction materials must be 10% recycled or reclaimed; 50%..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Beside the Point
City Council gets ready to wade in the water (treatment plant)
"...going to be needed." He's optimistic that through conservation, reuse, and leak repair, the city could save up to..."

June 23, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

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