The Hills

Here's a great skyline photo showing this temporary new tallest in the skyline. Move-ins start in February.

Nice. I didn't realize that project was starting.

That is Phase II of Apple's second Austin campus which is near their first campus.

This project has been in the works for ~9 years. But it finally looks like it may be starting in Q1.

That photo is Rainey on the eastern end of downtown. On the west/central side there are towers U/C that are 710', 675' & 640'.

Meta signed a 10 or 12-year lease and couldn't back out. So the developer made out OK. But WFH in the Tech industry has seriously hurt the demand for office space.

Here's another one by Riverranchdrone at SSP looking South towards the river:

Here are some new photos by Riverranchdrone at Skyscraperpage: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10051094&postcount=2487

Ha. I think the $1 Billion cost is a typo. This will be rare large office project to break ground. It was largely pre-leased by IBM which is how it got financed. Here's a rendering:

There has never been any announcement about a pre-lease. Either way, there won't be any significant speculative office projects starting virtually anywhere in the U.S. for years. This along with the U/C Republic tower were he last major office projects in Austin to break ground. The Republic tower did have a significant pre-lease.

Just a pile of rubble. https://twitter.com/b1mb1mm/status/1699472341951008896

Yeah, Austin rocks. But Houston is my second favorite city in Texas, and I would move there if I couldn't live in Austin.

I'd say that it's more like Houston in the '80s. 🙂

This project is just about complete and ready to open later this year. Seems like a late TDLR filing.

Demo begins. Credit goes to an anonymous source via X.