Paco Jones 1234 Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 (edited) 74-Story Total of +/- 2,700,000 SF. Building height of 1,021 FT. Lincoln Property Company / Kairoi Residential are developing Waller Creek, a 74 story MIXED-USE project located near Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, Texas. The project consists of a parking structure with 3 levels below grade and 12 above, a 240 key 5 star hotel, 25 levels of office tower, and 34 levels/363 units of residential space. Kohn Pederson Fox Associates has been selected as the Design Architect along with HKS Architects as the architect of record. WALLER CREEK will be developed by a joint venture of LPC and Kairoi on approximately 3 acres of land at the Southwest corner of West Cesar Chavez Street and Red River Street. The current program consists of: a) +/- 2,582,413 GSF as defined by BOMA of mixed use, corporate office, hotel, and residential located in one (1) 74 story building. b) The first and second floor of the seventy-four ( 74 ) story tower will include an office lobby, a hotel lobby, and retail space (fit out by others). c) Levels 14 and 15 features an office amenity space. d) Levels 41,42,43, and 74 features a residential amenity space. e) +/- 1,780 space parking structure +/- 909,968 GSF as defined by BOMA on three levels below grade and twelve levels above grade. f) Levels 01 thru 16 podium include a 240 key 4 star hotel. g) Parking structure features exterior screened walls and office/residential tower features. Edit: Corrected building height Edited November 6, 2020 by Paco Jones Corrected building height 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Urbannizer 45384 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 @Paco Jones What’s the building height without sea level factored in? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paco Jones 1234 Posted November 6, 2020 Author Share Posted November 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Urbannizer said: @Paco Jones What’s the building height without sea level factored in? My mistake. It is 1,021 FT. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yoda 1442 Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Paco Jones said: My mistake. It is 1,021 FT. New tallest in Texas. I wonder if this pushes developers to build something taller here in Houston and/or Dallas. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yoda 1442 Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 (edited) @Paco Jones You're famous https://austin.towers.net/downtown-austins-first-supertall-tower-plan-arrives-at-waller-creek-site/ "Plans for the western tract, also known by the address 98 Red River, were leaked along with some renderings earlier this week by a user named Paco Jones on development website Houston Architecture Info, showing a 74-story tower containing a total of 2.7 million square feet." Edited November 6, 2020 by Yoda Added quote 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yoda 1442 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Posted by "The ATX" on https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199012&page=278 Here's another rendering of 98 Red River with a nice view of the project's second tower 99 Red River. The third building is a rendering of Tower 1 in the approved Travis Towers project. Tower 1 ~600' and Tower 2 is ~700'. Though people on that forum seem to believe @Paco Jones renderings are more recent. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yoda 1442 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Posted by "CTroyMathis" on https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199012&page=279 "Just a heads up for this thread also, the FAA received a request last week for 1025 FT for the 98 Red River site. If you were looking for it searching Austin, you probably wouldn't have found it. Someone submitted the wrong city, but, all else is correct including map, lat, long. https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...257981&row=359" 1025 FT means this will indeed be the tallest in Texas. This was posted on the same page by "The ATX" 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Urbannizer 45384 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 1/7 by me Signage 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
H-Town Man 5235 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 (edited) This one will not win many plaudits for looks. The facade reminds me of the fake brick rolled asphalt that people used to put on the sides of their houses. Edited January 28 by H-Town Man Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kbates2 1428 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Looks better than our supertalls, unfortunately. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MaxConcrete 425 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) The Austin Business Journal recently (28-Jan-21) posted a report with a summary of downtown high-rise activity, including planned and rumored projects. There is no mention of this project, 98 Red River. This is what the article says about the tallest building in Austin Quote 19. Unnamed (321 W. Sixth St.) Minneapolis-based Ryan Companies is moving forward with its plans to build what could be the second-tallest high-rise in Austin. The proposed 60-story apartment and office high-rise at the southeast corner of West Sixth and Guadalupe streets would be two stories higher than The Independent, but six stories shorter than 6 X Guadalupe (which would be built across the street). The most recent plans call for 390 luxury apartments – 27 more than previously reported – and 96,000 square feet of class A office space. Ryan Companies also recently confirmed that construction is expected to start in early fourth quarter of this year. The project is still in the design and permitting phase. This project is the closest mentioned to the site of 98 Red River Quote 20. The Travis/M2 project (80 Red River St.) Towers have long been floated for this site. A new proposal emerged Jan. 27, when M2 Development Partners announced plans for a 64-story tower with a mix of apartments, condos and hotel rooms. The Austin-American Statesman reported groundbreaking is possible in April 2022, with completion possible in third quarter 2025. This is the same address where Genesis Real Estate Group has floated plans for multiple towers under the project name The Travis. It is quite mind-boggling to have 43 projects in this report, although of course many are planned and some won't happen. This boom is mostly because it is difficult, expensive and/or impossible to build adequate new housing in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, so the tech industry has to overflow to someplace, and for the moment the preferred overflow location is Austin. Most of the projects are in the 30-to-50 floor range, which is similar to what we see in Houston, so Austin is subject to the same height limits that apply to new Houston buildings. I agree with Kbates2 that the rendering is a much more attractive building than Houston's JPMorganChase or Wells Fargo buildings. Urbanizzer's 1/7 photo shows there is something going on at the site. It seems strange there is no mention by the ABJ. Edited February 1 by MaxConcrete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
strickn 193 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) Kbates2 is right to use supertall to mean buildings in the 300-600m range. But Transco/Williams at 275m still has more appeal than this one. This 98 Red River design is like a joke that's especially edgy because it's at the exact present edge of political correctness but if you were to hear the comedian again in a decade it would be a useless joke. The best possible outcome is that, if equally tall towers are ever built near I-35 on the old waterfront newspaper headquarters site, then they will form a visually dramatic river gateway together with this. Edited February 1 by strickn 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
H-Town Man 5235 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) On 1/28/2021 at 2:12 PM, kbates2 said: Looks better than our supertalls, unfortunately. This one is pretty handsome if you ask me. A refined, integrated composition, not three separate modules that look like they were all designed independently and stuck together. Edited February 2 by H-Town Man 4 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Houston19514 5047 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 1/31/2021 at 8:18 PM, MaxConcrete said: The Austin Business Journal recently (28-Jan-21) posted a report with a summary of downtown high-rise activity, including planned and rumored projects. There is no mention of this project, 98 Red River. This is what the article says about the tallest building in Austin This project is the closest mentioned to the site of 98 Red River It is quite mind-boggling to have 43 projects in this report, although of course many are planned and some won't happen. This boom is mostly because it is difficult, expensive and/or impossible to build adequate new housing in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, so the tech industry has to overflow to someplace, and for the moment the preferred overflow location is Austin. Most of the projects are in the 30-to-50 floor range, which is similar to what we see in Houston, so Austin is subject to the same height limits that apply to new Houston buildings. I agree with Kbates2 that the rendering is a much more attractive building than Houston's JPMorganChase or Wells Fargo buildings. Urbanizzer's 1/7 photo shows there is something going on at the site. It seems strange there is no mention by the ABJ. I'm not sure exactly why, but I've been pretty skeptical about that 98 Red River project since it first came to light. Perhaps the Austin Business Journal shares my skepticism (or knows even more). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kbates2 1428 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 28 minutes ago, Houston19514 said: I'm not sure exactly why, but I've been pretty skeptical about that 98 Red River project since it first came to light. Perhaps the Austin Business Journal shares my skepticism (or knows even more). Two sides of that for me: On one hand, even when I searched online to find more about it, the articles that I found had a HAIF poster as their only source. On the other hand, that poster was Paco Jones who is almost always correct. 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
H-Town Man 5235 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 We have some pretty detailed renderings including architectural plans, an FAA request, and signage up at the site. Short of a catastrophe, it looks like this is happening. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Montrose1100 3953 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 This one is fresh and it's modern, but for Texas' new tallest, I'm disappointed. Would look great complimenting an iconic piece like the Petronas Towers, Willis Tower, Freedom Tower, or the Burj Khalifa. The base is also this giant plateau. And why do mixed-use buildings have to ensure the onlookers know that each use is clearly displayed & separated in the design? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tigereye 1997 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) On 11/11/2020 at 7:28 PM, Yoda said: Posted by "The ATX" on https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199012&page=278 Here's another rendering of 98 Red River with a nice view of the project's second tower 99 Red River. The third building is a rendering of Tower 1 in the approved Travis Towers project. Tower 1 ~600' and Tower 2 is ~700'. Though people on that forum seem to believe @Paco Jones renderings are more recent. Will be interesting to see if both 80 Red River (64 fl, 802’) and 98 Red River (74 fo, 1025’) both get built. Is this the only render with both skyscrapers shown? Edited February 9 by tigereye Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HoustonIsHome 1647 Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 On 2/2/2021 at 11:40 PM, H-Town Man said: We have some pretty detailed renderings including architectural plans, an FAA request, and signage up at the site. Short of a catastrophe, it looks like this is happening. Any chance that it gets scaled down? Austin has been pretty hot the last few decades but that's a ton of huge buildings going up or in the works Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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