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Austin Development
Coverage of towers, mixed-use ambition, neighborhood churn, and the civic buzzwords used to sell every new block of Austin.
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Every relevant gripe, memory, and local complaint gathered onto one page.
The South Congress Condopocalypse
South Congress used to be weird. Now it's weird that anyone can still afford to be there.
The East Sixth Glass Tower Invasion
The glass towers crossed I-35 and nobody even pretended to be surprised.
Riverside 'Luxury' Lofts
Riverside Drive used to be where you lived when you couldn't afford anywhere else. Now you can't afford Riverside Drive either.
Rainey Street Remembers
Rainey Street used to be a quiet block of house-bars where you could drink a Lone Star on a porch. Now the porches are in the shadows of 40-story towers.
The Domain Was a Parking Lot
Before it was Austin's shiniest open-air mall-suburb, The Domain was just a bunch of nothing next to an IBM campus nobody talked about.
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