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http://news.blog.statesman.com/2015/...add-employees/
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Breaking news from ABJ re: huge Oracle campus:
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...campus-in.html Ahahaha, Kevin, you beat me to it! And yours comes with a complimentary sample of the text, and a big bold headline! It's mind-blowing to think of what that part of the city was like only 10-15 years ago, and to see what it's becoming. We REALLY need world-class mass transit on the E. Riverside corridor to ABIA. Maybe this will help make it happen? It's great to see a corporation getting involved in the housing and transportation connection, by encouraging their employees to live near work. |
So are we talking a high-rise on its side kinda thing? Either way, it'll be good to have this area be more than apartments and a few small stores. This will help boost some other growth around there. Hopefully it'll mean less new apartment complexes with surface lots, too. :)
...that is, of course, unless they decide to go Dell-style and just build a campus-style series of buildings with seas of parking lots... |
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Holy Fuck that's beautiful design. Very unique and I love it.
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I do remember that rendering now - thanks. I think it's pretty nice, actually, so we'll see if they go with something similar. I'm not against all low-rises by any means, so long as it fits and is a good use of the space. This isn't in the downtown core and there's nothing exceptionally high around it. It'll fit at that height. What I don't like are seas of parking lots, so I hope they don't do that at least.
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My only complaint is that it will likely be suburban in nature. 560,000 square feet on 27 acres? Let me guess, with acres of hot asphalt for parking, too? That should be in downtown in a single tower on a quarter acre, not in several buildings spread over more than 2 dozen acres. And you know it won't have any retail or face the street to draw people in. I don't care that the design is nice. It's like seeing a beautiful mountain and not being able to explore it because of the terrain between you and the mountain.
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Of course The Oracle, but they have yet to disclose a timeline. I might add that Austin is building quite alot midrise buildings as well. There are so many of them it's hard to keep track. I notice 2 alone near Lakeline visiting a friend in Cedar Park.
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This lists the address as 2401 South Lakeshore Boulevard
http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/18988...lvd-Austin-TX/ A site map was uploaded to the city's FTP site today under the same address. This lists the name as "Waterfront". ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...lvd)_PLANS.pdf |
http://austintowers.net/oracle-a-for...ast-riverside/
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Plans for the Waterfront, which is the Oracle Campus, were posted on the City's site.
ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...lvd)_PLANS.pdf Here are images of the elevations and site plan that I pulled from the above PDF. http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...pspllwb7ob.jpg http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...psqup4lwb4.jpg http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/...psqzc4okye.jpg |
As long as things develop well around it, I don't consider this too bad. The massive front yard on the building (between Azul and the garage) can serve as a "public" park so long as they keep it open to the public. There's a lot of potential in this area, and as long as they stop with the massive surface lots on some of the developments, it could really be quite nice.
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Oracle's Southeast Austin campus begins development, site work
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What apartment complexes were demolished to make room for this?
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There will be six tower cranes going up for this according to FAA filings:
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...owsPerPage=500 |
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