AUSTIN | 800-804 Congress Hotel | 30 FLOORS
Yet another hotel proposal. There's at least 3,000 to 4,000 hotel rooms planned for downtown Austin. 2,000+ of those will be in just two buildings serving the convention center.
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If I am not mistaken this would be the tallest building in between 6th and Congress and the state capital. I thought that once you passed 6th, all the buildings had to be 15 floors and under? How will they be able to do this?
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I was wondering about that, too. Although, I hadn't heard of the 15-story height restriction.
This will be the tallest building in downtown north of 7th Street (not counting the Capitol). And it could be up to 100 feet taller than 816 Congress, the neighbor sharing its block to the north. I would bet this building will be close to 350 feet tall. It'll have 12 to 13 floors of office space. That section of the building alone could push it to nearly 200 feet tall. |
Im not sure if there really is an official 15 floor height limit but I know the buildings in that part of Downtown are mostly in the 15 floor and under range. I know that the closer you get to the capital the more condensed the Capital View Corridors get to each other. Maybe there is a small sliver that they can take advantage of.
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There are no height restrictions along Congress related to the Capitol View Corridor (CVC) except for banning any skywalks/skybridges from crossing the street. There are height restrictions related to the CVC on the surrounding streets, however, north of 10th Street.
This link has some historical information about height restrictions in Austin related to the Capitol. http://www.heritagesocietyaustin.org/CVCBackground.pdf Capitol View Corridor map. http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/downtown/...port_Final.pdf |
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...ity-counc.html
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A mostly awesome looking building except for the glass strip interrupting the top. What the hell were they thinking with that? (also, on second look, I'm unsure about the backside too)
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Given the lack of anything going on North of 7th street on Congress (or anywhere near Congress), I'll take it. Seems like this is a mostly dead part of downtown clear over to Guadalupe.
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I actually don't mind the strip of glass at the top. It ties into the 6 levels of corner glass on the bottom half.
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