Good find. I did some searching and found a small rendering. The article says it will be an 800 room hotel. Looks like it will be about 17-18 floors. I can't tell from the rendering where it's planned to be built, but I'm almost wondering if it will replace what was going to be built at Congress & Second across from the Austonian.
http://www.whitelodging.com/pdf/Press2009152008.pdf
Edited to add: Ugh - I found another (different) rendering for a Hyatt Place downtown Austin
Go here
http://www.reires.com/flash/infobox-...nt-content.htm
and click on the second link. I hope if it gets built that it's the first rendering and not the second one.
Then again, maybe the first rendering is the Westin planned for downtown. That's supposed to be a White Lodging property, too.