AUSTIN | Waterloo Park Tower | 20 to 40 FLOORS

KevinFromTexas · #1 Posted: **Sep 1, 2012, 2:57 AM**

According to this article it says it could be 20 to 40 floors. I wasn't thinking it would be this tall, but I guess it's possible. The lot is really small.

http://austin.ynn.com/content/local_...vertical-again

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9:43 AM
Business Now: Downtown goes vertical again
By: YNN Staff

Another new building could be going up in Downtown Austin.

The landowner of The Brick Oven pizzeria, located at 12th and Red River Streets, has decided to build bigger. The restaurant has been at that location for about 30 years. Now, owners are trying to rezone the land and build a 20 to 40 story building on the property.

KevinFromTexas · #2 Posted: **Sep 1, 2012, 3:02 AM**

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/pr...thing-big.html

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Downtown site readying for something big

Brick Oven may close; landowner needs partners to develop ‘Waterloo Tower’
Austin Business Journal by Robert Grattan, Staff Writer
Date: Friday, August 31, 2012, 5:00am CDT

Robert Grattan
Staff Writer- Austin Business Journal

Downtown Austin landowner Allen Nalle may need a developer to build shops and possibly a condo or medical office tower at the corner of 12th and Red River streets, where the Brick Oven Pizzeria has been for 30 years.

Nalle is having the 0.366 acres he owns at 1209 Red River St. rezoned to make way for a planned 152,160-square-foot building. If it gets the City Council’s OK Sept. 27 — it already got the Planning Commission’s blessing — the site would place more valuable real estate next to University Medical Center Brackenridge, where the University of Texas and Seton

KevinFromTexas · #3 Posted: **Sep 1, 2012, 3:26 AM**

The address is 1209 Red River Street.

From the city's website:

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/DowntownAu..._june_2012.pdf

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Waterloo Park Tower

This is a proposed office and residential tower on the site of the
former Brick Oven Pizza, east of Waterloo Park and south of UMC
Brackenridge.

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

Here's the permit/case# for that one:

2012-071580 ZC

There's not much, but it mentions

30,432 sq ft Medical office
45,648 sq ft Office
7,608 sq ft Retail
68,472 sq ft Condo (74 du) Does that mean # of units?

Total - 152,120 sq ft

Project Name Waterloo Park Tower
Application Date: July 17, 2012
The applicant is requesting to rezone from CS-1 to CBD
PC Hearing - September 27, 2012