AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III - Page 196

citykid09 · #**3901** Posted **Oct 23, 2014, 8:54 PM**

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but has the Fairmont Hotel in Austin been canceled?

ski-man · #**3902** Posted **Oct 23, 2014, 10:06 PM**

What project are the red & white cranes for?

KevinFromTexas · #**3903** Posted **Oct 23, 2014, 10:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by citykid09

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but has the Fairmont Hotel in Austin been canceled?

No, and apparently it's going to break ground on December 1st according to a permit the filed with the city for street closures (staging area).

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Originally Posted by ski-man

What project are the red & white cranes for?

It's an 8-story residential project called Millennium Rainey. It'll only be 99 feet tall.

The blue crane is working on the 16-story Hotel Van Zandt, and the white and grey crane is working on the 19-story Westin Hotel.

KevinFromTexas · #**3904** Posted **Oct 24, 2014, 1:15 AM**

The site plan was released today for the Block 23 office building. The elevations are shown on pages 25 through 27.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...20LA_PLANS.pdf

The heights are:

397 feet 6 inches to the mechanical penthouse. This is the highest point on the building.

344 feet 6 inches to the 28th floor. This is the highest occupied floor.

There are also 3 more levels above the 28th floor that are mechanical levels.

387 feet 6 inches to the 31st mechanical floor.

373 feet 6 inches to the 30th mechanical floor.

359 feet 6 inches to the 29th floor (main roof) parapet.

357 feet 6 inches to the 29th floor (main roof) slab.

KevinFromTexas · #**3905** Posted **Oct 24, 2014, 3:34 AM**

Well now!

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/busi....257263.735529

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Financing in hand, $370 million Austin Fairmont project now a go

Posted: 10:01 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014

By Shonda Novak - American-Statesman Staff

The developer of a Fairmont convention hotel planned for downtown Austin has obtained financing for the project, clearing the way for the $370 million luxury hotel to break ground next month and add more than 1,000 rooms to the market.

Los Angeles-based Colony Capital LLC will finance the hotel, which will be built on a 1.74-acre site at East Cesar Chavez and Red River streets.

At 37 stories and rising 595 feet, the hotel would be one of the tallest buildings in Austin’s skyline when it opens. With 1,066 rooms, it would be the city’s largest hotel, surpassing the 34-story, 1,012-room JW Marriott convention center hotel that is currently under construction downtown and scheduled to open in February.

Groundbreaking for the Fairmont is scheduled for Nov. 3, with plans for it to open in June 2017.

N90 · #**3906** Posted **Oct 24, 2014, 4:30 AM**

Yes!!!!!!!

austin242 · #**3907** Posted **Oct 24, 2014, 3:06 PM**

Looking at the final design I'm not all that happy. It might kinda hurt the skyline.

HoustonHorns · #**3908** Posted **Oct 24, 2014, 8:09 PM**

While not as good as the original design, it is still an attractive building. Will it be only 595 feet including the spire? If it is, I don't see it looking too out of place.

wwmiv · #**3909** Posted **Oct 24, 2014, 8:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by austin242

Looking at the final design I'm not all that happy. It might kinda hurt the skyline.

Why in the world would this hurt the skyline? It's still a beautiful design.

JoninATX · #**3910** Posted **Oct 24, 2014, 10:24 PM**

What hurt the skyline is The Hilton. No offense that's a big eyesore with all that stucco on it.

wwmiv · #**3911** Posted **Oct 24, 2014, 10:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

What hurt the skyline is The Hilton. No offense that's a big eyesore with all that stucco on it.

Agreed.

GoldenBoot · #**3912** Posted **Oct 25, 2014, 12:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by N90

Yes!!!!!!!

You must like glass-façaded toilets! Take a look at it...it looks like a really fancy, modern take on a household toilet. Great design Manchester/Gensler! Maybe the gigantic, out of place spire will provide me wi-fi as I'm doing my business.

Austin does not need another block-long, flat-roofed, monolith (no matter the façade's makeup). The CBD is going to look like Vegas where there is a flat line at 500-600'...However, Austin's will be at 400-450'.

Jdawgboy · #**3913** Posted **Oct 25, 2014, 12:48 AM**

I still say the spire is too long for such a short building. This building is not 595, the building itself will be in the 400ft range like sooooooooooo many others. I don't consider a pole on top of a building to be the actual building height. If that's the case than let's stick a 400 foot spire in the center of Frost where the crown opens and then it will once again be the tallest building in Austin and it will be our first 800 footer too!

Jdawgboy · #**3914** Posted **Oct 25, 2014, 12:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by GoldenBoot

You must like glass-façaded toilets! Take a look at it...it looks like a really fancy, modern take on a household toilet. Great design Manchester/Gensler! Maybe the gigantic, out of place spire will provide me wi-fi as I'm doing my business.

Austin does not need another block-long, flat-roofed, monolith (no matter the façade's makeup). The CBD is going to look like Vegas where there is a flat line at 500-600'...However, Austin's will be at 400-450'.

TXLove · #**3915** Posted **Oct 25, 2014, 1:09 AM**

Im also upset that it was shortened but come on guys, we are so spoiled now that we get all upset about having a bunch of 400 footers dotting our skyline. Before Frost Bank we had 1 building over 400ft and that was just recently confirmed! Be happy we are even getting something built! In that location it will be very prominent! I do want something taller in the 700/800 ft range but lets hope the ECC site will quench our thirst for something taller

N90 · #**3916** Posted **Oct 25, 2014, 1:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by GoldenBoot

You must like glass-façaded toilets! Take a look at it...it looks like a really fancy, modern take on a household toilet. Great design Manchester/Gensler! Maybe the gigantic, out of place spire will provide me wi-fi as I'm doing my business.

Austin does not need another block-long, flat-roofed, monolith (no matter the façade's makeup). The CBD is going to look like Vegas where there is a flat line at 500-600'...However, Austin's will be at 400-450'.

No I like infill.

wwmiv · #**3917** Posted **Oct 25, 2014, 1:38 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoldenBoot

You must like glass-façaded toilets! Take a look at it...it looks like a really fancy, modern take on a household toilet. Great design Manchester/Gensler! Maybe the gigantic, out of place spire will provide me wi-fi as I'm doing my business.

Austin does not need another block-long, flat-roofed, monolith (no matter the façade's makeup). The CBD is going to look like Vegas where there is a flat line at 500-600'...However, Austin's will be at 400-450'.

Have you ever seen a toilet made of glass?

No? I didn't think you had.

#spoiled

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I rarely say this to people who aren't me, but you have got to calm down.

Bloody hell!

http://www.veryabc.cn/movie/uploads/...WearsPrada.txt

GoldenBoot · #**3918** Posted **Oct 26, 2014, 5:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

Have you ever seen a toilet made of glass?

No? I didn't think you had.

#spoiled

http://www.veryabc.cn/movie/uploads/...WearsPrada.txt

Actually, yes...Abu Dhabi. Most comfortable dump I ever had! Pissed in a gold one in Dubai...a little disappointing in comparison. Oh, yeah...Astana too. Almost forgot, sorry. Still a bit disappointing compared to the experience in Abu Dhabi.

You?

#Yes...Ihaveworkedhardenoughtobespoiled!

I hear Buc-ee's - New Braunfels is "nice!"

wwmiv · #**3919** Posted **Oct 26, 2014, 9:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by GoldenBoot

Actually, yes...Abu Dhabi. Most comfortable dump I ever had! Pissed in a gold one in Dubai...a little disappointing in comparison. Oh, yeah...Astana too. Almost forgot, sorry. Still a bit disappointing compared to the experience in Abu Dhabi.

You?

#Yes...Ihaveworkedhardenoughtobespoiled!

I hear Buc-ee's - New Braunfels is "nice!"

Bruh, I'm an old money Ph.D. student, so you don't have a monopoly among us here on SSP in working hard and getting nice things.

By the way, tasteful rich people think that kind of stuff is tacky as all get out.

Kotliz · #**3920** Posted **Oct 26, 2014, 3:03 PM**

I guess it's a nice looking building and all, but it looks like it's been shrunk down a lot from the last renderings we saw—the ones posted at the building site, with the double towers—and I thought this new design is a bit of a pitty too, because we kinda have one like that already—the Marriottt a few blocks West of there.

But still, so vastly much better than yet another ugly open lot down town.

Also, I agree with the spire comment. I know it probably adhears to achitectural rules, but it feels a bit like cheating (to a layperson). How about putting an 700 foot spire on on the Gingerman and calling it the tallest building in Austin.