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05/16/2025

05/12/2025

Development stories we’re following this week

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? No Thanks, Elon Musk. For the past few months, Mr. Musk, 53, has bulldozed his way across Washington, flouting long-established traditions and hacking away at what he deemed to be unnecessary federal bureaucracy. But in his own backyard outside Austin, the tech billionair...

05/10/2025

04/17/2025

Other fundamentals are not as bright, the latest CommercialEdge data shows

Office development in Austin retained strong momentum at the beginning of this year, which highlighted the metro’s resilience. The market ranked second nationwide in terms of new office space underway, behind Boston, CommercialEdge data shows. Other fundamentals lagged, however, as the large amoun...

03/27/2025

Development stories we’re following this week

Austin development news of the week

01/15/2025

One month away! 🎥🎬 Join us Thursday, February 13th at 6:00 pm for the opening of Beyond the Bombshell: Farrah Fawcett at the U! Discover this iconic actress's art, archives, and legacy like never before. 🎨 This event is FREE and open to all with walk-ups welcome!

Register to let us know you're coming here: https://umlaufsculpture.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/umlaufsculpture/event.jsp?event=4124&

01/15/2025

The Center for Computational Medicine arrives as the university prepares to build a new academic medical center where the cutting-edge technologies could be used.

01/15/2025

Development stories we’re following this week.

Nate Paul pleads guilty to federal financial crime "Austin real estate investor Nate Paul on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a charge of making false statements to a financial institution as part of a deal with prosecutors, ending a six-year legal saga.

01/09/2025

Introducing Urbanize SF!

“One day, if I go to heaven… I’ll look around and say, ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.’” — Herb Caen, American journalist

12/31/2024

Money to fund Thomas Ranch infrastructure, residential development

A partnership between Utah-based firms Areté Collective and Wasatch Group has received $106 million in bond financing for Thomas Ranch, a master-planned development in the Central Texas community of Spicewood, near Lake Travis northwest of Austin. Developers will use money from the nonrecourse, tax...

12/31/2024

Project Connect tax decision will ‘likely be appealed,’ says attorney

A Travis County judge has dismissed a lawsuit to stop the city of Austin from collecting property taxes to for its Project Connect transportation program. Judge Eric Shepperd on Dec. 20 signed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the tax rate for Project Connect is "miscalculated" because the mone...

12/30/2024

Planned community near X, SpaceX, Boring Company rebranded as the Row

A mixed-use community planned near the Tesla Austin gigafactory has a new name. The 314-acre Presidium development, initially called the Velocity, will now be known as the Row (not to be confused with the extremely high-end Olsen twins fashion label of the same name, of course).