1900 1st Ave Eye Candy
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What may someday rise from the surface parking lot on the northeast corner of 1st and Stewart: 11 stories, 100 hotel rooms, 75 apartments, 5000 sf of street-level retail, 325 parking stalls on four underground levels; designed by OSKA, developed by Touchstone.
It’s inspiring. But can it be financed? I have no clue, but they’re going in for design review on October 28 (warning: 89 MB pdf).
Automated parking? Interesting indeed.
It’s small for the location, but it’s pretty.
I love the Austin-sized parking inventory.
This building is sexy. At least on paper. I live right next to that location and have been wondering what the proposal was to look like ever since they put the land use signs on the light posts a year ago. Hopefully this will get up quick on such a great corner of the city. This will really change the feel of the neighborhood.
Exciting elevations. Hopefully the plans and the finishes are of similar quality. Could be a real winner.
Wouldn’t automated parking be a huge energy waster?
And the design…ala Bart Simpson “aye carumba!”. Another boring box. Oh wait, they shifted it somewhat. Give me a break – it LOOKS cheap. It reminds me of how everyone was fooled when the “sexy” renderings of the downtown library came out. Come on folks, you’re smarter than this…
it’s a lot more SAM than SPL: a rehashed Allied Works/Kloepfil, no? Bitchin’ night rendering–that’s what I am talking about!
What a comfort that we’re the city that doesn’t approve of skybridges.