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The weather may be starting to get a tiny little chill in the air but downtown Austin was warm this weekend with the fun and exciting Pecan Street Festival. This bi-annual street fair has been a part of Austin’s yearly calendar for almost thirty years now and it never fails to bring the city’s residents [...]

More than 3,000 people have landed in Austin’s temporary shelters as they try to escape the devastation that Hurricane Ike has caused further south in Texas. An additional unknown number of evacuees are staying in Austin hotels for the same reason. Although these people will eventually be returning to their own homes, the city of [...]

A lot of people have started to move in to downtown Austin in order to take advantage of the stylish lifestyle, the eco-friendly urban lifestyle and the many activities that take place in the area. If you are one of those people that has a budding interest in making the move to downtown Austin but [...]

One of the best things about the revitalization of downtown Austin is that people are going to be spending time down in this area on a more frequent basis for the variety of events that are being held here. The bad news is that this means that traffic is going to increase in downtown Austin [...]

The Downtown Austin Alliance has issued a Request for Proposals asking artists for designs that will serve as sculptural bike racks along Congress Avenue in downtown Austin. These bike racks will be both aesthetically pleasing and functional. Furthermore, they represent three important concerns for the development taking place in downtown Austin: the interest in beautifying [...]

There is a lot to do in downtown Austin these days but that doesn’t mean that some of the classic activities and attractions there should now be forgotten. The downtown Austin area has long been the home of several different museums that remain worth checking out even as new opportunities for entertainment become available in [...]

One of the downtown accommodations projects that a lot of people have been excited to watch develop is The Sabine on 5th condominiums. They were slated for 2008 completion and have indeed been completed and are now ready for move-in. This shows that downtown Austin development is on track and gives people in the area [...]

One of the major reasons that people are interested in the revitalization of downtown Austin is that this trend is going to make Austin a greener city. People are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of taking citywide actions to become more environmentally friendly. Encouraging people to live, work and play in the downtown area [...]

Anyone who is familiar with downtown Austin is probably aware of the fact that between two of the city’s most-visited landmarks (The Texas Capitol and Lady Bird Lake) there is a twelve-block stretch of street called Congress Avenue. This used to be a bustling downtown area but it’s been several decades since there were more [...]

There isn’t a part of downtown Austin that has gone untouched in the face of the area’s growth. However, the west end of downtown has received less attention from investors to date than other areas of the neighborhood. That fact has started to change as both retailers and residential builders have turned their attention to [...]