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		<title>Does Austin Need A Market For Air Rights?</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/11/29/time-austin-create-market-air-rights/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not talking fresh air.  I&#8217;m talking about the  municipal zoning  God given right to build to the heavens. The recent plan for 3rd &#38; Colorado &#8211; a residential tower that I’m excited to see more of, if not disappointed that it isn’t taller &#8211; reminded me of a policy discussion that lost steam a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WTF is Austin’s CodeNext and Why the ‘Eff Should I Care?</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/08/18/wtf-codenext-eff-care/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE January 30, 2017: Link to first official draft of CodeNEXT] You&#8217;ve likely stumbled across the phrase “CodeNext” somewhere on the interwebs, figured it was another facacta Austin planning scheme, and so you just jumped back to reading Deadspin. CodeNext (single word) is the multi-year effort to redevelop Austin’s Land Development Code, also called the LDC.  In theory, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Windfall – Villas on Town Lake is being sold</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/06/22/windfall-villas-town-lake-sold/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Downtown Austin&#8217;s Villas on Town Lake condos home owners&#8217; association (HOA) will agree to sell the entire property &#8211; comprised of 57 individually owned condos &#8211; to The Sutton Company, who beat out a handful of bidders.  More than one source close to the deal has rumored the amount of the offers [plural] were in the ballpark of $50,000,000. This is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Drive Through Austin – June 1996</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is an amazing time capsule of a video. Twenty years ago this video was shot by Pete Reid and his buddy, Brian.  Pete was a visiting student from Scotland at UT. The video takes us from UT, down the Drag, along Guadalupe into downtown Austin.  The video quality isn&#8217;t great, but it is good [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New downtown Austin train station making room for pedestrian plaza</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/06/02/new-downtown-austin-train-station-making-room-pedestrian-plaza/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2016 16:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The downtown Austin “Red Line” train station is about to undergo a significant makeover, that will add room for two more trains at the station.  The capacity upgrade is expected to double the people (from &#62;400 to 800) to commute to downtown from north Austin during rush hour. However, the final design seems to be departure from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Downtown Thriving as a Live-Work-Play Community</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/05/30/downtown-thriving-live-work-play-community/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2016 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nice story in The Statesman about the vibrant community that continues to grow downtown &#8211; not just in terms of nightlife, but also new economy jobs and associated residents:  Austin&#8217;s Tech Scene Heats Up Downtown. It&#8217;s worth pointing out however that all this has not &#8220;just happened&#8221; by itself. It has been 15+ years in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chill Out</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Leave no stone unturned. Check out how Austin Energy wants to use a sliver of downtown land, next to Gables Park Tower, for a new chilling station. The site dimensions make the site pretty much unusable for intense development, so it is great to see a municipal use.  AE has engaged Cotera Reed to handle the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Republic Square Park Makeover</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/04/13/republic-square-park-makeover/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caleb Pritchard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 01:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Friends, it took a minute, but we’re finally just months away from the start of a momentous project that promises to further ratchet up the quality of life here in Downtown Austin. After nearly two decades of fitful effort and planning, work is set to start this June on tremendous upgrades to Republic Square Park. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Millennium Rainey Apartments Wrap Up Construction</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/04/06/millennium-rainey-apartments-wrap-construction/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2016 20:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the past couple of years the east side of Rainey Street&#8217;s [already limited] sidewalks were barricaded for the construction of the Millennium Rainey apartments. Today, those barricades came down!  Woo hoo!!!  The Millennium Rainey adds 326 downtown apartments to the rental inventory. Some of you will remember that The Sutton Company assembled several Rainey Street parcels [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Where Is All The Micro Housing?</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/04/01/promise-micro-housing-now/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caleb Pritchard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 13:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The casual suburban view of Downtown Austin real estate is likely limited to the newsworthy towers &#8211; hotels, offices, condos.  The tall glassy stuff that has been radically reordering our skyline with a seasonal regularity.  But there’s far more to downtown than just towers. 78701 is arguably Austin’s only truly self-sustaining urban ZIP code, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Downtown Austin News Bites</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/03/31/downtown-austin-news-bites-april-2016/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AG]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fareground Austin Making Progress The renovation / remodel of the plaza in front of 111 Congress Avenue, being branded as Fareground Austin,  has been underway since last year, and things seem to chugging right along. The project has received loads of press in all the major news outlets and recently unveiled new renderings and announced [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New bowling alley coming to downtown Austin</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/02/23/new-bowling-alley-coming-to-downtown-austin/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bowling alley coming to downtown Austin I hold the belief that the Big Lebowski made bowling cool in America again.  It is certainly a cool thing to do in Austin, with the Highball, and lest we forget Saengerrunde Hall has been keepin&#8217; it real since 1879! Now, a new bowling alley is on tap for downtown Austin at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>BRACK ATTACK!!  Brackenridge Hospital Master Plan is just a plan (for now)</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/02/09/brack-attack/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the end of January, the master plan to redevelop the 14.3-acre Brackenridge Hospital campus in the northeast quadrant of downtown Austin got the go-ahead from Central Health board. The plan envisions up to four new skyscrapers, an open air market, housing, basically everything to run a small town. There is a lot of fanfare about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>L’Estelle and Rainey’s Evolution</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/01/19/lestelle-and-raineys-evolution/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AG]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As far as Rainey bars go, I really like The Drafting Room at 88 1/2 Rainey.  Located on a plot of land right behind The Shore Condos in downtown Austin&#8216;s Rainey Street District, and owned by inveterate downtown-er and Architect Craig Nasso since 1994 (read: WAY before Rainey Street was &#8220;cool&#8221;), the lot has evolved with the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Demolition Begins at Waller Park Place</title>
		<link>https://downtownaustinblog.org/2016/01/15/demolition-at-waller-park-place/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Galligan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More signals of progress at Waller Park Place.  Demolition of the site began this morning along the west side of Red River, and into Willow Street. &#160;]]></description>
		
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