Designed Chaos at Chaotic Moon

      Tech firm Chaotic Moon keeps Austin weird and its employees happy with its newly renovated office. The city of Austin has long been held up as an oasis of culture and innovation in the heart of the Southwest, thanks to the mixing of tech-savvy graduates from the University of Texas and “weirder” [...]

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Tech firm Dropbox bound for new Congress Avenue office building

    The six-story office building under construction at East Fifth Street and Congress Avenue in downtown Austin has landed its biggest tenant: Dropbox, a software firm that’s in line for city and state incentives.   San Francisco-based Dropbox will lease about 60,000 square feet — the top three floors of the new building called [...]

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5-Story Think Tank HQ Coming to 9th & Congress

        More construction barricades appeared recently around a downtown building, signaling more change in Austin’s ever-changing downtown and representing the first significant project on the northern end of Congress Avenue in decades. The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is moving across the street from 900 Congress to 901 Congress Ave. An existing 2-story historic [...]

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Taking a more worldly approach

With previous stints in Germany and Chicago, Nathan Wilcox brings a global perspective to his new design job at Austin’s Sixthriver Architects   Jan Buchholz, Staff Writer- Austin Business Journal Sixthriver Architects recently snatched away Nathan Wilcox, one of Austin’s rising design stars, from BOKA Powell. The 34-year-old Texas native who was raised in Iowa will [...]

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The Women Behind Sixthriver Architects

How to break in to a male-dominated industry. Monia Katarina Villasenor, Jill Lung and Katie Farkash are three of six shareholders in Sixthriver Architects. The architecture industry is still traditionally male-dominated. However, these women have found success with hard work and great advice along the way and want to give Austin Woman readers a few tricks of the [...]

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Historic Building puts on a New Face

      Want to check it out? Get the secret password Jan Buchholz, Staff Writer- Austin Business Journal Call it the Scarbrough Affair. Brokers at CBRE Group Inc. are having a speakeasy party Sept. 12 at the historic Scarbrough Building downtown for a select group of commercial real estate professionals. The event will provide a [...]

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Work begins on 5-story Congress Ave. project

      Sarah Drake, Contributing Editor-Austin Business Journal Construction is under way on a more than $30 million project at the northeast corner of Congress Avenue and Fifth Street between the Frost Bank and Bank of America towers for a planned five-story office building. Stream Realty Partners LP is developing the office space. The [...]

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Furnishing a Future

The expression “part of the furniture” takes on a whole new meaning when it’s being used to describe student housing. -Article written by Lynn Peisner, Student Housing Business.com (07/08/2013) Tables, chairs, beds and sofas couldn’t be more front-and-center in a Millennial’s decision to lease or not lease a furnished apartment. As the design and architecture [...]

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In downtown Austin, three buildings become one

Cielo Partners signs Chaotic Moon as tenant Article by Jan Bucholz, Staff-Writer       Chaotic Moon Studios will occupy about 20,000 square feet in historic office space, which sits above Annie’s Cafe & Bar on Congress Avenue in the heart of downtown. The unconventional space is owned by Cielo Partners, which bought 315, 319 [...]

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Stream Realty developing in North Austin

Paloma Ridge to offer class A office space geared to ‘value client’ Jan Bucholz,  Staff Writer-Austin Business Journal  A spate of office projects have commenced suddenly, primarily downtown and in the northwest submarket, after years without any speculative office space being built. Two familiar development names in Austin — Endeavor Real Estate Group and Cousins [...]

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