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Downtown Austin Skyline Will Soon Include 25-Story Office Tower
Love it or hate it, the downtown Austin skyline will change even more in the next few years with the addition of this 25-story office tower.
Duda|Paine Architects, “the same firm that designed the Frost Bank Tower”, as reported by the Austin American-Statesman, will expand their Austin resume with the addition of a new 25-story building planned for the corner of Colorado Street and West 4th Street. Brandywine Realty Trust is in charge of the mega-building that will be a 210,000-square-foot office complex, standing at 366 feet tall.
The preliminary name for the building is 405 Colorado and while there is no set ground-breaking date for the structure, one senior vice president of a commercial real estate firm in Austin, Diana Holford said that “the tower cannot be built fast enough.”
There will be 3,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor of the building, with 12 parking levels that will hold about 530 parking spaces. The brochure for the project states that this building will “provide a seamless transition from Austin’s vibrant downtown street life, outside, to an inspiring and creative work environment, inside.”
The brochure claims that it will be a “new Austin icon” and a “dynamic image from every direction,” but it does break our hearts just a bit to know that our beloved Austin will never return to the way it used to be.
