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One grand avenue, which Lamar named [[Congress Avenue|"Congress,"]] cut through the center of town from Capitol Square down to the Colorado River. The streets running north-south (paralleling Congress) were named for Texas rivers with their order of placement matching the order of rivers on the Texas state map. The east-west streets were named after trees native to the region, despite the fact that Waller had recommended using numbers (they were eventually changed to numbers in 1884). The city's perimeters stretched north to south from the river at 1st Street to 15th Street, and from East Avenue (now [[Interstate 35]]) to West Avenue.<ref>{{cite book |first=Spurlin |last=Charles D. |journal= Handbook of Texas |title= Waller, Edwin |url= http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwa38 |accessdate= Sept. 6, 2011.}}</ref>
One grand avenue, which Lamar named [[Congress Avenue|"Congress,"]] cut through the center of town from Capitol Square down to the Colorado River. The streets running north-south (paralleling Congress) were named for Texas rivers with their order of placement matching the order of rivers on the Texas state map. The east-west streets were named after trees native to the region, despite the fact that Waller had recommended using numbers (they were eventually changed to numbers in 1884). The city's perimeters stretched north to south from the river at 1st Street to 15th Street, and from East Avenue (now [[Interstate 35]]) to West Avenue.<ref>{{cite book |first=Spurlin |last=Charles D. |journal= Handbook of Texas |title= Waller, Edwin |url= http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwa38 |accessdate= Sept. 6, 2011.}}</ref>


Waller reserved key spots for public buildings and four public squares. Remarkably, three of Waller's original squares survive to this day: [[Wooldridge Square]], [[Republic Square (Austin, Texas)|Republic Square]] and [[Brush Square]].<ref>{{cite web |last= Barnes |first=Michael |title= Thank Edwin Waller for Austin’s rational plan |date= Sept. 7, 2011 |url= http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/outandabout/entries/2011/09/07/thank_edwin_wal.html |accessdate= Nov. 24, 2011}}</ref>
Waller reserved key spots for public buildings and four public squares. Remarkably, three of Waller's original squares survive to this day: [[Wooldridge Park]], [[Republic Square (Austin, Texas)|Republic Square]] and [[Brush Square]].<ref>{{cite web |last= Barnes |first=Michael |title= Thank Edwin Waller for Austin’s rational plan |date= Sept. 7, 2011 |url= http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/outandabout/entries/2011/09/07/thank_edwin_wal.html |accessdate= Nov. 24, 2011}}</ref>

==Downtown districts==
===Congress Avenue===
[[Edwin Waller]], the first mayor of Austin, designed Congress Avenue to be Austin's most prominent street. Planned as the widest street in the original 1839 Austin plan, the 120 foot wide Congress Avenue initially ran from the Colorado River north to the [[Texas State Capitol|State Capitol]]. Not coincidentally, Congress was the most important street in Austin city life during the 1900s. Early structures along Congress Avenue included government buildings, hotels, saloons, retail stores and restaurants. By the late 1840s "The Avenue" formed a well-established business district. The mid-1870s introduced [[gas lighting|gaslight]] illumination and mule-driven [[tram|streetcars]] as well as construction of a new [[Travis County, Texas|Travis County]] courthouse at Eleventh Street.

Stretching from First Street north to Eleventh Street, the [[Congress Avenue Historic District (Austin, Texas)|Congress Avenue Historic District]] was created on August 11, 1978. Stylistically, the dominating structures of significance reflected general [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] form and detailing, tempered by local materials and building techniques.<ref>{{cite web |author= McGraw, Marburger & Associates |title= History of South Congress |url= http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:1174DgI_9KQJ:www.historicbouldincreek.org/PDF/sconhistory.pdf+south+congress+avenue+austin+history&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgTILosO5Y66vzO4Howc3mqJ_V5ijRjRearWHGC01OpwE5g4KECnVyjzjdOoKLW_2XG-okEPE9bzPdWk92LSKY6mKJDoGWBzhfUAUGd2i2X-qRQHyceH8rmDJDt8oK-awHR7aM9&sig=AHIEtbTrYcZQMmSVBjVZjBaoZkdFlguvOA |accessdate= October 31, 2011}}</ref> Notable structures along Congress Avenue north of the Colorado include the Texas State Capitol, [[The Paramount Theatre (Austin, Texas)|Paramount Theatre]], the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Building, [[Gethsemane Lutheran Church]] and the [[Lundberg Bakery (Austin, Texas)|Old Bakery]].

===Sixth Street===
[[Sixth Street (Austin, Texas)|Sixth Street]] is a historic street and entertainment district in Downtown Austin. Sixth Street itself stretches from [[Texas State Highway Loop 1|Mopac Expressway]] in [[Old West Austin Historic District|Old West Austin]] across to [[Interstate 35]] and beyond. The nine-block area of East Sixth Street roughly between Lavaca Street to the west and [[Interstate 35]] to the east is recognized as the ''Sixth Street Historic District'' and was listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on December 30, 1975.<ref>{{cite news |title=6th Bar Blues |last=Whitacre |first=Whitacre |publisher=[[The Daily Texan]] |date=2001-08-15 |url=http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2.8460/6th-bar-blues-1.1268585 |accessdate=2009-07-14}}</ref>

The area around nearby 4th Street and 6th Street has been a major entertainment district since the 1970s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barton |first=Laura |title= We're Austin Music |publisher=[[The Guardian]] |date=2008-02-23 |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/feb/23/austin.usa?gusrc=rss&feed=global |accessdate=2009-07-14}}</ref> Many [[bar (establishment)|bars]], [[nightclub|clubs]], [[music]] venues, and shopping destinations are located on E. 6th Street between [[Congress Avenue]] and [[Interstate 35 in Texas|Interstate 35]] and many offer live music at one time or another during the week.<ref>{{cite book |title=Retire Downtown |last=Ezell |first=Kyle |publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7407-6049-5 |pages=160, 162 |url=http://books.google.com/?id=dv5NQMWS9hAC&pg=PA162 |accessdate=2009-07-14}}</ref> Traffic is generally blocked on E. 6th Street and most crossroads from I-35 to Brazos Street on weekend evenings, and football home games (depending on pedestrian traffic), as well as holidays and special events to allow the crowds to walk unfettered to the many venues that line the street.

E. Sixth Street plays host to a wide variety of events each year, ranging from [[music festival|music]] and [[film festival]]s (such as [[South by Southwest]]) to [[motorcycle|biker]] rallies (such as [[Republic of Texas Biker Rally|The Republic of Texas Biker Rally]]) and the [[Pecan Street Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |title=6th Street Revealed |publisher=Celebrate Austin Magazine |url=http://www.celebrate-austin.com/c.php?p=93 |accessdate=2009-07-14}}</ref>

The area of Sixth Street west of Lavaca is known as the ''West 6th Street District''. Recently, there has been a growing movement to develop this area as an entertainment district of its own, geared toward the live music crowd.<ref>{{cite web |last= Gerbe |first= Bret |title= A night on the other side reveals a burgeoning entertainment district among the office buildings and condos |publisher= Austin American-Statesman |date= Nov. 8, 2006 |url= http://www.austin360.com/news/content/events/stories/xl/2006/11/9cover.html |accessdate= Nov. 24, 2011}}</ref>

===Rainey Street Historic District===
[[Rainey Street Historic District (Austin, Texas)|Rainey Street Historic District]]

===Bremond Block Historic District===
[[Bremond Block Historic District (Austin, Texas) (Austin, Texas)|Bremond Block Historic District]]

===Warehouse District===

===Second Street District===
Situated north of [[Lady Bird Lake]], the six-block Second Street District has swiftly become one of Austin’s most popular food and shopping districts. The district, bordered by Colorado and San Antonio Streets, is chockablock with boutiques, coffeehouses, wine bars and design stores and is anchored by a mixed-use development across from City Hall. It contains is a 36-story [[W Austin Hotel and Residences]], which opened in late 2010, and the state-of-the-art Moody Theater, the new home of the iconic [[PBS]] music series ''[[Austin City Limits]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last= Fergus |first= Jill |title= Austin’s New Hot Hood |publisher= New York Times Magazine |date= May 5, 2011 |url= http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/dispatch-austins-new-hot-hood/ |accessdate= Nov. 24, 2011}}</ref>

In 1997, it was apparent that downtown retail was on the verge of disappearing and downtown, in general, was on a decline. West Second Street had become a blighted area which was home to a number of abandoned warehouses and a lumberyard that the City converted into temporary offices and a City Council Chamber. The city embraced the idea a [[mixed-use]] district, and by the mid-2000s all six blocks would be mixed-use buildings with 168,000 square feet of street-level retail.<ref>{{cite web |last= Bernier |first= Nathan |title= 2nd Street District Retail Occupancy Expected To Reach 92 Percent This Year |publisher= KUT News |date= Jan. 21, 2011 |url= http://kutnews.org/post/2nd-street-district-retail-occupancy-expected-reach-92-percent-year |accessdate= Nov. 24, 2011}}</ref>

===Market District==
The Market District is located in the northwest section of Downtown Austin, just north of the Seaholm District and to the west of the Warehouse District.

===Seaholm District===
The Seaholm District is a formerly industrial section of southwest downtown Austin that the city wants to transform into a vibrant urban neighborhood. The city of Austin has designated the area from [[Lady Bird Lake]] to 5th Street and from Lamar Boulevard to San Antonio Street as the Seaholm District. At the core of the district is the decommissioned [[Seaholm Power Plant]], which will be redeveloped into a landmark residential and retail destination. After several years of delays and false starts due in part to a recession that dried up financing for development, construction is expected to start on redevelopment projects at the former Seaholm Power Plant and the site of the former Green Water Treatment Plant east of Seaholm in 2012. Austin-based Southwest Strategies Group, the project's lead developer, announced plans to to begin work on the 450,000 square feet of development to be built on the 7.8 acre site. The projects will transform the decommissioned plants on downtown's southwestern edge into lively hubs with shops, hotels, condominiums, apartments and other development.<ref>{{cite web |last= Novak |first= Shonda |title= After years of delays, construction in sight for areas in Seaholm District, official says |publisher= Austin American-Statesman |date= Oct. 17, 2011 |url= http://www.statesman.com/business/after-years-of-delays-construction-in-sight-for-1921958.html |accessdate= Nov. 24, 2011}}</ref>

===Judges Hill===
Judges Hill is a largely residential neighborhood is located north of the central business district of downtown Austin on the eastern bluff overlooking [[Pease Park]], bordered by Rio Grande Street, 15th Street, Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd and Lamar Blvd. In 1851, [[Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson]] built the first home in present-day Judges Hill near the corner of 18th and San Gabriel. Although the house was subsequently demolished in 1966. Judge Robertson was the first among the neighborhood resident judges and attorneys who earned the area the name of Judges Hill. The area includes many historically designated properties from the late 1800s, some significant mid-century modern design, student communities and limited multi-family housing.<ref>{{cite web |title= Judges Hill History |publisher= Judges Hill Neighborhood Association |url= http://judgeshill.org/history/history.html |accessdate= Nov. 24, 2011}}</ref>


==Tallest Buildings==
==Tallest Buildings==

Revision as of 23:52, 24 November 2011

The Austin skyline in 2011
Local businesses and recreational venues like 6th Street often are next door to office buildings.

Downtown Austin is the central business district of Austin, Texas. Downtown is located on the north bank of the Colorado River. The approximate borders of Downtown include Lamar Boulevard to the west, 11th Street and sometimes Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and the University of Texas at Austin to the north, Interstate 35 to the east, and Lady Bird Lake to the south.[1][2]

It is where the city's highrise buildings are located, as well as being the center of government and business for the region. Downtown Austin is currently experiencing a building boom, with many Downtown Austin Condos & high rise towers being built.

History

The story of Downtown Austin began with the Republic of Texas and President Mirabeau B. Lamar in the 1830s. Lamar tapped Edwin Waller to direct the planning and construction of the new town. Waller chose a site on a bluff above the Colorado River, nestled between Shoal Creek to the west and Waller Creek to the east. Waller laid the new city in a simple grid pattern on a 640-acre (or one square-mile plot) with 14 blocks running in both directions. Remarkably, much of this original design is still intact in downtown Austin today.

One grand avenue, which Lamar named "Congress," cut through the center of town from Capitol Square down to the Colorado River. The streets running north-south (paralleling Congress) were named for Texas rivers with their order of placement matching the order of rivers on the Texas state map. The east-west streets were named after trees native to the region, despite the fact that Waller had recommended using numbers (they were eventually changed to numbers in 1884). The city's perimeters stretched north to south from the river at 1st Street to 15th Street, and from East Avenue (now Interstate 35) to West Avenue.[3]

Waller reserved key spots for public buildings and four public squares. Remarkably, three of Waller's original squares survive to this day: Wooldridge Park, Republic Square and Brush Square.[4]

Downtown districts

Congress Avenue

Edwin Waller, the first mayor of Austin, designed Congress Avenue to be Austin's most prominent street. Planned as the widest street in the original 1839 Austin plan, the 120 foot wide Congress Avenue initially ran from the Colorado River north to the State Capitol. Not coincidentally, Congress was the most important street in Austin city life during the 1900s. Early structures along Congress Avenue included government buildings, hotels, saloons, retail stores and restaurants. By the late 1840s "The Avenue" formed a well-established business district. The mid-1870s introduced gaslight illumination and mule-driven streetcars as well as construction of a new Travis County courthouse at Eleventh Street.

Stretching from First Street north to Eleventh Street, the Congress Avenue Historic District was created on August 11, 1978. Stylistically, the dominating structures of significance reflected general Victorian form and detailing, tempered by local materials and building techniques.[5] Notable structures along Congress Avenue north of the Colorado include the Texas State Capitol, Paramount Theatre, the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Building, Gethsemane Lutheran Church and the Old Bakery.

Sixth Street

Sixth Street is a historic street and entertainment district in Downtown Austin. Sixth Street itself stretches from Mopac Expressway in Old West Austin across to Interstate 35 and beyond. The nine-block area of East Sixth Street roughly between Lavaca Street to the west and Interstate 35 to the east is recognized as the Sixth Street Historic District and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 30, 1975.[6]

The area around nearby 4th Street and 6th Street has been a major entertainment district since the 1970s.[7] Many bars, clubs, music venues, and shopping destinations are located on E. 6th Street between Congress Avenue and Interstate 35 and many offer live music at one time or another during the week.[8] Traffic is generally blocked on E. 6th Street and most crossroads from I-35 to Brazos Street on weekend evenings, and football home games (depending on pedestrian traffic), as well as holidays and special events to allow the crowds to walk unfettered to the many venues that line the street.

E. Sixth Street plays host to a wide variety of events each year, ranging from music and film festivals (such as South by Southwest) to biker rallies (such as The Republic of Texas Biker Rally) and the Pecan Street Festival.[9]

The area of Sixth Street west of Lavaca is known as the West 6th Street District. Recently, there has been a growing movement to develop this area as an entertainment district of its own, geared toward the live music crowd.[10]

Rainey Street Historic District

Rainey Street Historic District

Bremond Block Historic District

Bremond Block Historic District

Warehouse District

Second Street District

Situated north of Lady Bird Lake, the six-block Second Street District has swiftly become one of Austin’s most popular food and shopping districts. The district, bordered by Colorado and San Antonio Streets, is chockablock with boutiques, coffeehouses, wine bars and design stores and is anchored by a mixed-use development across from City Hall. It contains is a 36-story W Austin Hotel and Residences, which opened in late 2010, and the state-of-the-art Moody Theater, the new home of the iconic PBS music series Austin City Limits.[11]

In 1997, it was apparent that downtown retail was on the verge of disappearing and downtown, in general, was on a decline. West Second Street had become a blighted area which was home to a number of abandoned warehouses and a lumberyard that the City converted into temporary offices and a City Council Chamber. The city embraced the idea a mixed-use district, and by the mid-2000s all six blocks would be mixed-use buildings with 168,000 square feet of street-level retail.[12]

=Market District

The Market District is located in the northwest section of Downtown Austin, just north of the Seaholm District and to the west of the Warehouse District.

Seaholm District

The Seaholm District is a formerly industrial section of southwest downtown Austin that the city wants to transform into a vibrant urban neighborhood. The city of Austin has designated the area from Lady Bird Lake to 5th Street and from Lamar Boulevard to San Antonio Street as the Seaholm District. At the core of the district is the decommissioned Seaholm Power Plant, which will be redeveloped into a landmark residential and retail destination. After several years of delays and false starts due in part to a recession that dried up financing for development, construction is expected to start on redevelopment projects at the former Seaholm Power Plant and the site of the former Green Water Treatment Plant east of Seaholm in 2012. Austin-based Southwest Strategies Group, the project's lead developer, announced plans to to begin work on the 450,000 square feet of development to be built on the 7.8 acre site. The projects will transform the decommissioned plants on downtown's southwestern edge into lively hubs with shops, hotels, condominiums, apartments and other development.[13]

Judges Hill

Judges Hill is a largely residential neighborhood is located north of the central business district of downtown Austin on the eastern bluff overlooking Pease Park, bordered by Rio Grande Street, 15th Street, Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd and Lamar Blvd. In 1851, Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson built the first home in present-day Judges Hill near the corner of 18th and San Gabriel. Although the house was subsequently demolished in 1966. Judge Robertson was the first among the neighborhood resident judges and attorneys who earned the area the name of Judges Hill. The area includes many historically designated properties from the late 1800s, some significant mid-century modern design, student communities and limited multi-family housing.[14]

Tallest Buildings

Main article: List of tallest buildings in Austin

Government

Local government

Austin Central Fire Station 1

The city hall is located in Downtown Austin and is the administrative office of Austin. Originally built in 1871, the city hall was demolished and rebuilt multiple times before the current one was built in November of 2004. [15] [16] The current city hall costed $55.6 million to build and contains a total of 7 stories, of which 3 are underground. [17] Within the building, city council meetings take place in the council chambers. [18] The city council, including the mayor, are voted by Austin's residents and serve 3 year terms. [19]

Austin Central Fire Station 1, 2, and 4 of the Austin Fire Department, all of which are located in downtown, provides fire protection. [20]

County government

Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse in Austin

The County offices, including the Commissioners Court, district courts, county courts, and other facilities are located in the Downtown Complex.[21]

State government

The Texas State Capitol
Downtown Austin Post Office

Downtown Austin is dominated by the Texas State Capitol and associated government buildings.

The University of Texas System is headquartered in Downtown Austin.[22] O. Henry Hall, the main headquarters, was originally a federal courthouse and post office.[23] The Thomas J. Rusk State Office Building is located in Downtown Austin. It includes the Texas State University System headquarters.[24]

The Texas Third Court of Appeals is located in the Price Daniel, Sr. State Office Building in Downtown Austin.[25]

Federal government

The United States Postal Service operates the Downtown Austin Post Office in Downtown Austin.[26]

Diplomatic missions

The Consulate-General of Mexico in Austin was located in Suite 330 within the 800 Brazos Street/Brazos Place complex.[27] It is now located west of Downtown Austin.[28]

Transportation

Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority provides public transportation services, including bus, paratransit and since 2010, commuter rail services to Downtown Austin. The Downtown Capital Metrorail is located near the Austin Convention Center on Fourth Street, between Neches and Trinity; the station is outside of the Austin Convention Center.[29]

Economy

Whole Foods Market headquarters

Major employers in Downtown Austin include the corporate headquarters and flagship store of Whole Foods Market and GSD&M Idea City.[30][31] Texas Monthly, a magazine, has its headquarters in Downtown Austin.[32] Schlotzsky's has its headquarters in the 301 Congress Avenue building in Downtown Austin.[33] The Texas Observer, a magazine, has its headquarters in Downtown Austin.[34]

The Downtown Austin Alliance is a partnership of individuals and business dedicated to promoting Downtown Austin.[35]

Education

Colleges and universities

Rio Grande Campus of Austin Community College, formerly Austin High School and John T. Allan Junior High School.[36]

Austin Community College operates the Rio Grande Campus in Downtown.

Primary and secondary schools

Pease Elementary School

Austin Independent School District operates area public schools. The zoned schools are located outside of Downtown. All residents south of 15th Street are zoned to Mathews Elementary School, O. Henry Middle School, and Austin High School. Some residents north of 15th Street are zoned to Lee Elementary School, Kealing Middle School, and McCallum High School. Other residents are zoned to Bryker Woods Elementary School, O. Henry Middle School, and Austin High School.[37] In addition, Pease Elementary School is located in Downtown Austin.[38]

Pease was built in 1876.[39] Mathews was built in 1916.[40] Bryker Woods and Lee were built in 1939.[41][42] McCallum and O. Henry were built in 1953.[43][44] The current Austin High School campus opened in 1975.[45]

The Khabele School, a private middle and high school, is located in Downtown Austin.[46]

Arts and culture

The Austin Museum of Art - Downtown

Downtown Austin is famous for its culture and 6th Street, a historic street and entertainment district. [47]

Theaters

The Paramount Theater is one of Austin's cultural icons. [48] Built and completed in 1915, it was originally made for vaudeville. Over the years, as movies became the leading form of entertainment, the theater was remodel with upholstered chairs and a state-of-the-art sound system.[48] The theater would nearly close in the 1960s as people made the move from theaters to television.[48] However, the building would be restored before closing, leading the Paramount Theater to avoid demolition. Today, the theater continues to operate, viewing popular movies. [48]

Museums

The Austin Museum of Art is located in the 823 Congress building near the capitol.[49] The museum displays 4 to 6 exhibitions per year. [50]

Media

The Texas Tribune has its headquarters in Downtown Austin.[51]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Downtown Austin, Texas.

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