Joint Venture Partners Plan 28-Story Office Tower In Downtown Austin, Texas
07/08/2015
The tower will reside on the 43,000-square-foot Austin Music Hall music venue location. Built in 2007, the facility faced financial challenges for several years before lenders repossessed it in 2012. Cielo purchased the building from Bank of the Ozarks last year, and carefully deliberated its future use. Cielo will continue to own the Austin Music Hall brand and is actively searching for a smaller, higher quality music venue to open under the name.
“We’ve seen first-hand the extremely high demand for office space in downtown Austin and even with all the new construction there isn’t much space available,” said Cielo Founding Principal Bobby Dillard. “This building will offer a premier location in what is quickly becoming the heart of downtown with amazing views and plenty of amenities onsite and within easy walking distance — including the Whole Foods world headquarters, the new Trader Joe’s at Seaholm and dozens of restaurants and bars.”
“We are excited to partner with Cielo to develop Class A office space in the heart of downtown Austin,” said Scott Fordham, chief executive officer and president of TIER REIT. “Austin is one of our key target growth markets, and this rare development opportunity will expand our existing Austin portfolio that includes the Terrace Office Park, a four building complex with 620,000 square feet, located adjacent to the Barton Creek greenbelt.”
According to officials, designed by Gensler, the sleek glass tower is expected to feature 10 floors of traditional office space as well as three floors with 28’ high ceilings that will allow inter floor connectivity and loft-style work areas and flexible creative office space unique to downtown Austin high-rises.
Plans for ground floor retail include restaurant space overlooking Shoal Creek and retail and/or restaurant space at the corner of Third Street and Nueces. The tower will offer an above market ratio of vehicle parking spaces, and Cielo plans to encourage tenants to bike to work with a 300 stall secured bike parking facility with over sized locker rooms inside the building.
“This building will offer unbelievable access by bike to Central Austin given our close proximity to the Roy and Ann Butler Hike and Bike Trail, Shoal Creek Trail and Lance Armstrong Bikeway,” said Rob Gandy, also a founding principal of Cielo. “We want to do all we can to help people take advantage of that.”
“This project has an unbeatable location in the center of an unprecedented wave of downtown redevelopment within easy walking distance of some of the city’s most popular and well-known destinations,” said Troy Holme, senior vice president of brokerage services for CBRE. “So many businesses are looking for downtown office space — particularly creative office space — and this building will be extremely attractive to those owners and their employees.”
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