This is Vistana.
One of downtown's latest housing developments, however different from the others is this will be all apartments (as opposed to all the condos going up). Construction is planned to begin in December and finish in spring of 2008.
Vistana will be built directly across Santa Rosa St. from Milam Park .
I don't think there is a taller "all apartment" building in the downtown area.
Where will it be exactly?This is Vistana.
One of downtown's latest housing developments, however different from the others is this will be all apartments (as opposed to all the condos going up). Construction is planned to begin in December and finish in spring of 2008.
I don't think there is a taller "all apartment" building in the downtown area.
Just added that.
It'll be across from Milam part and diagonal from both Santa Rosa hospital and diagonal from Market Square.
Will it have parking? I hear the parking situation for the hipsters living downtown is really bad.
That's actually a pretty cool looking building. I hate a lot of modern condo/apartment architecture.
Parking will be floors 2-5 of the building with the remaining 9 floors being apartments. The first floor will be retail.
Santa Rosa and Commerce, it looks like.
Pretty cool, probably expensive as .
Clever! I wonder if that includes guest parking, though. I was gonna move into a highrise building downtown when I lived in Virginia with a great view of Cheasapeake Bay but parking was one space only and my guests would have to park like six blocks away, plus they "frowned upon" my tri-colored beater Ford Escort. Jerks!
Very cool.
The apartments will start at $650 per month.
More about The Vistana:
A sixth-floor amenity deck will include a pool, fitness room, movie theater and business center. Picnic areas, barbecue grills and seating areas are planned for a landscaped rooftop courtyard.
Well, it's cheaper than downtown Austin.
Also, AT&T has signed on to wire all the units with its U-verse.
This btw is the first of many future downtown housing developments the city is pushing for. It's good to see the city (Miss Sculley I thank you) take initiative and be more pro active with making downtown more housing friendly.
However they dropped the ball with Tesoro. I'm not sure who knows this, but Tesoro is leaving their current HQ across from the Quarry in north central SA for a new one as park of a large scale and upscale office park in the Stone Oak area. They'll go from something like 300,000 sq. ft. in their current HQ to 600,000 sq. ft. Had the city pushed, they could have had them build downtown and we could have been looking at a 800-900 foot skyscraper. Not to mention all those jobs downtown.
Are they going to bring back non-Rivercenter shopping?
650 to start? I wonder how big the floor plan is. That is an excellent price for downtown with all of those amenities!
I know it's not a floor plan:
The Vistana's loft-style units will have 10-foot ceilings, concrete floors and ceilings, walk-in closets and big windows.
Another apartment complex going up downtown is Metropolitan at the Park.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...00589&t=h&om=1
It's amazing that they are projecting a demand for luxury residences downtown where there has been effectively no resident population in 40+ years. What demographic is going to live there? Wealthy retired? Mid-career professionals? I can't see families with young kids there.
It's usually the twenty-somethings working downtown that look for places like the Maverick or that other place by the dome. I wouldn't have minded living down there a few years ago. It's a great location during New Years, Fiesta, and Spurs parades.
Any word on what they plan to do with that huge empty lot by those new apartments where victoria courts used to be?
Well that's just ing peachy, more goddamn traffic in an area that can't handle the load it has already. I hope to that Hardburger's $550M roads and park proposal has something in it for my neighborhood (Stone Oak).
The demand for inner city real estate has exploded in the past few years. Buddy Holly... Where are you getting your info from?? Please direct us to somewhere we can see this for ourselves.
Various places.
Thats where the ing AT&T Center should be!Any word on what they plan to do with that huge empty lot by those new apartments where victoria courts used to be?
That is now home to Victoria Commons. A mix use development. Phase I was completed about a year and a half ago, phase II just started.
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