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The street is a six-lane, tree lined avenue that cuts through the middle of the city from far south Austin and goes over Lady Bird Lake leading to the Texas State Capitol in the heart of Downtown. Congress Avenue south of Lady Bird Lake is known as South Congress , often abbreviated to SoCo, [ 2 ] and is an increasingly popular shopping and ...
The bridge was known as the Congress Avenue Bridge from the construction of the first span across the Colorado River at that location in the late 19th century until November 16, 2006, when the Austin City Council renamed the current bridge in honor of Ann W. Richards, the 45th Governor of Texas and a long-term resident of Austin.
South Congress (abbreviated SoCo) is a neighborhood located on South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, United States. It is also a nationally known shopping and cultural district known for its many eclectic small retailers, restaurants, music and art venues and, more recently, food trucks .
The developer of a mixed-use project planned for Austin's South Congress Avenue has released renderings and new details. The seven-story project at South Congress and East Live Oak Street will be ...
Downtown Austin from Congress Avenue Bridge, with Texas State Capitol in background, 2012 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 ...
Sixth Street: Once called Pecan Street, it is the sixth downtown street north of the Colorado River. It once was the major road out of town to the east and rivaled Congress Avenue for commercial ...
Guero's relocated in 1995 from East Oltorf Street to 1412 S. Congress Ave., a site that was originally a Central Seed and Feed Store building dating back to the late 1800s. The Lippincott family ...
Scarbrough's department store final logo. The Scarbrough Building is a historic commercial building in downtown Austin, Texas.Located on the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street, the Chicago-style building was originally home to the flagship E.M. Scarbrough & Sons department store, simply known as Scarbrough's by locals.