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The Austin skyline in 2022 The Austin skyline in 2011. Downtown Austin is the central business district of Austin, Texas, United States.The area of the district is bound by Lamar Boulevard to the west, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to the north, Interstate 35 to the east, and Lady Bird Lake to the south.
Austin formerly operated its City Hall at 124 West 8th Street. [3] In the 1980s, the City of Austin proposed a 60-acre urban renewal project for Austin's Warehouse District, [4] which would have included a new city hall complex designed by urban planner Denise Scott Brown, along with a new location for the Laguna Gloria art museum, designed by architect Robert Venturi. [5]
It is the second largest office tower in Austin at 709,000 total square feet as well as the second tallest, behind Block 185. Indeed Tower is made up of a 683,000-square-foot Class AA office tower with two rooftop terraces and ground floor retail, a historic 1914 post office repurposed as a 25,000 square-foot retail and restaurant destination ...
According to the City of Austin's Department of Planning, property value in East Austin's 78702 ZIP code increase more than 100 percent from 2000 to 2005. Census Bureau data shows that African-American population in East Austin drastically reduced from 1990 to 2000, from 80 percent to less than 20 percent in some areas. [6]
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It was one of Austin's first "strip" shopping venues when it opened in 1954. South Austin opened further during the 1950s, as the Congress Avenue Bridge was widened and the construction of Interstate 35 provided an alternative north–south route. [5] During the 1970s, South Congress became a mecca for artists, musicians and their supporters.
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Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826, on permanent display in Harry Ransom Center's main lobby. Two prominent items in the Ransom Center's collections are a Gutenberg Bible, [18] [19] one of only 21 complete copies known to exist, and Nicéphore Niépce's c. 1826 View from the Window at Le Gras, the first successful permanent photograph from nature.