Austin Towers

Austin is now envisioning itself with a skyline full of big towers. See here. This one, The Frost Bank Tower, is a few years old now and really exists. If you followed that link, you saw a lot of towers that are under construction or 'proposed.' But the Frost Tower is already there, but it's all office space and most of the new space shown in that rendering is residential.

We aren't Miami with speculators watching the market plunge, but I don't suppose we will be immune from the boom and bust and the current woes in lending and housing. So it wouldn't surprise me if there were delays in ground-breaking or projects that never finished. Our future home (The 360...warning annoying music if you follow the link) is now at about 29 or 30 floors (of an eventual 44) and has a lot of the glass installed on those floors. We figure it will actually be finished and occupied more or less on the schedule the developer is touting now. Projects without the proverbial 'spade of dirt' I'm not so sure about.

Nevertheless, the Frost Tower stands now and is currently the tallest building in Austin. Our condo tower will be slightly taller. Other projects are projected to go even taller.

I thought about running a picture of rain since it keeps raining here. I even shot some pictures of our back yard being inundated. But the sun came out with the blue sky and I shot this picture of the Frost Tower from Third Street yesterday because this iconic building certainly deserves to be part of this photo collection.