Still Building

If you listened to all the doom and gloom about the markets, you'd think that all construction was halted and everyone was out of work. Actually, projects that are underway have a way of keeping going, for a while anyway, and even getting completed. (Of course, some things do get abandoned as Austinites are well aware from the last bust. See the Intel Shell which had to be demolished. That shell used to dominate what's now my neighborhood. Now it's a forgotten vacant lot.) We can't see into this construction site from our place, but recently we noticed a new crane over there. When we walked by on Lavaca yesterday I snapped this picture through a gap in the fence where workers were entering. They have a road down into the pit over where the General truck is and a catwalk with a temporary guard rail where this guy is standing (in his Austin vest). Kind of looks like a kids sandbox with some really cool construction toys.