Tracking the projects reshaping Austin and Central Texas.
We track every major commercial, mixed-use, and residential development moving dirt in the Austin metro and surrounding suburbs — Round Rock, Pflugerville, Leander, Cedar Park, Hutto, Georgetown, Kyle, Buda, Elgin, Bee Cave, Lakeway. Civil engineers read site plans the way most people read the newspaper. We share what we're seeing here.
A feasibility period is a fixed window of free exit, and most buyers spend the first half of it waiting on paperwork. Here is the order we work in, cheapest and most fatal first.
Read the deep diveA sector is building out at record scale while the policy ground shifts underneath it, one jurisdiction at a time, on water grounds. If a land basis depends on a data center buyer, that risk is repricing quarterly.
Read the deep diveA site can have frontage, zoning, by-right yield and a place in the power queue, and still not be buildable because the plant that would treat its sewage is full. That is the constraint almost nobody prices.
Read the deep divePower used to be a phone call to the utility. It is now a queue with a schedule, and which batch a site sits in belongs next to whether it is in the floodplain.
Read the deep diveA year ago today, a large share of Austin's commercial-zoned land became a housing site without a rezoning. Most comps have not repriced for it. Here is the screen worth running.
Read the deep diveMost of what kills a Central Texas deal is knowable before the option period ends. Seven things to work through on a parcel, in the order we actually work through them.
Read the deep diveA deep dive on The District in Round Rock, The Pecan District in Pflugerville, Northline in Leander, Indigo Ridge South in Cedar Park, the Hutto Co-Op District, Wolf Ranch in Georgetown, Elgin Commons, and Kyle's 101-acre NewQuest project — what's being built, who's building it, and when it delivers.
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