We wrote yesterday about plans for in downtown Austin, and its potential to influence development in the area. So it’s worth highlighting how those designs are only one part of the city’s plans in the area.
Earlier this month, the city released an updated map for , highlighting projects in various stages. Some are completed, like the first phase of , and the Pfluger bridge extension. Others are underway, like a nearby federal courthouse. But some of the most ambitious projects are decidedly far off, including construction of Seaholm’s centerpiece, .
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Speaking of that library: Austin Energy released a showing construction required to move an electricity line to make way for the library’s development. In the pictures, “construction workers are drilling a hole 40 feet deep near Lady Bird Lake off West Cesar Chavez Street to accommodate the foundation for one of two new transmission poles,� .