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Northwest Hills Greenbelt
Posted on January 18, 2009. Filed under: Austin, Green, Neighborhood Navigation |
Anyone for a hike? Austin is full of greenbelts and how sweet to have one in my own backyard. I live on what I consider the first hill of the hill country. If you take Steck west past Mesa, Steck ends at Adirondack. I live on that greenbelt which is actually a park called Steck Valley [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Austin Ranked #8 Gay Ghetto
Posted on November 25, 2008. Filed under: Austin, Neighborhood Navigation | Tags: austin gay neighborhoods |
Austin, TX was ranked 8th at gaydata.com’s Gay Ghetto Top 10 based on their analysis of demographics and real estate sales data throughout the USA linking towns that are “most in vogue with the diverse GLBT community.” Austin tied with Palm Springs and Chicago. Here’s the scoop:
#8 Palm Springs, CA & Chicago Metro Area, IL & Austin, TX (3-Way Tie)
Austin [...]
Downtown Austin Plan Update
Posted on November 4, 2008. Filed under: Austin, Core Austin, Neighborhood Navigation | Tags: downtown austin update |
Several “next steps” are about to unfold for the Downtown Austin Plan.
Here’s a brief update.
Rail — As you may recall, we briefed Council on July 24th about our urban rail planning efforts. At that briefing, we provided information about our recommended 15.3 mile urban rail system, which would provide a rail connection between Downtown, the [...]
SoCo, SoSo, NoNo … Austin Location Cool-speak
Posted on October 14, 2008. Filed under: Austin, Core Austin, Neighborhood Navigation | Tags: austin neighborhoods, soco, SoLa, south congress, South Lamar |
So, SoCo (South Congress) has become commonspeak in Austin, TX. SoLa (South Lamar) is becoming commonspeak, kind of. The latest to surface (I really like this one) is SoSo (South South Austin).
Here are my recommendations (some existing, some new, I believe) to add to the list of Austin location cool-speak:
Midtown – already exists, runs [...]
Keller Williams Mega Camp 2008 Nelson Chronicle Blog Report: 6th Street, SoCo and Downtown Touring
Posted on August 13, 2008. Filed under: Austin, Neighborhood Navigation, Smart Realtors | Tags: downtown austin tour recommendations, mega camp |
6th Street is for tourists and the young crowd but 5th and 4th Streets and South Congress are where the locals go. And there is the newly emerged 2nd Street shopping district. So if you are here for Keller Williams Mega Camp (or just visiting, period), here’s a quick downtown entertainment recommendation for a taste [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Got exemplary kids?
Posted on August 6, 2008. Filed under: Austin, Neighborhood Navigation, Real Estate 101, Smart Buyers, Smart Real Estate, Smart Realtors | Tags: AISD, assignment areas, Austin, home buying, school boundaries, school ratings, TAKS |
By our favorite South Austin contributor–Patti P.
Keep them accountable in smart Austin boundaries…
I live in an exemplary school boundary in SW Austin—without looking at school ratings, this I guessed simply based on overhearing my neighbor’s elementary school kids having a serious conversation about the diminishing world rain forests and the effect this may have on [...]
Edgewick- New Homes 5 Minutes from Downtown
Posted on April 29, 2008. Filed under: Austin, Core Austin, For Sale, Green, Neighborhood Navigation, Smart Buyers | Tags: Austin, austin real estate, edgewick austin, egdewick, new construction austin, new homes close to downtown, newmark homes |
With home prices an average of $200+ per sqft in Austin it’s nice to find an option so close to downtown, SOCO and St. Edwards that starts out at a mere $144 psf. Edgewick is a City of Austin Green Builder Neighborhood of freestanding condos just East of I35 and South of Oltorf on the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )South Austin: where you can be weird and have chickens too.
Posted on March 28, 2008. Filed under: Anything Goes, Core Austin, Neighborhood Navigation | Tags: austin market, Keep Austin Weird, real estate, south austin |
A gaggle of teenagers strutted into a convenience store in South Austin yesterday sporting various t-shirts…the tag line on the back of one boy left me silently applauding…”Old Austin hasn’t died. It just moved South.” Kudo’s to the unknown author–s/he is definitely a keen supporter of the philosophy that makes Austin so appealing: Keep Austin Weird.
When [...]
SOCO neighborhood–it’s the frosting on our Austin cake.
Posted on March 26, 2008. Filed under: Anything Goes, Austin, Neighborhood Navigation | Tags: austin neighborhoods, soco austin, south congress |
Originally uploaded by thenelsonproject
[Contributed by our favorite south Austin correspondent, Patti P.]
Despite record breaking high temps last week, SOCO–the funky neighborhood & quirky/artsy shopping district south of the Congress Street bridge in Austin, TX stayed oh so cool. Even the campy cupcake vendor operating out of a vintage silver airstream “Hey Cupcake” managed to [...]
Confused with Austin MLS areas? Check out this neighborhood map …
Posted on March 17, 2008. Filed under: Austin, Neighborhood Navigation, Smart Buyers | Tags: austin mls areas, austin neighborhood map, austin neighborhoods |
Austin MLS Map with Neighborhoods
The Austin MLS / home search map devides Austin into areas such as 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 10N, 10S etc. This may be useful to some and confusing to others. Check this pdf map that identifies Austin neighborhoods in relation to the MLS map.
Originally uploaded by thenelsonproject
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