Views and Urban Vibrancy? Highfalutin Austin Condo Has It All

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What happens when you don’t bulldoze a vibrant urban core for an urban office park?  Austin. What happens 60 years later when you finally realize the huge mistake you made? Houston and Dallas. What happens when you want the very best pied-à-terre in Austin? You head to the Austonian at 200 Congress Avenue. And putting the “high” in highfalutin is unit 50T.

Yes, the 50th floor.  It’s not even the highest unit in this building but it’s still eight floors above Dallas’ tallest residence.  It’s a 4,845-square-foot, three-bedroom unit with four full and one half bathrooms This decked out unit is listed with Christie’s affiliate Eric Moreland with Moreland Properties for $7.25 million.  Oh, and add another 468 square feet of balcony space spread across three outdoor areas.  Levels 55 and 56 are an added bonus of resident space (like Dallas’ Mayfair). I like buildings that reserve the best views for everyone, not just the penthouse owners.

The building itself is in the thick of Austin swing.  On the streets below, you’re two blocks from the Colorado River, Lady Bird Lake, and Austin’s famous bat bridge.  You’re also a hop-skip to the Four Seasons Hotel, Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken, Oilcan Harry’s, and the Austin music scene. And let’s not forget being a short mile from Franklin Barbeque and Amy’s Ice Creams (you’ll feel less guilty if you walk to those).

Hope over to SecondShelters.com for the fab interiors.

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Jon Anderson is CandysDirt.com's condo/HOA and developer columnist, but also covers second home trends on SecondShelters.com. An award-winning columnist, Jon has earned silver and bronze awards for his columns from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in both 2016, 2017 and 2018. When he isn't in Hawaii, Jon enjoys life in the sky in Dallas.

3 Comments

  1. Bob Stoller on August 15, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    This may be a fabulous building to live in, but it is absolutely in the wrong place. Fifty-four stories in downtown Austin on Congress Avenue is absurdly out of scale. Years ago, Austin had rules that maintained the scale of Congress Avenue, with particular attention to the centerpiece of the area, the State Capitol, and the relationship to the retail, office, hotel, and theater structures that blended together harmoniously.. Greed and the absence of taste and aesthetics have destroyed the harmony of the built landscape. This monstrosity is not, I am sure, the last nail in that coffin, but still, why encourage this kind of urban desecration?

  2. Jon Anderson on August 15, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    I’m not aware of those plans, but as the photo at the end shows, it’s hardly alone in being tall at that end of the city facing the river (opposite end from capital). People want to build high-rises where the views are. The pity is that Austin has embraced residential high-rises in the urban core, whereas Dallas largely has not. The reason is Austin’s downtown vibrancy.

  3. Farooq Khalid on August 18, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    That’s Great
    Really very interesting article. Good Work

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