"We were hoping to start in July, but it looks like August now," Tommy Tucker of the project's developer, Robert Wunsch Development, tells GlobeSt.com. The four-story, 30,000-sf building, which includes a bank and offices, should open in spring 2002. Tucker says the building should be 70% pre-leased in the next one to two months if things go as planned. Right now, he's mum about the prospective bank tenant.

The building will be positioned at the intersection of La Frontera Boulevard and Texas 45, directly south of the 301 Sundance office building. A Frost Bank building is across La Frontera Boulevard from Vintage Plaza.

Architect Edward B. Frierson of Austin has designed the building, which is described as Texas contemporary with landscaped courtyards, fountain, terrace and breezeway. It is the smallest, so far, of several office buildings at La Frontera, a 328-acre mixed-used development west of Interstate 35 in Round Rock. The Summit building has 200,000 sf and 301 Sundance building has 100,000 sf.

The latter, a Kennedy-Wilson project, is slated for occupancy in the fourth quarter. The Summit, a Koontz McCombs project, is under construction.

At build out, La Frontera will deliver an estimated five million sf in office buildings, campuses, urban-style apartments, a 295-room Marriott Conference Hotel, retail development and freestanding restaurants.