Summer Construction Eyed for $200M Austonian

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AUSTIN-The 195-unit Austonian is set to begin construction in late summer, with its sales office slated to open in late April. The estimated $200-million condominium project has encountered some hurdles in its move from the design board to reality, but nothing insurmountable from the designer or architect’s perspective.

“The city is pretty specific. Any property that abuts Congress has a 60-foot setback limit. That dictated our podium, which contains the retail, the lobby for the condo and the majority of our parking,” says Kurt Hull, principal with Houston-based Ziegler Cooper Architects, the architect of record for the project at 200 Congress Ave. Because of the setback requirement and height restrictions, the building is an elliptical design with a 29,000-sf footprint on one-third of a city block.