Planned 74-story progress in downtown to get luxury resort

A 74-story tower prepared for downtown Austin’s Rainey district has landed a luxury lodge brand name for the job.

1 Hotels, which expenses itself a sustainably concentrated luxury model, will be part of the combined-use development at 98 Crimson River St., along Waller Creek. The project’s ideas call for 352 residences, 686,000 sq. toes of place of work place and a 251-room hotel.

The tower — which will be the tallest creating in Austin if accomplished as prepared — has not formally been named and 1 Hotels did not say when the spot is anticipated to open up. Augustine Verrengia, civil sector leader with WGI, the project’s civil engineering firm, said before this 12 months that 98 Purple River will be more than 1,000 ft tall.

1 Hotel Austin will include things like a pool on the 16th floor of the tower and will have spanning views of Austin and the Waller Creek greenway underneath, the enterprise claimed.