Condos of Shame
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Documenting the luxury boxes replacing everything you loved.
"Where your favorite taco truck used to be."
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The Aldrich Street Receipts, Filed in Triplicate
A 7:42 a.m. Zillow rent comp sheet for Mosaic at Mueller ($1,880 one-bedroom) and Aldrich 51 sits beside last quarter's Mueller POA notice on the counter; cross-referenced against the 2004 Master Development Agreement for the old Robert Mueller Municipal Airport site, with one $28 plate of rigatoni entered as Exhibit B.
The South Congress Condopocalypse
South Congress used to be weird. Now it's weird that anyone can still afford to be there.
The East Sixth Glass Tower Invasion
The glass towers crossed I-35 and nobody even pretended to be surprised.
Riverside 'Luxury' Lofts
Riverside Drive used to be where you lived when you couldn't afford anywhere else. Now you can't afford Riverside Drive either.
Rainey Street Remembers
Rainey Street used to be a quiet block of house-bars where you could drink a Lone Star on a porch. Now the porches are in the shadows of 40-story towers.
The Domain Was a Parking Lot
Before it was Austin's shiniest open-air mall-suburb, The Domain was just a bunch of nothing next to an IBM campus nobody talked about.
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