Between Town Lake and downtown Austin, 2nd Street District
is an adventurous urban neighborhood with 225,000 square
feet of retail, restaurants, and entertainment venues,
as well as living spaces. Architecturally, 2nd Street
District has an eclectic modern urban style with a distinct
Austin Flavor.
Built-in traffic generators from three directions. Go
with the Flow.
Traffic from public, private and civic sectors naturally
feed into 2nd Street District. The master plan for the
public areas is being capably driven by the City of Austin.
The city has invested in extra-wide, tree-lined sidewalks,
making it inviting for window shopping, dining or people
watching at a sidewalk cafe. Second Street is already
well-traveled and will only become more active with pedestrian
traffic coming from surrounding offices, the thriving
warehouse district, the Convention Center, spirited public
forums at the new City Hall, and people visiting surrounding
museums and parks.
An untapped market
with very healthy numbers.
A lot is going in Austin, but downtown has huge potential
for growth for retail and residential. With a population
of 656,500, Austin ranks 16th among the nation’s
cities. From 1990 to 2000 Travis county population increased
by 40.9%, the second fastest growing Texas county. And
in case you’re wondering whether it’s lasting
love or fleeting infatuation, consider this: the population
in the Greater Austin Region doubled every 20 years in
the past century. As one of the nation’s top tech
employers, Austin has enviable stats, such as:
