Austin Green Water Treatment Plant

Adding to the seemingly endless list of construction occurring downtown it looks the green water treatment plant construction could be getting underway very soon.

Austin green water treatment plant. Morning was spent discussing the city s decommission of the green water treatment plant downtown proposed. A site plan for a high rise apartment on block 1 110 san antonio possibly climbing 38 stories has been turned into city hall for the lot just west of the silicon labs building. Green water treatment plant the site is bounded by shoal creek to the west the 2nd street alley to the north san antonio street to the east and cesar chavez to the south. We ve stumbled upon good reason to be excited that development could begin soon.

Green water treatment plant into a mixed use project. The city of austin has finalized the first phase of its long awaited deal to sell and transfer a green water treatment plant parcel known as block one in downtown austin to development partners. It s been a long time coming for the 500mm green water treatment plant redevelopment situated along cesar chavez bounded to the west by shoal creek and to the east by silicon labs. With almost no public debate council members voted wednesday to select a consortium led by mega developer trammell crow to develop the land where the green water treatment plant and the austin energy control center now sit.

Austin proper is one of the final pieces in a four block redevelopment project that is transforming the former site of the city s thomas c. This area s really going to be quite dense in a few years if this keeps up. The vote authorizes city staff to begin negotiations with trammell crow for the sale of the property along with a master development contract. Austin water s biosolids facility hornsby bend receives sludge generated by the treatment processes at the wastewater plants and uses it to create compost for land application and public sales.

Rising from what s now a grassy field and the former site of austin s first water treatment plant in southwest downtown the green water mixed use development was originally presented as a 2 6 million square foot complex consisting of a high rise. Austin water has two major wastewater treatment plants. Nueces street and 2nd street were extended through the site as part of the project. The plants receive wastewater flow from austin water s sanitary sewer collection system and treat it before returning it to the colorado river.

See article below regarding austin energy s facility at 3rd west a few blocks nw of the green water treatment site and directly across shoal creek from 360 condos.