Trammell Crow’s South Austin strip-mall redevelopment plans emerge

City filings reveal new details about the planned Twin Oaks Shopping Center redevelopment in South Austin, Towers reports.

The aging strip mall at 2315 South Congress Avenue is primed for redevelopment, occupying land that has grown increasingly valuable in previous decades as South Congress has become a major shopping and residential corridor. Plans for the 10-acre site call for nearly 1,000 homes, a hotel, offices and retail spaces.

Grocery chain H-E-B owns the land and currently operates a grocery store on the premises, but Trammell Crow Company and its multifamily subsidiary High Street Residential will lead the development.

The first details of the project emerged in a June traffic study. In related documents, the developers projected that the residential component will contain 748 apartments across two buildings and a 211-unit single-family structure. They also detailed plans for a 175-key hotel, 150,000-square-foot office and 125,000 square feet of retail space.

The new filings offer the clearest look yet at how that will break down.

Prepared by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the plans show five main buildings no taller than 90 feet. The single-family component is listed as condos. As for parking, the developers will build around 1,900 spaces, nearly all of them underground.

The redevelopment is yet another example of the mixed-use, large-scale projects popping up outside of the Austin city center. It stands to benefit from the city’s planned Project Connect Orange Line, which would run 10 miles of light rail tracks through the center of the city and include a stop on Oltorf Street, just outside the Twin Oaks Shopping Center.

— Joe Lovinger