Tai Moses

Two levels of a spiffy new parking garage have opened up at the Austin airport, luring travelers with the promise of 1,900 more parking spaces. The Blue Garage, located on the former Lot A location, is adjacent to the car rental facility. When the garage is completed in early 2019, it will offer nearly 6,000 […]

The public comment period for the draft Austin Strategic Housing Blueprint Implementation Plan and its companion Atlas of Existing and Historical Conditions has been extended to Tuesday, Jan. 15. The Strategic Housing Blueprint was adopted by City Council in 2017 to address Austin’s growing population and the lack of affordable housing options. The overarching goal of the plan […]

Starting today, Jan. 7, the tennis courts, restrooms, play equipment and picnic areas at Little Stacy Neighborhood Park will close for renovations. Sunset Lane will remain open during construction. When renovations are completed, the woodsy six-acre park will sport new, ADA-compliant sidewalks; picnic tables and grills with concrete pads; a new basketball half-court; rain gardens […]

Many city departments and facilities are closing so staff members and workers can spend the holiday and New Year’s with their friends and families. City administrative offices will closed Dec. 24-25 and Jan. 1. There will be no city curbside trash pickup on Tuesday, Dec. 25; trash collection will “slide” one day, to take place […]

Austin Independent School District offices and schools will close Friday, Dec. 21, for winter break. Normal business hours will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 2, and classes start Monday, Jan. 7. (The exception is Ann Richards School, which welcomes students back on Thursday, Jan. 3.) View the AISD calendar of events here.    

The city of Austin and the Austin-Pune Sister City Initiative celebrated the signing of a formal friendship agreement Monday at City Hall that puts the two municipalities on the path to becoming sister cities. The agreement, which took over a year to negotiate, was begun in 2017 by organizations in both Austin and Pune that identified […]

The People’s Gallery, an annual showcase of regional artistic talent, will launch its 2019 exhibition with an opening reception on Friday, Feb. 22, from 6 to 9 p.m at Austin City Hall. The more than 140 artworks in the exhibition include painting, sculpture, drawing and other media by 113 Austin-area artists. The reception will feature […]

The board of directors of the Austin Chamber of Commerce has selected C. Brian Cassidy to serve as the chamber’s 2019 board chair. Cassidy is managing partner of the Austin office of Locke Lord LLP, where his practice focuses on the development of transportation and utility infrastructure by public and private entities. Former Texas Supreme Court […]

Has this ever happened to you? You have to be at work in 10 minutes, so you hop in your car and rush downtown – only to circle the block a dozen times because you can’t find a parking place near your job. If you work downtown in the evenings, you should consider signing up […]

The city’s Dougherty Arts Center is now accepting exhibit proposals for the 2020 gallery season. Each season, an anonymous panel of jurors selects a group of artists to exhibit their work at the center’s Julia C. Butridge Gallery, a multicultural community art gallery with multiple exhibit spaces. Past gallery exhibits exemplify the diversity and scope of […]

The Transportation Department has begun planned safety improvements at the intersection of Slaughter Lane and South First Street. The $2 million project, which is expected to take six months to complete, will include new dual left-turn lanes, upgraded medians, enhanced crosswalks and green arrow left-turn signals on Slaughter Lane. Improvements completed over the weekend to […]

The Austin Chamber of Commerce has conferred its highest honor, Austinite of the Year, on local businessman Ray Wilkerson in recognition of his decades of community and civic leadership. Wilkerson, the CEO of commercial real estate investment firm Ray Wilkerson Companies Inc., is known for his philanthropy, his strong ties to the community and his dedicated civic […]