The owners of The Broken Spoke on South Lamar have reached an agreement with Ardent Residential (also developing the Four Seasons condos) and Direct Development (also developing the Fifth Street Commons project) to develop a residential/retail project on the lots surrounding The Broken Spoke. The Broken Spoke itself, including the dirt parking lot and oak tree out front, will remain intact. You may remember that Direct Development reached a similar agreement to include the Mean Eyed Cat in Fifth Street Commons....

Image from Austin City Connection.According to the Statesman, our beloved mayor nearly pulled a Chuck Norris when a Monarch construction truck blocked traffic on West Fifth Street. Story is he got out of his car, walked to the construction site and ripped into the project superintendent. He later indicated that he was sorry if his vulgarity offended any construction workers. Many Statesman commenters noted that if the mayor thinks it is bad to get stuck......

The architects of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, which were the world's tallest buildings before they got bitch slapped by Taipei 101, are bringing the skyscraper smackdown to Austin with a 675 foot tall tower on the corner of Fifth Street and Congress Avenue. That's right - close enough to Frost Bank to be able to drop a pair of proton torpedoes down the thermal exhaust port that leads directly the reactor core,......