Downtown Austin played host to a minor car chase this past weekend, when a man who'd approached several people at gunpoint attempted to flee in his SUV. A some point around closing time early Saturday morning, a 9-1-1 caller alerted police that a man waving a gun had been hassling a group of folks in the Red River District, between Sixth and Seventh streets. Police later tried to flag down his Ford SUV after they......

Plans for the block between Second and Third Street on the east side of Congress have been released. In the place of Las Manitas, Escuelita del Alma Learning Center, and Tesoros Trading Company, we will have a Marriott hotel, a Marriott Renaissance Hotel and a Springhill Suites by Marriott Hotel. These will complement the Courtyard by Marriott and the Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott being built on Fourth Street. All five Marriotts will......

Downtown's Frost Bank Tower is up for grabs, according to Austin Business Journal. Cousins Properties, based in Atlanta, is moving onto its next phase in the company's business strategy of developing and flipping properties. Not that this will have much impact on most of us: at exactly 515' 9" tall, 33-stories high and boasting an astounding 524,000 sq-ft of prime office space, the city's highest building is already leased at roughly 81% capacity. A......