Posts Tagged "Austin News"

The quality of life is what attracts new-comers to Austin, TX Music: No matter how many things you’ve heard about the music scene in Austin, you can’t visualize its full depth and breadth.  More than 150 venues offer regular musical sets.  At any given time, more than 3,000 musical acts navigate this maze, and public places are a magnet for live music.  Almost across the board it’s a consistently high level of musicianship that twice a year peaks in mammoth festivals:  South by Southwest (SXSW) in the spring and Austin City Limits Music Festival in the fall.  The SXSW Conference & Festival offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.  It’s a unique environment and experience...

This article doesn’t surprise me because I saw a healthy appetite for downtown Austin living this past year!  I was on a regular basis showing units weekly or bi-weekly at 360 Condos, Spring, The W, the Austonian, and Four Seasons Residences. What’s your favorite downtown Austin condo and why?! AUSTIN DOWNTOWN CONDO SALES ROSE 50% IN 2010 Here’s the article in the Austin Business Journal: Austin condo sales through listing services doubled last year, while prices were stable, according to recent Multiple Listing Service data released Monday. A report from AustinTowers.net, a downtown Austin real estate blog, compiled MLS data from 25 downtown residential towers.  The group tracked 168 sales last year, or about 50 percent more than in 2009. ...

Austin, TX.  keeps making news headlines again.  Austin was one of the top 10 cities for young entrepreneurs last year according to Under30CEO. Austin, TX was ranked number 3 on the top 10 list.  I can remember like it was yesterday when I decided to move to Austin.  It was back in November of 1999, I was living in Harrisonburg, VA. at the time and just returned from a long 3-day weekend visiting Austin over Halloween weekend. I was a young 21 one year old entrepreneur with ambitious dreams of making it big in the ‘live music capital of the world’.   At the time I had a home-based business where I sold air and water purification equipment and decided Austin was a great place to further my career as an entrepreneur.  One of the many reasons why I...

Austin is in the news again!  Austin ranks high on ‘Quality of Life’ http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2010/05/24/daily8.html When you click on the article you will be able to click on a really cool interactive chart. Austin has had strong population growth, 32 percent since 2000, also helped in overall ranking, as well as a comparatively high percent walking to work , 7.1 percent. When YOU think of ‘Quality of Life’ … what characteristics come to mind? If you had to name out or list ten things that really stand out to you … that would give you that quality of life that we all seek and desire what would those be? I want to hear from you. It feels good to call Austin home.  I’m proud to be a resident of Austin,...