Former Greenwater Treatment Plant Finds Mixed-Use Life

The stairstep design provides skyline interest.

AUSTIN, TX—Northshore is a 27-story mixed-use residential development and a large undertaking at that, as the development is almost a million square feet. Northshore begins to deliver units later this month with final completion by September 2016.

Architecture, interior design and planning firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz was behind the design. The project, located on Block 1 of a larger planned area, includes 524 rental apartments, retail and public parking. The garage podium includes ground floor retail and resident amenity spaces, while the top of the podium hosts a large amenity deck. The enclosed amenity spaces include a fitness area, living room, catering kitchen, conference space and A/V area. The exterior deck will have landscaped areas with fire and barbecue pits, seating areas, and a lounge adjacent to the pool. The cast-in-place post-tensioned concrete project is proposed to attain LEED Silver certification and 2-Star Austin Green Build.