From melodies to offices: Austin Music Hall to be demolished

AUSTIN – The Austin Music Hall — a 43,000-sf entertainment venue at 208 Nueces St. — is to be demolished beginning in January to make way for a 28-story office building.

Construction of the 349,000-sf building is scheduled to start in early 2016 and deliver at the end of 2017.

The predominantly glass tower will include ground-floor retail, outdoor terraces overlooking Shoal Creek and three floors of creative office space that feature 28-foot ceilings and loft-like spaces.

Traditional offices will cover ten floors. The rest of the structure will include parking along with a 300-stall bike storage facility.

Across the street from the Austin Music Hall on the former site of the Green Water Treatment Plant, Trammell Crow is building a 32-story, 500,000-sf tower, with 200,000 sf being the Austin home of Google Inc.