Austin Business Journal
29 April
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RedLeaf & ACC Project Receives Austin Business Journal 2015 Commercial Real Estate Award
4/29/15
The Highland project completely modernized the vacant and outdated 1960s-era JCPenny department store at Highland Mall into a place where this city’s future leaders – its students – can flourish. The design and complex renovation was based on a submission for LEED Silver certification – however, the project is on track to get the gold.
Austin Community College’s Highland project completely modernized the vacant and outdated 1960s-era JCPenny department store at Highland Mall into a place where this city’s future leaders – its students – can flourish. The design and complex renovation was based on a submission for LEED Silver certification – however, the project is on track to get the gold. The concrete building got a complete makeover and is now a visually pleasing, updated facility that will serve the college and the Austin community for decades to come. The lead developer was RedLeaf Properties, general contractor was Flintco, architect was Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects, landscape architect was Coleman & Associates, interior designer was handled by Laukgroup, the civil engineers were Bury, Martinez Wright Mendez and the structural engineer was Datum Engineers.
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20 June
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New York Times Lists RedLeaf Project as a Vision of Shopping Future
…About 200 miles to the south in Austin, Highland Mall is getting a different kind of makeover. It is being reincarnated as the 11th campus of Austin Community College, under a nearly $900 million public-private initiative that has stirred new life into the surrounding North Austin neighborhoods. Highland Mall opened...
5 November
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City of Austin’s Permitting and Development Center Completed at Highland
A joint venture of RedLeaf Properties, LLC and Ryan Companies has completed the City of Austin’s Permitting and Development Center (PDC), a 251,000-square-foot facility designed to streamline and consolidate the City’s permitting and development review services under one roof. The project was delivered on time and under budget. Located within...
9 March
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RedLeaf Mixed-Use Redevelopment Tops the Atlantic’s List of National Mall Transformations
By Alana Semuels 3/9/15 In many areas of the country developers are finding new uses for dead malls. Dunham-Jones keeps a database of projects that retrofit dying malls for other purposes, and says that there are 211 spaces across the country being retrofitted in one way or another. “Malls are...