Welcome to Downtown Austin, Texas

Casual, cosmopolitan, eclectic, five-star, techie, hippie, historic, chic, intellectual, fashionable, artistic, and weird… The adjectives used to describe Downtown Austin are as numerous and diverse as the people who live, work and visit here.

Within a mile of the historic intersection of 6th and Congress Avenue — where Angelina Eberly fired a cannon to save the state archives and instead saved the Capitol — you'll find a treasure of arts, culture and interesting things to do. More than this, you'll find a center where government, education, business and people come together in one of the most energetic, creative yet somehow laid-back cities in the entire country.

Ask the college student who came here 30 years ago (he may be the PhD. candidate waiting your table): there's something about this town. People would rather do anything than leave Austin. It's the best place to live, work, play or develop — whether it's a new mixed-use project, a new nanotechnology invention or even the thesis for that dissertation you've been postponing. There's just something about Austin, and Downtown: As Austin as it Gets.™