News & Stories
A Guide to Our Future 35
Our Future 35 is a new engagement series and online tool intended to kick-start the process of co-creating a community vision for the I-35 corridor, focusing on how to guide and build on TxDOT’s investment to achieve positive outcomes for...
Read More⟶96,396 Reasons Why We Support Project Connect
At last week’s joint meeting with the Capital Metro board, Austin City Council voted to advance Project Connect on its path to a potential November election. We fully support the proposed finance and governance models, including the 8.75-cent tax rate...
Read More⟶Downtown Alliance Launches Project H20 to Help Our Unhoused Neighbors
We’ve partnered with community and city organizations to assist people experiencing homelessness in downtown through an initiative called Project H20. Beginning this past weekend, our Downtown Ambassadors will be providing water, masks, and information about additional resources to those facing homelessness....
Read More⟶Report: COVID-19 Impact on the Downtown Office Market and Tenants
We recently surveyed downtown property owners, managers, developers and tenants to understand the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the downtown office market. We interviewed 11 individuals from 10 different companies representing more than 10.5 million square feet...
Read More⟶Tune in for Our One-Time Television Special on the Future of Downtown Austin
Watch The Future of Downtown Austin Airing this Sunday, June 21, at 10:30 pm Directly following the 10:00 pm news on both KXAN and KVUE. Tune in this Sunday night for our rescheduled special television program about the future...
Read More⟶Our Commitment to a Downtown for All
Making downtown a safe and welcoming place for all remains our priority. Now is the time to take greater action. We will answer the call, reaffirm our longstanding commitment to addressing community problems, and make a new commitment to review all we are doing and how we can be a more effective community partner for enduring change.
Read More⟶Explore This Year’s Annual Report & Watch Our Year in Review Video
Explore our first-ever, interactive annual report! Each year, we produce an Annual Report to update on progress toward making our community’s collective vision for downtown a reality through the hard work of our team. See the progress we made this...
Read More⟶Watch our 2020 Annual Meeting
This year we held our Annual Meeting of Members virtually. We gathered online to hear from Dewitt Peart, our president and CEO, and Mike Kennedy, our outgoing board chair, as they reported on our progress toward the goals in our...
Read More⟶Future of Downtown 2020
Austin has enjoyed remarkable growth for many years now. Downtown Austin entered this decade in a position of incredible strength, with growth in nearly every sector of our urban core. And then, in March 2020, with the cancellation of SXSW,...
Read More⟶A Message from Our Board Chair
Dear Downtown Austin Alliance Members, My hope is that you, your family, employees and friends are safe and healthy, and remain so through this unsettling time in our history. It’s difficult to watch the changes unfold to what we considered normal...
Read More⟶PRESS RELEASE: The Downtown Austin Alliance creates a foundation as it launches inaugural arts event
Writing on the Walls debuts next month producing the largest mural in Austin AUSTIN, Texas – The Downtown Austin Alliance’s...
Read More⟶Downtown Safety Measures Prepares Stakeholders for Spring Festival Season
Representatives from SXSW, Austin Police Department, Austin Transportation Department, Capital Metro and UT Athletics joined us at last week’s Downtown Safety Measures event to help downtown stakeholders prepare for the busy Spring Festival Season. We heard details on upcoming events,...
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