‘Startup City’: Accelerated Growth Strains Austin Stein


ST STIN, TEXAS A few years ago, some blocks on South Congress Avenue in STIN featured a castle-themed wax museum and comic book shop, a neighborhood bar with neighborhood 1 support deals, an auto toe shop and season you, Santa Claus on horseback.

Then, in many other places in Stein, construction cranes came.

Strips of modern urban buildings were recently reopened in those cities, with national brand shops fur shops from Lulemon to Le Labo perfume. The $ 2,000 + private membership club Soho House and a Hermes store are on the way. Office fee tenants include accounting and consulting firm Deloitte and private equity firm Tritium Partners LLC.

The project’s developer, Andrew Joblon, said he saw the need for a national luxury brand in a place where higher-paid executives were coming. To Braz Sommers, manager of Tuomi Auto Toe Works who was there 28 years before the lease expired, it was another reminder that some longtime Austinites could no longer afford their own city.

“It hurts me to run,” he said.

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