By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News
Construction for Hill Country Bible Church’s 25,000-square-foot building is going smoothly on the hilltop near the main entrance of Steiner Ranch.
“We are on schedule for occupancy in the late summer,” said Josh Howard, HCBC Steiner campus pastor for more than four years.
The new $8 million project sits on the 30-acre site in the 4300 block of North Quinlan Park Road.
Paul Spring, a Cortana Ridge resident of the River Place neighborhood, addresses the River Place Homeowners Association at its meeting just prior to the area’s Limited District’s session. Although Spring recognized the large amount of traffic brought into the neighborhood by the popularity of its nature trail, he said the solution proposed “literally disenfranchised more than 100 families,” referring to the charges imposed on non-Limited District households located at the front of the neighborhood. LESLEE BASSMAN
By LESLEE BASSMAN, Four Points News
As River Place will soon charge fees for trail users outside of its Limited District, the topic has divided some in two parts of the community: north and south.
River Place Limited District officials solidified plans to move forward with a fee charging schedule for the neighborhood’s nature trails during a Feb. 26 meeting of its board members. However, staffing and contractual issues may need to be straightened out before the projected March 2 opening date of the program, a detail that may push the project back a week, said Jennifer Mushtaler, board member.
The Limited District agreed Jan. 8 to charge $10 per person and $10 per animal for trail users on the weekends, beginning March 2. Established after the River Place Municipal Utility District was annexed by the city of Austin in December of 2017, the Limited District is responsible for coordinating solid waste disposal and maintaining the community’s parks and trails. The agency has the same geographic boundaries as its predecessor, the River Place MUD and Limited District residents are obligated to pay $0.75 per $100 valuation to fund the agency’s duties.
The first phase of Palo Verde at Steiner Ranch will be a two-story, 34,000-square-foot retail and office site with restaurants on 8-acres at Steiner Ranch Boulevard and Quinlan Park Road. LEVY ARCHITECTS
By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News
Clearing is taking place at an 8-acre commercial site at Steiner Ranch Boulevard and N. Quinlan Park Road. A two-story, 34,000-square-foot retail building is expected to be complete in 2020 bringing offices, eateries and shops.
“Signs went up this week,” said Wes Babb, senior vice president with Weitzman and a resident of River Place. He will be handling marketing and leasing for the development project. “We just literally started marketing.”
John and Krista Jee with their sons Jordan, Vandegrift junior, and Justin, Canyon Ridge Middle School 7th grader.
It has always been a dream of mine to start my own restaurant. However, the financial risk was too much when you’re trying to also raise a family. Then I started to research food trucks in Austin and ran some numbers. The risk is still there but much more affordable and it’s a great stage to test out your food ideas. Fortunately, I have a wonderful wife who supports most of my crazy ideas, and so here we are.