1 Hotel Austin

1 Hotels, the mission-driven, sustainably focused luxury lifestyle hotel brand founded by hospitality visionary Barry Sternlicht, today announced plans to add a new sanctuary to its global portfolio of premier properties. With properties in New York City (Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park), West Hollywood, Sanya (China), South Beach, Toronto, and San Francisco, 1 Hotel Austin is the brand's entry point into the fast-growing Texas marketplace. The property is being developed in partnership with Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential.

1 Hotel Austin will be an integral component of an innovative mixed-use hotel, residential and retail project currently under construction at the meeting of Waller Creek and Lady Bird Lake. Upon completion, the property will be the tallest tower in Texas and overlook a verdant green gateway to the historic Rainey Street District. Every exterior and interior feature radically reduce the facility's environmental impact and will restore the beauty of nature to a long-neglected creek-side site, conveniently located in the heart of the Lone Star State's cultural, musical and political capital, within walking distance of most every activity that the proclaimed Live Music Capital of the World has to offer.

The property tower will overlook a lush landscape teeming with native plants that merge seamlessly with the reclaimed riverine habitat of long lost, since found, Waller Creek. The site directly abuts a newly connected multi-mile chain of parks, bike trails and pedestrian paths designed by urban planners to reveal and restore the creek's natural ecology and the community's historic relationship to it. In keeping with this theme of nurturing a more authentic and intimate connection between residents, visitors and their natural environment, interior and exterior details derive inspiration from the local landscape, past, present, and future. Native stone, trees, shrubs, plants, and reclaimed wooden surfaces organically define a curated space that explicitly references both traditional Texas river houses and the simplicity and sensibility of modern Hill Country ranches. Texas-tough, modern-chic guest rooms feature furnishings that integrate cowboy craftsmanship with the sophisticated tone and tenor of a tech-savvy city. Since no self-respecting Hill Country ranch can be considered complete without a water feature, 1 Hotel Austin presents a lush lagoon of a pool perched at a sky-high level on the 16^th floor of the tapering tower. Shrouded in vine-covered walls and rough wooden trellises, the hilltop oasis offers its guests panoramic views of Austin City Limits and the Waller Creek greenway below.

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