W Austin hotel & condo residences opened the doors of the hotel and public lounge and restaurant in Downtown Austin this week. I grabbed a few friends and headed to the Living Room lounge on the hotel's ground floor. What a great job they did with these spaces. The Living Room is really a series of large, yet intimate feeling interconnected rooms for socializing and mingling. Bars are available in each area with cocktail service at your table if you wish. Several of the W Austin lounge spaces have large fireplaces to add to the sexy stylish mood of this Downtown Austin hot spot.
W Hotels are known for their fashionable, trendsetting spaces and the W Austin is no exception. Interior designers and architects did a great job of making the place stylish but not overly trendy, and not at all pretentious. Just like Austin. What I saw was a well dressed crowd who didn't mind letting their hair down to the terrific DJ who spun obscure and familiar tunes from the 60's to present day. The music volume was up but not so much as to prevent conversation.
We found a great spot by the fireplace to enjoy a few cocktails and chat, and later moved into different rooms and to the small tucked away patio off the restaurant to see old friends and meet new ones. W Austin seems to be an instant hit and when the W Austin Residences are completed above the hotel in February, new residents will surely be pleased with their "living room" bar and adjacent restaurant on the ground floor.
The W Austin condominium residences start in the $400,000 range and go up to over $2 million. They are modern and clean and offer great views over Austin. Owners will begin closing on their homes in February 2011. No doubt, the opening of the W Austin Hotel will spur sales although approximately over 50% of the 159 W Austin residences are already reserved. The new Austin City Limits music venue is a part of this project as well.
For more info on W Austin Residences or the entire Downtown Austin luxury condo market, contact me or go here and click on downtown luxury: http://trueaustinhomes.com/austinhomesearch.asp
Jeff Harris, Broker
512-917-9142 direct
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