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Buffalo billiards austin sxsw9/19/2023 “We felt like it would break our heart if we saw somebody… come in here and turn these structures into everyday retail like Sephora or anything else that wasn’t an iconic piece of Austin’s history.”Įarlier this month City Council began the process of amending the city’s building code to increase the building heights on some sections of East Sixth Street owned by Stream. “We thought, why is Sixth Street remaining as it is and why aren’t we seeing more live music there? In the last 10 years we’ve lost a huge part of the music community there,” she said. Ryan said the declining presence of music venues in the district – due in part to rising rents – was one of the main reasons she and other Stream partners began investigating opportunities on Sixth Street in the years before the Covid-19 pandemic. On the 500 block of East Sixth, Ryan said there’s a good chance of a below-ground music space opening, and the longtime Austin resident said, “My goal is eventually to bring Emo’s, in any way, shape or form, back to this area because this is where they started.” There are ongoing talks with the possible operator of three restaurant/music venue spaces in and around the former Easy Tiger location, as well as a high likelihood of a music venue opening in the former Dirty Dog space. Sixth may be renamed the Missouri House as a nod to its original use as a boarding house in the late 1800s. While reviewing Stream’s holdings and its push to increase building heights and conduct select demolition work on some sites to create office space and hotel uses, Ryan offered some details about what’s in store for her often-stated goal of making live music a significant component of the area’s revitalization. The partial reveals came Friday at a special meeting of the Music Commission where Caitlyn Ryan, vice president of the Dallas-based company, discussed the future of the entertainment district and some of the plans for the 30-plus properties it has acquired. Stream Realty Partners is eyeing the possibility of turning at least six of its properties on East Sixth Street into music venues, including a plan to convert the former Buffalo Billiards space into a daytime food hall with music in the evenings.
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