In a unanimous vote, City Council on Thursday, July 29 agreed to enter negotiations with
Greystar Development Central on the future of a 19-acre site in Northeast Austin that the city has owned - but done nothing with - for more than a decade.
Over the past century, the property at the corner of I-35 and E. St. Johns Avenue was an orphanage and elementary school, later becoming a
Home Depot and car dealership. In 2008, the city purchased the site with funds approved in a 2006 bond election to convert into an
Austin Police Department Northeast substation and a new home for the