W Hotel & Residences Breaks Ground

Courtesy AustinTowers Downtown Condo Blog  Sat, 10/13/2007 - 10:11pm

Another Austin project -- the W Hotel & Residences -- took an important step forward yesterday with a lavish ground-breaking ceremony.

Not unlike the Austonian which created a pile of dirt to be shoveled for the ceremony, the Block 21 development team and a world-famous basketball player and investor (Magic Johnson) used unusual guitar-shovels for the ground-breaking.

The theme of the event, as far as I can tell, was "Keep Austin Weird."

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Block 21, a former...


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