Teaser: Timeline set for Mueller apartments

(Austin) - Simmons Vedder & Co. has been selected to build the second mixed-use multifamily component at the former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. The new project, adjacent to the future town center, will have more than 275,000 square feet, with four stories and 300 one- to three-bedroom units. It will also have two-story live-work units with commercial space on the ground floor. Groundbreaking is scheduled for next summer, with completion in 2010. Ten percent of the apartments will be reserved for families that make 60 percent or less of Austin's median family income. The project will achieve at least a two-star rating under Austin Energy's Green Building Program. Simmons Vedder & Co.'s first apartment project, Mosaic, is under construction at Aldrich and Ragsdale streets.[Austin American-Statesman]