Aggie overseeing construction of
major addition to Austin skyline

An Aggie is overseeing the construction of a building that is fundamentally changing Austin’s skyline.

Robert Albanese, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Construction Science in 1982, is head of construction on the Austonian, a high-rise condominium building, which will stand 56 stories tall when it’s through.

“I think it’s great for Austin,” Albanese told Ben Wermund of The Daily Texan, the University of Texas student newspaper. “It’s creating a lot of jobs, a beautiful building. It really couldn’t be much more exciting.”

Wermund wrote that the Austonian will be the tallest residential building west of the Mississippi River when it’s finished in late September.

Downtown condominiums are Austin’s latest trend.

“The ability to work and live downtown has created a whole new vibrancy,” said Albanese of the downtown scene.  “At night, it’s exciting and vibrant — and it’s grown more in the last three years than the 10 before.”

Read Wermund’s story about Albanese online on the Daily Texan website:
www.dailytexanonline.com.

Albanese is also featured in a KVUE-TV newscast available at www.kvue.com/news

Also see the Austonian’s website: www.theaustonian.com.

- Posted: Sep. 21, 2009-