The little house on Hank is no longer available.
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Save the Firehall along with much involvement a temporary board of directors and family business involvement. High profile community discussions on the KVET 98.1 Bucky & Bob Show, continued support of Country Line Magazine, and races held by Thunderhill Park Raceway.
After strong community support, in which over $30,000 dollars were raised, to Save the Manchaca Firehall and The Clarence Vogel Manchaca Community Center. All was lost today when the county operating license was revoked. The Firehall as it is commonly referred to in these parts of deep South Austin and Manchaca is no more. A replacement business it being sought and community support is needed, an online questionnaire is on the site today to gather this information.
Manchaca Community Center COMMUNITY SURVEY
The purpose of this survey is to gather your opinion about what this community wants to do with the Manchaca Community Center. Your feedback will be provided in a written proposal or recommendations by the Manchaca Community Center Committee on the future use and expectations for the Community Center, as ordered by the Travis County Commissioners’ Court.
The Save the Firehall website and online marketing and social networking campaign in Facebook and Twitter was created pro bono by matthewcomer.com Consulting services.
The house at 4408 Hank Avenue is available for lease on April 1, 2010. No joke, even though it is April Fools’ Day, it is the day that it is available for you to more into this residence.
This is a great house in an upcoming neighborhood. Although it remains a great family neighborhood, it is also become a trendy area for young hipsters. The old South Austin neighborhood is being transformed into a neighborhood with downtown urban appeal and lifestyle. It is transforming before our eyes. Many houses are being renovated, moved or leveled and brand new houses are taking their place. Many streets are evident of this change, but none as much as Hank Avenue. Where most houses have already been renovated and this street boasts the newest wildest double lot two-story four condo expansion in the neighborhood. The bold neighborhood extension near Clawson and Crown is the only other that rivals this expansion.
It is a working class neighborhood with very eclectic neighbors. Many artists and musicians choose this area to live. 78745 is becoming the new 78704, as the high rents have forced out working artists. With the good people, shady trees, quite and low traffic streets, many are proud to call this home.
This house is close to daycare, public schools, parks, and libraries. There is a church and a hospital within walking distance. Great places to eat, like a plate of Huevos Rancheros to sit down and eat or to go from Taqueria La Tapatia, shopping at Southwood Mall and Shopping Center, and fun at Blazer Tag Adventure Center for the kids and the kid in all of us. And a short bike or drive to Central Market South and Sunset Valley Farmers Market for farm raised good food on Saturday mornings.
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As seen on Postlets.com via Craigslist.org and Oodle.com.
We are a small Austin based company. Formed in 2003, with the idea of restoring and renting homes over twenty-five years old. We believe in ‘Keeping Austin Weird’ and deeply rooting in the whole South Austin ‘experience’.
Austin is one of the top growing cities in the country. People have caught on to our easy living lifestyle.
Residents of Austin are known as “Austinites,” and include a mix of university professors, students, politicians, lobbyists, musicians, state employees, high-tech workers, blue-collar workers, and white-collar workers. The main campus of the University of Texas is located in Austin. The city is home to enough large sites of major technology corporations to have earned it the nickname “Silicon Hills.” Austin’s official slogan promotes the city as “The Live Music Capital of the World”, a reference to its status as home to many musicians and music venues.[1] In recent years, many Austinites have also adopted the unofficial slogan “Keep Austin Weird”; this refers partly to the eclectic and progressive lifestyle of many Austin residents, but is also the slogan for a campaign to preserve smaller local businesses and resist excessive commercialization.
By Clayton Stromberger
SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN Sunday, September 30, 2007
Naming a brand-new subdivision is a condensed form of haiku, sometimes practiced by folks who might be better off hiring a poet for the task. Otherwise, we end up with clunkers like this gem from the Denver area – SkyRidge at RidgeGate – which have inspired at least one annoyed wag to create an online random subdivision name generator, a tool that mixes bucolic words in absurd combinations such as “Cedar Bridge Estates” or “Walnut Circle Acres.”
With this in mind, one might assume that Whispering Oaks, the moniker of a 1970s-era subdivision in far South Austin, is another example of over-reaching. But here’s the shocker: There are actually plenty of oaks lining the streets in this area, located just southwest of William Cannon Drive and Manchaca Road. And not only do these oaks whisper, or – let’s not go overboard here – rustle in the breeze on occasion, but they also provide deep shade for residents and a wonderful habitat for all sorts of wild critters, including great horned and screech owls.
“Somebody had an idea back then, like I wish they would today, to work around the trees and incorporate them into the neighborhood,” says resident Matt Comer. “There’s so much shade, you can do things outside even when it’s hot.”
Comer is about as good an advertisement for Whispering Oaks as a neighborhood could ask for. He grew up there on Redleaf Lane from the age of 3 on, then as an adult bought the family home in 1998 when his parents were ready to move to the Hill Country.
His grandmother, Freda Comer, has lived down the street since the 1970s, and still enjoys walking over to Westgate Lanes for her Thursday bowling league and cooking the okra she grows in her backyard garden.
The whispering oaks can be a challenge, with ball moss removal, the danger of oak wilt and the challenge of all those leaves to rake – “but everyone agrees it’s worth it”, Matt Comer says.
Location: Bordered by West Gate Boulevard, William Cannon Drive, Manassas Drive and Manchaca Road in South Austin.
Schools: Cunningham Elementary, Covington Middle School, Crockett High School.
Amenities: Besides the trees, there is plenty of shopping. Sunset Valley is just northwest of the neighborhood. Stephenson Nature Preserve and Garrison District Park are also nearby.
The market: In July, sales of single-family homes in the real estate zone that includes Whispering Oaks were down about 2 percent from a year ago. The median price was $165,000, up about 25 percent from a year ago. On average, it took 18 days to sell a home there.
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