Austin at a glance
- 20+
- Years — VP Josh Torres at ANDRES
- 641
- Units at the Grove (Alder + Korina)
- 953
- Beds at Culpepper
- 752K
- SF — Culpepper College Station
About ANDRES in Austin
Austin doesn’t need another general contractor. It needs the right one.
Josh Torres has been with ANDRES since 2004. A Texas A&M Construction Science graduate, he came up through the same system that produced ANDRES’s Dallas leadership — learning estimating, field operations, and client management on live projects before there was any title to go with it. Today, as VP of Operations for the Austin market, Josh runs a portfolio that spans student housing, market-rate multifamily, and mixed-use across Central Texas.
The Austin and Central Texas market rewards builders who understand its particular pressures: explosive enrollment growth at universities, a rental market shaped by tech-sector migration, and a permitting environment that varies dramatically between City of Austin, Travis County, Williamson County, and Brazos County.
ANDRES doesn’t parachute into Austin for individual projects. The team is here. The relationships are here. The subcontractor network that delivers on time in this market — that’s here too.
Leading Austin
VP Operations, Austin
22 years at ANDRES
On the Ground in Austin
21 Rio · 21-story tower · West of UT campus Alder at the Grove · 268 units · Shoal Creek ANDRES Austin Office · Shepards Mountain Plaza Berkman Retail · East Austin
Featured Projects
Texas A&M’s enrollment exceeds 74,000 students. UT Austin surpasses 53,000. The demand for purpose-built student housing in College Station, Austin, and San Marcos isn’t speculative — it’s structural. Universities can’t build fast enough. The private market fills the gap.
ANDRES’s Culpepper College Station project — 316 units, 953 beds, 752,500 SF — is the kind of project that separates student housing specialists from general contractors who happen to build apartments. The unit mix, the common-area programming, the move-in logistics, the lease-up coordination with university calendars — these are operational complexities that don’t exist in market-rate multifamily.
Josh Torres and the Austin team understand these complexities because they’ve built through them. The timeline isn’t flexible. Move-in day is move-in day. There’s no pushing a student housing delivery to Q4.
North Lamar. East Riverside. The Domain. South Congress. Austin’s multifamily corridors have produced some of the highest-performing rental assets in the Sun Belt. But the development window is tightening — land costs have tripled in key submarkets since 2018, and the City of Austin’s permitting timeline remains one of the longest in Texas.
ANDRES’s AVE Austin North Lamar — 226 units for Trammell Crow Residential — demonstrated the firm’s ability to deliver in Austin’s most competitive corridor. JHP Architects designed. ANDRES built. Trammell Crow, one of the most selective developers in the country, chose ANDRES because the track record was verifiable.
That’s the pattern. Developers who build nationally choose ANDRES for Texas because the local execution matches the institutional expectation.
Josh Torres joined ANDRES in 2004 with a Construction Science degree from Texas A&M. Over two decades, he has managed projects across every sector ANDRES serves — multifamily, student housing, hospitality, and mixed-use. His promotion to VP of Operations for the Austin market reflects the same ANDRES principle that defines the Dallas and Houston offices: leadership is earned on the job site, not imported from outside.
Josh’s Texas A&M background isn’t incidental. In the College Station market, where ANDRES is delivering the 752,500 SF Culpepper project, that network matters. He knows the contractors. He knows the inspection cadence. He knows what breaks during a Brazos County summer pour and what doesn’t.
When you hire ANDRES in Austin, you’re hiring a firm with $2B+ in completed work. But the person running your project is Josh Torres — and he’s been doing this for twenty years.
