Austin · Office-to-Residential

Statewide legislative tailwinds. Twenty years of Austin multifamily delivery. Adaptive reuse capability ported from Dallas. The pieces are in place.

National office-to-residential pipeline tripled since 2022 to 70,700+ units. Dallas ranks #2 in delivered conversions, four units behind Manhattan. Austin’s downtown office market is structurally different than Dallas — newer inventory, different tenant base, less vacant historic office stock — but SB 840 and proposed SB 2477 apply statewide. Residential in commercial zones without rezoning. Conversions exempt from impact fees, public hearings, parking minimums, and traffic studies. As Austin’s office market evolves under hybrid work patterns and tech-sector reorganization, the conversion logic that pulled Dallas to #2 nationally will move into the Austin pipeline.

Corrigan Tower · 1952 Dallas office · 150-unit conversion · capability ported from Dallas

Office-to-residential is the convergence of three disciplines — adaptive reuse preservation, multifamily delivery scale, and preconstruction judgment. ANDRES has documented all three. The Dallas portfolio carries Mosaic, Dallas Power & Light, Gables Republic, and Corrigan Tower — four separate structural eras converted into residential. The Austin team has delivered over a decade of multifamily under Josh Torres, including Avenir East Austin (16 stories, 387 units, three levels below grade) and Windsor on the Lake (31 stories). The multifamily delivery scale is here. The adaptive reuse playbook is portable from Dallas. The preconstruction methodology — Jeff Kempf’s Complexity Walk — runs identically across the four ANDRES metros.