Here, Mueller officials have partnered with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on a restoration project for the endangered Blackland Prairie. South of Lake Park is the Southwest Greenway, where native plants and outdoor art installations share space with walking trails and water features. A block away from Mueller Central and Lake Park, Mueller's Northwest Greenway meanders its way along the area's border all the way to its termination point at I-35.
Next door to the Hangar is Mueller Central, a former airport administration building that now houses an information center for Mueller as a whole.
The Hangar currently houses Mueller's weekly Sunday Farmers' Market, and is periodically used for special events as well. At the center of it all is Lake Park, a 30-acre landscape featuring a duck-filled lake, hike and bike trails, and Browning Hangar, a historic airport hangar originally constructed in the 1940s and retroconverted into an open-air amphitheater. Numerous eco-friendly green spaces have debuted in Mueller as well. $10.4 Million in federal stimulus funds to develop an advanced smart grid demonstration project at Mueller, which included a demonstration house-known as the Pike Powers Commercialization Lab-that made its debut in 2013. Department of Energy awarded Pecan Street, Inc. Finally, Wildflower Terrace, an upscale apartment community, with 201 units, for seniors 65 and up, is open and located at Mueller's southern edge, near the intersection of Berkman Drive and Manor Road. It will join two already completed luxury apartment complexes inside Mueller: Mosaic and Elements. The Austin Children's Museum-rebranded as The Thinkery-and Austin Playhouse were among the first tenants of the Mueller Town Center, and a 279-unit AMLI Residential apartment community is under construction next door. Ī number of other facilities have been completed inside Mueller as well. The store features Cafe Mueller, which includes a stage for band performances dedicated stations for making guacamole and sushi on-site two recharging stations for electric vehicles and the only gas station in Central Austin that sells ethanol-based E85 car fuel.
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The 83,000 square foot store was designed to consume a full 80% less electricity than a standard grocery store, as well as 50% less water, and H-E-B officials plan to seek LEED Silver Certification for the project. and Berkman Drive, the Mueller Market District made its debut in mid-2013, anchored by a state-of-the-art H-E-B Grocery Store. Upon completion in late 2014, it will incorporate a 1,200-seat auditorium as well as a 250-person capacity "black box theater." In Mueller's north-center area, at the intersection of East 51st St. East of the Research Campus is a new Performing Arts Center designed to serve the entire Austin Independent School District. Its first building, the Dell Pediatric Research Institute, is already open, and next door a Residence Inn by Marriott is scheduled to open in early 2014. To the Dell Center's immediate north, the 14-acre University of Texas Health Research Campus is under development. The Center was expanded in 2011 to add a new patient wing. Its 30-room Ronald McDonald House serves patients from both within the Dell facility as well as other children's hospitals in the region.
In keeping with Mueller's best-practices ethos regarding environmentally friendly development, the Center is the first acute-care facility in the world to achieve LEED Platinum certification. Adjacent to it is the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, a 32-acre campus with 248 patient beds and a total of 1,400 employees.
On Mueller's northwest edge, bordering I-35, the Mueller Retail Center has been completed, and is anchored by The Home Depot, Best Buy, Old Navy, and PetSmart. The Mueller Master Plan includes a mix of residential, commercial and retail developments, along with designated parks and green space, with many of the elements completed and many more in the planning stages. An estimated 10,000 permanent jobs within the development will have been created by the time it is complete. Per the developer, the value of the Mueller development upon completion will be $1.3 billion, and will comprise 4.2 million square feet of non-residential development, 650,000 square feet of retail space, 4,600 homes, and 140 acres of open space. The community is being developed by Catellus, whose parent company was ProLogis.