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OWANA in-person Meeting Notes. March 4th, 2025. GVM reporter/member/old school local = Old West Austin Neighborhood Association

The in person meeting was held per usual @ the Mathews Elementary School on West Lynn in Clarksville. The current president is Steve Amos. A friendly, well mannered and sensible man.  One attendee when discussing the death of Nau's Pharmacy stated, "I hope the new Nau's development doesn't suck or is super ugly?" Zoning Section; MANIFOLD Development presented in person for a new Mixed Use Brand New future Development located on West 6th street and Walsh. Manifold are local developers and office adjacent to Donn's Deport on West 5th street. Manifold's lead Representative stated, they listened to the neighborhood and are implementing very LARGE SIDWALKS on both West 6th & Walsh Street. 18'20' feet sized sidewalks. the New Mixed Use Complex will be 250 Units of Residential Apartments, Studios, 1 and 2 bedrooms. 10%-12% of the Apartments will be exclusively for Affordable Housing. There will be some Mixed-Use Commercial Retail at the new Project....

Per MySA Newspaper; the Story of Bouldin Creek Cafe

Eat & Drink Bouldin Creek Cafe's journey from shack to 25-year-old Austin icon "I’m just so appreciative of the community and how they’ve all been behind us." By Natalie Grigson for MySAMarch 1, 2025 Bouldin Creek Cafe was a staple in South Austin’s Bouldin Creek neighborhood well before multimillion-dollar homes and high rent prices took over the area. Twenty-five years ago, this whimsical and earthy cafe started out as a veritable shack (a cute shack) where Elizabeth Street Cafe sits today. Owner Leslie Martin had inherited some money from her grandmother’s death and she wanted to start up a cafe with a community feel in a rapidly changing Austin. "This was back during the dot com boom," says Martin, "And these little local places were going away. So the only way to fix it, really, was to put something back." She started the original Boulding with about $18,000 and modeled it after some of her favorite haunts like Mojo’s on The Drag and Les Am...