CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEKUT[1] reports that "the hotel, operated by luxury hotel chain 1 Hotels, opened Sept. 3", the first part of the finished tower to open to the public.
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- Sep 3, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Waterline Opens in Austin as the Tallest Building in Texas
The 74-storey, 1,022-foot tower above Waller Creek opens in stages, starting with its 251-room 1 Hotel, and stacks 703,000 square feet of offices and 352 flats above it. At full height it passes Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower, which had been the tallest building in Texas since 1981, by 23 feet.
- The Waterline tower at Cesar Chavez and Red River streets in downtown Austin is "officially open", making it the tallest building in Texas and the 24th tallest in the United States[1]
- The 1 Hotels-operated luxury hotel opened Sept. 3, the date the pin uses for the opening; the residential component was completed last and residents were able to move in early[1]
- Construction took over four years, 4.5 million hours of labour and nearly 6,800 workers, using "enough concrete to fill about 46 Olympic-sized swimming pools" according to builder DPR, which finished two months ahead of schedule[1]
- The tower holds offices, residences, the hotel, a rooftop restaurant with Japanese-inspired cuisine, a coffee shop and Alteño, a Mexican restaurant created by Michelin-starred chef Johnny Curiel[1]
- The cheapest listed flat is a 778-square-foot one-bedroom at $4,027 a month including mandatory fees and the dearest listed a 1,606-square-foot two-bedroom at $12,357; parking runs $225 to $1,250 a month extra and the penthouses on floors 69 to 72 carry no online price[1]
- Amenities include a pool deck, spa, infrared sauna, golf simulator, gym, poker room and a space near the top floor overlooking Lady Bird Lake and I-35[1]
- The building stands next to The Confluence, a recently completed $91.5 million project that restored 13 acres along Waller Creek and linked it to nearby trails and bikeways; Waterline's developers donated at least $695,000 to the Waller Creek Delta project and the Waterloo Greenway Conservancy, though the conservancy keeps gift details private so the full amount is unclear[1]
- Related KUT coverage gives the tower as 74 stories, as the pin does; the article itself says only "over 1,000 feet" and does not carry the pin's 1,022-foot height or its 23-foot margin over Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower[1]
- The article says the lobby-to-top-floor lift ride "takes over one minute", while the related piece it links is headlined "It's a 45-second elevator ride to the top of the new tallest building in Texas"[1]
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- [1]90%kut.org/business/2026-09-14/austin-tx-waterline-tower-tallest-building-texaskut.org· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Sep 3, 2026 ✓· 100% of score
KUT reports that "the hotel, operated by luxury hotel chain 1 Hotels, opened Sept. 3", the first part of the finished tower to open to the public.
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