Charles Schwab Corp. showed off progress Thursday on its new Austin campus. With one building completely renovated and more structures under construction, the area east of The Domain in North Austin will eventually have 469,000 square feet of office and amenity space.

The San Francisco-based brokerage and banking titan already has about 600 employees working on the site, with plans to move all of its 1,600 workers in Austin there next year, according to Community Impact. The campus will be able to accommodate up to 2,600 workers.

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The less there is of something, the more people want it and the more they’re willing to pay for it. That basic principal will continue to directly apply to San Antonio’s retail market in the year ahead.

Limited development and rising demand will trigger plummeting vacancy rates in retail properties across the city, as retailers scramble for attractive space while developers pull back from delivering it.

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Two Austin-area developments have won the highest honors from Engineering News Record, or ENR. The 2016 Best of the Best projects are selected from regional winners and then chosen as the “top example of innovation and service to the community,” according to the trade publication’s website.

Both projects will be familiar to Austin Business Journal readers, as I’ve written about them extensively.

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Curbed, the real estate blog, recently featured “The 13 most important construction and development projects in the United States,” and Austin made the cut.

The list is based on subjective criteria of projects that “will fundamentally change their cities, whether by redeveloping a long-neglected area or debuting one of the tallest observation decks in the county.”

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