Austin City Council was set to annex the site and enter into an agreement<\/a> with Endeavor Real Estate Group, the developer for the project.<\/p>\n ![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786378210_333_.jpeg\"\/)
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An empty lot that meets Hergotz Lane and Thompson Lane is where part of the proposed 2,600-acre Dog\u2019s Head development will go. <\/p>\n
And it wasn\u2019t because the city told them. Edwards said a friend called him after seeing it on the council agenda.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe heard on Tuesday, May 19th, we had a neighborhood association meeting the next day, and we went to speak at city council the next day,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cSo they\u2019ve had us playing catch up the whole time. And it seems like that was likely intentional.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month, the attorney for the developer said this project has been in the works for several years. City officials have not explained why residents weren\u2019t part of the process but said the quick decision-making was about securing a deal with Amazon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A construction site for what is set to be an Amazon robotics facility in East Austin. It will be the main tenant at the Dog’s Head development. <\/p>\n
Shaping the development <\/p>\n
Tung said all neighbors want is to be kept in the loop about what’s going on.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be nice to have some sort of input into what goes into the Dog\u2019s Head,\u201d Tung said. \u201cI think that is typically how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the neighbors also want a clearer understanding about how the project is going to affect traffic and the river.<\/p>\n
Austin City Council Member Jos\u00e9 Vel\u00e1squez, who represents the area, said he\u2019s aware of those concerns and is working to resolve them. He voted against the project last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel we could\u2019ve done better,\u201d Vel\u00e1squez said. \u201cWe are going to be working to ensure that when we have major developments like this that there\u2019s a better process to how we communicate with the community. Because people … should never feel like things are happening to them. They should feel like they are happening with them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Hergotz Lane neighborhood is small. Edwards can name most of his neighbors. He said all he is trying to do is protect them and make sure the project is developed well.<\/p>\n
“I think developing this well respects the environment and respects the existing neighborhoods,” Edwards said. <\/p>\n
Tung said the project needs to be something that benefits the community.<\/p>\n
“Something that the community can get utility out of whether that\u2019s housing or thought out\u00a0retail, or whatever it is,” he said. “But it’s not heavy industry and data centers and all these companies and industries that make such bad neighbors.”<\/p>\n
Work has already started on the project, but there are still several more decisions ahead. Velasquez said neighbors will be part of the process moving forward. The development is not expected to get final approval until next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Edwards has lived on Hergotz Lane for nearly two decades. His property backs up to the Colorado…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[141082,141083,132,134,133,1223,93939,110382,135381,141084,141085,141081],"class_list":["post-402670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-amazon-austin-development","tag-amazon-development","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-texas","tag-colorado-river","tag-dogs-head","tag-dogs-head-development","tag-endeavor-group","tag-hergotz-lane","tag-south-east-colorado-river-neighborhood-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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