The Biggest Building Permit Pulled in Austin This Week

2026-10-02

$51.75 million. One address.

The single largest building permit issued by the City of Austin in the last seven days was

at 4810 Gonzales St — a $51.75M new-construction permit for shell affordable housing

units, issued September 29, 2026 in Council District 3. A matching $51.75M permit for

the project's parking garage was issued the same day.

Looking back across the full 90-day window we track, it's not the biggest permit Austin has

pulled this year — a trio of $380M permits for the new Hays CISD High School #4

(3935 Bright Light Blvd, Council District 5) were issued July 23, and a $51.15M elementary

school permit (1412 Norseman Ter, District 4) followed in August. But it's the biggest permit

pulled *this week*, and it's a useful reminder of how much institutional and affordable-housing

construction clears the City's permit desk without ever showing up in a "new restaurant" roundup.

A $48M multi-family building permit at 2631 Kramer Ln (two separate permits for the same

project — the fire-area-A podium structure and the fire-area-C podium structure) shows up in

the same top-10 list, confirming Northeast Austin/the Domain-adjacent corridor continues to

see large apartment construction.

A building permit is issued *before* a crane shows up — it's the earliest public signal that

something is about to change a neighborhood. Browse live Austin permits → or

Source: City of Austin issued construction permits (Socrata `3syk-w9eu`), pulled 2026-10-02.