Austin Development Report: $711M in New Construction Registered in the Last 30 Days (July 2026)

Central Texas is being built at a staggering pace: in the last 30 days alone, builders registered $711 million of new construction across the Austin metro — 190 projects totaling roughly 6.4 million square feet. According to ATX Things analysis of Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) project filings and City of Austin permit records, the city of Austin accounts for $382 million of that, but the fastest-moving money is spreading into Georgetown, Cedar Park, and Kyle. Here is every major project, mapped, in Austin, Texas.

How much construction is happening in Austin right now?

A lot. Over the last 30 days, 190 projects worth $711 million were registered with the state for the Austin metro, spanning about 6.4 million square feet of new and renovated space. That is state-registered construction alone; on top of it, the City of Austin issued 4,571 building permits in the same window. The pace works out to more than $23 million of newly registered construction every single day.

The money is concentrated at the top: just eight projects account for more than $350 million of the total. The rest is a long tail of restaurant build-outs, apartment additions, school renovations, and tenant fit-outs.

What are the biggest projects being built in Austin?

These are the ten largest projects registered in the last 30 days, by declared construction value:

The headliner is 900 West 23rd, an $80 million, 365,000-square-foot high-rise going up in West Campus near the University of Texas. Close behind is The Westlyn, a $70 million project in Clarksville designed by Austin's own Miro Rivera Architects. Downtown, the City of Austin also issued a single $79.5 million permit to Ryan Companies for a seven-story mixed-use tower at 512 Sabine Street.

Where is Austin growing the fastest?

The city of Austin still leads by dollars, but the suburbs are where the surprises are:

This mirrors what we see in the local economy — job and population growth pushing development north and south along the I-35 corridor. For the wider picture, see our Austin economy dashboard for live unemployment, home-price, and building-permit trends.

Who is actually building it?

The filings name the players. Ryan Companies is behind the downtown Sabine Street tower; Miro Rivera Architects designed The Westlyn; Rogers-O'Brien Construction is building a new $25M elementary school in North Austin; and institutions are investing heavily — Texas Children's Hospital, the YMCA, Round Rock ISD, and the City of Austin itself all registered eight-figure projects this month.

That institutional money matters: hospitals, schools, and civic projects are the least speculative kind of construction, and a wave of them signals confidence in sustained growth.

What this tells us about Austin in 2026

Three takeaways from the data:

1. The boom isn't slowing — it's spreading. Half the money is now outside the city of Austin proper, in Georgetown, Cedar Park, and Kyle.
2. Retail and recreation are back. A $52M Life Time, a Kyle Park shopping center (Dick's Sporting Goods and Boot Barn), and a new YMCA point to builders betting on rooftops-follow-retail growth.
3. The urban core keeps rising. Between 900 West 23rd, The Westlyn, and the Sabine Street tower, roughly $230M of dense, walkable, mixed-use construction is concentrated near downtown and campus.

Want to see what is being built near you? You can explore the full dataset behind this report on our sister platform, Zabalist: browse every Austin building permit, all 460,000+ registered Texas construction projects, or the developers and contractors behind them. Prefer it by sector? Zabalist tracks multifamily, data-center, and semiconductor projects across all 254 Texas counties.

And you can watch the same suburban surge play out in our guides to the Junction entertainment district in Georgetown and Austin's 2026 retail boom, plus live Austin economy data.

Method & sources

Figures come from TDLR project registrations (state construction filings, all Central Texas counties) and City of Austin building permits (via the city's open-data portal), for the 30 days ending July 23, 2026, as compiled on Zabalist. Construction values are self-declared by filers. Because Austin's permit system stamps a project's full value on each of its sub-permits, we deduplicate — counting one value per distinct project (matched on value, contractor, and address) — so totals reflect real projects, not repeated line-items. Data tracked by ATX Things; updated monthly.

FAQ

How much construction is happening in Austin right now? In the 30 days ending July 23, 2026, builders registered 190 projects worth about $711 million across the Austin metro, and the City of Austin issued 4,571 building permits. That is roughly $23 million in newly registered construction per day.

What is the biggest project being built in Austin? The largest single project registered last month is 900 West 23rd, an $80 million, 365,000-square-foot high-rise in West Campus near UT. Downtown, a $79.5 million mixed-use tower at 512 Sabine Street is also underway.

Which Austin suburbs are growing the fastest? By registered construction value over the last 30 days, Georgetown ($105.7M), Cedar Park ($85.9M), and Kyle ($36.5M) led the suburbs — driven by an Amazon facility, a $52M Life Time, and new retail.

Where does this data come from? From official TDLR state construction registrations and City of Austin building-permit records, compiled and deduplicated by ATX Things and refreshed monthly.