What's Been Filed in Mueller This Year: $63 Million in Permits, and What They Mean If You Live Nearby

Sixty-one construction and development records have been filed in Mueller over the past 12 months, totaling $63.2 million — and the newest one, a $9 million arts building for the neighborhood's middle school, was filed this month. According to ATX Things' review of the unified project database tracked by Zabalist, that spending splits across 34 residential jobs (mostly additions and repairs), 18 commercial filings, and 9 mixed-use projects, in the mixed-use community built on the former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport site in Northeast Austin.

None of that shows up on a real-estate listing. It lives in city permit files, TDLR project registrations, and site-plan cases — public records that exist for every address in Austin, whether or not a home there is for sale. Here's what's actually been filed in Mueller this year, and how to look up the same records for any address.

What's the biggest thing filed in Mueller this year?

The single largest dollar figure isn't new. AISD's Marshall Middle School campus at 4401 Tilley St. — carried in permit records under its pre-construction working title, "Northeast Middle School" — opened to students in August 2023 as a $60 million campus funded by the district's 2017 bond program. Its original $34.7 million construction permit wasn't formally closed out in city records until August 19 of this year, a reminder that a permit's "last activity date" often marks paperwork catching up to a building, not new construction breaking ground.

The genuinely new filing sits right next door: a $9 million Arts Education Building at 4611 Tilley St., permitted and still moving through the process as of September 15 — one week before this article published.

What else has been filed, and where?

| Project | Address | Filed value | Stage | Last activity | |---|---|---|---| | Arts Education Building (Marshall MS) | 4611 Tilley St | $9.0M | Permitted | Sept. 15, 2026 | | MRI Renovation, Dell Children's Medical Center | 4900 Mueller Blvd | $7.8M | Permitted | April 21, 2026 | | Elevator lobby & corridor buildout, 1401 Philomena medical office | 1401 Philomena St | $5.0M | Permitted | Jan. 15, 2026 | | Ronald McDonald House Mueller renovation | 1315 Barbara Jordan Blvd | $4.3M | Permitted | April 24, 2026 | | Alite Laser Mueller (medical spa buildout) | 1701 Simond Ave, Ste 107B | $1.04M | Permitted | May 22, 2026 | | Mueller Town Center Parking Lot, Phase 2 | 1808½ Aldrich St | $800K | Site plan | April 8, 2026 | | AMLI Mueller V, temporary power permit | 2000½ Aldrich St | $295K | Completed | May 27, 2026 |

Three of those seven sit on or near the same two blocks of Mueller Boulevard and Philomena Street that already hold Dell Children's Medical Center — the MRI renovation is inside the hospital itself, and the elevator buildout is in the medical office tower Stockdale Capital Partners bought next door in 2024, a five-story, 129,300-square-foot building that was the first non-affiliated medical office built on spec in central Austin since 2013.

Dell Children's holds a 4.0-star average across more than 1,300 Google reviews as of this week — reviewers most often single out the nursing and ICU staff, with a recurring complaint thread about billing-department responsiveness on complex claims.

What does a "site plan" or "temporary power permit" actually mean?

Not every record in this list is a building going up. Zabalist's data pulls from several distinct city and state processes, and each tells you something different if you're researching a specific address:

• A permit covers a defined scope of construction work — a renovation, an addition, a new structure — and carries a dollar valuation the applicant self-reports to the city.
• A site plan governs how a property will be used and laid out (parking, drainage, landscaping) and often precedes the actual building permits by months.
• A TDLR project registration is a state-level filing, separate from the city, required for most commercial construction over a certain size — useful because it often surfaces a project before the city permit does.
• A temporary power permit, like AMLI Mueller V's, is usually the last step before a completed building goes live — construction crews running electrical off a temporary line until permanent utility service is connected.

How does Mueller's filing volume compare citywide?

Zabalist's citywide Austin Development Report tracked $647.7 million in new 30-day construction filings as of August 2026 — Mueller's $63.2 million represents roughly a year's worth of activity in one Northeast Austin neighborhood, not a single month citywide, so the two figures aren't directly comparable, but they're useful context for scale: a neighborhood-level year of filings runs about a tenth of what the whole city files in an average month right now.

Look up the same records for any Mueller address

Everything above came from public filings — the same records exist for every address in Austin, whether it's the site of a $9 million school addition or a single-family home getting a new water heater. Austin Local Team (sister site of Austin Texas Things) builds those records directly into its home search: permits, site plans, TDLR registrations, food inspections, flood zone, and more, layered around any listing or any neighborhood page — including Mueller's own neighborhood guide.

Austin Local Team is brokered by All City Real Estate, ltd. Co. (TREC #9003633) — its About page carries the full TREC Information About Brokerage Services and Consumer Protection Notice. The site doesn't rank neighborhoods or rate them "good" or "bad" — it shows the counts of public filings around a home and lets you draw your own conclusions. It doesn't republish MLS listing photos or remarks either; for active listings, search the map directly.

FAQ

Where can I see building permits for a specific Austin address? The city's own permit-search portal (Austin Build + Connect) is the official source for any single address. Zabalist aggregates that data alongside TDLR state filings, site plans, and subdivision records into one searchable database, which both austintexasthings.com's data tools and Austin Local Team's neighborhood pages draw from.

Is Mueller's middle school new? No — Marshall Middle School (filed under "Northeast Middle School" in permit records) opened to students in August 2023. Its original construction permit was administratively closed out in city records this August; the new filing is a separate $9 million Arts Education Building next door, still in the permitting stage.

What's being built at Dell Children's Medical Center? An MRI renovation, permitted this April at $7.8 million, per city filings. The hospital itself remains fully operational (open 24 hours, per its Google Business listing checked this week).

Does a high permit count mean a neighborhood is a good place to live? No — filing counts measure construction activity, not quality of life, safety, or school ratings. Treat them as what they are: a record of what's been built or proposed, not a verdict.

What's ahead

The Mueller Town Center Parking Lot's Phase 2 site plan, filed in April and still active, suggests more retail or mixed-use buildout is still coming to Aldrich Street — this desk will follow up once it clears to a permitted stage. For the neighborhood's other recent local-life news, the Texas Farmers' Market at Mueller's new shaded pavilion opened this summer, and last week's guide to reading public records before touring any Austin house walks through the same record types for a buyer's-eye view. See the full Austin development tracker for what's moving citywide.