Start with a shopping-center directory
Chinatown Center lists a mix of food and retail destinations, including MT Supermarket, Pho Saigon and Texas Bakery. Its operator directory is the place to check the specific businesses you want to visit.[3]
Austin neighborhood field guide
Get to know the local places, then explore what the public record says: construction, restaurant inspection scores and beverage receipts, with dates and sources beside the data.
North Lamar is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as plan approved. These mapped categories differ from colloquial neighborhood names. Districts people name in conversation, like South Congress, Rainey Street or the Sixth Street entertainment district, are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area or straddle two. This boundary is a single polygon in the city's file, with ordinance 20100624-110 recorded in the source, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as NORTH LAMAR.
Chinatown Center provides a recognizable North Lamar destination, while the local planning contact team documents parks and public-art work along the corridor. Together, those sources offer a more grounded introduction than treating the entire road as one uniform district.
3 linked sources · CheckedChinatown Center lists a mix of food and retail destinations, including MT Supermarket, Pho Saigon and Texas Bakery. Its operator directory is the place to check the specific businesses you want to visit.[3]
The North Lamar/Georgian Acres contact team documents the planned “4 Elements” artwork at Heron Hollow near Peyton Gin and North Lamar. Its posts record the commission and neighborhood context; they do not establish current installation status.[2]
North Lamar and Georgian Acres have a combined neighborhood plan. The city’s resources and local contact team offer different views of formal planning and neighborhood participation.[1][2]
The center lists separate shops and restaurants. Use the individual operator’s information to confirm opening times and services.[3]
Local context is based on the sources below. Confirm current access, schedules, and reservations with the operator. Civic figures elsewhere on this page retain their own reporting periods.
These controls filter the records already on this page. They do not re-query the agencies.
Boundary drawn from City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas, as last modified September 22, 2021. Markers are placed from geocoded street addresses, so a record whose address we cannot geocode is listed below but not pinned. The panels under the map are the full text equivalent.
The 25 most recently issued inside this boundary (page limit 25)
Austin Public Health · up to 15 most recent inside this boundary
Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation filings · up to 15 inside this boundary
Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filers we placed inside this boundary
6 of 47 filers in ZIP 78753 placed inside this boundary. Each venue’s figure is its own gross receipts over its own filing months — there is deliberately no area total, because this is a sample, not a census.
North Lamar is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is plan approved. Inclusion in this file does not by itself mean a neighborhood plan was adopted. Well-known districts such as South Congress, Rainey Street and the Sixth Street entertainment district are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area, or straddle two. The North Lamar boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin ordinance number 20100624-110 is recorded against this planning area in the city's Neighborhood Planning Areas dataset, with planning status plan approved.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 1,721 building permits that it has geocoded inside the North Lamar planning-area boundary, the earliest dated March 10, 1980 and the most recent September 14, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $109,519,636. Declared value is the figure the applicant put on the permit application, not market value or finished cost. Counted from the city's Issued Construction Permits dataset (3syk-w9eu), building permits only, over every issue date in that dataset. The boundary test needs a mapped coordinate, and about one building permit in seven (13.8% as published on 2026-07-26) carries no location, so those rows cannot be placed in any neighbourhood and are not in this figure.
ZIP code 78753 has a centroid inside the North Lamar boundary. We match ZIP codes to planning areas by testing each ZIP's centroid against the boundary polygon, so a large ZIP can overlap an area without its centre landing inside it. Use the boundary, not the ZIP, as the authority.