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.
Robert Mueller Municipal Airport (RMMA) is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as non-neighborhood planning area. 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, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as RMMA.
Mueller’s former airport site now combines a lake, restored prairie, public art and smaller neighborhood parks. The city dataset retains the historical name Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, or RMMA. On the ground, the park network provides several distinct ways to explore the redevelopment beyond a single shopping stop.
4 linked sources · CheckedMueller’s official park guide identifies Girard Kinney Park as the former Lake Park. Its lake, loop trail, public art, picnic peninsula and open-air amphitheater make it a useful orientation point in the larger park network.[2]
The Southwest Greenway, along Tom Miller Street, restores Texas blackland prairie with native plants. Developed with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, it includes educational features about the Central Texas prairie ecosystem.[2]
The Northwest Greenway combines a hike-and-bike trail, a shaded picnic area and an accessible playscape. Its 15 solar-powered Sunflower sculptures offer a recognizable meeting point and a public-art stop within the park system.[2]
RMMA is the city dataset’s abbreviation for Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. Mueller is the redevelopment of that former airport, undertaken through a partnership between the City of Austin and Catellus.[1][4]
Mueller’s official park guide states that the parks are open to the public. Check the rules for individual amenities and event reservations separately; general park access does not establish access to every pool or reserved space.[2]
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
16 of 100 filers in ZIP 78722, 78723, 78721, 78751, 78752 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.
Robert Mueller Municipal Airport (RMMA) is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is non-neighborhood planning area. 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 Robert Mueller Municipal Airport (RMMA) boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 2,985 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport (RMMA) planning-area boundary, the earliest dated February 10, 1981 and the most recent September 28, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $2,953,688,253. 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.
No ZIP code centroid falls inside the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport (RMMA) boundary, so we search the 5 nearest instead: 78722, 78723, 78721, 78751, 78752. 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.
