TBG wins three ABJ 2025 Commercial Real Estate Awards

We’re thrilled to share three TBG projects received recognition at Austin Business Journal’s 2025 Commercial Real Estate Awards.

Eastbound, Austin, Texas
A full-service office space inspired by collegiate campuses, Eastbound enacts designs based on de-sired paths across the interior courtyard. The design softens the architectural “canyon” created by the interior courtyard by creating a fun pedestrian focused environment from the parking garage to the office’s front doors. The use of concrete step pads within the gravel creates a more residential feeling while also ensuring the quickest way from point a to b protects the planting and built environments. The planting works with available natural lighting going from a deep green in the low light interior and growing in color as you walk through the courtyard to the street where there is more sunlight. A collection of large bald cypress creates a natural gathering point at the front of the office building for tenants to use.

City of Austin Permitting & Development Center, Austin, Texas
The municipal department focused on making Austin the most livable city in the country has a new home, making that job much more efficient, comfortable and collaborative. Located in the 80-acre Highland District, The City of Austin Permitting & Development Center consolidates multiple offices and disunited development services into a unified work environment on 5.1 acres. Informed by in-depth site inventory and analysis, the project’s de-sign creates an inviting working environment for City of Austin staff, citizens and community experts to help shape Austin’s future development, teach sustainable best practices and provide a community forum for creative problem solving in development and design. The landscape prioritizes native plant and building materials, Austin’s aesthetic and creative spirit, and outdoor spaces that encourage collaboration. The project also includes Texas’ first blackwater reclamation system that collects and treats wastewater from toilets and sinks to be reused for flushing.

Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin Green Infrastructure, Austin, Texas
As part of Texas Children’s Hospital plan to expand healthcare access and specialized care in Austin and Central Texas, a new free-standing state-of-the-art children and women’s hospital is well underway in North Austin. A component part of their expansion strategy, Texas Children’s participated in the Austin Green Building Council to ensure the design, build and sustainment of a healthy facility. The project site drains to an ephemeral stream in a designated Critical Water Quality Zone in Austin. In addition to full landscape architecture services, TBG was enlisted to design restorative improvements to the stream in collab-oration with engineers, ecologists, and Austin Watershed Protection. The solution consists of channel restoration paired with a retention pond that provides flood mitigation and water quality enhancement for runoff from the development of the hospital. In-spired by organic forms found in Central Texas ecology, a curvilinear paseo connects the hospital and parking garage and serves as a unifying element to create, organize and separate spaces for respite. The hospital opened in February of 2024.

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