Sixth and Guadalupe

In 1925 a red-brick five-story hotel called the Alamo Hotel was built on the site. For a time this hotel was the home of Sam Houston Johnson, younger brother to President Lyndon B. Johnson.[2] The Alamo Hotel was also featured, briefly, in the music videos for Rock the Casbah and Pancho and Lefty.[3][4] and was a former stomping ground of actor Harry Anderson.[5] In 1984 the Alamo Hotel was torn down to make way for a 27 story mixed use office-hotel complex called Lamar Financial Plaza which, if built, would have been the second tallest building in Austin at the time.[6][7][8] However, those plans were scrapped amidst the savings and loan crisis.[9]

In 1998, the former site of the Alamo Hotel was replaced with a 97-room Extended Stay America, amid controversy.[10] In 2019, the Extended Stay America was torn down and ground broke on the current building.[1] On December 31, 2021, Meta signed a lease to occupy all eighteen floors of leasable office space,[11] however, on November 3, 2022, a Meta spokesperson said that in light of declining profits, Meta would instead sublease the office space it had signed a lease for.[12] On April 5, 2023, it was revealed that Kimbal Musk had signed a lease to open up a restaurant in Sixth and Guadalupe.[13]

Floors 2-12 contain 1,626 parking spots and 50 electric car charging stations, floors 14-32 contain 589,000 square feet of office space and floors 34-66 contain 349 residential units.[14]

The building's unique angled shape is due to Texas Capitol View Corridors[15] (#8, South Lamar at La Casa Drive).[16]