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Cambridge Tower — live upstairs, work downstairs

The one building on our list where the whole thesis actually works: a true condo where you can OWN a residence upstairs AND own or lease a ground-floor office / live-work space downstairs — directly across the street from Greenwood, a ~13-min walk to Gregory Gym.

Cambridge Tower · 1801 Lavaca St, Austin, TX 78701 · 15 stories · 169 residences · built 1964 (Austin's first landmark residential high-rise, MCM, by architect Thomas E. Stanley) · map

Why it fits us

Cambridge has real ground-floor office / live-work space, and per the building's own history, that space is "historically very popular with architecture tenants" (towers.net). We've already confirmed live commercial activity there — ALTERSTUDIO Architecture occupies Suite 106, DEN Property Group markets a ground-floor live-work loft for sale, and there's ground-floor office (Suite 108/109) offered for lease around ~$26/SF/yr.

Amenities that help the business as much as the living: a multipurpose meeting room, 24-hr security + concierge, attended parking garage, pool, spa, fitness center, rooftop deck.

Live / lease units active now

From current broker listings (July 2026). Exact rents are behind each broker's page — call to confirm; I did not invent numbers.

UnitTypeStatusNoteBroker
#1BLive / WorkFor leaseFully furnished, 19th floor — the true live+work unit(listed on Instagram/Urbanspace)
#5JCondoFor lease2 months free rent for a qualified tenant — rare "J" unitHomes.com listing
#4CCondo (corner)For leaseBright corner condo, MLS 4808461Coldwell Banker Apex (512-848-0191)
#6CCondoFor leaseHistoric Cambridge Tower unitJBGoodwin REALTORS
#5FCondoFor leaseLuxury high-rise unitHomes.com listing
#11FCondoFor lease"Cambridge Tower living at its finest"Bernardo De Alba

Best single point of contact for the building's inventory: Urbanspace Realtors (urbanspacerealtors.com/cambridge-tower — they curate for-sale AND for-lease by bedroom count). For the ground-floor live-work loft: DEN Property Group — Bryan Cady, 512-731-7489, bryan@denpg.com.

Employment / business angle

This is a two-for-one: a home and a client pool. Cambridge's ground-floor commercial space skews toward architecture and design firms (ALTERSTUDIO is the confirmed example). Those are exactly the kind of small, design-forward businesses that need web development and automated marketing — which is what we build. Being a resident-owner in the same building is a natural door-opener.

Next step (queued for the research hand-off): pull a real tenant list of the firms with offices in Cambridge Tower, plus exact ground-floor lease rates, so we can approach them both as neighbors and as prospects. CRE portals (LoopNet/Crexi) block automated reads, so this needs a browser or a call to Urbanspace / the building.