The Parks and Recreation Department presented City Council on May 1 with a timeline for redeveloping the Seaholm Power Plant intake facility on Lady Bird Lake.
The city in May began the process of seeking master planners interested in redeveloping the intake facility, located near the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge on Cesar Chavez Street. Top proposals will be selected in June and presented to the public in July, said Lyn Estabrook, project manager for the Parks and Recreation Department. The final teams will present to City Council in August, she said, with an anticipated decision made by October.
Construction on the intake facility would begin in winter 2015, Estabrook said.
Joe Lanane’s career is rooted in community journalism, having worked for a variety of Midwest-area publications before landing south of the Mason-Dixon line in 2011 as the Stillwater News-Press news editor. He arrived at Community Impact Newspaper in 2012, gaining experience as editor of the company’s second-oldest publication in Leander/Cedar Park. He eventually became Central Austin editor, covering City Hall and the urban core of the city.
Lanane leveraged that experience to become Austin managing editor in 2016. He managed eight Central Texas editions from Georgetown to San Marcos. Working from company headquarters, Lanane also became heavily involved in enacting corporate-wide editorial improvements. In 2017, Lanane was promoted to executive editor, overseeing editorial operations throughout the company. The Illinois native received his bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois University and his journalism master’s degree from Ball State University.
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