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The City of Austin is holding the first of three public meetings today over what to do with the Seaholm Intake Facility.

The city wants the community’s ideas for how to incorporate part of the old power plant along Lady Bird Lake into the park and trail system.

The City of Austin has completed the lease and sale of the old Seaholm Power Plant.

The 1950s structure and its land will be developed, including a 30-story, 300-plus unit apartment tower, along with office, retail and restaurant space.

Under agreement with the city, the public will continue to have access to Seaholm’s 117,000 square-foot main hall. 

Arsenic, lead and the byproducts of burned oil were some of the contaminants found underneath an electrical substation at the Seaholm power plant downtown.

The land will eventually be home to Austin’s new central library. Those contaminants have now been removed and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued its seal of approval.

When it comes to Austin architecture, the Seaholm Power Plant is about as iconic as it gets.

But absent its art deco signage and smokestacks, there’s another component of Seaholm that’s less celebrated but even more unique: the intake structures perched directly over Lady Bird Lake, which used to deliver cooling water to the power plant and a since-demolished water plant nearby.