Data center + tech industrial
24%840 active
Austin's data-center boom — Round Rock, Hutto, Taylor, and the eastern corridor — is the single largest value driver in the metro.
Austin, Texas
Austin construction projects, live from the Central Texas feed.
41,000+ active projects across Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Leander, Buda, Kyle, and Georgetown. Data live from the City of Austin, Travis County, Williamson County, and Hays County.
41,320
Active projects in Austin
3,580
Permits issued in the last 30 days
238
Commercial $1M+ permits this month
Market snapshot
What's actually happening in Austin construction in 2026
Greater Austin is the fastest-growing US metro by permitted commercial value YoY (+24% in 2026 so far). The growth is concentrated in two distinct verticals: data-center / tech industrial in the eastern corridor (Hutto, Taylor, Round Rock) and large-format tech campus + office across the metro (Apple, Tesla, Oracle, Samsung). The two together account for over a third of the metro's permitted value.
The metro spans Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties plus a dozen suburban cities — Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Leander, Buda, Kyle, Georgetown, Lakeway, Bee Cave. Each has its own permitting cadence; Austin's own AHJ has been notoriously slow on review times for several years, which has pushed a lot of speculative commercial work into the suburban counties where review is faster.
The BD teams winning in Austin specialize aggressively. Data-center BD is one ecosystem (Mission Critical, Holder, Turner, DPR), tech campus another (Linbeck, Rogers-O'Brien, Hensel Phelps), multifamily a third. Each has its own architect roster, M&E sub network, and bonding partners. Generalist BD teams trying to cover all three tend to under-perform a specialist focused on one.
Trade mix
Where the permitted value sits in Austin
Trade mix across Greater Austin over the last 12 months, weighted by permitted value above $1M.
Multifamily ground-up
19%4,820 active
East Austin, South Austin, Domain, and the Riverside corridor are the active multifamily submarkets.
Tech campus + office
14%1,640 active
Apple, Tesla, Oracle, and Samsung campus expansions drive continuous tech-office TI volume.
Healthcare + medical office
12%1,940 active
Dell Medical Center, Ascension Seton, and Baylor Scott & White expansions anchor healthcare.
Tenant improvement (commercial)
10%7,420 active
Restaurant chains and retail buildouts drive the bulk of TI volume.
Single-family + ADU
8%11,820 active
Suburban Williamson + Hays counties; Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Buda, and Kyle are the strongest greenfield corridors.
Pursuit playbook
The Austin pursuit playbook
How the top construction BD teams in Austin operate in 2026.
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Specialize aggressively
Data-center, tech campus, multifamily, healthcare, retail — Austin's verticals have separate ecosystems. Pick one and go deep. Generalist teams underperform specialists in this metro.
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Cover Williamson + Hays counties carefully
Suburban Williamson (Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown) and Hays (Buda, Kyle, San Marcos) often permit faster than the City of Austin itself. A lot of speculative commercial work has shifted to the suburban counties — saved filters per county surface that flow.
- 3
Track the data-center corridor separately
Hutto, Taylor, and the eastern Travis County corridor are the largest concentration of data-center construction in the country. The data-center vertical has its own GC roster, M&E sub network, and capex cycle — worth filtering on specifically if it's your segment.
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Watch tech-campus capex shifts
Apple, Tesla, Oracle, and Samsung campus expansions move on multi-year capex cycles. The signals to watch are EIR notices, site-plan amendments, and master-permit filings — those surface 6–12 months before any sub-trade bid invites.
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Bias toward planning + EIR filings
Austin's permit review cadence has pushed serious BD teams to source earlier in the cycle. Planning-commission agendas, site-plan amendments, and EIR notices reliably surface major projects 6–9 months before any building permit issues.
FAQ
Austin construction FAQ
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