The Mueller neighborhood is a well-established residential and retail district in Austin, Texas. The master-planned community sits just northeast of the University of Texas on the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. 

 

In 2019, Shorenstein tasked our team with marketing and leasing a planned four-building office development in the neighborhood, including a 210,000-sf spec building. This would be the first multi-tenant office opportunity of this scale to be built in Mueller. 

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Our challenge was to create an office identity within this established community that appealed to corporate users while not alienating the existing neighbors. 

 

We engaged LookThinkMake, an Austin-based branding agency whose principals both lived in Mueller, to lead the branding initiatives. We worked hand-in-hand with their team to find the right balance between professional and friendly, playful and professional for the brand. 

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Our first challenge was to find a name that rooted us within the location and yet set us apart from the existing Mueller identity. For the campus, we tied into the neighborhood with the name Mueller Business District, and we made a nod to the history of the project with the building naming convention - Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta. 

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I managed LookThinkMake on the subsequent brand exploration, logo design, website and collateral development, and concepting for the property marketing videos. 

 

The message at the heart of all of the marketing materials is the unique and unparalleled opportunity for a company to establish a scalable campus within a thriving community in central Austin.

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In September 2021, a plan was approved for the Teacher Retirement System of Texas to enter into negotiations for a purchase-sale agreement for Alpha and Bravo buildings.