The Original McMansion in South Austin

So I don't know if this is actually the original McMansion in South Austin, but it is to me. I used to rent an apartment nearby and biked and jogged the streets of 78704. Zilker neighborhood is really a great place to live, if you have to live in this town. Its less than ten minutes from the park and greenbelts along the river. Doesn't take much more time to get to downtown, even when you're on a bike. South Congress is minutes away as well. Live music and outdoor living in a city are basically next door. And middle class family homes made the Zilker neighborhood feel open to anybody. But when some rich dude tore down the one-story bungalow home at this location around 2001 and erected this three-story, 3000 square foot behemoth a ton of Austin liberals exploded. odd how almost twenty years ago this was an actual decision point. So many people saw this kind of gentrification as driving out middle class families from the best parts of Austin. I really thought the McMansions might get stopped. And for a bit there were new regs on the size of homes. But over time the pressures from the corporate community to allow both bigger homes to the affluent and more dense, ugly and less family-oriented housing develop. Maybe all that gentrified development will give way to condos over time like in other central Austin neighborhoods. Look at the second pic. Across the street from the McMansion. Another one? Some kind of high-priced place, I'm sure. That's all that's left in Zilker. Btw, if you new anything about central Texas and its natural environment you would never plant palm trees in your yard. Funny because there's a rundown house in my neighborhood that has two as well.