Feature Photo: Artist rendering of Roger Lavon Taylor Sr Plaza. Image: Balcones Heights.

Posted: 4-1-2025

Austin (Travis County)—The final park of the 20-year development recently opened in Mueller’s Central East Austin neighborhood.

The park is directly beneath Mueller’s iconic control tower, hailing back to the land’s days serving as Austin’s main airport.

The Mueller Control Tower Plaza is affectionately named after Roger Lavon Taylor Sr., a past member of the Mueller Community who worked tirelessly to save the former Airport Tower from demolition. The iconic Mueller Tower is now a historic and beloved landmark in the vibrant Mueller Neighborhood.

The design wraps two sculptural landforms around the Tower that support a bridged path where visitors can view both the beloved landmark and views of Downtown Austin from a higher vantage point. This accessible route, lined with shade trees, connects the generous open deck space at the top of the taller landform with the shaded gravel plaza and open lawn space at the top of the lower landform. Both landform hillsides are lushly planted to create a immersive experience of native grasses, forbs and shrubs reminiscent of the Blackland Prairie. The ground-level plaza includes various seating areas for rest, relaxation and outdoor dining.

Mueller is one of the nation’s most notable mixed-income, mixed-use communities. The 700-acre site of Austin’s former airport is being transformed into a diverse, sustainable, compatible, revitalizing and fiscally responsible master-planned community.

Edited from news release.

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