The Blanco

MML Hospitality — the Austin restaurateur group behind Hotel Saint Cecilia and Hotel San José — is opening a 57-room hotel called The Blanco inside Sixth&Blanco, a Herzog & de Meuron-designed mass-timber development in Clarksville. Construction has reached the interior-finishing stage, with the wider project targeting completion around the end of 2026, though the hotel's own opening date hasn't been announced separately.

The place

The corner of West Sixth Street and Blanco Street in Clarksville, a low-density, historic, near-downtown Austin neighborhood — Sixth&Blanco is a full-city-block mixed-use development replacing an earlier structure demolished on the site.

The concept

The Blanco occupies part of a five-story mass-timber building designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Austin restaurateur trio MML Hospitality's first mixed-use development. Rooms open onto a network of open-air interior streets with private porches and gardens, finished in clay plaster, ceramic and wood. The building also holds just 10 residences on its top two floors and a roughly 10,000-square-foot private members' club with a bathhouse; construction reached the interior-finishing permit stage by mid-2026.

Dining & wellness

New restaurants and a members'-club bathhouse are referenced in project materials, but no F&B concept or operator name has been announced yet.