Austin, Texas
The Blanco
MML Hospitality's first mixed-use development, inside a Herzog & de Meuron-designed mass-timber tower in Clarksville.
Announced · Late 2026
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 essentials
- Group
- MML Hospitality (Larry McGuire, Tom Moorman, Liz Lambert — also behind Hotel Saint Cecilia and Hotel San José)
- Opening
- Late 2026
- Rooms & suites
- 57 rooms
- Segment
- Luxury/Boutique
- Designer
- Herzog & de Meuron (design architect, their first Texas project); Lambert McGuire Design (interiors)
- Entry rate
- NC
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.
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