North Burnet & Gateway Movers for New Lease-Ups & Office Relocations

North Burnet/Gateway is the City of Austin's designated redevelopment district between MoPac and US 183 — roughly 2,300 acres the city has spent two decades re-zoning from aging warehouse, light-industrial, and auto-oriented commercial into dense, walkable, mixed-use blocks. The North Burnet/Gateway Master Plan (adopted in the mid-2000s, with a Regulating Plan layered on in 2009) is the framework, and the result is the closest thing Austin has to a planned "second downtown" — anchored by The Domain to the north and the Gateway retail corridor along Research Boulevard. Verify the specific overlay rules per parcel; they vary across the district.

That history shapes the work on the truck. Most of our North Burnet/Gateway moves fall into three patterns: a tenant moving into a brand-new Burnet Road apartment lease-up, a business relocating into or between the mid-rise offices going up across the district, or a live-work tenant in one of the mixed-use buildings that stack residential over ground-floor retail. Each runs a different playbook — a high-rise apartment move with a freight elevator and a loading-dock reservation is not the same job as an after-hours office relocation with a Certificate of Insurance on file.

Move-day access here hinges on Burnet Road, Research Boulevard (US 183), MoPac (Loop 1), and Braker Lane — all of which stack hard at 7:30 to 9:00 AM and 4:00 to 6:00 PM. New construction also means active job sites, lane closures, and temporary parking restrictions block to block, so we confirm the building's current move-in route before we set the start time.

North Burnet/Gateway is a building-logistics market more than a driveway market, and that is exactly where a well-run crew earns its rate. The hard part here is rarely the furniture — it's the freight elevator that's booked solid, the loading dock with a 30-minute limit, the after-hours-only move-in window, and the property manager who won't release the elevator key without a Certificate of Insurance already on file. We handle that paperwork as a routine first step: file the COI naming the building owner and property manager as additional insured, reserve the dock and elevator for the window, and confirm the route in before the truck rolls. COI turnaround is typically 24 to 48 hours, so we start it the moment the date is set.

We crew to the building, not the box count. A single-elevator infill mid-rise on Burnet Road is one plan; a Class A office relocation across the Gateway or Domain corridor with a weekend dock reservation and a no-business-interruption deadline is another. Office and commercial moves get sequenced — IT and workstations broken down, labeled, and staged so the client opens for business on schedule, not whenever we happen to finish. Residential lease-ups get protected the same way, with floor and elevator-pad protection standard in newer buildings.

Every Certificate of Insurance we issue carries USDOT 2105156 and TxDMV 006568203C, and every move — residential or commercial — starts with a written estimate. Local moves are billed hourly with a 2-hour minimum, prorated in 15-minute increments. From our office at 7218 McNeil Dr Ste 405, Austin TX 78729, the district is a short, reliable run, which keeps drive time off your clock.