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09-27-2001

Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Possible RW Apartment Found
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=2786546&nav=0s3dV0El

Crews are supposed to start filming MTV's The Real World in Austin in the next week or two. The show premiers in June with 24 episodes. People are speculating where the cast will live in Austin.

KXAN's Haley Stavinoha takes a look at one possibility.

"Austin has a spectacular quality of life, especially if you're young, if you're energetic, if you're driven. If you have a passion for the outdoors, if you have a passion for live music, then this is the place to be," Austin Mayor Will Wynn said.

It's the place to be if you're part of MTV's Real World series.

"It's crazy here, you know. Everybody's wild and crazy, and it'd be a really good place to do it," Tianna Raymond, Real World fan, said.

"It's gonna show how cool Austin is because it's the smallest city to ever be featured in the Real World. I mean, it's been New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, you know, never a city the size of Austin," Bobby Bones, KISS FM DJ, said. "And I think it's going to be great, and people will get to see how cool Austin is: the downtown area, you know, the bars, the scene, the shopping."

The location of where the show's cast and crew will live and work while the show is being shot in Austin has been under tight wraps. That is until Bones went looking for answers.

"We went on the air and started asking people, and we had 15, 20 different leads all through the city, and we started out some lofts on Fifth Street, moved over to the theater on Congress, and eventually we landed here at Third and San Jacinto," Bones said.

What they found was a warehouse under renovation, with the windows covered up and cameras installed.

"We asked them, you know, 'What kind of business are you guys putting together?' The first person had told us that it was a water purifying plant, so we took that, and we were like, 'Maybe it is, maybe we're wrong,'" Bones said. "Well, the next guy walks in and says, 'Oh, we're building an Internet company.' Well, those two things are really vastly different, so we decided they were lying to us."

Stavinoha decided to check it out to see what she could find, but after knocking and ringing the call button, no one answered. If the warehouse at Third and San Jaincto is the magic spot, it would make sense for a number of reasons.

One is its location. It's a perfect place for the cast to enjoy the downtown resturants and the bar scene. The second reason is that there's plenty of room for the cast to live and the crews to work.

"I don't know. I don't know what it looks like inside. I know, like, the places are usually really big and really nice and all these rooms, and I don't know, it could be," Raymond said.

Until the show airs, we'll just have to wait and see if the Real World lives will be living it up downtown.