This is the first message to issue forth from the world of Lobu.
Lobu—Lower Burnet
Lobu refers to a geographical area (Lower Burnet). Burnet Road is a north-south thoroughfare. Lower Burnet Rd. extends from 45th Street (southern border) up to Highway 183 (northern border).
The Lobu district is comprised of people living on both sides of Burnet Road in Central Austin.
Lobu does not yet exist in the Austin vocabulary. The only section of Austin that has a nicknamed designation like that is SoCo (South Congress area) which is a “cool” part of town. Lobu is a humorous reference to Lower Burnet as an area not quite having the glamour factor of South Congress. Burnet Road was a drab, humdrum part of town but is picking up and is becoming a more attractive Central Austin neighborhood.
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