Congress Avenue Bridge

Seeing the bats in Austin is an experience you will cherish. But there's a catch: The bats don't always show up.

Break out the lawn chairs: You can watch the baby bats and their mothers' nightly emergence from several free pedestrian areas near the Congress Avenue Bridge.

Developers have proposed building nearly 1,400 new housing units, plus more than 1 million square feet of office space and a hotel.

This story was originally published on August 7, 2019. Every night beginning in late March and into early September, nearly 1.5 million Mexican…