Amazing this is still being talked about in this thread, and indeed, written about in publications around the world. In my mind that attention is exactly what the developer, and likely the city itself, was hoping for, and probably the beginning and the end of their ambitions with regard to this "proposal," so in that sense, I suppose it has been a resounding success and a very smart play on their part. As for whether this actually gets built or not, well, I've already said my piece on that. Perhaps I'd be less skeptical of the notion of a 134 story residential tower (and another 64 combined floors on top of that in the other towers in this proposal) succeeding in downtown Oklahoma City if literally any residential building taller than like five stories had been built in downtown Oklahoma City at any point in the last, oh, forty years? Not to mention the fact that the developers still need to secure how ever many hundreds of millions in financing beyond what the city has supposedly promised? I don't know, I mean I get why OKC residents want to err on the side of optimism. If I lived there I'd be bending over backwards to give myself hope too. But for me, the math just ain't mathing.
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