OKLAHOMA CITY | Projects & Construction

[worthy cook]

Just weeks after the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority agreed to a deal with Chicago-based Clayco that will result in two office and two apartment towers, Houston-based Hines is preparing to build a 27-story tower designed by the renown architects who imagined Devon Energy Center

http://newsok.com/building-momentum-oklahoma-city-keeps-growing-up/article/5375862

There are some cool historic structures on this block and this design is very underwhelming to me. If anyone knows how to post those pictures that would be great. If they could incorporate the facades into the base of this tower it would be awesome. But to demo 3 solid historic structures for a 27 story glass box and two parking garages makes me wonder if it is worth it.

Via pete from OKCTalk here is what the skyline will look like several years from now https://twitter.com/OKCTalk/status/544525982795722752

I wish between these two proposals there was a little more variance in height but that's just nitpicking. I think its great overall and shows how strong the local economy is

[Sic'EmBears]

Pickard drew inspiration for the building’s design from the Lever House building in Manhattan, which ushered in the 1950s era of International style glass-box skyscrapers.

I'm not convinced this proposal is intended to look so much like the Lever House as it was a sneaky way to throw up another Houston-developed glass box.

Perhaps more renderings will change my opinion.

“We have a lot of buildings that were meaningful in their time and we spent a lot of time asking what can we do with them,” Pickard said. “We looked at them, and they are in tough shape. They are literally falling down.”

They're not falling down, they're just older than most surrounding buildings. This was nothing more than a way for Hines to justify razing the current buildings.

Good luck with Hines, OKC!

[worthy cook]

link with renderings http://www.okctalk.com/showwiki.php?title=499+Sheridan

[worthy cook]

Encouraging news

From the Journal Record:

Cloud in the skyline: Review committee notes problems with downtown tower design

By: Molly M. Fleming The Journal Record December 18, 2014

OKLAHOMA CITY – The newest planned tower in the city’s skyline will have to go through some revisions before it is approved by the Downtown Design Review Committee, though the building already has one prominent tenant.

Architect Jon Pickard presented the design for the 499 Sheridan Ave. building during Thursday’s DDRC meeting. The project will include a 692,000-square-foot, 27-story mixed-use tower and two parking garages totaling 757,000 square feet. The tower will sit at the corner of Hudson and Sheridan avenues, with one parking garage at Sheridan and Walker avenues, and another Main Street and Hudson Avenue. The tower’s first floor will have retail spaces and the second floor will have a restaurant and fitness center for the building’s employees. The remaining floors are planned for office tenants.

Pickard said one of the building’s tenants will be Devon Energy, which occupies approximately 250,000 square feet in three buildings outside the Devon Energy Center. Devon Media Relations Manager John Porretto confirmed that the company will occupy space in the building.

“Due to strong production growth, our employee base has continued to expand,” Alan Marcum, Devon’s executive vice president of administration, said via email. “Leasing this new, high-quality office space across from Devon Energy Center will allow us to consolidate our employees into a more collaborative work environment, without incurring the capital cost of constructing a new building ourselves.”

But Devon and other future tenants are a long way from moving into the space. First, four existing buildings must be removed from the site surrounded by Sheridan, Walker and Hudson avenues and Main Street. The existing buildings are One North Hudson Avenue, the former Motor Hotel, the Union Bus Station, and Carpenter Square. Pickard’s plan includes integrating architectural features from each building into the new structures, including the blue tile on the Union Bus Station. Betsy Brunsteter, DDRC chairwoman, said she wants to see more consideration given to the existing buildings before they are removed. Pickard’s presentation did not contain any evaluations about costs or feasibility to restore the existing structures.

“There are a couple of missed opportunities here,” she said. “Even though you make an attempt to save the various portions of the existing buildings, there has not been the truest attempt to save any of the buildings. And I think that is a concern.”

Brunsteter said she was also concerned about the parking garage at Sheridan and Walker avenues, across from the new John Rex Charter Elementary School. She said the corner is very important in downtown and she would like to see more activity in the area.

“If there was some way to even create a placeholder for a building in that location, that would really please me,” she said.

Other DDRC committee members echoed Brunsteter’s concern about the parking garage at Sheridan and Walker. Committee member Connie Scothorn said the new building presents an opportunity to bring the corner back to life.

Committee Vice Chairwoman Gigi Faulkner said she’s concerned about the amount of parking and its proximity to the planned OGE Energy Corp. parking garage, the existing Devon Energy parking buildings and the city’s new Arts District parking garage. She also wasn’t pleased with how little space was dedicated to retail, with only 6,000 square feet planned in the tower’s first floor, and another 2,600 square feet in the west parking garage. Brunsteter voiced an opinion on the retail space as well, saying the spaces need to be deeper than 20 feet for retail to work.

“The depth of less than 20 feet is not going to cut it,” Brunsteter said.

Jane Jenkins addressed the committee, and said she would rather see more connection to the Myriad Botanical Gardens than to create another plaza area that is not utilized. She said many buildings in downtown have plaza spaces that just sit empty. She said she doesn’t want this building to fall in the same pattern since it has a nearby garden.

Jenkins is the president and CEO of Downtown OKC Inc., but she stressed that she was speaking only as a resident.

Pickard said she thought the DDRC’s comments were excellent.

“All of the comments will be carefully considered,” he said.

Pickard will have the chance to present revised plans for a vote in 2015.

[Architect2010]

MASSIVE URBAN PROJECT SUMMARY PER OKCTALK and courtesy of its proprietor Pete.

OKC is steamrolling ahead. Visit the website for even more information about the city's progress, retail, businesses, office market, weather, transportation, suburbs, and communities outside of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

While it seems OKC has seen less and less contribution on sites like skyscraperpage and skyscrapercity due to having our own popular urban forum, I think it's important to keep a national and global audience at least somewhat informed. Enjoy the compilation and once again, any and all credit goes to OKCTalk.com

HOTELS

21c Museum Hotel

Under construction; 140 rooms, $56 million


AC Hotel

Proposed for 2015. 5 floors, approximately 150 rooms.


Canopy by Hilton

Proposed for 2015. 9 floors, approximately 150 rooms.


Convention Hotel

Proposed for 2019; 735 rooms, $200 million


Fairfield Inn

Proposed for 2016; 112 rooms in Core to Shore.


Hyatt Place

Proposed for 2015. 5 floors, 150 rooms.


SpringHill Suites

Under construction. 5 floors 126 rooms.


Staybridge Suites

Starts construction mid 2015; 5 floors, 131 rooms


HOUSING

400 N. Walnut

Proposed; 9 condos plus office space


Civic

Proposed; $6 million, 32 units


Classen Commons

Proposed; 48 affordable senior housing units


Duncan's Bindery

Under Renovation. 2 living units.


Firehouse Townhome

Under construction; 1 unit


The Frank

Under construction; 45 units


Hall Capital

Proposed. Approx. 250 units plus retail.


Hill, The

32 units complete, 18 under construction, 107 more planned


LIFT

Under construction; 327 units + retail


Lisbon Lofts

Under construction. Opens summer 2015; 7 units


Marion

Under renovation. 10 apartments.


Maywood Apartments Phase II

Under construction. 160 units + retail


Metropolitan

Under construction; 330 units


Mosaic

Opens summer 2015; 97 units + coffee shop


Page Woodson School

Proposed renovation of old school; new residential units


Sycamore Square New Build

Starts early 2015; 66 new units


Steelyard

Under construction; 249 units + retail & hotel


Sunbeam Old Campus

Proposed renovation. 13 living units.


Office

4 E. Sheridan

Under construction. Renovate upper 3 floors into office space.


499 Sheridan

Proposed. 27-story office tower; two parking garages


Buick Building

Under renovation. Broadway 10 and retail.


Catholic Charities Headquarters

Under construction.


Century Center

OPUBCO moved in Feb. 2015. YMCA, Mahogany Steahouse, Revolve Pizza to come.


Chase Bank

Under construction. Old Liberty Bank drive-thru.


First National Center

Proposed renovation into hotel, parking and office.


Flatiron Building

Under renovation and expansion.


GE Global Research Center

Under construction. Opens 2015. $110 million, 95,000 sq. ft.


Gold Dome

Renovation halted. Under contract to sell.


GPHG Law Offices

Private law offices in Core to Shore.


Journal Record Building

Proposed $26 million renovation plus 409 space garage starts 2014


Markham Motor Building

$3 million renovation for New Source Energy HQ. Starts early 2015.


Mideke Building

Under reonvation. New HQ for Tapstone Energy + restaurant space.


Municipal Court Building

Construction starts summer 2015.


OG&E Energy Center

Proposed. Office, residential and parking.


OU College of Medicine

Under construction. Opens 2015.


OKC Public Schools Headquarters.

Proposed. Building purchased; renovation to start.


Parkside Building

Under construction. Complete late 2015; restaurant facing park.


Police Headquarters

Under construction. Opens late 2015.


Pontiac Building

Renovation complete late 2014. Sidecar + retail and offices.


Rock Island Plow Building

Under renovation. Offices and retail space opens late 2015.


Saint Anthony Expansion

Under construction.


Walker Building



Parking Garages

Karchmer Garage

Proposed


New Main Street Garage

Complete November 2014; 830 spaces, offices/retail on ground floor.


Restaurants and Bars

Anchor Down

Under construction. Restaurant, bar, dog park. Opens summer 2015.


Bricktown West

Under renovation. Opens summer 2015.


Cosmopolitan OKC

Under renovation. Opens summer 2015.


Daebak K

Starts construction early 2015.


Del Mar Gardens

Proposed. Food truck court and bar.


The Drake

Under construction, opens June 2015.


FlashBack RetroPub

Proposed for early 2015.


Guyutes

Under renovation. Opens summer 2015.


Rabbit Hole

Under renovation. Opens summer 2015.


Sidecar

Opened May 2015.


Tamashii Ramen

Opening June 2015.


Other

1116 N. Robinson

Under renovation. Restaurant and bar.


916 NW 6th

Under renovation. Restaurant and office space.


American Indian Cultural Center

Awaiting new funding in 2015.


ASTEC Charter School

Starts in 2015. $37 million project.


Bricktown Mini Golf

Under construction. Opens summer 2015.


Bodyworks Site

Proposed; two hotels, condos, retail


Brickopolis

Under construction; restaurant, laser tag open 2015.


Central Park

Phase I starts in 2015.


Criterion Concert Hall

Under construction


Convention Center

Starts in 2016


Indiana Center

Under renovation. Several new retail tenants.


Indoor Surf Park

Proposed


Jim Brewer Building

Proposed renovation into housing, commercial.


Kerr & Couch Parks

Under renovation complete late 2015.


Main Street Arcade

Under renovation; retail and restaurant space.


OCCC Capitol Hill Center

Under renovation; new learning center.


Oklahoma Contemporary

Proposed. Temporary museum under construction.


OKSEA

Under construction. Anchor Down restaurant + office space.


OU Boathouse

Proposed, $3.5 million


Project 180

Under construction. Renovation of CBD streets and streetscape.


Pueblo at Paseo

Proposed. Restaurant, gallery and commercial space.


The Rise

Under Construction, complete summer 2015.


Santa Fe Station

Under renovation to intermodal transit hub.


State Fairgrounds

Under construction; new $44 million Expo Building.


Streetcar

Under design. Starts 2016.


Tower Theater.

Under renovation. Theater, retail and office space.


UCO Boathouse

Opened April 2015.


Via Paseo

Proposed. New restaurant/bar with patio, coffee shop, office space.


Wheeler District

MASSIVE Proposed mixed use neighborhood.


Whitewater Facility

Under construction.


RECENTLY COMPLETED

123 Garage

Complete


Aloft Hotel

Complete


Ambassador Hotel

Renovation of Ambassador building into boutique hotel. Top floor bar. Complete.


Calvary Baptist Church

Renovation of historic church to Law Offices/Community use. Complete.

Courtesy of Will Hider.


City Center East Garage

Complete.


The Cline

12 residential units. Complete.

Edge @ Midtown

252 Apartment units + retail. Complete.


Fassler Hall / Dust Bowl

Beer Garten/Retro Bowling Lounge + retail space. Complete.


Guardian

37 resident units + restaurant. Complete.


Hadden Hall

18 rental units. Complete.


Holiday Inn Express

124 rooms. Complete.


John Rex Elementary



Hilton Garden Inn

255 rooms. Complete.


Level Apartments

222 units + Native Roots Grocery. Complete.


Mayfair Apartments

18 units. Complete.


Maywood Apartments

139 units. Complete.

[plutonicpanda]

Thanks for the update! I was actually bored and wanted to show OKC some love seeing as I'm out in LA now, but I'm glad you did.

[Wheelingman04]

Thanks for much for the pics and renderings! This city is becoming a city to be a force to be reckoned with.

[JoninATX]

OKC first Farmers Market opens

http://kfor.com/2015/05/31/families-enjo...own-23rd-districts-first-farmers-market/

[Architect2010]

Originally Posted by plutonicpanda

Thanks for the update! I was actually bored and wanted to show OKC some love seeing as I'm out in LA now, but I'm glad you did.

Sadly the effort never seems to turn any attention as you've probably noticed! I imagine it has to due with us having our own well-run forum. If you haven't uploaded that series of photos you took of Downtown earlier this year, you definitely post them in the photo threads on this site!

[Austin55]

Awesome update! OKC is really turning into an urban juggernaut.

[bobroberts]

Originally Posted by Architect2010

Sadly the effort never seems to turn any attention as you've probably noticed! I imagine it has to due with us having our own well-run forum. If you haven't uploaded that series of photos you took of Downtown earlier this year, you definitely post them in the photo threads on this site!

I think that part of the problem with the OKC forum, is the lack of photographs. Those of us who no longer reside in that area, have very few clues regarding some information that is only written with no photos. Go, go, go...Oklahoma City.

[worthy cook]

http://newsok.com/article/5445833

499 Sheridan renamed to BOK Park Plaza. Will take up top floors and share building with Devon Energy.

Demolitions have already begun on the site.

[JoninATX]

Frayer Office Buikding U/C



http://www.okctalk.com/showwiki.php?title=Frayer%20Office%20Building&page=1#post917682

[IMBY]

I took one of my funkier trips back in December 2009, trying to scratch off the few cities left in this country I hadn't been to.

So fly to OKC, spend 2 days, then Greyhound bussed it to Tulsa, Ft. Smith, Shreveport, Houston.

Comparing OKC with Tulsa, OKC won hands down, particularly their Bricktown area. And I'm excited to see all the new development proposals for OKC, and the developments already completed.

And how's Tulsa doing? Any changes since 12/2009? Back then, it all looked hopeless to me, downtown Tulsa! Spent 2 days there, and one more day there I would have gone Kookoo!

And, I didn't have a car in either OKC or Tulsa!

[plutonicpanda]

Originally Posted by IMBY

I took one of my funkier trips back in December 2009, trying to scratch off the few cities left in this country I hadn't been to.

So fly to OKC, spend 2 days, then Greyhound bussed it to Tulsa, Ft. Smith, Shreveport, Houston.

Comparing OKC with Tulsa, OKC won hands down, particularly their Bricktown area. And I'm excited to see all the new development proposals for OKC, and the developments already completed.

And how's Tulsa doing? Any changes since 12/2009? Back then, it all looked hopeless to me, downtown Tulsa! Spent 2 days there, and one more day there I would have gone Kookoo!

And, I didn't have a car in either OKC or Tulsa!

There are some decent projects going in. They are getting a Trader Joe's and a Costco before OKC is. Oklahoma City has a Trader Joe's officially announced for Nichols Hills plaza but so far no official word on a Costco.

[plutonicpanda]

New Mixed-Use Development for Lincoln and I-44

The state land office commissioned the Jacobs Engineering Group to draw up a plan that provides a general framework for development. The preliminary proposal calls for 25 percent retail, 25 percent office, 10 percent hotel and conference space, 20 percent residential, and 20 percent open space and recreation.

Significant areas of native trees - which include oak, cottonwood, walnut, elm, cedar, pecan and pine - would be preserved and a natural habitat would be maintained along Deep Fork River, which runs through the site, said Keith Kuhlman, assistant secretary of the land office.

"If we can save as many trees as possible and the natural beauty of the site, that's invaluable," he said. "It's not going to be skinned off."

The tentative plan includes:

• A town center, with a promenade, boardwalk and pavilion.

• A grand staircase, fountain and lighted sculpture on a prominent knoll.

• A hiking and biking trail along the top of an existing bluff.

• A neighborhood park.

• A creekside parkway trail.

• A riverfront parkway.

• A promenade park with waterfalls, meandering stream, walking paths, bridges and two ponds, along with picnic tables and shade trees.

- read more here: http://newsok.com/oklahoma-agency-plans-major-development-near-lincoln-i-44/article/5461359

[plutonicpanda]

Southern Oaks Learning & Wellness Campus

Project by the Oklahoma City-County Health Department to build a 15,000sf health and wellness center to offer mental health counseling as well as fitness and nutrition classes.

- http://www.okctalk.com/showwiki.php?title=Southern+Oaks+Learning+Wellness+Campus

[plutonicpanda]

Chisholm Creek


Current completed projects include Cabelas, Top Golf, and St. Anthony Regional Healthplex.

Currently under-construction is

iFly


This is the update from about a month ago or so. I will try and start updating this thread with more pictures.


Tract 30(general retail)




The Pointe




There is a rumored public market concept similar to the one in Milwaukee that is going in here and a possible Lifetime Fitness Platinum. Another rumored venue is The Rustic.

http://www.chisholmcreek.com/

[heyerdahl]

BOK Park Plaza Tower progress



Source http://www.okctalk.com/showwiki.php?title=BOK+Park+Plaza&p=925371#post925371

[KayneMo]

BOK Park Plaza update.


http://www.okctalk.com/showwiki.php?title=BOK%20Park%20Plaza&page=39#post935985