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OKLAHOMA CITY | BOK Plaza | FT | 27 FLOORS
Building momentum: Oklahoma City keeps growing up
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The development, named 499 W Sheridan and designed by Jon Pickard, is to be built on properties assembled since 2007 by Nicholas Preftakes, and will require the demolition of the One North Hudson Building, the Union Bus Station, the Auto Hotel, the Lunch Box and the former home of Carpenter Square Theater.
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Devon Energy first tenant
The building will add 690,000 square feet of multi-tenant space to a downtown office market that has not seen new speculative office space constructed since the opening of Leadership Square in 1984. Clayco, meanwhile, is building a corporate headquarters across the street for OGE Energy Corp., but also is proposing a matching 25-story office building that also will be for multi-tenant leasing.
“Oklahoma City is a very unique market,” D’Arcy said. “Outside of headquarters-type buildings, there haven’t been commercial multi-tenant office buildings built in a number of years. That gave us the opportunity to build a modern building with a more rational floor plate to the market. The energy boom here has created a big demand for office space.”
So far, only Devon Energy is signed up as a tenant, and no other lease agreements have been made for the building, D’Arcy said. Devon Energy is currently leasing about 250,000 square feet in downtown buildings outside of its headquarters.
“Devon Energy will be helping us kick off tenancy for this building, and we are in discussion with others in the financial and legal areas, and with companies in the suburbs as well,” D’Arcy said.
Devon Energy moved into its headquarters at 333 W Sheridan in 2012, and plans call for the 499 W Sheridan complex to connect to Devon Energy Center via a skybridge to be built over Hudson Avenue. Alan Marcum, executive vice president of administration at Devon, said the company’s workforce has continued to expand over the past few years.
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