MAPS 3-funded Scissortail Park is nearing completion, with the upper park set to open with a four-day celebration in late September if construction goes smoothly. The lower park will not open until late next year or 2022. Maureen Heffernan, Scissortail Park Foundation director, gave an update on the park at the end of January. Scissortail […]
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Omni present
Oklahoma City and Omni Hotels & Resorts negotiated the convention hotel deal in 2017, though plans for the hotel stem back to 2008. Now the full-service, four-star hotel is just two years away. Omni Oklahoma City Hotel is currently under construction at 100 W. Oklahoma City Boulevard, between SW Fourth and SW Seventh streets and […]
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Convention center hotel sparks debate
Questions about its economic benefit to the city surround plans for a convention center hotel.
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City of Oklahoma City conferring with large hotel chain
Dallas-based Omni Hotels & Resorts could be selected to build OKC’s convention center hotel.
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MAPS 3 Convention Center site chosen
The city works to acquire land by eminent domain after selecting a site for a new convention center.
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Chicken-Fried News: Conventional wisdom
City officials are on the lookout for a new location for the MAPS 3 convention center.
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The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and Oklahoma Film & Music Office have a few changes planned for this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, which begins Friday.
The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and Oklahoma Film & Music Office have a few changes planned for this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, which begins Friday.
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Council Briefs: City adopts state cycling ordinance
The Oklahoma City Council adopted a new cycling ordinance and discussed the search for a new convention center site and a proposed charter school bill.
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Will convention center change impact other projects?
A change in location for a new convention center could send ripples throughout downtown, impacting everything from tax incentive discussions to streetcar planning.
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City will look for new convention center site
The city will no longer seek to put a new convention center on the site of an old car dealership downtown.