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Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to pbacharach@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact number […]
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Mimesis
Look, at least it’s not the new Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation, but that’s another review. There’s not much to Mimesis beyond the one-line summary above. Various attendees at a horror convention are invited to an exclusive, super-secret party that turns out to be the “game” — one in which they are stuck […]
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Conventional thought
A MAPS 3 subcommittee selects the designer for the planned convention center and sticks with the facility’s planned location. BY CLIFTON ADCOCK The MAPS 3 Convention Center Subcommittee voted last week to recommend that the companies responsible for selecting the site of the $252 million building also be hired to design it. The recommendation to […]
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Studying the cities
Roy Williams Credit: Mark Hancock Roy Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, spoke of insights gained from the Chamber’s visits since 2005 to five cities out of state: Charlotte, N.C.; Nashville, Tenn.; Indianapolis; Kansas City, Mo.; and Minneapolis. Williams described the cities in terms of seven areas — sports, […]
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More for Core to Shore
More for Core to Shore Concerns arise over Urban Renewal Authority efforts to obtain land for the future MAPS 3 convention center. BY CLIFTON ADCOCK The Oklahoma City Planning Commission has delayed for 60 days a measure that would allow the city’s Urban Renewal Authority (OCURA) to proceed with obtaining the site for the future […]
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Shedding tiers
Some city officials caution that the MAPS 3 convention center may need to be built with expansion in mind. BY CLIFTON ADCOCK Members of a group overseeing progress of the future MAPS 3 convention center have expressed concern that budget constraints could cause the city to miss the mark on a key goal for the […]
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Contingency plan
At its regular Aug. 30 meeting, the council narrowly approved a MAPS 3 budget plan that put the $30 million into an infrastructure/contingency fund. The plan was one of three proposals suggested by MAPS 3 consultant Architectural Design Group, which in July first presented to the MAPS 3 convention center subcommittee a plan to remove […]
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‘Bait and switch’
Unless the city has something more to offer than Austin, Texas, or Baltimore or Minneapolis or Phoenix (it’s not direct fights if you’ve traveled recently), recent history says otherwise. New construction has been a deficit producer in some places, and junked the hotel debt rating of Austin and Phoenix. Communication in the 21st century and […]
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Shift happens
The council narrowly approved a recommended and somewhat controversial project timeline for the MAPS 3 projects, and later approved a recommended site just south of the Myriad Gardens for the MAPS 3 Convention Center. However, Ward 2 Councilman Ed Shadid, who was critical of the timeline when it was first brought up, was not in […]