Credit: Mark Hancock However, at least one group, Friends for a Better Boulevard (FBB), opposes the idea and will continue to request that the council consider a “no build” option. The boulevard is set to be built in the old Interstate 40 crosstown right of way. The project, headed by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation […]
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Boulevard of broken dreams?
Their rationale is that our vibrant arts community has limited area for expansion; making it unlikely that it could develop in Bricktown or the much-beloved Paseo District. The center of interest for a “new Santa Fe” is in the Market District with the Farmers Public Market as the hub. There is ample room for art […]
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Things to learn in Denver
One key to Denver’s success is how its components connect and work together. Its convention center, transit, public spaces and other developments serve and support each other. The project manager for FasTracks, Denver’s 122-mile rail plan, explained it this way: “This is not a transit-building project. This is a city-building project.” The objective is not […]
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Bumpy road
Construction of the $30 million, federally funded boulevard is the final phase in the state Department of Transportation’s Interstate 40 Crosstown realignment. On completion of the project in 2014, ownership will be transferred to the city. In response to concerns about the planned elevation, ODOT last summer enlisted a consultant firm, Stantec, to look at […]
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A Destructive Manner
Last seen this summer in the romantic comedy Mickey and Me, local filmmaker Mickey Reece and his Fall Films repertory company return with a dramatic thriller in A Destructive Manner. This time, however, directorial duties have ceded to the hands of two of his players, James Paulsgrove and Dallos Paz, and Reece takes center stage […]
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Young at heart
Just today, in fact, the city commandeered the front page of USA Today, earning praise for its urban renaissance and active effort to keep millennials from up and moving elsewhere. That’s right, baby boomers, there’s a new generation to fawn over. The millennials are the 20-something generation, or what a recent Gawker story referred to […]
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Unconventional concerns
Mike Carrier Credit: Mark Hancock The Cox Center is being subsidized fairly heavily compared to counterparts in similar markets, losing an average of $3.4 million yearly between 2006 and 2008. But a new convention center would still require subsidization by the city. Convention Sports and Leisure International (CS&L), the company whose study recommended Oklahoma City […]
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Gazette’s Halloween Parade set for Oct. 27
Gazette’s Halloween Parade began as the Gazette’s Ghouls Gone Wild Parade in 2007, with almost 20,000 spectators and 64 entries. Last year, the parade boasted more than 60,000 in attendance, with 65 entries and more than 2,000 participants and 200 volunteers. Gazette‘s Halloween Parade 2012 emcee Liz Dueweke This year, Gazette’s Halloween Parade will showcase […]
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CoCo closed
A gag order requested by U.S. Fleet Tracking was approved by a judge shortly after OKCCoCo issued a news release on the matter. Since its founding in 2009, OKCCoCo has provided a professional work environment for freelancers, students and telecommuters who do not have a conventional workplace but don’t want to work from home, while […]
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Rise up
Rendering of The Rise More specifically, a project called The Rise is set to move into the ailing building at the northwest corner of N.W. 23rd and Walker Avenue that has been home to the Hotel & Motel Liquidation store for more than two decades. Johnathan Russell, president of Land Run Commercial Real Estate, plans […]