St. Patty’s Block Party 3 p.m.-midnight Saturday Bricktown 123 S. Oklahoma Ave. facebook.com/bricktown.okc 405-236-4143 Free The landscape of Bricktown might look different than it did when Jim Brewer began buying vacant buildings on the eastern side of downtown Oklahoma City, but the spirit remains the same. This year, Bricktown hosts its 30th annual block party […]
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This once-modest scare house helped bring a forlorn warehouse district back to life
“We had to advertise it being located three blocks east of the Myriad [now Cox Convention Center] since at the time, very few people even knew that the Bricktown district existed,” Brewer said. “We drew 18,000 people the first year.”