Bike routes aren’t the only transportation method the city is hoping to improve, as the City Council last week approved a master plan for the MAPS 3 sidewalk projects. An earlier plan presented to the Council had been sent back to the subcommittee level after council members expressed concern that so few miles were slated […]
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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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Staying the course
The recommendation to hire Populous and GSB to conduct a conceptual study for the convention center will go before the MAPS 3 Citizens Advisory Committee tomorrow. If passed, it then will go before the Oklahoma City Council for approval. Populous and GSB were the firms responsible for weighing and narrowing down the prospective sites. Out […]
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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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In the park
More than 130 people attended the first of three public meetings on the MAPS 3 park. Credit: Mark Hancock Mary Margaret Jones, senior principal at Hargreaves Associates, the city’s consultant on the project, said it is important to consider many elements when making decisions about the park, such as Oklahoma’s climate, existing and future development […]
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Map quest
Having formed at a Chicago art school, alternative-rock outfit Maps & Atlases has never shied away from lofty goals or pushing itself creatively. In the early days, that meant making math rock fun. Now, it means channeling the members’ inner Marty McFly. “It’s tough to make an album that exists out of time,” singer and […]
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Term of art
Robbie Kienzle, the Planning Department’s former head of urban development, started in the new role last month. The post oversees public-art spending, which is required by a 2009 City Council-approved plan that sets aside 1 percent of construction expenses for public art. In addition, she will oversee the city Arts Commission, coordinate activities with local […]
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High and dry
The river was not there. Sometime overnight, one of the six 65,000-pound gates on the Brum Dam, located just west of S. Walker Avenue, fell. Subsequently, almost all of the water in the basin flowed downstream. Old tires, a strangely upright shopping cart and other debris sat in the semi-dry riverbed that had been reduced […]
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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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Great times for OKC
Having been active in establishing the Alliance for Cultural Facilities in 1989, consisting of 120 members from all areas of OKC, there was lengthy discussion of improving the park along with renovation of Civic Center Music Hall. MAPS provided money for the Civic Center, but not enough for a complete makeover of the park. After […]