Scissortail Park Grand Opening Sept. 27-29 Scissortail Park 300 SW Seventh St.
SkyDance Bridge
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Summer of change
When classes begin Aug. 12, thousands of students and employees will attend new schools with new faculty under a new district brand. Pathway to Greatness, an ambitious consolidation and reorganization of Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS), led to 15 school closures and the reorganization of feeder patterns, grade bands and faculty. The district’s employees gathered […]
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Park place
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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Local architect illustrates Oklahoma City’s history through art installation
Skyline: Timeline uses color coding to represent yearly milestone’s in Oklahoma’s last six decades.
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MAPS 3 projects are well underway
Work continues on a senior wellness center and a public park in Oklahoma City, both MAPS 3 projects.
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Chicken-Fried News: Recognizable dance
SkyDance Bridge is back to its old familiar image and is covered with a bunch of orange traffic cones again.
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Boffo bridge
SkyDance Bridge is a 380-foot-long, 20-foot-wide pedestrian bridge that crosses over the interstate near Harvey Avenue and features a 192-foot sculpture inspired by the state bird, the scissor-tailed flycatcher. The bridge will eventually connect the upper MAPS 3 downtown park and the lower park. The bridge, which placed 10th in the judging, was lauded in […]
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Boffo bridge
Skydance Bridge is a 380-foot-long, 20-foot-wide pedestrian bridge that crosses over the interstate near Harvey Avenue and features a 192 foot sculpture that inspired by the state bird, the scissor-tailed flycatcher. The bridge will eventually connect the upper MAPS 3 downtown park and the lower park. The bridge, which placed 10th in the judging, was […]
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Big bird has landed
Brad Gregg Resembling the cranes that are prevalent all over the city right now, the SkyDance Bridge was crafted to mimic the scissor-tailed flycatcher. It perches atop the pedestrian bridge, which leads to the Oklahoma River and eventually will connect the upper and lower sections of the downtown park. At night, mesmerizing, color-shifting LEDs illuminate […]
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Core issues
ADG, the lead consulting firm hired by the city for MAPS 3, joined with Hargreaves Associates and Jonathan Rose Companies for the limited study after some city officials questioned whether Core to Shore was still valid amid the changes that have taken place in the city and with the MAPS 3 program. ADG’s Mike Mize […]