Mayor Mick Cornett The council meets Tuesday to discuss the route, already approved by two MAPS 3 citizen panels. It includes Bricktown, the downtown business district, Automobile Alley and Midtown. It will come within a block of the proposed 70-acre downtown public park with a possible extension to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. […]
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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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Mileage may vary
During the MAPS 3 Trails and Sidewalks subcommittee meeting yesterday morning, MAPS staff told subcommittee members that out of 131 alignments for city sidewalks, the program would be able to build an estimated 31 of those, spread out over two phases and at a cost of $6.8 million in MAPS 3 funds. The entire project […]
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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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Walk the line
Meanwhile, the Oklahoma City Council was scheduled to possibly decide what to do with $30 million set aside from convention center funds and a more detailed draft timeline on the MAPS 3 modern streetcar project was unveiled. In May, the City Council approved a recommendation from the MAPS 3 convention center subcommittee to put the […]
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Conventional concerns
Two timelines, which were created by Architectural Design Group, were presented to the City Council at its June 14 meeting, and to the MAPS 3 park and modern streetcar subcommittees at their June 15 meetings. MAPS 3 Program Manager Eric Wenger said the issue was not voted on at the City Council meeting because council […]
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Timeline on the table
The Oklahoma City Council likely will be presented Tuesday with a new MAPS 3 timeline, one of several that emerged over the past few months. The MAPS 3 Citizens Advisory Board, which only has authority to make recommendations to City Council, voted 6-2 at its May 26 meeting to send the timeline for the council’s […]
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Convention-centric
The subcommittee unanimously selected the site, located at the former Bob Howard Downtown Ford dealership, after several members attacked a consultant’s report on site costs, with subcommittee member Larry Nichols calling it “nonsense.” Meanwhile, under a timeline approved by the convention center subcommittee, almost every other large-scale MAPS 3 project would be pushed back to […]