Comments on: A getaway day in Tulsa http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2008/06/30/a-getaway-day-in-tulsa/ Thoughts from The Oklahoman Sports Columnist Berry Tramel | NewsOK.com Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Natalie Bounds-Adams http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2008/06/30/a-getaway-day-in-tulsa/comment-page-1/#comment-3712 Natalie Bounds-Adams Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:26:12 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2008/06/30/a-getaway-day-in-tulsa/#comment-3712 The CitiPlex Towers (formerly the City of Faith Hospital) is still owned by ORU and leases space to a hospital, among other tenants. The structure has just received massive renovations to the lobby and is a great space to hold weddings, etc. There is some office space available to lease. The ORU campus is also experiencing extensive renovations. Thanks for bringing folks out to tour!

]]> By: Randall http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2008/06/30/a-getaway-day-in-tulsa/comment-page-1/#comment-3701 Randall Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:13:33 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2008/06/30/a-getaway-day-in-tulsa/#comment-3701 I don’t know if “progressive” is what Tulsa has not been. I’d say its leadership has not been honest. There have been plenty of “progressive” plans, but they have mostly been scams that have enriched a few insiders like the Friends of the Tulsa World at taxpayer expense. The Great Plains Airlines scam–where the taxpayers have to pay BOK $7 million for bad loans that enriched the insiders is a recent example.

I think the BOK center is dog-ugly, and have thought so since I first saw the architect’s renderings in the newspaper. Just because it was done by “the great Cesar Pelli,” and our ciivic leaders hail it as our “signature statement for the 21st century” doesn’t make it good-looking. In the initial artwork, it looked like a dog dish with cooling fins, but in real life it looks like a giant screw wrapped in duct tape.

OKC has had 20 years or so of civic leadership that has delivered on its promises. Tulsa has had over 40 years of civic leadership more interested in feeding at the public trough and in pleasing the suburban interests than in truly advancing the interests of the city. Too bad for us Tulsans.

Nice column, though. And, despite it all, Tulsa is still a great city.

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