NewsOK.com Blogs » business http://blog.newsok.com blogging community on NewsOK.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:51:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 A Question About History http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2010/03/17/a-question-about-history/ http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2010/03/17/a-question-about-history/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:58:16 +0000 slackmeyer 222.3374 The ongoing coverage of the SandRidge application to tear down several buildings on its downtown campus has me reflecting on the following argument: if some of these buildings were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, which…

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Q: You’re one of Bricktown’s leading developers, having built the Power Alley Parking Garage and the Hampton Inn. What is your reaction to the Urban Land Institute report on proposed Core to Shore development?…

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Is 111 N Robinson just another ugly forgetable building - another crime of the Urban Renewal era?

Or is this tower, built in 1902, once the home of the state

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Painting of Classen Boulevard by artist Mary Anna Goetz, Oklahoma City native now of New York.

I’m stunned at the discovery of this 1964 article – stunned at the depth of discussion of urban…

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… if the Toy and Action Figure Museum moved from Pauls Valley to Bricktown? That’s pretty much the thought expressed on Twitter earlier this week by Jim Cowan, director of the Bricktown Association. And quite frankly, I can’t agree…

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Now, here’s a pop quiz:…

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