Comments on: Updates http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/06/updates/ The Oklahoman's Steve Lackmeyer covers downtown OKC brick by brick. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:24:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Doug Dawg http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/06/updates/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Doug Dawg Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:17:05 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/06/updates/#comment-17 Devery Youngblood and the guys you mentioned weren't the 1st in the "modern era" to make an attempt to return Automobile Alley to the neat place it once was and could again become, as you note at p. 60 of OKC: 2nd Time Around, together with a pic of JD Lobb. He might well be considered the "first" to have a contemporary dream and attempt to redevelop Automobile Alley ... even though it didn't then happen. Some think/thought that JD was a bit of a scoundrel, but I don't think that he was. If he was anything along those lines, I'd call him, "a cowboy," and, also, a friend. Devery Youngblood and the guys you mentioned weren’t the 1st in the “modern era” to make an attempt to return Automobile Alley to the neat place it once was and could again become, as you note at p. 60 of OKC: 2nd Time Around, together with a pic of JD Lobb.

He might well be considered the “first” to have a contemporary dream and attempt to redevelop Automobile Alley … even though it didn’t then happen. Some think/thought that JD was a bit of a scoundrel, but I don’t think that he was. If he was anything along those lines, I’d call him, “a cowboy,” and, also, a friend.

]]> By: Shane http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/06/updates/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Shane Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:33:13 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/06/updates/#comment-16 Automobile Alley is positioned perfectly to become a (THE?) significant retail corridor in downtown, with easy access from both Midtown and The Triangle and their soon-to-be heavily concentrated residential districts. Hopefully as retail does better and better along AA, property owners will realize that they could put their ground levels to better financial use if they rented them as retail spaces. There is plenty of parking in the area, ie 5th St Garage. Automobile Alley is positioned perfectly to become a (THE?) significant retail corridor in downtown, with easy access from both Midtown and The Triangle and their soon-to-be heavily concentrated residential districts.

Hopefully as retail does better and better along AA, property owners will realize that they could put their ground levels to better financial use if they rented them as retail spaces. There is plenty of parking in the area, ie 5th St Garage.

]]>