Comments on: Update http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/sl/ The Oklahoman's Steve Lackmeyer covers downtown OKC brick by brick. Thu, 16 May 2013 02:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Steven http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/sl/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Steven Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:18:03 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/63/#comment-84 I agree with some of the others, I don’t care what they do on the upper floors, as long as they are used and remodeled (office or residential), however the design renderings do not look very retail friendly on any floor. Ideally retail should be on the first two floors, but they look very boring with tiny windows. Retail needs a nice entryway and lots of big windows!!

]]> By: The Old Downtown Guy http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/sl/comment-page-1/#comment-83 The Old Downtown Guy Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:34:49 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/63/#comment-83 I don’t think that this building lends itself to residential use as it is and there is not much chance of opening it up with the expansive windows that lofts really need to be successful . . . especially at the rent rates that will be necessary in today’s Bricktown. I agree that office and other commercial with limited residential uses will be a better mix and more reliable ROI for the developers.

There are other buildings in Bricktown that better lend themselves to residential use, such as the former J.P. Awault Building whose ground floor is now occupied by Spaghetti Warehouse, and perhaps the best approach is just slipping in a few lofts here and there like French Hickman did in the Kingman Building formerly owned by Ainsworth and Hickman, rather than taking several floors in one building.

]]> By: CGHill http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/sl/comment-page-1/#comment-82 CGHill Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:22:44 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/63/#comment-82 Same here, though I’d like to see a revival of the old American tradition of living above the store.

(The pictures are just fine.)

]]> By: Patrick http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/sl/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Patrick Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:10:04 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/63/#comment-81 I have no problems with office space, if they leave the street level floors for retail space. I’d rather see it be office space, than an empty boarded up building.

]]> By: Michael http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/sl/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Michael Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:28:17 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/63/#comment-80 Steve,

I remember back when the Mclain family, the original owners, had drawn up some fairly ambitious plans for loft apartments.

Perhaps the emphasis in this plan on developing it as retail and office space suggest developers fear an excess of inventory on the residential component of downtown with Block 42, The Hill, etc all coming online in the near future?

Cheers,
Michael

]]> By: Shane http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/sl/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Shane Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:00:10 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/02/27/63/#comment-79 That might mean it’s heavily leaning toward office space…? But I think that would be okay. We do have a lot of residential going on already, and Bricktown could definitely use something with a bigger amount of continuous office space.

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