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Jim Brewer, The Man, The Legend
I’ve covered Jim Brewer for more than a dozen years. During those times and I’ve seen the bad and the good. I’ve seen him promote the district and fight against those who disaparaged it. When consultants wanted to go with just one single walkway along the Bricktown Canal (gotta love those consultants - they’re always right, [...]
More on Downtown Des Moines (yes, they’re still dry)
BlueGroupMan from Des Moines recently caught up with our recent You Tube Downtown Tour:
Hey, thanks for including our area of the world in your YouTube tour. There are lots of nice things going on here, I think people who haven’t been here lately would be pleasantly surprised.
Hopefully all the OSU fans who were up here [...]
Michael Smith on Parking
Michael probably wasn’t counting on me taking his comment and turning it into a post. But it’s interesting enough that I don’t want to see it skipped over. Michael’s been in the trenches and has done a lot of work to promote downtown preservation. He’s also someone who does more than just speak a good [...]
Pop Quiz: Fort Worth
Downtown Fort Worth is getting its first new hotel in 20 years, and I doubt anyone would challenge the value of its contribution to the city’s skyline.
With an opening set for later this year, the Omni Forth Worth Hotel will have 604 guest rooms with 97 condominiums on top of the hotel. In addition to the hotel [...]
Pop Quiz Time
Here’s an interesting tidbit: which major downtown - one that many in OKC admire and wish to immulate in many ways - is just now getting its first hotel in two decades?
Opinion Polls & Market Research
You’re Apparently the Problem
The Bricktown parking study isn’t out yet, but this bit of news was distributed by the Bricktown Association to its members. I’ve already received a call from one person complaining about a ticket issued at 6 p.m. in Bricktown - when enforcement throughout downtown has typically stopped at 4:30 p.m.
Read this and ponder whether meter [...]
So What Will Happen to the Cotton Exchange property?
Some Bricktown property owners are content to sit on vacant space or land for years, thinking a huge payday is just around the corner. But they are beginning to discover that potential buyers are no longer so willing to pay prices far above the properties’ actual value.
Gary Cotton, however, is a man who doesn’t have [...]
And The Answer is No
I asked the following question in January. Read today’s Oklahoman for the latest on the proposed Cotton Exchange:
Will Cotton Exchange really be built?
By Steve Lackmeyer
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Edition: CITY, Section: BUSINESS, Page 4B
Bricktown’s merchants, property owners and developers still are scratching their heads over a $36 million, 12-story Cotton Exchange that Gary Cotton wants [...]
Say What??!!?? Will Deer Creek Become the Next East St. Louis?
“Many low-density suburbs and McMansion subdivisions, including some that are lovely and affluent today, may become what inner cities became in the 1960s and ’70s - slums characterized by poverty, crime and decay.”
- Christopher Leinberger, an urban land use expert.
Read the whole story here.
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