This Week's Stories
Office plan overcomes concerns
2008-09-19 –Plans for a new Greater Oklahoma City Chamber headquarters were approved unanimously Thursday by the Downtown Design Review Committee despite concerns expressed by a handful of civic leaders that the project is a bad…
Oklahoma commission approves plans for hotel
2008-09-18 –Downtown’s hotel room count continues to climb — this time with the planned addition of a 196-room Embassy Suites hotel in the Oklahoma Health Center. The eight-story hotel is being developed by Bob Howard, Mickey…
Made in Oklahoma: The Prairie Gypsies
2008-09-17 –• Address: 415 NW 30. • Web site: www.prairiegypsies.com . • Founded: 1994. • Employees: Five full-time, “several” part-time, and “lots of friends and family.” • Key personnel: Debbie Leland and…
Downtown Update: Bricktown development plan gets scratched
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Questions and Answers with David Streb
New I-40 Crosstown Expressway will bring value to city
2008-09-17 – Q : It appears as if more money soon will be flowing into the depleted highway trust fund. But what sort of ripples will be felt in the highway construction industry if these funding shortfalls continue in the…
Embassy Suites concept approved
2008-09-17 –The Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority today approved conceptual plans for an eight-story, 196-room Embassy Suites to be built in the Oklahoma Health Center. The proposed site at NE 8 and Phillips Avenue was…
Focus on design: Architectural photographer zooms in on some of Oklahoma’s buildings
2008-09-17 –He might be 97, but Julius Shulman still has the mischievous smile of a 20-something photographer scoping out his next big shot. And during a recent visit to Oklahoma City, the legendary architectural photographer…
Oklahoma City planner objects to chamber building plan
2008-09-17 –A staff report issued this week to the Downtown Design Review Committee recommends they deny approval of renderings for a proposed new headquarters for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber. The report, authored by…
Economy slows downtown growth plans
2008-09-16 –The shaky national economy has in some cases slowed but not stopped development downtown. Certainly, the banking crisis is being felt. One major Oklahoma bank was quietly looking at opening new offices downtown and…
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