If you aren’t going to keep the restrooms up, then just close them.

I don’t know, maybe Mr. Brown is going for that urban look.

It’s really nasty, and that’s where we have to direct all the tourists who need to use public restrooms while they’re in Bricktown. You’re lucky if they have paper towels and don’t bet on the toilet seat being attached to the toilet or the door of the stall closing.

Shane, I was about to say the same thing. Those rooms are pretty awful. If we can get fined for not having an up kept front yard then there should be issues with this guy not keeping up his bathrooms.

The city needs to start getting progressive and provide public restrooms that have easy access in Downtown and Bricktown.

Sickening.

That qualifys as “blighted”.

we are as disheartened as anybody about vandalism. and october is the worst month owing to a large amount of youth congregating for the haunted house. who can blame them for preferring our restrooms over portapotties, but why do kids have to deface something that started out so nicely? if my memory is correct, i remember a few years ago the gazette photographed these same restrooms and gave them the moniker of the nicest restrooms in the city. perhaps such vandalism will force us to restort to locking the restrooms, or have an electronic access system for the people who actually have business in the building. you can imagine the needless expense we already sustain in terms of water consumption, repairs and maintenance. we do try to repaint blighted areas each week. hooters services the restrooms regularly and supplies paper products several times a day. we had no idea when bricktown started that the city had no plans for public restrooms. are these the only restroom available to the public in bricktown? while the photograph depicts the vandalism it also shows an adequate stock of paper products.

There needs to be more attention public restrooms by the city- this restroom is treated as a public one when it really isn’t public per se. And we should really understand that Mr. Brown is footing the bill for the maintenance of these restrooms which are used by anyone in Bricktown who needs a restroom, and not exclusively by patrons of his tenants.

We should look to other large pedestrian cities for examples of how to create and maintain safe, clean, accessible public restrooms so that private building managers like Mr. Brown don’t have to deal with these problems with such frequency.

Thanks for chiming in on the issue here, Mr. Brown, because it helped me see your side of the issue. You shouldn’t be the person who is in charge of THE “public” bathroom in Bricktown.

Bathrooms should be kept clean, but is this reallly the kind of stuff that goes on blogs????
Usually the content on this blog is very informative and raises good questions. I’m glad Mr. Brown addressed the issue, now let’s move on to real news downtown.

I think the reason it’s been pointed out on this blog, and why it’s of note at all, is because the picture sure looks like bathroom that hasn’t been cleaned up in months. This doesn’t look like a one time vandalism that Mr. Brown just hadn’t caught yet. It’s not the best picture, so I could be wrong, but it looks like its been ignored for some time.

It gets cleaned regularly, just not repainted.

This IS a topic for the OKC Central Blog. It’s a problem that needs to be addressed in Bricktown and Downtown alike.

With that said, I’m all for pay toilets like in San Francisco and other cities that you pay to go, and everything is clean and sterilized all the time.

Before I get jumped on for wanting pay toilets, I think there should be free public restrooms as well. However, when you open something up to the public there are certain risks associated with doing so.

The above photo makes it clear that even in Oklahoma City, we have some not so wonderful characters, with limited amounts of social grace, who enjoy defacing someone else’s property.

It also reminds me of the movie Candyman.

Might want to do an update on this one. The bathroom has been repainted and there are nice new paper towel dispensers

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I know Jeff Brown. He’s a good guy and proud to the the latest in his family’s multi-generational ownership of the Miller-Jackson building. I’m glad to see that the “after” picture of the bathroom was published – man, it looks nicer than the bathrooms in my house!