Comments on: Maybe I Just Don't Understand … http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/10/06/maybe-i-just-dont-understand/ The Oklahoman's Steve Lackmeyer covers downtown OKC brick by brick. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:36:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Nick Roberts http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/10/06/maybe-i-just-dont-understand/comment-page-1/#comment-989 Nick Roberts Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:27:23 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/10/06/maybe-i-just-dont-understand/#comment-989 Very exciting.

]]> By: slackmeyer http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/10/06/maybe-i-just-dont-understand/comment-page-1/#comment-986 slackmeyer Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:47:24 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/10/06/maybe-i-just-dont-understand/#comment-986 Nick, part of what I’m writing about is what’s still in the works. I’m tracking what is looking like the biggest wave of openings in Bricktown in quite some time. As to whether they will all pan out, that’s another story.

]]> By: Nick Roberts http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/10/06/maybe-i-just-dont-understand/comment-page-1/#comment-987 Nick Roberts Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:33:54 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/10/06/maybe-i-just-dont-understand/#comment-987 Hey Steve, could you please explain how several restaurants opening are linked to the arrival of the Thunder?

I can see Coyote Ugly, but not many others, enough for it to be a significant point to make about Downtown..

]]> By: John R. "Radar" Doyle http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/10/06/maybe-i-just-dont-understand/comment-page-1/#comment-988 John R. "Radar" Doyle Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:04:57 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2008/10/06/maybe-i-just-dont-understand/#comment-988 The location is good, but it WAS better. I also worked downtown in the mid-80′s. Back then, there was a real Century Center Mall to the South, filled with small boutique shops, a TWA ticket office, and plenty of law firms, dentists, and tag agents. They actually crossed Main St. in the Skywalk, and took the escalator to the Zoo Restaurant.

Today, the mall is silent, and will be turned into a grand ballroom, so the skywalk will continue to be seldom-used, except by hotel guests from the Sheraton.

Don’t get me wrong. It is still a good location. But I believe a restaurant owner would need to have more traffic for lunch in order to make it there. Perhaps breakfast and/or dinner?

Which brings up a possible sore subject. How many restaurants offer DELIVERY to downtown residents and hotel guests? What type of food? How late will they deliver?

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