Comments on: Coffee Talk Again

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:43:43 +0000

We need a few sidewalks much wider to accomodate newstands, outdoor cafe seating, benches, etc, businesses open to the sidewalk (like small bakeries, etc.). .. with a few stategic wind-blocks of course. People don’t “live” on our streets. We need to invite people to “live” in our downtown.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:40:26 +0000

Steve, I tried refresh and even a different web browser and it won’t work. Will someone pass along the message I keep getting this error and can’t access the website:

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Unable to save result set in [path]/includes/class_core.php on line 408

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:08:45 +0000

I hope the person that suggested a parking garage in the front yard of the Civic Center was joking. Even if that park was not used by anyone but the homeless, it would be a tragedy to put any kind of structure there.

I think the main thing Bicentennial Park needs is just redoing the brick pavers and landscaping, and maybe looking at what other cities do to make their smaller parks more lively. A fountain would be great and maybe more sculpture–perhaps art-related given the location.

I think we definitely need to add a lot of fountains. People love fountains, and the more interactive they can be, the better.

Add bike lanes and more bike racks.

The retail incentive idea is good, if it will work with this money.

Anything we can do to make downtown more pedestrian friendly.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:11:53 +0000

Buy Fred Jones Ford Property and expand the Myriad Gardens South. Probably would have to close Reno and Harvey though.

By: ryne

ryne — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:37:48 +0000

Hey – that is great, and I will take it. I would just tone down the superlatives if that is “IT” – we are big league now.

By: Kris Bryant

Kris Bryant — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:20:48 +0000

Fountains with large plazas around them for people to do stuff.

By: slackmeyer

slackmeyer — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:13:15 +0000

Scott, it’s working for me and I only noticed a very brief outage over the weekend. Try hitting your refresh button.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:04:36 +0000

A Kansas City-type explosion of fountains would be awesome.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:10:47 +0000

Ryne – I believe the $135 million is the Steve’s point. It may not seem like much in comparison to the cost of the Devon building itself, but when it comes to infrastructure investment, it’s a huge sum of money. Combine those with the projects voters approved in the 2007 GOB Election, and we get a double benefit.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:44:52 +0000

Steve or anyone:

Hate posting this here but only place I know too. What happened to okctalk.com? I can’t access the site for days now.