Coffee Talk Yet Again
Let’s make this one simple: next week I’ll be doing a best of downtown posting and I want your nominations for the person who made the biggest impact on downtown Oklahoma City in 2008. I’ll follow up your nominations with an online poll.
Let the nominations begin!
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Comments
There are two people who make the cut (far, far ahead of the pack), but it’s quite difficult to narrow it down any further…
Larry Nichols & Clay Bennett
I would have to give Larry Nichols the nod!
What Clay did for the city is wonderful, yet along with Clay the people of OKC deserve some of the credit for stepping up, supporting the Hornets, buying tickets, and passing the tax. What Larry is doing with the new Devon Tower and the downtown TIF will have an equally transformative effect on downtown and it is ostensibly being done without public assistance – a true gift to the people of Oklahoma City and the future of this great city!
Of course, you could wait and give Larry credit when the building is complete in 2011? 2012?
Clay did already deliver the team in 2008!
Although Larry Nichols will soon easily get the nod for “best impact on downtown OKC, THIS DECADE, I think 2008 belongs to Clay Bennett.
Jim Cowan? How did he have the “biggest impact?” He’s not even in the same league as what Larry Nichols and Clay Bennett have done for the City of OKC this last year. Heck, even Aubrey McClendon has done more to shape OKC in the last year than Jim Cowan.
I think Jim would agree he’s not in the running. But remember Steven, this is about impact on “Downtown OKC,” not OKC.
Jim Cowan