Comments on: Design Review Bait and Switch?

By: OKC's Asian District Remembers Fall of Saigon - Are You There God? It's Me, Generation X.

Mon, 13 May 2013 03:43:11 +0000

[...] Having said that, there are some visual amenities we cherish. We like the bank on Classen and the building T-Mobile leases on NW 23rd, and we totally dig Super Cao Nguyen, the big Asian market with all its colorful fish [...]

By: GenghisKDuck

GenghisKDuck — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:55:54 +0000

Love the clouds. Very Eric Sloane.

By: Larry OKC

Larry OKC — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:27:12 +0000

Michael H: the surrounding strip mall itself walls appear to be the same but the protected “awning” over each doorway and connecting “canopy” seems to have vanished. Looks like the “awnings” were to be tiled like the the main roof structure over the plaza area? The missing plaza area is what helped pull the whole design together to make the entire center that feel rather than just another generic strip mall with an ethnic restaurant on one end (sort of like in the days when Casa Bonita or even Panchos currently). No mistaking that part of the complex as being ethnic, but no one is going to make the mistake that it is nothing but Mexican/Latino shopping etc in the entire strip mall.

Tom: Reportedly, the one you mentioned was due to him not going into debt to make the renovations but paying for it as he had the means to do so.

By: Larry OKC

Larry OKC — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:14:37 +0000

Typical

By: GenghisKDuck

GenghisKDuck — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:19:02 +0000

Oh. And I have my blog up and running. I’m going to be critiquing The Daily Oklahoman editorials. I need to work
on my writing skills so I need to get back out there. Plus,
I’ve tried to leave a few comments on their Scissor Tales
blog but it will never take my comments, which I, personally, find wrong, rude and just downright not very
Oklahoma friendly. So I’m going to do critiquing, maybe a
few recipes, clunky slideshows (even though I read somewhere
that they’re not very hip) and just whatever pops into my
head. Then pictures that I take around and about. Plus,
my poetry. Poetry and some other things. Songs. Mayve some
Soduku (because of the pagoda.)

By: GenghisKDuck

GenghisKDuck — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:30:29 +0000

Reminds me of The Teahouse of the August Moon.
I loved everybody in that movie.

By: GenghisKDuck

GenghisKDuck — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:26:09 +0000

Whoever did the curbs did a good job.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:39:10 +0000

MikeN is right, rarely does a project ever ending up exactly as promised, but I can not stand that project. Every time I drive by it I think of what could have been. Standards would have stopped this eyesore from ever being built.

By: Michael Herndon

Michael Herndon — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:07:42 +0000

But is the final product THAT MUCH DIFFERENT other than the obvious omission of the large pagoda? Isn’t there still to be one placed in the parking lot, albeit smaller? Because the renderings of the actual structure itself and finishes seem legit. Even from the pagoda rendering I can see that they have followed through with that faithfully. I’d be much more concerned about that then some fancy little shade structure in the middle of a parking lot that didn’t come to be.

But I do agree with the principle of the post, it seems that OKC always gets swindled between the time-frame a project is presented and is actually built.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:56:07 +0000

Steve – Can you provide us with a little bit of background on this project? I’ve driven past it for seemingly YEARS and observed glacial progress. I couldn’t understand how a private developer (and lender) could allow such a slow construction timeline – it was reminiscent of what eventually became Casa De Los Milagros Mexican restaurant at Belle Isle.