New Bricktown Fire Station Designs
When we last heard from the Oklahoma City Fire Department, they swore changes were on their way for a station to be built in Bricktown. Say goodbye to the design by Norman-based LWPB that resembled a station recently opened in Mustang. Fire Chief Keith Bryant promised the new Bricktown fire station would be designed to [...]
The New OMRF Tower
Nice, very nice. One can’t underestimate the role that the Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has played on downtown’s resurgence. Plans are being unveiled today for the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s new tower.
Read about here, and watch the following video:
Urban Renewal: The Blooming of the Myriad Gardens
Dennis Wells, you are the man. Just when I start to spiral into that dreaded blogger burnout, you provide me with exactly what I need to get going again.
So let’s get this discussion started. First, those of you who have attended presentations by Jack Money and I on our book, “OKC Second Time Around,” [...]
An Update on the Mayo
Yes, yes, I know it’s in downtown Tulsa, not in downtown Oklahoma City. And yes, I realize there are those of you who might take this post as a sign that OKC Central is being taken over by the Tulsa World. Now, relax, and take this as it’s intended - an interesting glimpse at the [...]
Redefining/Defining a Neighborhood
Oh my, oh my. I would not have wanted to be John Yoeckel today.
For those of you who don’t know John, he’s a well respected civic leader and a member of the city’s Board of Adjustment.
It’s his job to make someone very, very happy or very, very unhappy. Sometimes his vote, along with three other [...]
Learning About Film Row and the Film Exchange
For those who follow this blog and my column, you know I’ve written qutie a bit about the potential of a School of Rock making the old Fred Jones Ford factory its long-term future home. But like many people, I got tripped up on whether to refer to the area as Film Row or the Film Exchange. [...]
Watch the Bricktown Fire Station Discussion
Watch the council discussion of the Bricktown fire station by going to this link and fast forwarding to 11:30 on the time bar.
What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
“That picture we have, we’re not happy with it. It’s not what we want to build.”
That’s a quote from my conversation today with Deputy Fire Chief Cecil Clay concerning renderings of the proposed Bricktown fire station - drawings that were submitted to the Oklahoma City Council for approval of preliminary design and an ok to move forward with [...]
Why Am I Not Surprised?
So here’s the latest on the Bricktown fire station designs. Avis Scaramucci, chair of the Bricktown Association and a member of the Bricktown Design Review Committee, spoke late this afternoon with City Manager Jim Couch.
Now, before I tell you what Couch had to say, consider the following:
- I was told by Assistant City Planner Susan [...]
One More Thought on the Fire Station …
It’s been suggested by a reader who also happens to be an architect that these Bricktown fire station designs look as if they were “value engineered” - city speak for cutting design features to keep the station within budget. But how can the city insist that private enterprise spend more, or be more creative at doing [...]
