Rainy and Cold Saturday Afternoon Downtown
Yes it’s cold and raining outside. Yes, I hear we’re all going to die from swine flu. Yes, we’re all broke. Yes, my entire profession is apparently going to be obsolete any minute.
Or maybe not. If you stay away from the television all day, an amazing thing happens: life is alirght. Things are good. I’ve [...]
Downtown Housing Tour Today
FROM DOWNTOWN OKC INC:
The second annual Move UP Downtown Living Tour will offer the chance to tour apartments, lofts and condos and new and future construction. This year’s tour will include a special seminar, “Downtown Living, How Can You Afford Not To?”, that will feature information regarding financing options and experts discussing new tax credits [...]
Good Update on City Place Condos
Yes indeed friends, Roy Oliver really is building residential condos on the top floors of City Place. See the Richard Mize story here. Wouldn’t it be cool if the California owners of First National got the same idea for across the street?
An Open Letter from Grant Humphreys
The Flatiron: Oklahoma City, OK from imagiNATIVEamerica on Vimeo.
A year ago there were at least a handful of downtown developments on the drawing boards that seemed to be sure things. One of those was the Flatiron, a mixed-use development by Grant Humphreys at 5th and Harrison.
Construction was to start in the fall. And that’s where [...]
The Sieber on Video
Follow Up on Misty from “Aunt Bee”
A few months back I paid tribute to Misty Kemp, a downtown resident and founding member of Urban Neighbors who tragically died way too young during a visit to Texas. Anyway, this comment was posted this week on that old post and deserves your attention:
I just stumbled across this site by accident and was so pleased. [...]
The Leslie
Forgive me for the delay in posting this information on The Leslie - the next housing project planned by Ron and Jason Bradshaw. Jason noticed questions at OKC Talk about the Leslie renderings and pricing information and he asked if I could help them by posting all of this at OKC Central.
So, without further delay…
Leslie [...]
I’m Stunned
Downtown is about to undergo changes that could arguably rival the original MAPS program. Developing ….
Brownstones at Maywood Park
Living at the Downtown Library
David Morris at NewsOk.tv has an interesting update on the Carnegie Library project. To recap, Judy Hatfield bought the old downtown library when the new Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library opened a few years ago. And it sounds like she’s getting very close to starting up conversion of the building into retail and condominiums.
