This space is being developed by Premier entertainment group. They have several businesses including gallery in one space and Premier Limousine in the other along with their offices. The corner space and the one next to it are now connected by a doorway. They are really doing a lot with the spaces.

Sounds similar to Prestige Worldwide, but they also do security.

If you don't like the giant viet-style tapioca in your drinks, also known as boba, get your drink without it.

Sounds similar to Prestige Worldwide, but they also do security.

Awesome

Awesome

Movie reference. Wouldn't expect you to be smart enough to google it.

These are photos from my trip a couple of weeks ago. Lots going on but still tons of junky buildings and gaps.

Hopefully when Grandad's opens on the east end of the strip and the Gellato and other spot finishes, it will tip the scales a bit more.



This is the horrific strip center on the north side of the street, just west of Dewey:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd1.jpg

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd2.jpg


And directly across the street (SW corner of 23rd & Dewey) is this beautifully updated office building with new storefronts going in:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd3.jpg


23rd Street Courts are VERY impressive! Had lunch at Bubba's and loved the atmosphere in the converted little house, complete with a porch, fireplace in the front room and cozy side rooms. Food was excellent as well:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd4.jpg

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd5.jpg

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd6.jpg


This Guernsey Park Restaurant under construction in the back is really slick space, with a shaded outdoor seating area:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd7.jpg

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd8.jpg

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd9.jpg


These two buildings are also nicely done, right on Guernsey in the back:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd10.jpg


Another little jewel just north on Lee:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd11.jpg

Anyone else think 23rd corridor feels like Los Angeles, kind of? Hard to explain exactly what I mean, just for some reason gives me the same vibe.

Here's an overview of the 23rd strip from Classen to I-235.



http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rdmaster.jpg

1. West Sector
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd1.jpg
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd1legend.jpg


2. West Central Sector
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd2.jpg
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd2legend.jpg


3. East Central Sector
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd3.jpg
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd3legend.jpg


4. East Sector
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd4.jpg
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd4legend.jpg

I really think it's time for Byron's to fix up its building. Good grief..

I really think it's time for Byron's to fix up its building. Good grief..

He hired an architect, paid the Urban Design Committee review fee, and then never actually had the architect submit completed drawings. I considered the project withdrawn after two years of no progress.

When the liquor store lobbyists try and claim allowing liquor sales in grocery stores would kill off places like Byron's, I can't help but think that would be a good thing.

2. West Central Sector
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd2.jpg
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd2legend.jpg

I can help fill in a blank for you in the West Central Sector. #40 is my wife's (Camden) business, Emerson Events & Design. She is a event & wedding planner, and floral designer. She shares the space with Amanda Watson Photography. Also, there are actually two buildings on the northwest corner of the 23rd St. Courts. Currently the building directly the the north of my wife's shop is available for lease. Marvin (who took over for his father, Mike) had leased it to an interior design company but it fell through. So I suppose you need an extra number in there. This picture shows the split between the two businesses.

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/23rd10.jpg

Thanks for the info.; I'll update the maps.

I heard there was a new pizza place going in across from BTT.

Here's some good news that could signal a trend...

The apartment building at 2720 N. Robinson (Park Crest) is being remodeled for $100,000 and is owned by an architecture professor at OSU; bought it out of foreclosure last summer.

I was hoping that stretch of Robinson would start to turn around a bit, given everything that is happening on 23rd and maybe this is the start.


http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/Searches/sketches/picfile/2682/R046605500001tA.jpg

That place is going to require much more than $100,000, but I believe it was operating as a halfway house in the previous years? They should just tear it down and re-orient the property closer to Robinson and framing the corner with the views of Goodholm Park, which is actually a great park.

But that stretch of Robinson is quite stable. Could use some code enforcement with the lawns around 30th, but I think that all of those brownstones on the east side of the street have been renovated and some are quite nice.

Guernsey Park building
If you've been prowling out behind Cuppies & Joe on NW 23 Street, you might've seen a beautiful restaurant space being built called Guernsey Park. The new restaurant will be the playground of Vuong Nguyen, current first apprentice at The Coach House. Nguyen's graduation dinner is set for Aug. 19, and he hopes to have Guernsey Park opened by middle to late September. Nguyen, who just finalized the menu for his graduation service, said the menu will reflect his Asian heritage but be driven by the classic flavors and techniques he's been studying under chefs Kurt Fleischfresser and David Henry the past two years.


Read more: http://newsok.com/restaurant-at-top-of-devon-tower-set-to-open/article/3697036#ixzz22FAeP8zX

This sounds promising!

500 block probably pertains to #'s 54-56 below:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd2.jpg
http://www.okctalk.com/images/23rd/23rd2legend.jpg

I sure hope they fix the street lights on 23rd between robinson and sante-fe, perhaps have them synchronized as there is some pretty serious congestion at lunch time, and with all these new restaurants its bound to get worse.

Its a good time for serious eaters in this city.

...and a very bad time for the city to be on a diet (although, more better food always trumps less bad good)

The Hut shaved ice coming to the SW corner of 23rd and Robinson:

http://www.facebook.com/thehutokc

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/555748_325065000916275_1693744811_n.jpg

In the parking lot of the Qmart:

http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/Searches/sketches/picfile/2709/R044040220001sA.jpg

That will look tacky.

That will look tacky.

You beat me to it, Spartan.

My first thought was, "Oh hell no, not on my 23rd and Robinson!!" before I remembered I don't own Uptown.. sadly. Lol

I posted that shack about 6 months ago on here and reported it to the city to see if it was up to code. Never got a response from city, but Meg Salyer did say she would forward it, id like to see the building permit. At first it looked like a run down storage shed, looks like they finally spruced it up.

Whatever happened to Guyute's?

Where is Guyutes going to be located?

Where is Guyutes going to be located?

http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=24994&page=10&p=500591#post500591

Sounds good, thanks for the update. I will refrain from joking about the potential of a die-hard jam band fan getting distracted on the way to opening a business.

Sounds good, thanks for the update. I will refrain from joking about the potential of a die-hard jam band fan getting distracted on the way to opening a business.

Phish is playing the Zoo Amphitheater tonight... :)

This may be a mile to the east, but yesterday they tore down the ugliest building near the capitol complex. It was a pink 2 story, all metal with hardly any windows, and what windows were there were boarded up. It came down in a day, and all that's left is a huge pile of twisted metal. Hopefully it'll be gone this week. This building was on the northwest quadrant of Lincoln and 23rd street.

My dad used to work in that building long before if was modified to the last, bastardized condition. That was where Benham Engineering was located when he went to work there in 1967 before the company moved to the 5-story building on the SW corner of NW 63rd & Grand in the Glenbrook Center area in the early 70.

Ugly? It was a mid century art deco gem.

This may be a mile to the east, but yesterday they tore down the ugliest building near the capitol complex. It was a pink 2 story, all metal with hardly any windows, and what windows were there were boarded up. It came down in a day, and all that's left is a huge pile of twisted metal. Hopefully it'll be gone this week. This building was on the northwest quadrant of Lincoln and 23rd street.

Was it this one?

http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/Searches/sketches/picfile/2687/R035574800001uA.jpg

Another one bites the dust. I really liked that old building. Just like so many other building that are torn down, they just needed the right owners.

What can Okc expect to be built in it's place?

Was it this one?

http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/Searches/sketches/picfile/2687/R035574800001uA.jpg

Yes, and they have more or less removed the rest of the rubble as of today.

Ugly? It was a mid century art deco gem.

No, it was crap......nobody in it for at least the last 12 years. All of the glass was boarded up and was complete with graffitti on the 24th st side.

At one time, there was a lot of great mid-century buildings around the capitol but it seems very few have survived.

There was a building boom in this area in the 50's and 60's and then the whole area went pretty downhill not long afterwards and most the buildings were completely abandoned. Many were scraped as part of the Lincoln Renaissance plan because they were boarded up and in horrible condition.

Lincoln Plaza has managed to survive, but just barely. And what is now Arvest Bank (formerly State Capitol Bank) is another great example:

http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/Searches/sketches/picfile/2658/R086701000001xA.jpg

http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/Searches/sketches/picfile/2687/R035574800001uA.jpg

We had noticed that for the last few weeks, workers in all kinds of 'asbestos' looking protection garb have been all around the building. This is just a guess on my part about what type of cleanup they were doing. The west side on the interchange already looks tons better.

Buildings from that era all had asbestos and even for complete demolition it has to be carefully removed by certified professionals.

Too bad it couldn't be saved but when a building is allowed to sit and rot for that long -- a topic we have discussed at length elsewhere -- demolition becomes inevitable.

Buildings from that era all had asbestos and even for complete demolition it has to be carefully removed by certified professionals.

Too bad it couldn't be saved but when a building is allowed to sit and rot for that long -- a topic we have discussed at length elsewhere -- demolition becomes inevitable.

Spot on. Had it been maintained, it would be a gem today. Alas, it was not and appeared beyond repair. I drive by it daily now that I live (own) in Lincoln Terrace.

Actually Pete, that bank has been dreadfully altered. The original bank was REALLY a mid-century gem (sorry I don't have a higher-res photo):

http://www.okctalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2578&d=1346967905

Another one bites the dust. I really liked that old building. Just like so many other building that are torn down, they just needed the right owners.

What can Okc expect to be built in it's place?
I agree and that side angle photo does it no justice, a front shot makes it easier to see its art deco potential. Looks like many of the new modern houses in SOSA.

Who owns the massive vacant lot between Walker and Hudson on the south-side of the street?

Any indication at all that anything will be going on there?

Who owns the massive vacant lot between Walker and Hudson on the south-side of the street?

Any indication at all that anything will be going on there?

The Tower Theater people.

I assume they'll use it for parking once they get their project rolling.

The Tower Theater people.

I assume they'll use it for parking once they get their project rolling.

You have a great sense of comic timing!

You have a great sense of comic timing!

It's not comic. The PUD was specifically written to allow a parking lot.

It's not comic. The PUD was specifically written to allow a parking lot.

Sorry, I was being a bit snarky. I was referencing the "getting their project rolling" part. It seems like Waiting for Godot.

Sorry, I was being a bit snarky. I was referencing the "getting their project rolling" part. It seems like Waiting for Godot.

Ahh, in that case, your snarkiness is spot on, Vladimir.

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Not sure if anyone has posted this or noticed. But Gold's Gym Express planned for 23rd street. It's listed on their website as coming soon. 2117 NW 23rd.

That's by Penn.

That's by Penn.

Maybe in Shephard Mall?

I think that Gold's is going into the center on the NW corner of Penn & 23rd that has Westlake Hardware.

BTW, I heard that Elliott Nelson (of McNellies fame) may put his Fassler Hall beer garden concept in The Rise.

I've been lobbying Tuck to do a gourmet sausage / beer garden concept in OKC for a while now. A few here in L.A. are fantastically popular and fun.

BTW, I heard that Elliott Nelson (of McNellies fame) may put his Fassler Hall beer garden concept in The Rise.

I've been lobbying Tuck to do a gourmet sausage / beer garden concept in OKC for a while now. A few here in L.A. are fantastically popular and fun.

A McNellies employee told me that Fassler Hall was going into midtown "behind Brown's Bakery". Ultimately I would be happy with either, but my hopes are for midtown over uptown, mostly I can't envision Fassler Hall in a pristine new development like this.

Yes Golds is going in right next to City Trends, that's at least where they have their pre enrollment sign at.

The former Le Club Bora Bora building is pretty cool, has some character inside. Something like Fassler Hall would work well there. I'm assuming it's part of "The Rise" redevelopment.

I really hope the Fassler concept goes into either space. It will be succesful. Elliot Nelson hits a homerun with everything he does.

Agree, I'd love to see Fassler Hall in OKC.

Nelson might not want to cannibalize the McNellie's business in Midtown and 23rd really needs a destination hang-out.

But either location will not doubt be a huge success.