I shutter to think how much it would have cost to bring it into ADA compliance and fire codes.

Quit shuttering. And lets quit arguing about Stage Center. It's gone forever in at most 2 months. We should start gossiping about the OGE Tower more instead. I here it looks just like devon...

...but 36 floors shorter. And the pedestrian alley is dumb (sorry for changing topics Pete).

Quit shuttering. And lets quit arguing about Stage Center. It's gone forever in at most 2 months. We should start gossiping about the OGE Tower more instead. I here it looks just like devon...

...but 36 floors shorter. And the pedestrian alley is dumb (sorry for changing topics Pete).

There is a separate thread for the new development

Stage Center Tower - OKCTalk (http://www.okctalk.com/showwiki.php?title=Stage+Center+Tower&highlight=stage+center+tower)

How are you hearing about what it looks like since there have never been any actual designs presented other than conceptual?

Just the word on the street - I dont know how tall it will be, but I know the range on height. And OGE tower will look really nice - I don't doubt it.

I am just wondering out of curiosusness, Just the Facts. What were the primary issues with ADA compliance and fire code?

I know that there was at least operable elevator in SC - it did not serve much.

Most of the concrete walls were 1'-2' thick which was/is typically compliant with fire code. What rooms/spaces had issues (to your knowledge)?

I have made many assumptions which were likely incorrect. What were the biggest issues pertaining to this issue?

I am just wondering out of curiosusness, Just the Facts. What were the primary issues with ADA compliance and fire code?


I don't have any specific examples but it was a solid pour-in-place concrete structure built before modern fire codes existed (things like extra emergency exits, escape windows, and wider hallways) and long before ADA requirements. How many handicap bathroom stalls do you think there were? It wasn't like they could just make the stall wider, the plumbing is incased in the concrete wall.

I don't have any specific examples but it was a solid pour-in-place concrete structure built before modern fire codes existed (things like extra emergency exits, escape windows, and wider hallways) and long before ADA requirements. How many handicap bathroom stalls do you think there were? It wasn't like they could just make the stall wider, the plumbing is incased in the concrete wall.

Say! Maybe lovers of this piece of "Function Over Form" Architectural Art, currently being "renovated" could build a replica out of foam on a piece of property . . . say, out around Foyil (on Historic Route 66) as an added reason to visit Totem Pole Park, along with some ADA accessible outhouses. If there are any objections to the proposal from the locals, it could be scaled down . . . ala Stonehenge in Spinal Tap . . . =)

Recent overview of the destruction:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/sc080114.jpg

Maybe Stage Center should've been used as the downtown community tornado shelter? That thing looks like it has just been taking a beating but won't go down.

Stage Center is going to loose this battle eventually, but he's definitely not going down without a fight.

^^lol

To those of you sharing the pics...Thanks!

I hope someone did a walk-through to check for cats before the demolition began. Hopefully all the openings were boarded up to keep cats out.

Feral cats are, for the most part, very good about sensing potential danger and getting out of Dodge before it can become actual. Those who lack such a sense tend not to survive kittenhood; that's the unfortunate fact about living in the wild with nobody watching out for you!

Even pampered show cats are quite hardy; I remember one exotic shorthair that survived the May 3 tornado and wasn't found until a week later although the house in which he lived was totally swept away and he was partially trapped in some of the wreckage.

I love the cats. This has been OKC's homeless camp. I'm sure someone will die.

Ya, cats are strong survivors

I love the cats. This has been OKC's homeless camp. I'm sure someone will die.

"Keep on the sunny side . . . Always on the sunny side . . . Keep on the sunny side o' the street" . . . )

Say! Maybe lovers of this piece of "Function Over Form" Architectural Art, currently being "renovated" could build a replica out of foam on a piece of property . . . say, out around Foyil (on Historic Route 66) as an added reason to visit Totem Pole Park, along with some ADA accessible outhouses. If there are any objections to the proposal from the locals, it could be scaled down . . . ala Stonehenge in Spinal Tap . . . =)

Gawd, RM, you've been anything but moderate lately. The digs at this building have been relentless from you. In your own...uh..."unique"....way. You have every right to complain just as much as those of us who express our sadness at its demise. I just don't get all the glee and your riddlemania only makes it all the more grinding.

Yesterday me and my dad went to check it out and I found these outside the fencehttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/03/a3y7yras.jpg

seems like a lot of the homeless have moved over to Union Bus Station lately

Tear it down!

^^what he said!!

seems like a lot of the homeless have moved over to Union Bus Station lately

They're already missing the SC.

except he was making a point about tearing down Union Bus Station since it's not being used and is a refuge for the homeless like stage center was...

Correct. Thanks for clarifying my hasty, sarcastic post. Of course, for all I know he might have been agreeing about tearing down Union Bus Station too.

I doubt that about Braden :-)

Hell no Chad...

That place needs to be turned into a diner. They should retain the Union Station sign and just add 'Diner' in between in blue neon. Then scoot the ol' urban campers on.

Honestly, I'd spend money to create flyers to pass around to all those urban campers that eloquently say GTFO in the nicest way possible cause it's like they don't understand that downtown is not a wretched hive for villainy & scum anymore...

From today courtesy warreng88:


http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/sc080414.jpg

It'll be gone by Friday, barring more rain.

It'll be gone by Friday, barring more rain.
Surely it will take longer. That's still A LOT of concrete.

Surely it will take longer. That's still A LOT of concrete.

I think they lost a day last week, and the largest of the 3 pods is about gone.... I don't think it takes as long to break it up as it does to knock it down with the crane.

The wrecking ball does a lot of damage overtime. Everytime it hits, it puts tiny cracks in the concrete. Eventually a whole section just gives way.

I watched the wrecking ball for a bit today. Stage Center is one tough building. The ball didn't look like it was doing jack.

8868

8868

Looks like a bigger ball to me.

First of the boxes is falling this morning:


http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/sc080514b.jpg

Looks like a bigger ball to me.
they definately upgraded from the first one they were using.

From today:


http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/sc080614.jpg

(Endor) Momentum shifted sharply today when Ewok leaders decided enough was freaking enough, and proceeded to kick some serious empire arse.

(Endor) Momentum shifted sharply today when Ewok leaders decided enough was freaking enough, and proceeded to kick some serious empire arse.

Love it!

+1

Now matter how you look at it--from the standpoint of the wrecking company (and the size of its balls) or from that of the wreckee--it is certainly The End of An Error . . . uh, maybe I mean Era.

Sad pictures. :(

I hope OG&E does a small tribute to it in their new, boring building.

Sad pictures. :(

I hope OG&E does a small tribute to it in their new, boring building.

Are the new renderings from Clayco out ?

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/sc080714.jpg

The middle section is now gone also but was so busy packing that I forgot to snap a pic. I know the crane operator spent the better part of the day banging on the support concrete trying to topple the last box.

Here is a pic from this AM. The last box tower has been toppled:


http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/sc080814.jpg

Are the new renderings from Clayco out ?

Not that I'm aware. It won't be as interesting as SC though.

Has the site been cleared yet ?

Not yet. They're still going. Still a lot of stuff remaining. Stage Center was a bomb shelter of a building.

No, it was falling in on itself. Days from toppling over. Didn't you hear?

no, it was falling in on itself. Days from toppling over. Didn't you hear?

lol

Taken this evening... School starts one week from today -- no way they are done by then:


http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/sc081414.jpg

Looks like a German relic from World War II.


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Good idea. A local filmmaker should get permission to use this as a movie set for a few days...

From yesterday:


http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/sc082114.jpg

^^beautiful

OK, now you're just trolling.

The site sure looks bigger with the building demo'd.

Now that I think about, JTF really was right. This was a fairly large waste of space.

Now THAT is what you call prime real-estate.