A few things. This garage won't front the memorial.

This is not in the CBD.

This is imho an attractive garage.

This is not someone going into the "parking business". This is to support an office building.

Parking garage owners favor increased capacity downtown

By: Molly M. Fleming The Journal Record October 17, 2016

OKLAHOMA CITY – The parking capacity in downtown may have increased a bit, but garage operators say the area needs to prepare for growth.

Oklahoma City’s municipal parking garages are at 95 percent of capacity.

The Century Center garage is 136 percent occupied. The Cox Center garage is at 128 percent of capacity, and the Santa Fe parking garage is at 106 percent.

The new Arts District Garage is only at 50 percent of capacity; there are 376 monthly parking spaces still available.

Embark OKC Marketing Coordinator Megan White said that when the city started work on the garage, the economy was different. Since then, some companies have laid off employees. The city government has been under a hiring freeze since November 2015.

“We are actively trying to increase the usage of that garage,” White said. “On the east side of the central business district, we’re a lot fuller. We’re trying to shift those parkers around if we can.”

She said the city is considering some social media campaigns to direct people who attend a downtown event to consider the Arts District Garage.

The parking saturation at the downtown garages could further decline as two more structures are under construction, connected to the Bank of Oklahoma Tower. Those garages have 757,000 square feet of parking and 1,800 parking places.

When the Bank of Oklahoma Tower project was being considered, city committees criticized the parking space. But the city was assured that tenants in the OGE Energy Plaza tower would use those spaces. The OGE Energy Plaza building was put on hold earlier this year.

Another parking garage is being considered this week by the Downtown Design Review Committee. The 113 NW Fifth St. garage is five stories tall and measures 133,360 square feet. It will serve as The Heritage Building’s parking facility. Atlanta-based Smith Dalia Architects designed the building.

Irish Realty founder John Kennedy has owned the Main Street Parking Garage for 22 years. He said he supports more parking structures downtown because he wants people to have a good experience when they come to the area, and part of that experience is being able to find parking. The Main Street Parking Garage is at capacity, and has been for the last 20 years, he said.

“We’re currently watching our capacity closely because of the First National (Center) rebirth,” Kennedy said. “(Developer) Gary Brooks and I are discussing what space he may need on our top level to stage some redevelopment work. We want to be supportive of First National. But that (staging work) won’t affect any of our current parkers.”

He said he thinks downtown Oklahoma City will continue to need more parking, and the time is now to build it.

“Oklahoma City shouldn’t wait until its parking is severely tight to plan and construct new spaces,” he said. “The development of each new parking structure takes a lot of time.”

Newmark Grubb Levy Strange Beffort CEO of Investments Mark Beffort said the firm’s two garages have a waiting list for reserved spaces. The firm owns City Center East and Leadership Square, totaling about 1,000 spots.

The City Center East garage is between Oklahoma Tower and the Devon Energy Center

“I do think we have a little bit of capacity within our parking garages, but not a lot,” Beffort said. “We’ve had a little settling out. We can oversell by more than that, but we don’t want to overtax our garage too much. We also want to have capacity to offer for businesses interested in the vacant space in our office buildings.”

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The garage design was approved today by the DDRC.

Oklahoma City’s municipal parking garages are at 95 percent of capacity.

The Century Center garage is 136 percent occupied. The Cox Center garage is at 128 percent of capacity, and the Santa Fe parking garage is at 106 percent.

The new Arts District Garage is only at 50 percent of capacity; there are 376 monthly parking spaces still available.


Seems like some folks might jump at the chance to switch garage locations.

Starting to add the new glass level on top:

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Opening in April as per Steve's update.

http://m.newsok.com/article/5532299

Nope. I just don't believe it.

Do we have any clues who the national company is that will be taking the 2nd floor? Cool that Saxum is taking the 5th/6th. Thought some of this was going to be residential but I guess not?

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I walked by the parking garage location yesterday. It looked like they are starting prep work.

Drove by around noon and the site is being worked on.

It's be being worked on for quite some time. Lanes were blocked for the crane to build the top floor until very recently.

Think hde meant the garage

Oh dang! I was just near there and would have walked the half block to see, gah!

The parking lot was fenced off when I was at the memorial the other day.

Yeah I drove by last night and saw fence as well

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From the other side of property, taken on Thursday, 2/23

They have started installing glass around the top. This picture was from yesterday (3/1)

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The crane is back

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oh oops, missed the 3/1 post

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Is there a thread for the garage?

Alright then...

I don't think there is a thread for it. Had they stuck with the original design for the garage then I'm pretty sure there would be. Budget concerns dubbed the project down quite a bit, so now it's pretty much an ordinary garage (nothing special). It'll get the job done but no big news really.

I don't think there is a thread for it. Had they stuck with the original design for the garage then I'm pretty sure there would be. Budget concerns dubbed the project down quite a bit, so now it's pretty much an ordinary garage (nothing special). It'll get the job done but no big news really.

Okay, Thank you for the info.

I noticed in the paper Saturday that Eide Bailey CPA Firm signed a lease for almost 20k feet in this building. I have another friend that works for Heritage Trust that says they will be in soon. So I guess the lower floors are close to being done.

I know this has been talked about before on here with other projects, but yet another case in which the city not requiring contractors to make any considerations for pedestrians has an impact. The sidewalks are just closed along the south side of NW 6th between Robinson and Harvey, and along the north side of NW 5th between Robinson and the alley between Robinson and Broadway. At least along 6th they made some effort to signal that the sidewalk is closed. No such consideration on 5th. Especially so close to the Memorial on 5th you'd think they could put out some cones or something to prevent curbside parking there and maintain pedestrian passage.

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Looks great!

I'm sure someone knows, what is going in on that cleared land in foreground of that last picture?

Parking garage.

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Already going up fast at the parking garage with a bunch of pre-fab parts.

I believe we'll see something like this on the west garage at West Village around the 21c.

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The garage structure is almost complete finished.


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Here's one from a little higher up.

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How long will it take for them to do the exterior designs of the parking garage?

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Should go pretty quickly.

Typically, they are just pre-fab panels that are attached to the concrete structure.

I'm sure they are very anxious to get this finished as tenants are starting to move in the building, and they will have many more people needing parking than previously, due to the expansion and former larger percentage of vacancy.

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wow... it's only been a couple months since i've last been to blu's barbecue... and the lot next to it was just scraped dirt the last time i was there. that garage has gone up quickly.

Pete, in the renderings on the signage in front of the building there appears to be a railing and people walking on the rooftop, but nothing I've seen in real life, including your pics, indicates anything like that. You know what's up with that?

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Our Legacy.

Is this the final product or are there finishes to be applied?

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Early on it was to look like this...

Is this the final product or are there finishes to be applied?

This was the final design that was approved:

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Well that looks good also...

This was the final design that was approved:

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to stand the test of time. Happy to be passing on glorious structures like this to my children and grandchildren.

Our Legacy.

Truly, the Parking Garage Mecca of the World.

I can hear Rick Dowell's screams of pleasure over by Belle Isle.

I am assuming there is still an outer cladding to be applied. If you look at the two pictures:

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And look under the cladding in the rendering, it looks an awful lot like what has been built so far.

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Right and there will also be some sort of stone applied to the south facade.

Grid system going up on garage:

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Grid system going up on garage:

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It looks like the stairwell tower won't be getting the stone facing over the concrete?

You can see the stone / tile going up here.

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Good to see that. Thanks Pete!

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Is there a plan to add climbing vines to the outside of the garage? That would be unique to the city and add some character to an otherwise underwhelming development.