This is a promotion underway by the OKC COC to recruit new oil related businesses. The video is in the lower right hand corner and includes comments by most of our local energy related leaders.

VeloCity Vol. 10 (http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/bdce937c#/bdce937c/11)

The first 3 paragraphs of page 14 is what is wrong with downtown OKC and why we get stuff like 499 Sheridan and Sandridge Commons.

The first 3 paragraphs of page 14 is what is wrong with downtown OKC and why we get stuff like 499 Sheridan and Sandridge Commons.

If that's how energy HQs want to design their campuses that is their right. Also, that in and of itself doesn't have anything to do with demolishing historic structures.

Pretty sure JTF is referring to this central theme, "Restaurants settings and menus are designed to outdraw off-campus alternatives."

Effectively makes places designed in that manner dead space for significant periods of time by keeping as many people as possible inside by sucking them in directly from parking garages to their work spaces until quitting time when they go back to the garage and drive out to the 'burbs - and therefore off the street and out of potential other businesses. The longer as OKC continues developing in this manner, the longer it will take for more residential and retail infill to ever take hold.

Of course that is their right to build in that manner, but that doesn't change the effects. The flip side is they choose to develop their campuses like that because of the lack of supporting businesses for their employees. It makes these discussions frustrating sometimes - chicken or egg?

The video is awesome! It was sent as a special mailer to several hundred companies in Colorado a few weeks ago. It was a card that played an HD video when you opened it. Those companies never see the first 3 paragraphs or the text in the Velocity Magazine for that matter. That is just where those who did not get the mailer can view it.

Page 16 is interesting. An old picture that has been edited and shows the crosstown blvd on the ground and going under the railroad tracks. The east end of the photo is still the old crosstown bridge.

Page 16 is interesting. An old picture that has been edited and shows the crosstown blvd on the ground and going under the railroad tracks. The east end of the photo is still the old crosstown bridge.Yeah that is extremely interesting. The river also hasn't been extended into a canal to go under the 40 and butt up against the Bricktown Canal. Then they photoshop the new BLVD and still have the eastern most part still under construction yet they still have the COOP in the picture.

One thing I love is the Wichita Mountains is being branded as a nearby selling point for OKC which is cool because it isn't all that far from us.