This is what I was alluding to when I mentioned this church / 300 foot law isn't necessarily cast in stone.

The Lyric is confident it can obtain an ABC-3 permit even though The Parish is within that distance:

OKCTalk - Lyric Theater seeking to add liquor sales (http://www.okctalk.com/content.php?r=99-Lyric-Theatre-seeking-to-add-liquor-sales)

Let's hope. There is no question The Parish would grant a waiver if the law allowed. Like I've said for years, at the least churches should be given the same waiver option extended to schools. Better yet, the whole law should be scrapped.

I saw some things that made me shake my head in the other thread on here but it was nothing compared to some of the crap that showed up on my Facebook feed from people that I have known for 30-40+ years. Many kept comparing 23rd Street to South Congress in Austin forgetting that there are multiple churches on South Congress. Granted Texas/Austin laws are different regarding the separation issue but they acted incredulous that anyone would put a church in the area in either city and the only reason why anyone would do that is for nefarious reasons because all Christians are Bible thumping abolitionists.

Hahaha...

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I saw some things that made me shake my head in the other thread on here but it was nothing compared to some of the crap that showed up on my Facebook feed from people that I have known for 30-40+ years. Many kept comparing 23rd Street to South Congress in Austin forgetting that there are multiple churches on South Congress. Granted Texas/Austin laws are different regarding the separation issue but they acted incredulous that anyone would put a church in the area in either city and the only reason why anyone would do that is for nefarious reasons because all Christians are Bible thumping abolitionists.

23rd St in OKC and Congress in Austin is apples and oranges because of the separation issue, but I understand where you are coming from. I don't understand what the fear would be in Austin, regardless of the church's intentions. The most fundamentalist, abolitionist church could open up there but other than possible politically incorrect signage, there is nothing they could do to harm the neighborhood or its businesses. In Oklahoma that isn't the case and personally I am quite surprised there hasn't been an attempt by an activist congregation to exploit that law with malicious intentions at some point in the past 20 years. I am very thankful OKC Community Church is wanting to be an attribute to the neighborhood.

The church closed the sale on 1/30/15 for $673,000.

Quietly, they have opened.

Walked by there today and they have completely moved in.

Quietly, they have opened.

Walked by there today and they have completely moved in.

I think they've had services there the last 2-3 Sundays. I've noticed a crowd at least the last few Sunday mornings.