Bricktown change in attitude?

[ljbab728]

http://newsok.com/brokers-say-era-of...ad_story_title

[mcca7596]

Hopefully all the property squatters will realize that their asking prices are unrealistic.

[Thunder]

While we are on the topic of Bricktown...

I have always wondered about this for years...

Bricktown a named district in OKC or an actual town on its own?

[dankrutka]

It's a town on it's own. The mayor is the bouncer at Rok Bar and city hall is Tapwerks...






J/k, Thunder. It's a district.

[UnFrSaKn]

Just noticed the date is from 2003... oh well.

[Pete]

There has been some progress, such as ACM @ UCO taking the upper floors (and buying) the one large building.

I'm hoping that once the Deep Deuce projects are relatively complete and full that it will spur some of the owners to rework the upper floors of many of those buildings into offices and living units.

[betts]

I'm excited about development of the Sherman Iron Works too. I just wonder why there was no fanfare about the development. Is there concern that this is another planned development that won't ever happen? Main Street would be a great place for a string of retail and the Sherman Iron Works is a great building.

[G.Walker]

I'm excited about development of the Sherman Iron Works too. I just wonder why there was no fanfare about the development. Is there concern that this is another planned development that won't ever happen? Main Street would be a great place for a string of retail and the Sherman Iron Works is a great building.

I think this announcement of the "The Factory" is old news, if you read the caption under to picture its starts by stating Oklahoma City August, 13, 2003. Someone please clarify, again, its hard to get actual facts straight is certain articles...

[Just the facts]

I think this announcement of the "The Factory" is old news, if you read the caption under to picture its starts by stating Oklahoma City August, 13, 2003. Someone please clarify, again, its hard to get actual facts straight is certain articles...

The Factory died a long time ago. This is old old old news.

[betts]

I think this announcement of the "The Factory" is old news, if you read the caption under to picture its starts by stating Oklahoma City August, 13, 2003. Someone please clarify, again, its hard to get actual facts straight is certain articles...

Ah, didn't notice the date on that caption. So it IS another one of the plans that never came to fruition. That's sad, because it's a great building. Everytime I walk by I think about what a shame it is that it hasn't been developed.

[UnFrSaKn]

Check this out... some old photos of Bricktown. I don't remember the Rock Island Freight Station. I literally don't have any memory of it from when these pictures were taken. I didn't have any interest in such things then. There's also a lot of photos of the Sherman Iron Works building.

[warreng88]

Check this out... some old photos of Bricktown. I don't remember the Rock Island Freight Station. I literally don't have any memory of it from when these pictures were taken. I didn't have any interest in such things then. There's also a lot of photos of the Sherman Iron Works building.

If I remember correctly, that was where the current police station is on Main between Walnut and Stills.

[Larry OKC]

Check this out... some old photos of Bricktown. I don't remember the Rock Island Freight Station. I literally don't have any memory of it from when these pictures were taken. I didn't have any interest in such things then. There's also a lot of photos of the Sherman Iron Works building.

Great pics...thanks for sharing...LOVE buildings with "character' and that Blue Door pic is swimming in it!

[UnFrSaKn]

Here's a Google Street View link for those who might not know where it is.

[Steve]

What you're seeing is a very old and incorrect cutline on the Sherman Iron Works photos and is the result of cutting too many people and thinking a damn computer can take up the slack. Notice in print the cutline is fine. But the computers think they're smarter than the humans, and somehow it picked up the original cutline for this archive photo (fresh photos are not taken in such instances because ...)
Forgive me for ranting.... but geez..... asking for a fix now.

[metro]

Long long overdue article but good. Hope this issue gets more media attention or nothing will change

[Just the facts]

Remember about 6 months ago when one of our OKCTalk family members mentioned the impending demise of Bricktown as competitor neighborhoods start getting established, and every one ripped him a new one. Bricktown has maybe 12 months left to get their act together or what you see in Bricktown now is all you will ever see in Bricktown. And by ‘get their act together’ I mean they better find a way to introduce residential, destination retail, and start rethinking Lower Bricktown (although L.B. might already be too messed up to save).

Deep Deuce is about one or two projects away from providing enough amenities that people living there won't have much reason to leave Deep Deuce, and if they do venture out, it will be to AA and Midtown. Being the only fish in the pond is great until 3 more fish show up.

[metro]

Remember about 6 months ago when one of our OKCTalk family members mentioned the impending demise of Bricktown as competitor neighborhoods start getting established, and every one ripped him a new one. Bricktown has maybe 12 months left to get their act together or what you see in Bricktown now is all you will ever see in Bricktown. And by ‘get their act together’ I mean they better find a way to introduce residential, destination retail, and start rethinking Lower Bricktown (although L.B. might already be too messed up to save).

Deep Deuce is about one or two projects away from providing enough amenities that people living there won't have much reason to leave Deep Deuce, and if they do venture out, it will be to AA and Midtown. Being the only fish in the pond is great until 3 more fish show up.

Here here, this site definitely has favoritism depending on the poster. Bricktown appears to be willingly choosing the path of West End, and to no surprise. OKC rarely choses to learn from history

[foodiefan]

Here here, this site definitely has favoritism depending on the poster. Bricktown appears to be willingly choosing the path of West End, and to no surprise. OKC rarely choses to learn from history

Metro. . .knowing you like to be precisely correct and all. . . "Hear, hear is an expression used as a short, repeated form of hear him, hear him. It represents a listener's agreement with the point being made by a speaker. It is often incorrectly spelled "here here".

[Spartan]

Remember about 6 months ago when one of our OKCTalk family members mentioned the impending demise of Bricktown as competitor neighborhoods start getting established, and every one ripped him a new one. Bricktown has maybe 12 months left to get their act together or what you see in Bricktown now is all you will ever see in Bricktown. And by ‘get their act together’ I mean they better find a way to introduce residential, destination retail, and start rethinking Lower Bricktown (although L.B. might already be too messed up to save).

Deep Deuce is about one or two projects away from providing enough amenities that people living there won't have much reason to leave Deep Deuce, and if they do venture out, it will be to AA and Midtown. Being the only fish in the pond is great until 3 more fish show up.

I am kinda on the fence with this one. I could easily see either side, honestly. You might not be wrong, but I hope you are. None of us want to see this happen to Bricktown. I also hate to accuse leadership of being piss poor. But there has to be something you can do about this squatting. I haven't even seen them try.

We're going to have to wait and see what Bricktown leadership really means depending on how they handle this House of Bedlam joke of a proposal. We've all been expecting leadership to come from the Bricktown Association, but that's nuts, it's just a neighborhood association. Leadership must come from the city and from the Bricktown Urban Design Commission. Avis chairs it, and she also owns the Rock Island Plow Building. That group can also decide what happens with the grassy knoll. The likelihood that a worthy development goes there if they deny the current proposal is obviously infinitely higher than if they approve the current proposal...

[Steve]

Remember about 6 months ago when one of our OKCTalk family members mentioned the impending demise of Bricktown as competitor neighborhoods start getting established, and every one ripped him a new one. Bricktown has maybe 12 months left to get their act together or what you see in Bricktown now is all you will ever see in Bricktown. And by ‘get their act together’ I mean they better find a way to introduce residential, destination retail, and start rethinking Lower Bricktown (although L.B. might already be too messed up to save).

Deep Deuce is about one or two projects away from providing enough amenities that people living there won't have much reason to leave Deep Deuce, and if they do venture out, it will be to AA and Midtown. Being the only fish in the pond is great until 3 more fish show up.

In 12 months we'll be seeing a new hotel being built in Bricktown, and likely, the conversion of upper floors of some of the warehouses into housing. I'll make a bet real quick that Bricktown will be as busy on Friday nights in one year as it was last night.

[mcca7596]

I don't think that Bricktown will ever lose its appeal to people from small town Oklahoma and the suburbs simply because it's mostly all they know and has been their main experience with urban design in Oklahoma. I think Bricktown will continue to thrive as a purely entertainment district, but might not ever become the urban neighborhood we all hoped it would 10 years ago. As others have pointed out too, it really doesn't do much for locals anymore.

[betts]

I don't think that Bricktown will ever lose its appeal to people from small town Oklahoma and the suburbs simply because it's mostly all they know and has been their main experience with urban design in Oklahoma. I think Bricktown will continue to thrive as a purely entertainment district, but might not ever become the urban neighborhood we all hoped it would 10 years ago. As others have pointed out too, it really doesn't do much for locals anymore.

On the other hand, I spent happy hour last Friday at Norm's Dockside with a bunch of friends who live around downtown. We rotate where we eat, to include Bricktown as well as the other areas such as Deep Deuce, Automobile Alley, Film Row and Midtown. Before Thunder games Bricktown is hopping, as well as on Friday and Saturday nights.

[ljbab728]

Before Thunder games Bricktown is hopping, as well as on Friday and Saturday nights.

That's why equating Bricktown to places like the West End in Dallas fails. The West End was basically dependant on itself to attract crowds.

[mcca7596]

good to know!