Ambassador Hotel

[BoulderSooner]

There are people doing it right now.

not many and very few by choice

[Spartan]

Park Harvey has no parking and is leased up. They took a hit when they could no longer use the garage that Devon expanded, but now they're back up near full occupancy.

[BoulderSooner]

Park Harvey has no parking and is leased up. They took a hit when they could no longer use the garage that Devon expanded, but now they're back up near full occupancy.

they offer parking for a fee (in a garage down the street) ... and lots of people that live in Park harvey work downtown and have "free" parking via their employer

[Spartan]

they offer parking for a fee (in a garage down the street) ... and lots of people that live in Park harvey work downtown and have "free" parking via their employer

Yup. And?

[Pete]

Here are the detailed plans submitted for review. Note, the hotel will now be called The Ambassador, same as the Coury property in Tulsa.

Rooftop bar is going to be killer! Fantastic views and an outside deck.

[HangryHippo]

I dig it.

[Pete]

Hope they can get a restaurant operator for the ground floor along the same quality of the Chalkboard in their Tulsa location. Really charming, excellent place.

Remember, Coury was the one behind the Colcord, so expect the same excellence in terms of room furnishings and general restoration.

[betts]

Maybe we could get La Baguette back! Since Le Cep hasn't opened yet, I'm really ready for a French bistro near downtown.

That should be a great hotel and great addition to the area. It will definitely support all the surrounding restaurants as well.

[BoulderSooner]

i think i read somewhere that the restaurant will be owned by the hotel ..

[Pete]

To give you an idea of the views from atop this building...

[ljbab728]

If we have to put up with EFIS on the rear addition, at least it's with rustification lines which doesn't look quite as bad.

[soonerguru]

Maybe we could get La Baguette back! Since Le Cep hasn't opened yet, I'm really ready for a French bistro near downtown.

That should be a great hotel and great addition to the area. It will definitely support all the surrounding restaurants as well.

What has happened with Le Cep.

[soonerguru]

i think i read somewhere that the restaurant will be owned by the hotel ..

Correct.

[BoulderSooner]

this is back before the DDR (Item 6. B) next week to change the elevator towers to match the building (still efis) add windows to the elevator towers and lower the south tower to match the building height ..

new renderings look good.

[jeff.]

I scanned the article and the thread but didn't see any projected completion dates for the renovations? Maybe I missed something, but I'd love to know when this is supposed to be done and if it is going to be while I'm living at Twelve Twelve... That would be awesome!

[Anonymous.]

I hope more buildings downtown and surrounding it begin realizing the potential for rooftop establishments/penthouses. OKC is finally something to look at. Lots of buildings with rooftops generating zero $.


This looks great.

[Spartan]

I scanned the article and the thread but didn't see any projected completion dates for the renovations? Maybe I missed something, but I'd love to know when this is supposed to be done and if it is going to be while I'm living at Twelve Twelve... That would be awesome!

I believe the TIF has a deadline associated with it.

[Pete]

If they get started in the near future (and the MidtownR group tends to start not long after getting approvals) then they should finish sometime in 2014.

[Praedura]

okcBIZ has an article on this:

okcBIZ: News: Development: Osler Building

Fleming is anxious to add a boutique hotel to the tapestry of MidTown.

“Every good neighborhood has to have a number of complementary uses, and one of those uses is hotel/lodging,” he says.
“This really gets us there in a first-class way, which is what we’re all about.”

Love the architectural details on this old building.

[Pete]

I'm so excited about this project, as it will add a very needed piece to the evolving Midtown mosiac.

Midtown is on the verge of greatness with this hotel (done to the very high standards of the Ambassador in Tulsa and the Colcord in OKC), the huge array of beautifully remodeled MidtownR buidings (and more to come from them), the hundreds of new residents once The Edge opens, the continual expansion of St. Anthony, and of course rumors of all types of things not yet announced.

By the time the streetcar starts running up that way there will already be tons in place and I believe there will be much more infill after that permanent link is created to downtown.

It seems a tipping point has been reached and we are rolling downhill now... Very similar to Deep Deuce, it's just a much bigger area.

[Praedura]

I think it's interesting that the building was constructed in three phases (three floors, three more, then a seventh). And now yet another phase with the new rooftop. Just keeps getting added on to...

Also, I'm wondering if Coury is wanting to become a hotel tycoon. Will there be hundreds of Ambassador hotels 20 years from now?

[Praedura]

... And now yet another phase with the new rooftop. Just keeps getting added on to...

Oh wait, my bad. The rooftop bar is a conversion, not a new floor. But the stairway/elevator towers are (will be) new.

[Praedura]

This rendering from a recent Slice magazine blurb seems a little clearer than the one posted earlier on this thread:



Clearer as in the coloring looks more realistic and the Ambassador sign is (mostly) legible.

[HangryHippo]

This is going to be really nice.

[Pete]

^
Yes, just goes to show that once something is gone, it's gone forever.

So many times the economic realities of a particular time can have very, very long-lasting effects.

But to be fair, almost all property is in the hands of private ownership -- as it should be -- and thus the shorter-term money issues are always going to be overriding factors.