Scissortail Park has been a hit so far, but mostly on late weekends. We’d want to bring a lot more people downtown to hang out, to work, and to live. To do so, we need more shops, more restaurants, more options for people to spend money, but those guys won’t come if there aren’t enough people to support their business, so it’s pretty much a Catch 22. A solution is bringing them downtown all at once, and a mixed use like this one in Rotterdam, Netherlands can do that. It has apartments, condos, food stalls, shops, and underground parking garage and supermarket (yes, I won’t live in downtown until there’s one), all under one roof.

This building will attract local residents and out of state visitors (to the new convention center) alike, encourage companies to move downtown and conferences to choose OKC, and make huge impact on the city’s economy, I can imagine it would lead to the development of many other projects nearby. Aesthetically, it will serve as a super cool background for Scissortail Park’ main stage, a very Instagrammable spot, and that's worth a lot nowadays, not many hotels or office buildings can match.

I wish OKC developers will build something that creative someday.