I understand your point, but you sort of mischaracterize the situation. It is not as if they are tearing down buildings to replace them with a "massive surface parking area". They are, in fact, planning to take out a small building and a "massive, abandoned surface parking area and replacing it with a larger, quite urban-oriented building and a much-less massive surface parking area; which, as others have speculated, can be built on at a later date.
The huge transition being done by OKC requires a lot of small steps.
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