Quote Originally Posted by soonerguru View Post

And by the way, 1) It's an awesome development, and 2) It's entirely appropriate to discuss the addition of another massive surface parking area in a dense (or something we wish were dense) urban area. It's certainly something that the Urban Design Committee will be discussing with the developer.
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.