Has this been mentioned elsewhere? Today, I learned that a business group is going to "develop" that big grass lot by the canal in Bricktown (I think it's just east of Bourbon Street...not 100% sure...it's basically the grass lot that's across the canal from Mickey Mantle's restaurant). But here's the deal: it's not going to be a new building as far as I can tell. It's going to be turned into an open-air patio bar/restaurant. Pretty neat idea, I think. I learned this from speaking to an OKC restaurant consultant who is working on the project.

The only problem I see is, according to the consultant, they plan to shut it down completely when it turns cold and no one wants to sit outside. Who knows what they will do during big rains that are prevalent in April and other months? Maybe this will be a prelude to a new building there.