Merge if you like but I thought this could use it's own thread instead of necro-bumping a dead thread.


Bricktown is more or less what got the ball rolling for the downtown rennaissance but it seems it's being forgotten. And it's the fault of the developers for it being this way. If I'm not mistaken, most of the Bricktown warehouses still have empty upper floors. Why not lease these out to businesses for office space. Not everything in Bricktown has to be a restaurant or retail (although Bricktown could use a lot more sustainable retail). But the second and third floors of these warehouses aren't necessarily the place to put such retail.

These floors would be great places for small businesses to lease as office space. If you were a self employed architect or an accountant or maybe a small law firm or a real estate agent (agency) etc. There are all kinds of possibilities for small businesses and self employed businesses to lease office space. There's no good reason for all that space to sit untapped. It would bring even more vitality and work day foot traffic to the area. I can't imagine that the build-out cost would be that great or cost prohibitive for nice looking office space.

Maybe since I'm not in the development game I just don't get what it is the prevents this from being done. I hoped for years that those buildings would become multi-use. Then after years of the space being empty and realizing that wasn't coming, I tried to understand for years as to why it wouldn't or couldn't happen.