I don't care about the restaurant component of it. The restaurant component can be there or not be there as far as I'm concerned.

What is imperative is that the district be a relatively small area capable of shutting down the streets to vehicular traffic so that hundreds of people can move freely from one bar to another without any real threat of being hit by a car. Even though nobody wants to put it this way, we're essentially talking about a drunk zone…especially on Fridays and Saturdays.

And with S&B, Iguana, Hillbilly's, and now Peloton, that area east of Broadway represents the best possible area in OKC (and it is really not even close) for a district that is all about the people coming out to spend money on booze and maybe find some other tertiary entertainment (piano bar, live band, dancing, hook-ups).

The reason this works better than anywhere else is because it's concentrated, the roads are in low demand outside of the specific purpose of getting to these destinations, and the district doesn't need to serve any other purpose.

And, again, this will essentially be the center point between Deep Deuce and Midtown, and the Metropolitan is right there, and it has much better access to the rest of the city (via 235) than any of these other areas, save for 23rd.

And maybe the most important of all points, it will likely sit right on a stop on the future N/S Commuter line. I could see tons of Edmond and Norman people coming on the weekends via Rail, drinking it up, and going home…and all that with far less drunk driving than if they drive up here, drink it up only a little less, and then drive 20 miles home.