Quote Originally Posted by Spartan View Post
J Pitman did a good job with that development. Since then, a lot of these hotel developers have done lesser versions of that, pushing the envelope against the BUDC. The problem is that all real estate investments in Bricktown should be protected from lesser developments.
This is probably the biggest problem I have with development in OKC. It seems that the prevailing attitude from many developers isn't to clear the bar set by the preceding development, it is to come in just under it, in what has become a race to the bottom, when we should be in a race to the top. Instead of incremental improvements from each developer only a very small handful of developers are actually raising the bar. Just because a specific development isn't huge doesn't mean they should just get a pass on quality design, but far too many people still hold the belief that something is better than nothing, and that is never true. Sometimes it is okay to say, "Thanks, but no thanks. We already have enough substandard stuff."