Midtown

**metro** · 03-17-2007, 09:22 AM

6/10/14 Update

The Midtown District continues it's frantic pace with close to 30 active projects on NW 10th or within a few blocks. The projects shown in the graphic above total more than $250 million in construction.

The Edge @ Midtown is due to welcome it's first residents this summer, and will feature 252 apartments plus retail space. The Midtown Renaissance group will soon open the Mayfair Apartments, adding 18 beautifully renovated units to it's long list of other historical residential properties, including the Guardian, Hadden Hall, and several others. MidtownR is also working on the fragile Marion, which will add another 10 units.

The Edge @ Midtown

In terms of apartments, the two largest complexes in all of urban OKC are both just starting construction at opposite ends of the district: LIFT with 327 units and the Metropolitan with 330; both should be complete by late 2015. Lisbon Lofts is the only for-sale multi-family project in the area but it's brisk advance sales means we can expect to see more. (For comprehensive information about urban living, see our Downtown Housing Summary.)


*LIFT*	*Metropolitan*

There are will soon be a substantial increase in employment, with Sunbeam Family Services and the GE Global Research Center both under construction. Saint Anthony will start a major expansion in the next couple of months and Catholic Charities will soon break ground on their new headquarters. In addition, the Buick Building and Pontiac Building will soon be open and feature large amounts of office space on their upper floors. And 307 NW 13th will host a large energy company, complete with shipping container offices.


*Catholic Charities Headquarters*	*GE Global Research Center*

On the hospitality front, the gorgeous Ambassador Hotel is now open for business, featuring the Viceroy Grille and the top-floor O Bar. It's hard to miss the massive Fassler Hall / Dust Bowl structure and the beer garden and bowling lounge is pushing hard towards a fall opening. Garage Burgers opened it's very popular concept in a unique setting at the Guardian.

Fassler Hall / Dust Bowl

Another ambitious restaurant project is Broadway 10 Chophouse, in the Buick Building. Across the street in the Pontiac Building, the same group will be operating a quaint bar with large a outdoor patio called Sidecar. The owners of well-loved and respected Ludivine are under construction for R&J Lounge & Supper Club. And finally, Midtown will soon be home to OKC's first food truck court, when the slick Bleu Garten opens this fall.


*Broadway 10 Chophouse*	*Bleu Garten Food Truck Court*

Lots of activity on the retail front as well. The Pop-up Shops will bring their portable geodesic domes to the lot just west of Bleu Garten on a semi-regular basis. Sara Kate Studios Shoppe will bring home furnishings and design services to the Pontiac Building. And Nault Gallery will be relocating to the newly-renovated 816 N. Walker and will share that building with Studio Architecture.

A couple other of major happenings... OCU Law School continues to renovate the old Central High building and hopes to be completed in early 2015. And the area's first parking structure, 123 Garage, will be complete in a few months just west of the 10th & Broadway intersection.