Quote Originally Posted by HOT ROD View Post
OK folks, now that we've got this out of our system a little bit, let's consider the situation. While I agree with everyone that it totally sucks that the project is not going forward, keep in mind that OGE said the project is not dead, just on hold. Furthermore, they expanded that by saying they still had employees scattered throughout downtown (including a site that will be consumed by the Central Park and/or Convention Center (I forget which one or if its both), so they need a tower just not one that's 25 floors/500K sq ft.

And while I am totally disgusted that the city allowed Rainey Williams to come in and tear down the Stage Center so quickly and I'm equally upset at OGE for using Rainey as a front man instead of their just coming upfront with their plans - it is nice to see they do value public opinion and are chosing to wait on partnering with a larger tenant before they build the tower(s); this should give us the 25+ floor tower we all want for this piece of land.

OR - 2 years could go by and OGE could sell and build a 400 foot, 22-floor architecturally pleasing Clayco tower near their current property and turn their current building into housing/hotel (which is what should happen in the first place - enrich that part of downtown), and let the Stage Center site be redeveloped along the lines we anticipate the Ford site will be redeveloped. ... Yes, it sucks to wait this long but honestly, this could be the best thing that could have happened to this part of downtown; ensure we get a quality, highrise development rather than BOK Park Plaza disaster zone #2 fronting the elementary school.
What? Optimism and hopefulness? You're not jumping off a bridge? Good *might* come from all this?

Love it Don't pretend to know how it will all turn out, but man, an optimistic view is surely a nice one to read.