As other expats have said regarding Rover's wonderful take on Ruth Chris bringing national clout to downtown, I also agree.
Personally, I would rather a McCormick and Schmick or Morton's of Chicago for national clout that offers better than RC and have RC go into NHP but i'm sure it will do well along with the other steakhouses in the steak capital of America.
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
I guess everybody differs in their tastes of steakhouses. It’s been years but we always had good to great experiences at Ruth’s Chris. Only been to Morton’s once but was not a fan of how much they char the steaks. And went to Bobs not that long ago but wasn’t really blown away; maybe the people we were with hyped it up too much. Capital Grille definitely gets my vote as a good chain. As far as some of our local steakhouses being that much better then RC, I guess I differ in opinion here as well. Won’t name them bc don’t want to ruffle any feathers but there’s at least one named above that I don’t even understand how they have such a good following. 3 trips there for me and 3 ok to bad experiences.
I agree that all will survive and move OKC's cache up a level among business travelers and elite.
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
I don't know if all of them could survive right now, but once they are open, we will have a new park, convention center and other added tourist destinations that will add to the traffic. I don't love Ruth's Chris, but having a well known chain like that downtown will be a good addition. I think Mahogany, Mickey Mantle's, Red Prime and Broadway 10 and Vast will all do fine. I am worried about smaller places like The Mantle and how they will pan out. just my two cents.
And remember, FNC will have its own residents and hotel guests.
Bob's Steak & Chop House will have their hotel guests also.
Steel starting to be removed piece by piece in the east section.
It's so weird to see the place actually coming down piece by piece like this.
The volume of debris from this job site must be tremendous. I wonder where they are hauling all this debris to?
I'm curious, was the building slated to be a parking garage originally a garage? I know nothing of engineering but it seems a parking garage would have to be built to hold heavier loads than a regular office building.
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Yes, I asked Gary Brooks about this specifically.
Office floors are actually engineered to carry more weight than a corresponding level in a parking garage.
So in the case of FNC, they will merely convert what was office space in the center of the buildings to parking.
The weight of the pool will be tremendous.
Which weighs more, A ton of cars or a ton of Office equipment
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Yes, office floors are generally taller.
If you look at the taller garages downtown you'll see they are significantly shorter than the same # of floors in an office building.
Developers are now asking the city for a $25MM loan.
This would be in addition to all the TIF money and other incentives.
City would have to go borrow the money then charge them about 1% more.
I suspect they are running into serious budget overruns.
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