Bowling alley coming to Lower Bricktown; condos pre-sold

[Turanacus]

Dave & Busters will have to go in on the south side of the river along SW 15th, somewhere between the Meridian Landing (new Holiday Inn) and the Dell Campus. Discussions are in the works already.

[betts]

Water taxis will eliminate any thoughts of the area near Meridian requiring a separate trip or a separate evening. Hopefully that will raise the quality of what's already down in that area.

[keving]

Dave & Busters will have to go in on the south side of the river along SW 15th, somewhere between the Meridian Landing (new Holiday Inn) and the Dell Campus. Discussions are in the works already.

That kind of seems like an odd location but there is a lot of potential constantly changing customer base with all those hotels and motels near by.

[Flyfish23]

I found the bowling lounge's website. It's RedPin. It looks really cool, too.

[bella]

Bowling ‘lounge’ set to strike Bricktown in October
by Kelley Chambers
The Journal Record July 18, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY – Bricktown has entertainment, food, sports, shopping and soon, the district will add bowling to its list of attractions. But don’t call it a bowling alley.
Any association with a traditional bowling alley – complete with plastic chairs and the ubiquitous pitcher of beer – will have little to no place in what is being billed as an upscale bowling lounge and restaurant
Construction on The RedPin Bowling Lounge, led by a group of local investors and managing partners Shawn and Erin Brewer, will begin next week.
David Wanzer, a design team member with J3 Architecture, which created the look of RedPin, said the developers wanted a chic, upscale bowling and dining area similar to some that have been popping up around the country.
“They don’t call them bowling alleys anymore,” Wanzer said. “They’re bowling lounges or boutique bowling, where the emphasis is on great food and an upscale social experience.”
The bowling lounge will be 12,000 square feet, offer 10 bowling lanes, a 60-foot video wall and will be able to hold about 220 people.
Work is set to begin next week by Jacobs Contracting with a targeted opening date in mid-October.
RedPin will also have a view of the Bricktown Canal from its space on the canal level of the $14.3 million Centennial on the Canal loft and retail project now under construction.
Wanzer said the project has been in the works for several years and ended up including a design team made up of J3, Fitzsimmons Architects and Tandem Design Studio. He said the investors and the designers wanted to create a cool evening spot as well as a place where families might stop by and bowl during the day and a spot desirable for corporate functions.
Some of the other features will include custom-designed bowling shoes available for rent and comfortable lounge furniture at the lanes."


Just more info on the upcoming enterprise.

[Misty]

Is it just me or does anyone else think sharing shoes with hundred of other people is completely gross? Ewww. (But yes I've still done it).

P.S. I hate Dave & Busters. With a passion. At least I hate the one in Austin. The one in San Antonio is slightly tolarable for a brief amount of time.

[Nixon7]

How many years away are we from a D & B? That would be exciting.

[metro]

bella, welcome to the board.

Just FYI, that article was posted back on page 3 along with a pic/rendering of the lounge if anyone is interested in seeing it.

[BFizzy]

Dave & Buster's = Chucky Cheese + Beer

I don't understand the appeal. Is it because it's a place where you can let your kids play video games while you drink at the bar?

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

Dave & Buster's = Chucky Cheese + Beer

I don't understand the appeal. Is it because it's a place where you can let your kids play video games while you drink at the bar?

No, I don't have kids. But I WILL get hammered on a HUGE beer selection, play pool on some of the best tables in town, ride a motorcycle, go snowboarding, and shoot 11,000 zombies over a period of about 4 or 5 hours. I may even sqeeze a meal in there somewhere too.

Some of us may be 35 years old, but we don't have to act it. All the D&B's I've been in were fairly devoid of the little people after about 10pm anyway. They're also pricey enough to keep most of the belligerent college kids out too.

I wound up in a private party with just about all the Denver Broncos at the Denver D&B's once. BTW, John Elway can drink his own weight in booze. Every hour. All night. And Maa Tanuvasa is one cool dude.

[jdsplaypin]

I went to the one (D & B) in Kansas City just earlier this week for the first time. I understand the after 10 p.m. comment may be valid, but my goodness there were alot of little kiddos running around. Probably 4 kids for every 1 adult. needless to say the place was overran with children with their parents getting drunk at the bar. Just another babysitting service until bedtime...

[maestro]

... needless to say the place was overran with children with their parents getting drunk at the bar. ..

That's a little scary.

[CrimsonOberon]

Bowling ‘lounge’ set to strike Bricktown in October
by Kelley Chambers
The Journal Record July 18, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY – Bricktown has entertainment, food, sports, shopping and soon, the district will add bowling to its list of attractions. But don’t call it a bowling alley.
Any association with a traditional bowling alley – complete with plastic chairs and the ubiquitous pitcher of beer – will have little to no place in what is being billed as an upscale bowling lounge and restaurant
Construction on The RedPin Bowling Lounge, led by a group of local investors and managing partners Shawn and Erin Brewer, will begin next week.
David Wanzer, a design team member with J3 Architecture, which created the look of RedPin, said the developers wanted a chic, upscale bowling and dining area similar to some that have been popping up around the country.
“They don’t call them bowling alleys anymore,” Wanzer said. “They’re bowling lounges or boutique bowling, where the emphasis is on great food and an upscale social experience.”
The bowling lounge will be 12,000 square feet, offer 10 bowling lanes, a 60-foot video wall and will be able to hold about 220 people.
Work is set to begin next week by Jacobs Contracting with a targeted opening date in mid-October.
RedPin will also have a view of the Bricktown Canal from its space on the canal level of the $14.3 million Centennial on the Canal loft and retail project now under construction.
Wanzer said the project has been in the works for several years and ended up including a design team made up of J3, Fitzsimmons Architects and Tandem Design Studio. He said the investors and the designers wanted to create a cool evening spot as well as a place where families might stop by and bowl during the day and a spot desirable for corporate functions.
Some of the other features will include custom-designed bowling shoes available for rent and comfortable lounge furniture at the lanes."


Just more info on the upcoming enterprise.

Good article.
Not much of a bowler, but I might check it out just for the view of the canal and the atmosphere.

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

I went to the one (D & B) in Kansas City just earlier this week for the first time. I understand the after 10 p.m. comment may be valid, but my goodness there were alot of little kiddos running around. Probably 4 kids for every 1 adult. needless to say the place was overran with children with their parents getting drunk at the bar. Just another babysitting service until bedtime...

That was never my experience in any of the D&B's I've been in.

But I primarily went on Friday/Saturday nights, so the kids were a rarity. Saturday at noon, I could see it though. And that would drive me right back out the door.

[metro]

jdsplaypin, I had the same experience at the Kansas City D&B, it was like Saturday night or something and their were plenty of kids there. Again, I'm a twentysomething or considered the "hip" crowd and I don't see the mass appeal of this place other than the food is better than Chuck E Cheese or Celebration Station. It's just another place that is close if not already past it's primetime just like Hard Rock, Planet Hollywood, Jimmy Buffet's, etc. we don't need a D&B.

[metro]

Here's an update on that Australian clown Hogan and his lower stucco-town.

Centennial on Canal set for winter

August 27, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY – The race is on for one Oklahoma City development group to complete their Centennial on the Canal loft and retail project so tenants can occupy the sold-out residential units before Oklahoma’s centennial year passes.Work on the Centennial project began last August, and developer Randy Hogan hopes to have the retail areas open by November with residential tenants moving in by Christmas.The nearly $15 million, 80,000-square-foot project, which stands alone in Lower Bricktown housing, sits south of Reno Avenue and runs next to one portion of the Bricktown Canal.

Pre-sales on the retail and residential units began early last summer and by the groundbreaking the developers reported 60 percent of the units had sold. Now, months from completion, they report all 30 lofts have sold.In the retail space on the canal level, work is under way on the 12,000-square-foot RedPin Bowling Lounge. On the first level a Starbucks Coffee is slated for the northwest side facing Reno Avenue. About 12,000 square feet of retail space is still available.“We’re trying to get the absolute perfect tenant mix of boutique retail; that’s what we’re focused on at the moment,” Hogan said. “We’ve got some nice interest but it has to be the right mix.” (Oh really Hogan, Starbucks is boutique retail now huh? This place is looking more like Quail Springs Mall everyday)

Looking over the Bricktown Canal at the Centennial building more than a year after the groundbreaking, Hogan said for taking a chance on a project of that scope, he is pleased with the success so far.Hogan has stayed busy with several Lower Bricktown projects in recent years, including the Bass Pro Shops, Harkins Theatres and Sonic Corp.’s headquarters.Despite some slowdowns due to rainy weather in recent months, Hogan said the Centennial project has only fallen slightly behind schedule.“The rain put us back about five weeks,” he said. “But we’ve been able to catch up most if not all of that.”

As to who has purchased the residential units, Hogan said it is a mix of people using the lofts as a weekend or city home, some full-time residents, including Gary Gregory.Gregory, senior advisor at Sperry Van Ness, not only handled selling the units but also bought one of his own looking east over the canal.

After the initial success of the pre-sales, Gregory said sales lagged during the winter but interest increased when the building began to take shape. The price for the one- and two-bedroom lofts started at about $305,000 and went up to about $600,000.“

As soon as people began to see the structure coming up there was a point when they believed it was actually going to happen and they all began to jump on it,” Gregory said. “It was pretty much what I had expected (but) I was pleasantly surprised that the reality matched my expectations.”

And while Sperry Van Ness usually does not focus on residential properties, Gregory said with the scope of the Centennial and Hogan’s reputation, he wanted to be part of the project.“I wouldn’t take on selling units that weren’t finished for just anyone,” he said.The ownership group for the Centennial, Bricktown Entertainment, LLC, is made up of Hogan, his brother Brad Hogan, David Harper and Mark Elgin.

Copyright © 2007 The Journal Record

[metro]

Rumor has it they are opening up Nov. 12th and they are still claiming that date. I think that will be a big push. Anyone else heard anything?

RedPin

[dalelakin]

I can see the PBA bringing a tournament here. Not a MAJOR event by any means but still nice to get the national exposure for B-town.

[Taggart]

It looked far from done when I was there a few days ago.

[Flyfish23]

I know the owners and they are currently waiting on their final construction inspections so they can open, which should be the 16th. However, its also dependent upon Hogan/Timberlake getting their parts done as well.

[metro]

Today's the 16th, any word flyfish if they are getting inspections to open this weekend?

[Pete]

From the looks of their website, I only see 8 lanes.

I bet they end up wishing they had put in more. Similar places out here do very, very well.

Will be a very cool addition to the downtown scene.

[Flyfish23]

It looks like they are good on inspections. They won't be open this weekend though since they will be preparing to open next week (probably wednesday). The place will have 10 lanes. They would have preferred more, but there was only space for 10. I got to take a sneak peak this week and the place is looking very cool.

[m burleson]

I dont think some of the trades are ready for a inspector to come by

[Flyfish23]

I walked by RedPin yesterday while I was in Bricktown catching a movie and they have signs up on the doors saying that they will be open this Wednesday, Nov 21st.