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I would like to think the modern engineering thing holds true. But I would have to see such a building survive the 90s tornado that left a swath of bare dirt through Moore before I'd stay near such a building in a bad storm.
I didn’t want to copy and paste it or do something I don’t know how to do like Cc the guy. And I mean they journalist probably dead ended. You can’t report fraud without proof. And the lackmeyer article I read touched on the lack of bona fides as much without broaching slander. It’s not good journalism to call a liar a liar without absolute proof. Even then all you can do is report the facts. Besides Matteson could easily say that this is his opinion of what is going to happen and then it’s not lying but freedom of speech.
I had mentioned that in 2016, Matteson proposed a large resort in Palm Desert built around a sizeable wave pool geared towards surfers; this was under Matteson Capital, the entity he is using for the Boardwalk at Bricktown. At the same time, he was proposing similar projects in a half-dozen cities.
I found minutes from city council where he told them the project was "fully funded" and would start as soon as he could gain the necessary zoning approvals.
What happened instead is that the project completely collapsed and now there is a new group (Matteson is not involved) that came in and is moving forward.
Still not able to find anything that has been done by Matteson himself or by Matteson Capital.
Does that mean this project probably won’t be happening? Not the tall building, but the others.
There are tiers of developers., for instance 10 years ago when lackmeher said Hines was building to BOKPP. I knew that from day one it was a go. Scott matteson just isn’t on the food chain. And okc has a almost unprecedented lack of density for a city its size. The guy probably thought there is an opportunity to make some money off investors.,
Seems to be plenty of office space downtown. That leaves hotel/residdntial. I don’t see any vertical condos being built any time soon. Not when it’s so cheap to build sprawl. Look at the footprint some of these places downtown have. If only there were a way to require going vertical.that said I was very unimpressed when Omni didn’t include residential but Fort Worth and Louisville did. (Smaller city in my opinion but better QOL). I feel like okc is stuck in a rut of sorts and don’t see a way out.
Just a reminder Dream Hotels still has OKC on their coming soon list on their website.
Not really a rut. OKC has been consistently adding apartments in the core for years now, but for reasons you outlined in your own post, they are not 30+ story high rises. The amount of undeveloped and underdeveloped land available in and around downtown doesn't really dictate a need for that. Requiring vertical would do nothing to change that, but the ongoing infill does. So, we're most likely not going to see it with new construction until infill doesn't meet demand or a developer thinks they can sell it as a "lifestyle" development. I think the latter could work at this point, if done right, and it sounded like maybe this was going to be the project to test that market, but it's gotten so ridiculous that it may ultimately just delay downtown from seeing any such kind of high rise residential development.
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