Plaza District

[OkieBerto]

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Thanks.

You can see the way that is being built there will be live/work units on the ground floor, not a big combined space for a restaurant as the one rendering shows.

Considering they already have a ton of these built in the neighborhood, I guess that means they have had demand for more.

[bison34]

These are the type of developments that help provide quality customer bases for the restaurants in the Plaza! But a few 100+ unit developments to truly make massive progress!

[OkieBerto]

Dusty Gilpin and Carlos Barboza have announced they took over the lease of 1717 NW 16th Street in the Plaza District. This is the old Gas Station in between Lyric Theater and Rad Bar. They are going to make into Art Studios.

[The]

Wonderful news! Barboza is an incredible artist.

[warreng88]

Dusty Gilpin and Carlos Barboza have announced they took over the lease of 1717 NW 16th Street in the Plaza District. This is the old Gas Station in between Lyric Theater and Rad Bar. They are going to make into Art Studios.

I noticed work was going on there last week and posted about it. Good to see what is going in there.

[OkieBerto]

I noticed work was going on there last week and posted about it. Good to see what is going in there.

Your post is what made me curious and I started watching out for signs of what was going on. I go way back with Dusty Gilpin all the way to Tree & Leaf Clothing, so I follow him closely. He posted some demo videos yesterday. I think this is going to be an awesome space.

One of the coolest things about Dusty making art in this space, my Grandfather was a graphic artist and had rented a studio just across the street behind Rad Bar. It was probably over 50 years ago. Dusty's Grandfather was also a graphic designer in OKC at the same time as mine.