Oklahoma River new project

[shane453]

This forum has funny moderation! Disappearing posts! Haha

[route66gal]

I know something you don't know................. More info in the coming weeks or sooner if I get permission. I'll also see if I can get some potential renderings but right now things are in the design stage. Hint, it's not a new building but upgrades to the river area.

Spend more money on projects.. so the contractors get money, and the people who do not even live In Oklahoma City can visit Bricktown on the weekends, All the while ignoring our inner city schools. And making Oklahoma City Metro area unlivable unless you can afford a private school. News Flash, the private schools are not very supportive of autism and other disabilities so even if you are rich enough to send your kid there, you end up stuck in a public school that seriously needs funding for those programs.

Oklahoma should be ashamed of themselves when their schools are so horrid it takes a local corporation like Chesapeake to uplift them to national standards. Get with it Oklahoma, we are losing our youth to your frivolous greed.

[ssandedoc]

Maybe its those self propelled swan boats for the OK river.

[Richard at Remax]

you are right shane. One of my posts disappeared. I thought it was pretty funny too.

[Architect2010]

Spend more money on projects.. so the contractors get money, and the people who do not even live In Oklahoma City can visit Bricktown on the weekends, All the while ignoring our inner city schools. And making Oklahoma City Metro area unlivable unless you can afford a private school. News Flash, the private schools are not very supportive of autism and other disabilities so even if you are rich enough to send your kid there, you end up stuck in a public school that seriously needs funding for those programs.

Oklahoma should be ashamed of themselves when their schools are so horrid it takes a local corporation like Chesapeake to uplift them to national standards. Get with it Oklahoma, we are losing our youth to your frivolous greed.

Speak for yourself. I know I am in inner-city OKCPS student and so are all my friends and I can tell you that we won't be lost to "frivolous greed". Yes, they are so greedy that we so did not have a tax for 7 years on the whole city to rebuild and update every school in the city. Get your facts straight. I'm proud to be a student from Lafayette Elementary, Webster Junior High, and Southeast High. I have never been detracted from my education. I have a 4.235 GPA and I plan on going far with my life and I'll express the whole way that I'm a product of inner-city schools that tough me far more than any suburban mecca "institute" that has 2000 kids that don't know a thing about this world except for the Hollister on their back and their daddy's money.

[krisb]

How about Humphreys' ferris wheel somewhere on the river?

[CuatrodeMayo]

Spend more money on projects.. so the contractors get money, and the people who do not even live In Oklahoma City can visit Bricktown on the weekends, All the while ignoring our inner city schools. And making Oklahoma City Metro area unlivable unless you can afford a private school. News Flash, the private schools are not very supportive of autism and other disabilities so even if you are rich enough to send your kid there, you end up stuck in a public school that seriously needs funding for those programs.

Oklahoma should be ashamed of themselves when their schools are so horrid it takes a local corporation like Chesapeake to uplift them to national standards. Get with it Oklahoma, we are losing our youth to your frivolous greed.

I sense a troll.

[Platemaker]

Spend more money on projects.. so the contractors get money, and the people who do not even live In Oklahoma City can visit Bricktown on the weekends, All the while ignoring our inner city schools. And making Oklahoma City Metro area unlivable unless you can afford a private school. News Flash, the private schools are not very supportive of autism and other disabilities so even if you are rich enough to send your kid there, you end up stuck in a public school that seriously needs funding for those programs.

Oklahoma should be ashamed of themselves when their schools are so horrid it takes a local corporation like Chesapeake to uplift them to national standards. Get with it Oklahoma, we are losing our youth to your frivolous greed.

Have you not heard of MAPS for Kids???

Anyway... though I hate to say it... I bet most of the problem with our schools has more to do with the parents and the kids rather than the schools themselves. Seems to me a lot of parents here don't value education and therefore don't hold their children accountable for their performance.

Okay sorry... back to the topic at hand.

Maybe a rendering on the pedestrian bridge ofer the river where Hudson would be???

[metro]

Platemaker, no, the pedestrian bridge has already been discussed and design announced. There's a thread on it with picture.

[Platemaker]

metro- I've seen the Skydance Bridge... but that is over the new I-40. There will also be a pedestrian bridge over the river on the same axis. If you know where renderings of that are i really wanna see!

[HSC-Sooner]

They're stocking the river with even more fish, allow fishing on the canal, and tie it in with Bass Pro Shop.

[BDP]

I'll guess a beach... or has that, too, been discussed somewhere at some point by someone??

[metro]

no beach...., not pedestrian bridge. From what I hear, the river area pedestrian bridge is still several years out at best.

[rjstone208]

Rowing News came out today with an article about Oklahoma City being a model for Rowing. It also had renderings of the river east of the Boathouse with cuts in the bank for new boathouses and other details. Pretty neat writeup for anyone interesting in rowing.

[mmonroe]

Dang it Metro. Stop with the teasing. You're like a school girl on prom night and i'm your date.

[rinni]

Did I miss the revelation?

[OKCisOK4me]

They're going to build an underground course for the river and replace the current rocky ditch with an East/West Commuter route so all the Union Station "save these tracks" bastards will shut the heck up.

[soonerfan21]

sounds like it was a whole lotta talk about nuthin'

[metro]

Nope, it's still in the planning stages. Hopefully I can snag a rendering soon. Nothing major and not a building but an overall improvement. For those interested, go back and re-read my posts for hints.

[CuatrodeMayo]

I know you think you are quite important, but serioulsy...just tell us instead of trying to keep some sort of power.

[metro]

Cuatro, I know your anxious, but I promised my source (whom one of many I often provide leads to stories and new news on this site before you hear it anywhere else) I wouldn't leak anything yet until things are further along. Steve can tell you this, don't jeopardize your sources of info, or you'll soon be without them. Sorry, but I like being in the know before most people. Many posters on this website encourage me to start a business based upon the insider info I get. I'm not sure what kind of business I could start. Personally, I don't think I'm that "important" as you say, just like doing this (providing insider information) as a public service. I know you're young (I'm only a few years older), but there was a long time (even in our lifetimes and still is to an extent), that OKC was controlled by the good ole boy network, there was no internet, and we basically were not able to have public knowledge like we can today because of the internet. The news we got is what the good old boys wanted the reporters to report. Now, we can be the reporters. Sorry, but I want to keep my inside sources into the development community in this city.

If I thought I had all this power, I'd be bragging about it more and I would bump the thread up on my own, I was only responding to people's questions and I also mentioned it's not a major announcement. Basically I downplayed the situation.

[Midtowner]

Spend more money on projects.. so the contractors get money, and the people who do not even live In Oklahoma City can visit Bricktown on the weekends, All the while ignoring our inner city schools. And making Oklahoma City Metro area unlivable unless you can afford a private school. News Flash, the private schools are not very supportive of autism and other disabilities so even if you are rich enough to send your kid there, you end up stuck in a public school that seriously needs funding for those programs.

Oklahoma should be ashamed of themselves when their schools are so horrid it takes a local corporation like Chesapeake to uplift them to national standards. Get with it Oklahoma, we are losing our youth to your frivolous greed.

Worst post ever.

All of these expenditures which improve infrastructure and tourism improve our tax base. Our tax base, in turn improves the schools. The measure of a school system is not necessarily how well it deals with autistic and disabled kids. Schools allocate resources to where they think those resources will be the most beneficial. So maybe autism isn't at the top of the list. You give money to the autistic kids, you take away from the arts (or something). It's a zero sum game and we're not playing with infinite resources.

Secondly, my wife is a teacher at a local charter school. I attended McGuinness for 3 of my 4 years of high school and Edmond North for my final year, so I think I have a good background in the area when I say that the education received at this charter school far exceeds in quality what was available to me back in the late 90's at public or private schools.

When you slam our public schools, you just come off as completely clueless. OKC Public Schools are fine.

[Flatlander]

Metro do you know when the south end of the canal will be extended under the new I-40? This area could be really nice.

[jbrown84]

I know you think you are quite important, but serioulsy...just tell us instead of trying to keep some sort of power.

[wsucougz]

Cuatro, I know your anxious, but I promised my source (whom one of many I often provide leads to stories and new news on this site before you hear it anywhere else) I wouldn't leak anything yet until things are further along. Steve can tell you this, don't jeopardize your sources of info, or you'll soon be without them. Sorry, but I like being in the know before most people. Many posters on this website encourage me to start a business based upon the insider info I get. I'm not sure what kind of business I could start. Personally, I don't think I'm that "important" as you say, just like doing this (providing insider information) as a public service. I know you're young (I'm only a few years older), but there was a long time (even in our lifetimes and still is to an extent), that OKC was controlled by the good ole boy network, there was no internet, and we basically were not able to have public knowledge like we can today because of the internet. The news we got is what the good old boys wanted the reporters to report. Now, we can be the reporters. Sorry, but I want to keep my inside sources into the development community in this city.

If I thought I had all this power, I'd be bragging about it more and I would bump the thread up on my own, I was only responding to people's questions and I also mentioned it's not a major announcement. Basically I downplayed the situation.

I'm totally way more in the know than you are. I actually know about an even bigger river project than the one you're referring to(which I also happen to know about, otherwise how could I know mine's bigger?). Can't tell you, though but you'll see - it is going to be AWESOME, and when it happens you'll know I was the one who knew about it before you did because I know lot's of important people.