SandRidge Center & Commons

[OKCMallen]

So you are against the Kansas City plan?

Without putting any real thought into it, I am.

[Kerry]

Without putting any real thought into it, I am.

What about private property right or the threat that 500 jobs might leave the area? I mean, if they own the building shouldn't they be able to tear it down?

[OKCMallen]

What about private property right or the threat that 500 jobs might leave the area? I mean, if they own the building shouldn't they be able to tear it down?

Have you been to the Country Club Plaza? Apples and oranges:

1. The CBD is business-centric. The CCP is consumer-centric. Makes sense that we prioritize our businesses in the CBD.
2. The archtecture of the CCP is uniform and this would have a pretty significant negative impact. Ours isn't and a change wouldn't have any sort of major scarring of the CBD.
3. The buildings appear to currently be in use in the CCP.
4. Assume this place does, indeed, move out of the CCP. KC has a downtown that would LOVE 500 more employees that would be an option. KC doesn't really suffer much there. Our CBD NEEDS the office worker and population density.
5. SR would, hypothetically, abandon a skyscraper pretty much completely. That's not occurring in KC.

[Pete]

Sandridge has started the demo process...I walked by yesterday...

What exactly are they doing at this point?

[Larry OKC]

What exactly are they doing at this point?

It was in Tuesday's Oklahoman...couldn't locate it though for a link...think it said the were starting the demo of the old YMCA building??

[Soonerus]

...it appears that way downtown...

[Pete]

Which ones exactly and what did you see?

[Watson410]

I thought they weren't doing this?!?

[Architect2010]

Lol. How did you not know? The whole site was talking about it for months.

[Dustin]

How something like this go about? Do they evacuate everyone in the downtown area?

[pw405]

I walked by yesterday - along robinson street half of the road is closed and there are large fences up... construction crews setting up road closure sings, etc.... not sure exactly how they will take it down, but I would guess a wrecking ball.... any sort of explosive would be too risky for the surrounding buildings

[Architect2010]

Would it be? I'm not qualified to know for sure but I thought implosions are very carefully coordinated and exact. A dust cloud is usually the only offense surrounding buildings have to endure. It's not actually an explosion, merely small and coordinated detonations across the building that weaken the structural support system and bring it down quickly and cleanly.

[ljbab728]

Would it be? I'm not qualified to know for sure but I thought implosions are very carefully coordinated and exact. A dust cloud is usually the only offense surrounding buildings have to endure. It's not actually an explosion, merely small and coordinated detonations across the building that weaken the structural support system and bring it down quickly and cleanly.

I'm no expert but my guess is that some kind of implosion would not be a practical way to bring down buildings that small. A wrecking ball is much more likely.

[Architect2010]

True, I didn't take that into consideration. A wrecking ball just isn't any fun. :P

[Spartan]

Wrecking ball = less dramatic photos for the history books.

[Larry OKC]

But make wonderful sitcom scenes :-)

[Kerry]

In a twist of irony, I went to Google Images and searched on 'implosion small building' just to see how small some of them were and the first two images were of the Biltmore coming down.

[Swake2]

Google now sorts searches by location as well as relevance.

[hipsterdoofus]

I know some of the road blockages are due to the streetscaping - not saying this is the case over there but Robinson is jacked up for several blocks.

[metro]

yeah it's been fenced off for awhile now. I took pics last week and will post soon. Sad.

[CaseyCornett]

Two weeks ago they had fences up directing foot traffic off the sidewalk surrounding the buildings on the NE corner of Robert S. Kerr and Robinson. Last week they added barricades to the traffic lanes going around that corner as well and had multiple construction workers on top of the building seemingly clearing some debris from the roof.

This week, the lane barricades are still there.Not sure when the buildings will come down but from the look and pace of the construction it looks soon.

[Kerry]

Google now sorts searches by location as well as relevance.

Maybe so but I am in Florida, using an Atlanta IP address.

[Watson410]

Lol. How did you not know? The whole site was talking about it for months.

I think last I heard they were rescheduling the court date for another day and thought they denied to proposal but apparently not... That sucks! :-/

[scootinger]

Google now sorts searches by location as well as relevance.

I'm on the east coast. Same result.

[Pete]

Just walked by the two buildings near Robinson and RSK and the were jack-hammering inside there.

Also, the west side of the tower has protective plywood all around.