SandRidge Center & Commons

[metro]

I have one, I think I posted it along time ago, it's the official one from Preservation Oklahoma, I can post it again but don't have a scanner.

[Pete]

Here is something I did a while ago...

D & C are goners and I think the west parking structure has been taken down as well. E (Braniff) will stay but A & B are to be razed at some point.

[metro]

Pete, yes the west parking is gone, drove by on Monday.

[wsucougz]

Pete, yes E is gone, drove by on Monday.

Wow, Metro... they tore down the Braniff? Maybe you should drive by again and double check.

[metro]

It was a typo, I meant west parking, thus why I made the edit.

[poe]

I wish they would accidentally demolish the AT&T behemoth that has few, if any, windows. I can't speak for everyone, but I wouldn't miss it.

[Kerry]

I wish they would accidentally demolish the AT&T behemoth that has few, if any, windows. I can't speak for everyone, but I wouldn't miss it.

You'll miss it when you can't make a phone call.

[wsucougz]

It was a typo, I meant west parking, thus why I made the edit.

You're welcome. I'm pretty familiar with downtown.

[Patrick]

Why can't they just pull the facade off the India Temple Building and see what's underneath before they demolish it and find out later that their suspicions that the ornate detail had been sawed off weren't in fact true?

[KayneMo]

I wish they would accidentally demolish the AT&T behemoth that has few, if any, windows. I can't speak for everyone, but I wouldn't miss it.

I wouldn't miss it either! It's so horrid.

[Architect2010]

I wouldn't miss it either! It's so horrid.

+1

[wsucougz]

Why can't they just pull the facade off the India Temple Building and see what's underneath before they demolish it and find out later that their suspicions that the ornate detail had been sawed off weren't in fact true?

I've long wondered the same. Kind of enforces the idea that their "give a sh$%" factor is near 0. At this point a citizen with chisel and ladder might as well give it a whirl since total destruction is inevitable anyway. Gotta figure they don't want anyone to see what's under there.

[Spartan]

I wish they would accidentally demolish the AT&T behemoth that has few, if any, windows. I can't speak for everyone, but I wouldn't miss it.

I agree with this. It makes perfect sense that the good has to go, the bad has to stay.

SandRidge sucks. So has anyone else seen their commercials that air during Thunder game broadcasts? (Bragging about planting new trees in downtown OKC's "ecosystem")

[Spartan]

Here is a recent photo:

This would have been a very impressive shot while the KerMac was still standing. From the Chase Tower, right?

[Kerry]

This would have been a very impressive shot while the KerMac was still standing. From the Chase Tower, right?

Just wait until the plaza is done and then compare photos. Two more buildings in that picture are coming down.

[ljbab728]

So has anyone else seen their commercials that air during Thunder game broadcasts? (Bragging about planting new trees in downtown OKC's "ecosystem")

Yes, I gag every time I see that, Thunder.

[oneforone]

This song will make you fill better.

[Pete]

A demolition permit was issued two days ago for the India Temple building.

Has anyone noticed if they started yet?

[G.Walker]

I wish they would accidentally demolish the AT&T behemoth that has few, if any, windows. I can't speak for everyone, but I wouldn't miss it.

Yes please demolish this building, this is the ugliest building in downtown OKC by far! AT&T should demolish and rebuild the building from the ground up!

[rondvu]

I agree the AT&T buildings are not much to look at. They were designed to have practicality and the number one reason is to keep the telephone switching equipment safe from tornadoes, natural disasters and terrorist attacks. These building are built like brick @&!*houses.

[G.Walker]

^^Agreed with the technology we have now, they should just build a new service center out in the country somewhere, with all this land we have around here, and demolish the big cube, and build another office tower there...

[Larry OKC]

A demolition permit was issued two days ago for the India Temple building.

Has anyone noticed if they started yet?

We knew it was coming, but still sad to hear.

[betts]

That's the one I hated to hear about. I can't even bring myself to walk by there.

[Urban Pioneer]

I agree the AT&T buildings are not much to look at. They were designed to have practicality and the number one reason is to keep the telephone switching equipment safe from tornadoes, natural disasters and terrorist attacks. These building are built like brick @&!*houses.

Exactly. Anybody been to the telephone museum in that building?

[Kerry]

The AT&T buildings and microwave stations (like the one right next door to the building you are talking about) were made to withstand nuclear war. They are the most harden buildings in America that are not underground. They can also withstand EMP because encased in the concrete is a Faraday cage. They probably couldn't bring that building down if they wanted to. In 1,000,000 years there will be 2 things left in Oklahoma City - the Indian Cultural Center spirit mound and that AT&T building.