Parking Lot 6th & Walker

[Just the facts]

This is the same building that was advertised as having "abundant parking". Anyhow, water under the bridge.

So it appears this is their first office in OKC. Any idea how many employees will be moving in and will this company be using the new parking lot?

[Rover]

No worries - it got approved so on to the next battle. Do you know what business is moving and which building they will be occupying? As for the property rights angle, this country has never had the kind of property rights many people think it had. When the first town was founded in America they had restriction on building placement and land use and it has been that way every since. Personally, I think we have gone to far in catering to the automobile and the resulting land-use patterns from doing so have hurt us in every conceivable way - from excessive taxation to build and maintain urban sprawl, to obesity, to drug use, to crime, to wars in the Middle East, to texting while driving (and the list goes on and on).

Yes, before cars there was no conflict in the Middle east. There was no problem with taxation (sorry Boston). There were no drug problems (opium doesn't count). Everything was great. Ugh.

Hysteria knows no bounds.

[Rover]

The development standards of this city are so shockingly low it's ridiculous.

This.

[Spartan]

It's almost getting hard to blame anything on specific developers at this point. If you were investing money and had real estate downtown, would you bother to go "above and beyond" (and propose something palatable) when all of your competitors are doing the bare minimum? Probably not.

These low standards, that few other high-profile cities would even consider, are becoming a civic plague.

[Just the facts]

Yes, before cars there was no conflict in the Middle east. There was no problem with taxation (sorry Boston). There were no drug problems (opium doesn't count). Everything was great. Ugh.

Hysteria knows no bounds.

Yes those problems pre-date urban sprawl but they have all gotten significantly worse since the advent of suburbia.

on edit - I am not sure about obesity. I think that has become a problem since 1945.

[Urbanized]

There have always been problems in the Middle East; our foreign oil requirements make them specifically OUR problems.

Also, we're getting way off topic.

[OKCRT]

That would be a perfect block for a couple of mid rise apartment buildings ala Regency Towers.

[kevinpate]

That would be a perfect block for a couple of mid rise apartment buildings ala Regency Towers.

It would, provided there was someone willing to make that investment.

Someday a person or group may buy it up and do exactly that. Until then, it's going to be a better looking and more functional and more highly used piece of property when the new lot is put in than it is today.

[mcca7596]

It seems like a mid-rise apartment building in that area would be the perfect fit for Rick Dowell to build. I believe he's suggested an apartment tower in Park Plaza in the past.

[Spartan]

There is an interesting community dynamic at play here. I think today it seems a little preposterous, after decades of downtown not attracting the big bang developments, for someone to suggest a residential high rise. However, after that first residential high rise goes up in almost half a century, it won't seem preposterous at all anymore.