Downtown Office Leases

[warreng88]

Cafe 7 coming to downtown Oklahoma City
By Brianna Bailey
Journal Record
Oklahoma City reporter - Contact 405-278-2847
Posted: 06:42 PM Tuesday, March 13, 2012

OKLAHOMA CITY – After opening its doors about three years ago near W. Memorial Road and N. May Avenue, Cafe 7 is opening a second location in downtown’s First National Center.

The fast-casual restaurant has signed a lease for 3,800 square feet of space on the ground floor of First National Center at the corner of N. Robinson and Park avenues. The space was previously occupied by Woods Floral and Copelin’s Office Center.

“We’ve been wanting to branch out to a second store for a while and downtown Oklahoma City seemed like that magic spot,”
Cafe 7 co-owner Jimmy Mays said. “There’s a lot going on there right now and we want to be a part of it.”

Mays opened Cafe 7 in November 2008 with fellow Oklahoma State University alumnus Chris Kana and their former college instructor Paul Sorrentino from OSU’s School of Hotel and Restaurant Management.

The eatery offers sandwiches, soups, pizzas, salads and pasta and makes its sauces each day from scratch.

The First National Center Cafe 7 will be open for lunch Monday through Friday and will also offer catering services. Mays and his partners hope to have the restaurant open by this summer.

Laci Jackson of Price Edwards & Co. negotiated the lease for First National Center.

“Cafe 7 has been really successful in Oklahoma City and we were seeking a good user for that space,” Jackson said. “We think a street-access restaurant will do really well there.”

http://journalrecord.com/2012/03/13/...y-real-estate/

[catch22]

I love cafe7! Can't wait until it opens!

[Rover]

This should be a big hit downtown. It has a great selection ofcasual food and full entrees, all at reasonable pricing. This should appeal to all economic levels both at noon and evening, weekdays and weekends.

[Pete]

Unfortunately, it says they will only be open for weekday lunches.

[catch22]

Didn't the DOK run this a few weeks ago? And the owners stated that it was just for the first few weeks it would be open only for lunch? With it eventually expanding to more times?

[OklahomaNick]

Maybe Robinson south of Park Ave. will be done by the time they open! or maybe not..

[Pete]

Didn't the DOK run this a few weeks ago? And the owners stated that it was just for the first few weeks it would be open only for lunch? With it eventually expanding to more times?

I believe you are thinking of Cool Greens.

[BoulderSooner]

I believe you are thinking of Cool Greens.

and cool greens now stays open to 7 on thunder game days

[warreng88]

Kansas City engineering firm Burns & McDonnell opens downtown OKC office
By Sarah Terry-Cobo
Journal Record
Posted: 08:14 PM Wednesday, March 21, 2012

OKLAHOMA CITY – The real estate slogan “location, location, location” generally rings true, but sometimes it helps to be in the right place at the right time. For more than 100 years, the engineering and architectural firm Burns & McDonnell has been headquartered in Kansas City, Mo. For nearly three decades, the company has managed utility, engineering and environmental remediation projects in temporary sites throughout Oklahoma. Two months ago, the company set up a regional office in the Robinson Renaissance building in downtown Oklahoma City.

“It makes it easy to do business and be responsive to our clients as we expand our base and build new relationships,” said Joshua Evans, engineer and office manager for the firm’s Oklahoma City office. The company has 3,400 employees, he said, a third of them working in regional offices like this one.

The prime location at 119 N. Robinson Ave. puts the office within several blocks of energy companies Continental Resources, Devon, SandRidge and Enogex, and closer to Leadership Square, where the firm is developing new projects, Evans said.

“Oklahoma City has a tremendous amount of opportunity and work going on here,” he said, gesturing out his eighth-floor window at the construction on Main Street below.

Only four people are stationed in the office, but Evans said the company is planning to expand by about 30 employees over the next three years. They will need electrical, civil and structural engineers to help expand the facilities division of the company.

“We’re an employee-owned company,” he said. “That is our biggest differentiator from our competitors.”

Evans said that drives the culture in the workplace, encouraging employees to help each other out and make their clients successful.

“It’s worked out very well for us over the last 110 years,” he said.

In the energy sector, Burns & McDonnell covers a broad spectrum in the state, Evans said, from the power in your light switch to the gas in your tank. The company designed, built and constructed electrical transmission lines that connect wind turbines in Woodward to the grid serving customers in Oklahoma City.

It has also built American Electric Power’s natural gas substation in Canadian County, and completed several upgrades to the ConocoPhillips refinery in Ponca City. The architectural division of the firm has also built facilities for military and defense contracts, including the Tulsa division of the Army Corps of Engineers.

“Oklahoma City has done a fabulous job of improving the city and making it a place we want to come,” Evans said.

http://journalrecord.com/2012/03/21/...e-real-estate/

[warreng88]

City Rescue Mission plots downtown OKC food bank
By Brianna Bailey
Journal Record
Oklahoma City reporter - Contact 405-278-2847
Posted: 06:49 PM Tuesday, March 20, 2012

OKLAHOMA CITY – City Rescue Mission plans to build a grocery store-style food bank downtown that will distribute food to 1,000 needy residents per month.

The nonprofit plans to transform an old warehouse it owns at 829 W. California Ave. into the Impact Hunger Food Resource Center. City Rescue Mission will ask the Oklahoma City Planning Commission on Thursday to approve a special permit to run the new operation.

The food resource center would have extended hours, to better serve working people who might not otherwise have access to food banks operated by churches and volunteers, said Tom Jones, president and CEO of City Rescue Mission. Many food banks have limited, irregular hours, but the food resource center would be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

The center would function much like a grocery store, with aid recipients choosing their own produce and other items they need from shelves.

“This particular project is going to be focused on the near-homeless and working poor,” Jones said. “If the transmission goes out on their car and they don’t have enough money to pay their bills and get their car fixed, this will allow them to meet those challenges.”

City Rescue Mission received a $100,000 grant from the charitable organization Impact Oklahoma to help open the food resource center. It is also soliciting donations. The new food bank is expected to be open by late spring or summer.

The City Rescue Mission is partnering with the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma to open the downtown food resource center. It is one of several centers the food bank plans to open across the city to better serve needy families.

Another food distribution center is already under construction at NW 39th and N. Portland Avenue. It will be operated by The Urban Mission Inc. The Regional Food Bank also plans to partner with other nonprofits to open food resource centers in several cities across the 53 counties it serves in the state, including Enid, Lawton, Woodward and Durant, said Rodney Bivens, Regional Food Bank executive director.

“We’re trying to give people greater access to food and make a greater variety of food available to them,” Bivens said. “This will allow people a greater level of dignity to come in and shop and pick up the things they want instead of someone just handing them a box of food.”

http://journalrecord.com/2012/03/20/...k-real-estate/

[TStheThird]

It is very small news, but my company just signed a lease on 611 N. Broadway! The 4 of us are very excited.

[Just the facts]

It is very small news, but my company just signed a lease on 611 N. Broadway! The 4 of us are very excited.

Where are you relocating from?

[TStheThird]

This is our first office. We are a young startup.

[Just the facts]

Good luck with your new endeavour.

[Pete]

This is our first office. We are a young startup.

Awesome! Wish you the best of luck.


And moreover, there is clearly a trend of companies of all sizes gravitating back to the city core, and that's a good thing.

[Midtowner]

never mind.

[HOT ROD]

yes, excellent news! best of luck and enjoy the big city.

[Pete]

$500K building permit today for the 14th floor of City Place -- about 11,000 square feet.

Not sure of the tenant. There is also the possibility this could be condo conversion, especially at that amount per square foot.

[knightrider]

$500K building permit today for the 14th floor of City Place -- about 11,000 square feet.

Not sure of the tenant. There is also the possibility this could be condo conversion, especially at that amount per square foot.

Is this one of the floors Sandridge is leasing?

[betts]

$500K building permit today for the 14th floor of City Place -- about 11,000 square feet.

Not sure of the tenant. There is also the possibility this could be condo conversion, especially at that amount per square foot.

Do you think you could convert that much square footage to condo for only $500,000? I would think it's more likely to be office space.

[Pete]

Is this one of the floors Sandridge is leasing?

Could be but that's a lot of money for space they won't be using long.

[HOT ROD]

must not be SandRidge then. Great news if true.

[Pete]

Booz Allen Hamilton (national consulting firm) is opening a 7,343 square foot office location in Leadership Square.

The are one of the top management consulting firms in the world.

They have a presence in MWC due to Tinker and I'm not sure if this is a new office or an additional one.

[HOT ROD]

cool, great to see

[metro]

Yeah Booz Allen is a big name.