City Center East Garage

[Pete]

[category=]Parking[/category]
[category=]Downtown[/category]
[category=]Central Business District[/category]


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Address: 100 N Harvey Built: 2004 Floors: 5 Sq. Feet: 170,658 Acreage: .9212 Architect: Other: 637 spaces

Information & Latest News

12/10/13: $4 million building permit
10/15/13: Application to design review to add 3 levels and 336 spaces

Privately owned by Oklahoma Tower / Leadership Square group.
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[Pete]

Application submitted today to the Downtown Design Review Committee to add three additional levels to this five-level parking garage.

From the description, it sounds like the design will mimic the new Devon Garage, which you recall was formerly known as City Center West Garage, and was of the same style and size as this property Devon bought it and had it greatly expanded.

demolish existing roofs on existing stairwells of existing parking garage; construct three additional levels to existing five-level parking garage with dark grey perforated metal panels on primary elevations and light gray smooth faced architectural metal panels and curtain wall system & glazing on stairwells.

Devon Garage:

[Bellaboo]

Doing what they can to alleviate the parking issues, especially on the West side of DT.

[Praedura]

Who owns the garage? Is it Devon behind this?

[Pete]

Who owns the garage? Is it Devon behind this?

See the article at the top of this thread.

I'm sure this is just part of the downtown parking crunch. No way is there enough parking in this garage for Oklahoma Tower and Corporate Tower, let alone Leadership Square and City Place.

[lasomeday]

I thought it wasn't possibly to add more floors if parking to this structure?

[warreng88]

It's funny because I asked this to Steve several weeks ago:

Gary T - 11:21 a.m. Do any of the DT parking garages (besides Century Center) have the ability to add on to what they have like the one Devon bought?

Steve Lackmeyer - 11:21 a.m. Yes, but it's an expensive proposition.

I guess it is a big enough problem that they need to take on the cost...

[Pete]

I thought it wasn't possibly to add more floors if parking to this structure?

Yes, it seems at the time Devon was planning to expand the west garage it was reported that the same could not be done for this structure.

Obviously, that's not the case.

[ljbab728]

Steve's update.

Downtown Oklahoma City parking garage expansion planned | News OK

[Pete]

From the Oklahoman:

Article says only top deck will be affected during construction, which will start in January.

The project will add 336 spaces.

[Pete]

They are getting started on the expansion project.

Photo credit: https://twitter.com/Cassi_Sue

[FighttheGoodFight]

They are getting started on the expansion project.

Photo credit: https://twitter.com/Cassi_Sue

Ya this is bad. I park there at night since it comes with my lease at Park Harvey. They are starting to block parts off at night. Kind of annoying.

In the mornings it has become a bit busier since it has only one lane to get into. I have noticed in the front that they poured concerte after they tore out the bushes (left one row). They are starting to put up scaffolding it looks like.

I'm really not sure how they are going to upgrade this? Is it from the top?

[Pete]

I'm really not sure how they are going to upgrade this? Is it from the top?

Yes, look at the rendering a couple of posts up. Adding three levels to the top.


I know the Devon garage was already getting maxed out and they moved a bunch of other company's employees over to this structure, so I don't know how they will be able to accommodate them during this construction.

[DowntownMan]

With this construction displacing Parker's and with the century center construction starting and parkers there about to be displaced...downtown parking is about to get nastier for a little bit it sounds like.

[Pete]

^

Yes, they have to redo the parking decks at the Century Center, although they can probably do them one at a time.

Parking in the middle of the CBD is becoming a huge problem.


I bet whatever happens on the Preftakes block comes with a lot of parking spaces.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Well it became a strange problem today. The have basically closed all visitor parking so it looks like people are kind of just parking anywhere.

I woke up this morning to my car being closed in by fence so I couldn't get out? I just moved the fence, got out, then moved it back. They were also blocking all entrances this morning to move in some more equipment. You would think they wouldn't try this at 7:30am in rush hour?

[Pete]

Crane is up:

[Just the facts]

Maybe the city should find a big vacant lot near downtown (Central Park site) and just offer a free shuttle every 10 minutes to some downtown stops while all of this parking garage construction is going on.

[Pete]

Or, talk to Nick Preftakes about better utilizing the old Auto Hotel on Hudson.

Is it even open? Even if so, it never seemed to house very many cars.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Maybe the city should find a big vacant lot near downtown (Central Park site) and just offer a free shuttle every 10 minutes to some downtown stops while all of this parking garage construction is going on.

I'm not sure where all the people who used to park on the top are now parking? We never got any notices.

Must be a first come first serve?

[Just the facts]

Really it would be pretty easy. Just total up all of the parking that will soon be available - Main St, City Center East, and 123 - and just create that many space on a Central Park lot. As each garage opens just remove that many spaces at the remote lot until all 3 garages are done.

[shawnw]

Can we blame the apparent non-coordination on the leadership transition at COTPA? (probably not)

[Pete]

[Pete]

Wow, they aren't wasting any time...

Photo credit to Cassi Sue's Twitter Feed:

[shawnw]

Think it'll finish before the new Main Street garage?