Scissortail Park

[UnFrSaKn]

Sneak peek at plans for MAPS3 downtown park | KFOR.com ? Oklahoma City News & Weather from KFOR Television, Oklahoma's News Channel 4

[Dustin]

Sneak peek at plans for MAPS3 downtown park | KFOR.com ? Oklahoma City News & Weather from KFOR Television, Oklahoma's News Channel 4

Paseofreak, ^^ thats where I got the picture.

[Paseofreak]

Thanks! Guess we'll have to wait for the rest.

[catch22]

The design is okay. I just wish they would give the street grid a little more weight in this. The sidewalks need to continue from the streets inward. You should be able to pass through the park in a relatively straight line.

[CuatrodeMayo]

Disappointed.

[Steve]

KFOR was at the meeting for all of 10 minutes. I was there for 3 hours and I'll have a story out tonight....

[Just the facts]

Disappointed.

To say the least. This yet another project that will have to be fixed later. Why can't we seem to do things right the first time?

[Just the facts]

I just got done watching this and thought I would pass it along.

[Just the facts]

The design is okay. I just wish they would give the street grid a little more weight in this. The sidewalks need to continue from the streets inward. You should be able to pass through the park in a relatively straight line.

Clearly this design is driven to cater to the convention center.

[lasomeday]

The design is lacking of sense of place and context to the area. If it weren't for the Union Station and Scissortail bridge it could be plopped anywhere. It has no context to the area. They have a tiki hut looking cafe. They need to keep the Film Exchange buildings to add some context and have some instant place making. They instead went for the clearcut loss of historic buildings.

[UnFrSaKn]

Oklahoma City architecture firm unveils Core to Shore park master plan | NewsOK.com

A first draft of a master plan for a $130 million Core to Shore park in Oklahoma City suggests demolition all remaining structures on the site other than Union Station and construction of a cafe, lake, gardens, fountains and a grand lawn.

[SoonerBoy18]

I like this design BUT I was convinced that they were going with the older renderings that are all over the internet. =(

[wsucougz]

The best thing they can do with the design is to plan around a few of those buildings.

[catch22]

The more I look at it, the more I don't like it.

Public meeting is tomorrow?

(Today since it's past midnight)

[Snowman]

While their are some things I would prefer changed especially pedestrian access at street intersections, another bridge between 6th & Hudson and the 'Great Lawn/Promontory' and everything south of i40 if it is the same as the earlier Alternate #1 plan. Of the three base options I like this one better than the other two. The one called Alternate #2 had a lake that was far more obtrusive and would preclude most any traveling not around the edge of the park. The one called Alternate #3 looked like they wanted to design a golf course but had to use it as a park.

[OKCisOK4me]

I'm guessing Shadid said 4 to 5 million in that video and not 45 million in upkeep, lol. I think that park design is OK because, yes,, as the interviewee said, it is OKlahoma in a sense, the different environments of Oklahoma all packed into a 40 North park but, I'm with everyone else. Make it more diverse and easier to gain access from one side to the other. It doesn't need to be a garden park.

Also, if any of you are going tomorrow night, print off some of our renderings and present them at the meeting. Apparently, the park committee doesn't view this site and they need some help...

[kevinpate]

Oklahoma City architecture firm unveils Core to Shore park master plan | NewsOK.com

It seems to me it would be worth reconsidering the timing of the park to do it all in one phase in 2018, when the convention center (planned for the block immediately north of the park) is done and the boulevard is done,” Perry said.

One might begin to wonder if anything will ever get finished before the cc gets finished. Actually, only beginning to wonder might be a tad behind the curve.

[BoulderSooner]

very good design and will be very very successful ..

[Just the facts]

very good design and will be very very successful ..

I see this as one great big future "we told you so" screw-up. Clearly one of us will be wrong.

[Pete]

These images are from KFOR and are also attached to the Wiki article:

[Pete]

OKLAHOMA CITY – It’s one of the crown jewels of the MAPS3 projects.
We’re getting a sneak peek at the $130 million central park.
The 70 acre downtown park will be built over three phases starting later this year.
It’s not much to look at now, merely some trash and empty fields, but there are some lofty goals for the future park.
“Think about this as a park for everyone. It’s a common ground. The spirit of the city,” said project architect Mary Margaret Jones.
Phase one, slated to start this year, will include a plaza and gardens, eventually with a fountain and cafe.
Just to the south, a stage and great lawn, capable of holding 20,000 people, will be built.
Phase two features a three-acre lake surrounded by wooded walking trails.
Phase three, 30 acres south of I-40, will be more rural with native wetlands and prairie.
It’ll then all be connected by a large walkable promenade.
“We want this to feel like Oklahoma City,” Jones said. “One that has a landscape very much of Oklahoma.”
Nearly all the property in the 40-acre upper park has already been bought by the city.
The owner of one of the few businesses in the area hopes the three phases will allow the parks design to transform over time.
“Create the park but don’t overdevelop it; let it evolve as needed,” business owner Mike Bailey said.
A public meeting is set for Thursday night at the downtown library.
That’s the last meeting for the public to give their feedback.
Construction will begin this year and phase one should be open by next year but the total project won’t be complete until 2020.

[HangryHippo]

OKLAHOMA CITY – It’s one of the crown jewels of the MAPS3 projects.
We’re getting a sneak peek at the $130 million central park.
The 70 acre downtown park will be built over three phases starting later this year.
It’s not much to look at now, merely some trash and empty fields, but there are some lofty goals for the future park.
“Think about this as a park for everyone. It’s a common ground. The spirit of the city,” said project architect Mary Margaret Jones.
Phase one, slated to start this year, will include a plaza and gardens, eventually with a fountain and cafe.
Just to the south, a stage and great lawn, capable of holding 20,000 people, will be built.
Phase two features a three-acre lake surrounded by wooded walking trails.
Phase three, 30 acres south of I-40, will be more rural with native wetlands and prairie.
It’ll then all be connected by a large walkable promenade.
“We want this to feel like Oklahoma City,” Jones said. “One that has a landscape very much of Oklahoma.”
Nearly all the property in the 40-acre upper park has already been bought by the city.
The owner of one of the few businesses in the area hopes the three phases will allow the parks design to transform over time.
“Create the park but don’t overdevelop it; let it evolve as needed,” business owner Mike Bailey said.
A public meeting is set for Thursday night at the downtown library.
That’s the last meeting for the public to give their feedback.
Construction will begin this year and phase one should be open by next year but the total project won’t be complete until 2020.

If there are plans for a cafe, why in the hell can't they keep (at minimum) a couple of the older buildings already present and turn those into cafes?? I don't understand why in the hell it is so hard to get some adaptive reuse in this park, especially when it would fit what they're saying they want to do.

[Snowman]

If there are plans for a cafe, why in the hell can't they keep (at minimum) a couple of the older buildings already present and turn those into cafes?? I don't understand why in the hell it is so hard to get some adaptive reuse in this park, especially when it would fit what they're saying they want to do.

I thought they said they had intentions to evaluate existing buildings that may be kept a few months ago

[Pete]

It looks like the plan is to eliminate the streets around Union Station, except to the west.

This is great news, as it will make that glorious structure feel like it's in the park, rather than across the street from it.

[metro]

The design is okay. I just wish they would give the street grid a little more weight in this. The sidewalks need to continue from the streets inward. You should be able to pass through the park in a relatively straight line.

Disappointed.

To say the least. This yet another project that will have to be fixed later. Why can't we seem to do things right the first time?

This. Because we're OKC and our politicians are too bent on taking 2 steps back every time we move forward. You'd think as well traveled Mayor Mick and Councilwoman Meg Salyer were, they'd have seen world class developments in other cities.