Aloft Hotel

[dankrutka]

Here's a better link: Aloft hotel contractor sued over $1 million in alleged damages | News OK

Welp, this explains why it has moved so slow.

[bombermwc]

And why would you need to use someone in Tulsa with so many options in OKC in the first place?????

[Urbanized]

Might have been for scheduling reasons. With all of the construction going on in OKC qualified local contractors might have been booked during the timeframe when the developer wanted to be moving. Also could have been for budget/low bid reasons. If so...welp, that backfired...

[Pete]

Is this company the general contractor?

If not, the general was probably the one that selected them.

[CuatrodeMayo]

Tulsa Dynaspan, the company being sued, is a structural precast concrete supplier. This type of operation is much more advanced than your average subcontractor. There are only a couple of structural precast concrete companies in the state, one being Dynaspan in Tulsa and Coreslab in OKC. These companies do a lot of projects and can stay fairly busy. Therefore it is not unusual, in this case, that the GC ended up working with Dynaspan. In reality, all the precaster does is make the products then ship them to the site where a second sub does the erection. Since these "panels" the article referenced are important pieces of the structural system, any delays delay the entire project.

We had Dynaspan as a sub on a recent project we designed and had several similar issues. However, it was eventually resolved and the project was completed. This must have been an extremely bad situation; these types of disputes don't end up on court all that often.

[Pete]

The opening of this hotel has been delayed at least six months and probably closer to a full year and I'm sure this is the main reason why.

There are tons of ramifications when a big project like this goes so wildly off schedule.

[Urbanized]

Well, there was also the Texas subcontractor who went bankrupt (unrelated to this project) mid-job and vanished. The job has apparently been very unlucky with contractors.

[OKCisOK4me]

What are the chances that the contractors of Edge@Midtown are using Coreslab? They seem to be moving pretty fast on their precast garage project...

[OKCisOK4me]

My favorite vantage of the place from the corner of Oklahoma & 2nd St. looking southeast. Darn lampost from 'The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe' got in my way.

[UnFrSaKn]

Aloft Hotel (July 5 2013) - a set on Flickr

[UnFrSaKn]

[OKCisOK4me]

Your tour is always better. Thanks Will.

[Spartan]

Wow, Will..



I am in awe of this, because I think you're the first person to have ever discovered this new angle of our city.

[traxx]

This looks good with Level on one side and Aloft on the other. It looks dense.

[Anonymous.]

Wow, Will..


I am in awe of this, because I think you're the first person to have ever discovered this new angle of our city.

This shot is decieving, there is a huge parking lot where you see those cars just past the foreground.

[warreng88]

This shot is decieving, there is a huge parking lot where you see those cars just past the foreground.

Don't ruin the mood...

[warreng88]

Sorry if this is such a basic question, but do we have any idea why the lower levels of the north side are open to the elements and the south side is completely bundled up? Are they waiting on something windows or something for that area?

[Pete]

They may not want to completely enclose that area in the summer heat until they can get their HVAC system on-line.

[Dustin]

Aloft Downtown OKC Model Room

[CuatrodeMayo]

Pretty much exactly like every other Aloft room I've stayed in.

[Urbanized]

Spoiler alert: Rover hates the A/C unit...

[UnFrSaKn]

Aloft Hotel (July 8 2013) - a set on Flickr

[UnFrSaKn]

[Rover]

Spoiler alert: Rover hates the A/C unit...

I guess my message is getting through. Lol.

See how they tried to hide it?

[ljbab728]

I just hate the bathroom sinks and they aren't even trying to hide them. LOL