Where is Downtown?

[UnclePete]

I have asked before about the limits of Downtown, and still don't have a definitive answer. In today's paper, NW 2nd Street and North Villa Avenue is called downtown. Opinions please.

[BoulderSooner]

urban neighbors IMHO has the best definition ... 13th on the north 235 on the east classen on the west and the river .. on the south

[Pete]

urban neighbors IMHO has the best definition ... 13th on the north 235 on the east classen on the west and the river .. on the south

Agree with this.

As close as you are going to get to a definitive answer.

[kevinpate]

Compared to NW Expressway and Council, yeah, it would be seen as downtown.
But if you are downtown, that's a bit of a stretch.

I probably have a too expansive view myself, but I think of DT, rather than the CBD, as being within the river to the south, Lincoln to the east, Western to the west and 8th or 10th (pick one ) to the north.

[Just the facts]

Do you mean downtown as a business district or downtown as a neighborhood, because OKC doesn't have a downtown neighborhood. It does have downtown central business district with downtown adjacent neighborhoods though.

[BoulderSooner]

Do you mean downtown as a business district or downtown as a neighborhood, because OKC doesn't have a downtown neighborhood. It does have downtown central business district with downtown adjacent neighborhoods though.

disagree

[OKCisOK4me]

Someone else created a similar thread....boundaries of the CBD...which sounds the same as this.

[SSEiYah]

urban neighbors IMHO has the best definition ... 13th on the north 235 on the east classen on the west and the river .. on the south

So under the sub-downtown umbrella, we have a series of neighborhoods such as bricktown, automobile alley, midtown and deep deuce? I guess that makes sense.

Midtown a 387-acre area extending from NW 13th Street south to 4th Street and from one-half block east of Robinson Avenue west to Classen Boulevard.

[Teo9969]

Do you mean downtown as a business district or downtown as a neighborhood, because OKC doesn't have a downtown neighborhood. It does have downtown central business district with downtown adjacent neighborhoods though.

If downtown has no neighborhood, then the entirety of OKC is without a neighborhood.

It may be a new and developing neighborhood, but a relatively (for OKC) small place with over, what, 4k residents is indeed a neighborhood.

[Just the facts]

disagree

Big surprise.

There are only 3 classifications:
Neighborhood - mixed use with a defined center and edge containing all the basics of daily life and distance of about 1/2 mile across.
District - an area characterized by a single dominant use
Corridor - a linear feature connecting or separating neighborhoods and/or districts

[BoulderSooner]

Someone else created a similar thread....boundaries of the CBD...which sounds the same as this.

CBD = Central business district ... that is much smaller to me than "downtown .. cbd is more like sheridan ekg hudson and 4th?

[Just the facts]

CBD = Central business district ... that is much smaller to me than "downtown .. cbd is more like sheridan ekg hudson and 4th?

That sounds about right.

[Teo9969]

CBD = Central business district ... that is much smaller to me than "downtown .. cbd is more like sheridan ekg hudson and 4th?

I'd maybe expand to Reno and Walker...certainly EKG on the east, and maybe 5th on the north.

[warreng88]

I posted on this same subject about three months ago. Here is the link to that thread:

http://www.okctalk.com/ask-anything-...-downtown.html

[AP]

Agree with this.

As close as you are going to get to a definitive answer.

That's what I've always thought it was.

[RadicalModerate]

Ever greater levels of mystery added to that old tune by Petula Clark (c/o Cleanskull, other thread).
Where exactly was she going? And why? Is it only a state of being? Or not?

[Mel]

Ever greater levels of mystery added to that old tune by Petula Clark (c/o Cleanskull, other thread).
Where exactly was she going? And why? Is it only a state of being? Or not?

Only 'cause I barely beat you to it. Growing up a Navy brat I experienced a lot of downtowns. It can be a state of mind, it's a buzz that neither drugs nor booze can give you. OKC is getting that way. I like that it is Family friendly too. I take my Grandsons down there every now and then.