Mayor's Development Roundtable

[betts]

Just head about two cool new concepts from Ben Sellers. Will write more later when I'm not busy listening.

[David]

Incidentally, this is being live tweeted by a few people with the hashtag #mdr2014.

[Pete]

Just head about two cool new concepts from Ben Sellers. Will write more later when I'm not busy listening.

I created a thread for the retail / commercial renovation at NW 23rd & Robinson:

201 NW 23rd - OKCTalk

[betts]

Vancouver sees some number of townhouses/rowhouses downtown as desirable because they believe its important for families to live downtown as well as the young and empty nesters. They actually have mandated guidelines to make new housing family friendly. Their downtown population has doubled in the past 20 years.

Row houses "domesticate the street" and they're trying to use them to "shield" the high rises and give more humanness to the street.

He hates plazas.

[George]

They actually have mandated guidelines to make new housing family friendly.

Link to the "High-Density Housing for Families with Children" guidelines mentioned by Larry Beasley: http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/guidelines/H004.pdf

[Pete]

In Andy Burnett's presentation (where he talked about the Century Center and Mideke) he said something like "the Spaghetti Warehouse building is the next frontier".

I took that to mean he or somebody else may be pursuing the Mideke model, i.e. buying upper floors separate from ground level.

And obviously, his group had a residential all lined up for Mideke before they decided to go with Tapstone offices, so perhaps they will just move the concept, as they have learned a great deal about incentives and divided building ownership.

[Bellaboo]

Incidentally, this is being live tweeted by a few people with the hashtag #mdr2014.

I read a lot of quotes of GE having their groundbreaking here.

[ljbab728]

Steve's coverage:

http://www.oklahoman.com/article/4747311?embargo=1

[lasomeday]

In Andy Burnett's presentation (where he talked about the Century Center and Mideke) he said something like "the Spaghetti Warehouse building is the next frontier".

I took that to mean he or somebody else may be pursuing the Mideke model, i.e. buying upper floors separate from ground level.

And obviously, his group had a residential all lined up for Mideke before they decided to go with Tapstone offices, so perhaps they will just move the concept, as they have learned a great deal about incentives and divided building ownership.

Maybe as Tapstone grows it will need more offices and the spaghetti warehouse will be next.

[Spartan]

It is exciting to see this event grow and grow. Hopefully I can fly in for the next one if I'm not already moved back!

[shawnw]

Hopefully I can fly in for the next one if I'm not already moved back!

You're moving back? Why would you want to leave Cleveland? :-)

In any event, get some of your new Cleveland friends to give OKC a try and move here with you...