What we (think we) know:

  • Big Thing is entertainment-related. This rules out just being a skyscraper or something. So probably not Devon.
  • Big Thing is very hypothetical. It was more certain once, now it is tenuous.
  • Big Thing is not Skyflyer, Great Wolf Lodge or the Zipline.
  • Big Thing is something other regional cities do not have. So we have to think outside the box here because other regional cities have a lot of stuff.
  • Big Thing is probably in Bricktown.


So some spitballing: A giant, London-style Ferris wheel? Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers moving to OKC and becoming the house band at Skinny Slims?

More seriously, though, I'm wondering about a large-scale downtown amusement park. We have Frontier City, but I don't feel like that has kept up with OKC's renaissance. Other regional cities have amusement parks, but they are further out in the sprawl, not co-located downtown to have synergistic effects with other development. Denver has a downtown amusement park, but it really isn't integrated with the urban fabric. It's more of an island all to itself.
Just a thought.