Central Business District

[Pete]

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21c Hotel | Avana | Bicentennial Park | Boulevard | Braniff Building | Bus Station | Central Park | Century Center | Chase Bank | Chesapeake Arena | City Center East Garage | City Hall | Civic Center | Civic Center Flats | Convention Center | Convention Hotel | Cox Center | Devon Engery Center | Dowell Center | Dowell Garage | First National Center | Ice House | John Rex Elementary | Kerr / Couch Parks | Mahogany Steakhouse | Main Street Garage | Myriad Gardens | OG&E Tower | Park House | Parkside Building | Police Headquarters| Preftakes Block | SandRidge | Santa Fe Garage | South of Stage Center | Transit Hub

[HOT ROD]

oops, Film Row is highlighted not the CBD

[Stickman]

Looks like they are coring on the north side of the 500 block on West Reno.. Been going at it for several days now.

[Stickman]

not sure if I got this in?

[Reno and Walker]

Looks like they are coring on the north side of the 500 block on West Reno.. Been going at it for several days now.

Deal busted.

[Reno and Walker]

Deal busted, told them to get off the property today.

[Reno and Walker]

Nothing is going to happen on the north side of 500 block and Reno..clay co backed out of the contract..

[metro]

Sucky

[coov23]

I'm confused. No residential towers? Did OKC lose out on more potential towers?

[pw405]

What is going on here? What was planned to built?

[GaryOKC6]

Today's journal Record.

Adios, La Luna: Day wanes for downtown OKC Mexican restaurant

By: Molly M. Fleming The Journal Record January 21, 2015 0



Cindy Cabrera, owner of La Luna Mexican Cafe at 409 W. Reno Ave. in Oklahoma City. (Photo by Brent Fuchs)
Cindy Cabrera, owner of La Luna Mexican Cafe at 409 W. Reno Ave. in Oklahoma City. (Photo by Brent Fuchs)
OKLAHOMA CITY – The La Luna Mexican Cafe sign displays the words “Tick Tock.” Owner Cindy Cabrera knows just how much time she has left, and it’s less than 100 days.

La Luna, 409 W. Reno Ave., will open its doors for the last time on April 11. The last regular-season weekend home game for the Oklahoma City Thunder is Friday, April 10, and Cabrera said she didn’t want to miss the crowd or Saturday night festivities.

The restaurant that originated in downtown Oklahoma City opened at SW Fourth Street and Walker Avenue in 1968 and was owned by Cabrera’s stepfather. She has worked in it since she was 16 years old.

“It will be weird not driving downtown every day,” she said.

The restaurant, which opened April 1, 1988, attracts a lunch crowd filled with customers in suits or jeans. Everyone feels welcome in the dimly lit spot where salsa, tortilla chips, queso and fresh-made tortillas are on the table before the customer cracks open a menu.

“We were here when no one else was downtown,” she said. “It’s like my third child. My son – who is my third child – was born after the restaurant was opened, so this really is my third child.”

The Festival of the Arts was downtown by 1988, and the event is important to the restaurateur. La Luna’s walls are lined with posters from the spring celebration.

“I’m going to miss the arts festival, but it will be nice to be closed to enjoy this festival and not work it,” she said.

She will miss her customers as well, she said. While she may not know them all by name, she knows them by their order numbers. She’s been known to yell those numbers at customers, as if she were calling their names.

La Luna’s corner at Reno and Hudson avenues is part of 3.15 acres mostly owned by the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority. It will be developed by Clayco Inc., which is also creating the OGE Energy Corp. plaza on the north half of the block. The site was the former home of Stage Center.

Clayco plans to build two more towers on the southern parcel, one for office use and another for residential. First, however, the company wants to complete the OGE Energy tower. Larry Chapman with Clayco Realty Group said during the January Downtown Design Review Committee meeting that he expects the OGE tower construction to start in April and occupancy is slated for early 2017.

With new towers going up, the La Luna building will have to come down, but that’s not what prompted the decision to close, Cabrera said. She knew her time would come as she watched the landscape change downtown. She started thinking about her next step about five years ago, when she was operating the downtown restaurant and a place on Campus Corner in Norman. She closed the Norman store in 2001 and opened a Newcastle location in 2012. She said she often sees longtime Oklahoma City customers at the southern location.

Yet, Oklahoma City hasn’t seen the last of La Luna. Cabrera has a food truck that she plans to bring to Bleu Garten and other hot spots. With so many friends in the Oklahoma City restaurant business, she plans to make an appearance in their kitchens as well. She will also be seen more regularly in Newcastle, where her daughter runs a La Luna.

“I’m going to kick back for a while, and then go play with (my friends in other restaurants),” she said.

[Reno and Walker]

Going to miss you all. I grew up watching you all when it was la Roca then La Luna..

[Reno and Walker]

Yup, lets hope oil prices go up very soon, or we are all screwed..

[Plutonic Panda]

I'm confused. No residential towers? Did OKC lose out on more potential towers?

I see, Mr. Wisenheimer, smart guy. . . you think I am some artificially aware Cephalopod from Netpune, well, I'm going to stop you right there because I am not adherent to shiny things with the sole exception of cougars, yes, I love older woman(big whoop, there are plenty of others out who do to, I'm sure deep down inside, we all want cougars), and have the self righteousness to contest your accusation by signing off with this last post based upon my own recognizance. See ya.

[Swake]

I see, Mr. Wisenheimer, smart guy. . . you think I am some artificially aware Cephalopod from Netpune, well, I'm going to stop you right there because I am not adherent to shiny things with the sole exception of cougars, yes, I love older woman(big whoop, there are plenty of others out who do to, I'm sure deep down inside, we all want cougars), and have the self righteousness to contest your accusation by signing off with this last post based upon my own recognizance. See ya.

clear case of DWP

[Plutonic Panda]

I'm confused. No residential towers? Did OKC lose out on more potential towers?

I see, Mr. Wisenheimer, smart guy. . . you think I am some artificially aware Cephalopod from Netpune, well, I'm going to stop you right there because I am not adherent to shiny things with the sole exception of cougars, yes, I love older woman(big whoop, there are plenty of others out who do to, I'm sure deep down inside, we all want cougars), and have the self righteousness to contest your accusation by signing off with this last post based upon my own recognizance. See ya.

I didn't mean that.

[ljbab728]

I didn't mean that.

You really need to quit staying up so late and get more sleep, plupan.

[Plutonic Panda]

You really need to quite staying up so late and get more sleep, plupan.

you aren't wrong .

[turnpup]

You really need to quit staying up so late and get more sleep, plupan.

I don't know...I've found some of his incoherent ramblings quite amusing and informational.

[Pete]

This is a rendering from the Convention Hotel RFP by the consultants hired to study possible redevelopment around the Convention Center.

Fun to look at:

[Village]

This is a rendering from the Convention Hotel RFP by the consultants hired to study possible redevelopment around the Convention Center.

Fun to look at:

Wow thats an amazing render.
I am curious though why the regency looks so massive in it however.

[Urbanized]

Worth noting that the outdoor public space and the passageway along the Harvey alignment preserves a green connection between MBG and the Central Park. Hopefully those things remain. I do know that outdoor gathering spaces have become an important part of convention center design and convention sales.

[Plutonic Panda]

2/8/2015

[Mississippi Blues]

Awesome pictures, Plu! They all look great!! Thank you for sharing them!

Note: I'm replying in the Central Business District thread, but what I said goes for all of the other threads you posted pictures in as well.

[Plutonic Panda]

You're welcome! Some of them didn't turn out like I wanted to, but I jumped on the iPhone bandwagon and got the new 6 Plus and it has an amazing camera.