Glimcher

[NWOKCGuy]

I forgot Iguana Cafe closed! But yes - tons of options. I was just listing what I could remember off the top of my head.

[jerrywall]

Saturn, Snow Pea, City Bites, Brown Bag Deli, Whole Foods. There's a ton of options in that area. (Iguana Cafe is closed.)

Whole Foods has become one of my favorite lunch spots. Affordable, and lots of hot and cold options.

[CuatrodeMayo]

Whole Foods has become one of my favorite lunch spots. Affordable, and lots of hot and cold options.

The one in South Lake Union is only a 10 minute walk from my office and is a great place to grab a healthy lunch. Even when it is overrun with Amazombies.

[Pete]

Trader Joe's has lots of prepared items as well, although no hot food.

[Zorba]

Thanks for setting me straight everyone. I try to keep a list of restaurants to try, so I'll add the suggestions. Not sure how I missed all of them.

[Spartan]

They do have nickel wine samples in Ohio though... Modern liquor laws are a beautiful thing.

They ALWAYS have a samples "bar" running in their stores, which is better than Whole Foods can say. So there is are consumables, just not a meal..

[jrod]

^ I miss $0.25 beer samples at Giant Eagle... Old lady would grocery shop, I'd get a slight buzz for about $3. Good ol' Ohio.

[Pete]

Plans are starting to shape up for the lifestyle center south of 63rd.

REI will be near the corner of 63rd and Grand but face into the development and towards a new thoroughfare that will run roughly n/s and line up with the drive into NH Plaza. Pretty sure they will be seeking to put a light and crosswalk at that point on 63rd.

Two new retailers have been signed up: Restoration Hardware and Arhaus.

Arhaus is a really nice get; they're an upscale furniture store located in Northpark in Dallas and The Domain in Austin, so that gives you a flavor of what Glimcher is going for on this site.

I know they are working with at least two new-to-market restaurant chains, but not sure exactly who.

Interesting little battle developing between this site and Chisholm Creek, but that's all good for OKC.

[Urbanized]

The good news is that I think there is plenty of room for both. OKC has been so dramatically under served for so long by upscale natural retailers that it's easy to misinterpret that as being the result of a lack of demand, but I think that is FAR from the truth.

[Pete]

Every single new upscale retailer that comes to OKC seems to be wildly successful.

I know for a fact that both that Whole Foods and Anthropologie have far exceeded each company's projections. And I bet West Elm has, too.

[Urbanized]

Regarding site config, I think a median on 63rd and even gateways on E/W boundaries (again on 63rd) - in addition to the mentioned crosswalk - would go a long way to creating a unified sense of place, along with some traffic calming, all of which would invite pedestrians to circulate between both developments. The fact that NHP and the development south of 63rd share common ownership is incredibly powerful.

Another thing that would help is if both developments build out structures facing each other on 63rd. Right now NHP especially has a very odd relationship with that street, which is arguably the most important thoroughfare of all which touch these developments.

[Urbanized]

Every single new upscale retailer that comes to OKC seems to be wildly successful.

I know for a fact that both that Whole Foods and Anthropologie have far exceeded each company's projections. And I bet West Elm has, too.

I was told that the opening weekend of West Elm was the third-largest in the chain's history, after Chelsea (NYC) and Toronto.

[Pete]

Agree all points.

And the good news is that Glimcher is a very experienced retail developer with great architects.

Given their massive investment with plenty more to come, I'm sure they'll devote a lot of resources to threading things together as much as possible.


BTW, AEP now owns the small office building on the NE corner of 63rd & Grand and I'm sure changes / upgrades are coming to that property as well.

Rainey Willaims owns the building on the southwest corner of that intersection and has been renovating it for some new tenants as well.

And Chesapeake still owns tons of land, buildings and condos all around that clearly does not fit into their campus plans (refer to graphic at top of the page).

[Teo9969]

What's crazy is that these two lifestyle centers front the same street…

Gotta wonder what both of these properties are going to do to residential values between Wilshire and 122nd, especially considering that's an area that is almost entirely forgotten about in this city.

[Pete]

As evidence Glimcher is trying to unify these properties as much as possible, I'm pretty sure they will be re-branding everything under a new name, although I'm not exactly sure what that is yet.

[Teo9969]

I'd like to see somewhere in the range of 150 - 250 units of Apartments in this area south of 63rd. Is there any chance of substantial residential within these developments?

[Pete]

I'd like to see somewhere in the range of 150 - 250 units of Apartments in this area south of 63rd. Is there any chance of substantial residential within these developments?

I'm pretty sure the old Kensington Apartments parcel (the one west of Grand) will be housing of some sort.

Chesapeake demolished those some time ago and also the Kings Court condos on the north side of 63rd.

Both have been vacant lots for years since.


Also, Chesapeake still owns the majority of condo units in the three complexes west of NH Plaza South. They have millions invested and I'm sure the plan was to acquire all the units in each, then bulldoze ala Kings Court. But they never reached that point in any of the three and have over $14 million (!) invested in those complexes. And of course, they wildly over-paid for almost all of those units.

[Decious]

Wow! Arhaus is a big deal! My beautiful wife loves that store and has made several purchases online. They don't seem to be in "odd" markets. Almost all of the locations are in major cities. Between Arhaus, RH, and West Elm, this area will have a large amount of mid-high end furniture for sale. You'd imagine they'd feed off of each other in a good way. Great news! Crate and Barrel? If they were to ever enter the market... I wonder if they'd lean toward this cluster or prefer Chsmcrk?

[Pete]

Crate & Barrel has started to lean pretty heavily towards stand-alone stores and for that reason I think Chisholm Creek would likely be a better fit.

And in addition to all the furniture stores you mentioned in the Glimcher development, Anthropologie has a lot more home items than most realize.

[Dustin]

Oh man. The RH in Atlanta is beautiful. I doubt OKC will get anything like it, but it's nice to know we are getting one.

[Pete]

All the Restoration Hardware stores are very nice.

When I moved into my house about 10 years I spent a ton of money in that place.

[zookeeper]

Very exciting developments! IMO, It will be very difficult to try to tie anything in with Classen Curve without serious reconfiguration. CC is the worst shopping center design I think I've ever seen. With everything being blocked in and facing a big surface lot, it's just terrible. Sorry, Rand. Glimcher seems set to do wonders for the retail environment of this city.

[Chadanth]

Although it's completely worth it, traffic is going to be a nightmare in that area once this gets rolling.

[Mr. Cotter]

Very good additions. I liked walking through Arhaus in Cincinnati when I lived near it. Very different, and it'll be nice to have some non Mathis owned furniture options in town.

[Pete]

OKCTalk - Restoration Hardware, Arhaus and more eyeing OKC market