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Actually it did nothing of the sort. Credit to Betts - a loyal proponent of the C2S location - for being honest about numbers that are damaging to that site from a walkability standpoint.
For those who care, a universally-accepted walking speed is about 3.1 MPH. That would place the dealership location as she measured it (.52 miles) 10 minutes and 3 seconds from the Bricktown Starbucks, while the C2S site (.66 miles by her measure) would be nearly THIRTEEN MINUTES (12:46). Which means literally every other business in Bricktown (save Fuzzy's) is more than 13 minutes. Most of them - as I have been saying all along - are FIFTEEN MINUTES PLUS.
Doesn't sound like much, but it almost assuredly can't be done round trip during a one-hour lunch break. Not to mention the fact that statistically people start driving when a walk exceeds 10 minutes. And that C2S number doesn't factor crossing the soon-to appear six lane boulevard with interstate on-ramps on each end. It renders EVERY LAST BUILDING IN BRICKTOWN outside of the 10 minute amenities bubble that is used to make convention space salable.
Of course, the dealership location also had a long distance relationship with Bricktown (though not AS long), but full service hotels were squarely in the bubble; they are completely out of the bubble in C2S.
Credit Betts for doing the on-the-ground research and posting results, despite the fact that they don't support the C2S location.
Sorry, I will crawl back into my hole now; I just couldn't let such blatant misinterpretation of data go without comment.
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