I plan on going to this meeting on Monday. If anyone else is, plan on getting there early. It is a mistake for the city to hold this meeting in the regular conference room.
I plan on going to this meeting on Monday. If anyone else is, plan on getting there early. It is a mistake for the city to hold this meeting in the regular conference room.
Perhaps it wasn"t a mistake ??
If OKC has the facilities to attract tier II type conventions, this shouldn't impact the established hotels in the CBD because the new CC & Conference Hotel would attract blocks of 300-400; something they (395 room Sheraton, 311 room Renaissance, 225 room Skirvin & Courtyard Marriott) couldn't handle anyway. If anything, it will put us in a higher tier to attract conventions which could result in spillover if the new convention hotel isn't able to offer full accommodations for a large group.
Especially since you could see the conference hotel built in phases of 520 and 306 rooms as noted by one developer.
Downtown has a long ways to go before new hotels start impacting existing hotels. Also, many can argue that each new hotel actually helps the existing inventory by bringing more people to the immediate area, which increases ammenities and things to do.might
That's somewhat interesting. A Fairfield Inn doesn't really get me excited normally but considering where this development is being placed (first in that area), I am intrigued.
Will this city ever see an upscale hotel developer?
The renderings for their proposed Downtown Tulsa Fairfield Inn look pretty nice.
Not exactly what you'd expect to see on Central Park in NYC. Question is, how much EIFS (none please!) and how urban will the design requirements be?
Reminder this is the same group that has proposed the Canopy Hotel (should probably call it Canopy Hotel West) and that all these various flags can be done to a very nice standard if the developer is so motivated.
Just look how great the Holiday Inn Express turned out.
As a side note, I have no idea where they plan to park people. The building to the immediate west is the large, cool, historic structure and OG&E owns the lot directly north. That area is still pretty rough so I'm sure they have a plan other than street parking.
Unfortunately, they are bad about returning calls so it may take a while to get more info.
This won't be on Central Park. In fact, there might be a superblock convention center between it and the park. As for EIFS, if places with names like 'Bricktown' have it, well,..., since it is on 0.7 acres, it will have be urban. They don't have room for non-sense and site plan shinnanagins.
Just pondering this today while sitting at the light at Walnut and Reno, and it's a never gonna happen pipe dream, but how great would the U-Haul site be if you could buy out Harkins and tear it down?
Replacing Bass Pro with a convention center would be nice. Although there a lot of people who are passionate about their Bass Pro.
Doesn't really seem appropriate for Brick town anymore. Its just a big box sporting good store.
The numbers at that Bass Pro have consistently outperformed projections, so they are clearly doing pretty well at that spot.
But almost certainly the people shopping there all drive in and drive out without walking anywhere else.
And with Cabela's and to a lesser extent REI, that's going to change in the near future. Move Bass Pro to Crossroads or I-240 :-D
I'm sure they'll continue to do very well.
There is room in the market for more quality competition.
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