BOK Park Plaza

[soonerguru]

What a lovely parking garage canyon.

[chuck5815]

What a lovely parking garage canyon.

yeah, it's rather unbelievable that they wouldn't incorporate at least some street-facing retail and restaurants into these garages. it's not that hard, and you don't lose very much space in the garage.

[Pete]

It's also now a total of 5 skybridges into and out of the Devon complex.

[ljbab728]

yeah, it's rather unbelievable that they wouldn't incorporate at least some street-facing retail and restaurants into these garages. it's not that hard, and you don't lose very much space in the garage.

There has been a plan to have a limited amount of street facing retail in the garages.

[dcsooner]

Does anyone know the floor count they have reached? is 13 about right?

[ChrisHayes]

I believe they're working on 16

[Timshel]

Here's today's view of the construction from my office. The building is going to be a huge addition to the skyline looking northwest of downtown. If my map-viewing skills are correct, the convention center hotel should help pull the skyline even further west. Hopefully at some point there will be additional high-rises to provide some density to the "new" western portion of the skyline (RIP OGE Energy Center).

[GoldFire]

yeah, it's rather unbelievable that they wouldn't incorporate at least some street-facing retail and restaurants into these garages. it's not that hard, and you don't lose very much space in the garage.

I thought there was going to be some ground-level retail in the garages. Is my memory bad or did the plans change?

[Rover]

There is retail on the Main St. side and the Sheridan St. side.

[Bellaboo]

yeah, it's rather unbelievable that they wouldn't incorporate at least some street-facing retail and restaurants into these garages. it's not that hard, and you don't lose very much space in the garage.

If you go to page 1, you will see what you're asking for depicted in some of the renderings.

[chuck5815]

If you go to page 1, you will see what you're asking for depicted in some of the renderings.

yea, it's like 5,000 sq.ft., and it does little to break up the "parking lot canyon" effect because most of it (roughly 80%) is on the Sheridan side of the West garage, and the North garage has zero proposed, street-facing retail.

[Bellaboo]

yea, it's like 5,000 sq.ft., and it does little to break up the "parking lot canyon" effect because most of it (roughly 80%) is on the Sheridan side of the West garage, and the North garage has zero proposed, street-facing retail.

I believe the North garage has most of the proposed retail. Directly across from the Main Street garage that has Non Profit and retail components.

If you check the schematic in photo 16, you can see the space dedicated for retail. It takes up about 2/3 of the main street frontage.

[Roger S]

[chuck5815]

I believe the North garage has most of the proposed retail. Directly across from the Main Street garage that has Non Profit and retail components.

If you check the schematic in photo 16, you can see the space dedicated for retail. It takes up about 2/3 of the main street frontage.

good eye. looks like you are correct about that.

[ourulz2000]

Driving down 40 yesterday.

[Pete]

From this morning; they are now working on the 17th floor:

[TU 'cane]

10 floors to go!

[warreng88]

What a lovely parking garage canyon.

I went to a wedding reception at the Petroleum Club Saturday night and was talking with a friend who is an architect about the "Parking Garage District". He laughed and said show me, so I pointed out the two under construction, Main Street, Devon and the Sheridan/Walker parking garage. He commented that it's too many in the same area and they are all obviously parking garages, it's not like a parking garage wrapped in residential or office like midtown/deep deuce. I just thought it was interesting coming from an architect.

[OkiePoke]

I would assume they are going to raise the crane after this floor is complete.

[2Lanez]

Great view from the regatta this weekend. Skyline will really change from that angle.

[Bellaboo]

From I-40 / I-235 angle, it looks to me that the glass on this building is slightly 'lighter' than the exterior of Devon.

[Roger S]

Kind of wish I had been keeping these weekly pics somewhere... Would have made a neat time lapse slide show.... Guess I'll start it from this point.

[TU 'cane]

^^ Yea you have a different angle to showcase. No matter now though, seeing it rise the final 10 floors is whats important now. Thanks for the pics all!

[Teo9969]

Kind of wish I had been keeping these weekly pics somewhere... Would have made a neat time lapse slide show.... Guess I'll start it from this point.

If you posted them all in this thread you could probably do a search in this specific thread for all your posts and take the slides from those posts.

They probably aren't the original full resolution pictures though.

[Roger S]

If you posted them all in this thread you could probably do a search in this specific thread for all your posts and take the slides from those posts.

They probably aren't the original full resolution pictures though.

Yeah... Wish I had been putting a hashtag on them... Then I could have searched for it.