Other than some small scale developments downtown,
every single major unique development that had a mixed-use/multi family development has been opposed. Coffee creek expansion, 18 on fink, spring creek expansion, new apartment complexes on danforth/I-35 and southwest Edmond, expansion of 1201 covell village, expansion of legend v apartments, etc I’m sure I’m forgetting several. The only exception albeit very small one is the new development at Fox lake that will be two or three stories(no residential) and honestly I’m shocked that one happened.
Those aren’t opinion those are facts. Look no further than Midtowner’s post on the spring creek expansion who is scared of multi family because of the perceived property valuation decline. It’s comical and yet still represents a lot of views. Congrats to him and others who support the expansion of Hafer park, which isn’t even that nice and needs upgrades. There’s also no solid plan or guidelines how the new park will be built or maintained. Those NIMBYs essentially used the ignorance of other citizens to bail them out because they don’t(or didn’t want to) have the money to prevent development. I guess already having one of the biggest parks in the city wasn’t good enough.
Getting back on topic with this development in this area, an 800 unit complex sitting on top of retail between Hilton Garden Inn and Showbiz has been proposed for almost a decade now with no movement. Every business I’ve seen that has been able to be built here has killed it so I’m surprised there hasn’t been more so far. I haven’t seen any formal opposition to anything here and honestly I thought the earlier post about the development here was a tad harsh but I know for a fact Edmond has a reputation amongst developers in the metro and it isn’t a good one.
I received an email sometime ago that POAG wouldn’t even consider building again in the entire state after the debacle about Edmond turning into Manhattan after the NIMBY freak out regarding the shoppes at spring creek which would have easily been the nicest shopping center in the entire state:
https://www.poagllc.com/ that’s who we ran out.
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