Tiffany Apartments

[Praedura]

Wow! Color me amazed.

This isn't just a renovation, this is an "Extreme Makeover"!

From this:




To this:



Can't believe that's even the same building.

Dayum!

[Praedura]

So the two side buildings are new? That's a lot of money being spent.

This is unreal cool. If the final result is like these renderings... well, it's like a night and day transformation.

[OKCisOK4me]

The new plans look great (sincere) and that rooftop view of Target is so hot (sarcasm)...

[Teo9969]

Ha! Aloft style roof!

This is much more interesting architecturally and better for sure. That being said, the European that's taken hold in me longs for at least one Soviet Tract housing type development in OKC

[Praedura]

All of a sudden, multi-story residential development is ON FIRE in OKC.

This is crazy! (good kind of crazy)

[Praedura]

Ha! Aloft style roof!

Yeah, I noticed that. Maybe this will have a rooftop bar as well?

That being said, the European that's taken hold in me longs for at least one Soviet Tract housing type development in OKC

Hey, we still have the Carnegie.

[OKCisOK4me]

All of a sudden, multi-story residential development is ON FIRE in OKC.

This is crazy! (good kind of crazy)

On Fire Multi-story residential development would be a brand new high rise project downtown. Lick your chops but I'm not biting my lip just yet ;-)

[Teo9969]

Yeah, I noticed that. Maybe this will have a rooftop bar as well?




Hey, we still have the Carnegie.

That's more like a Brutalist jail...

[MWCGuy]

The new plans look great (sincere) and that rooftop view of Target is so hot (sarcasm)...

It reminds me of a Tracy Byrd song "We got pink flamingos in the front yard / Picture window with a view of Wal-Mart "

[bombermwc]

Did I miss additional parking somewhere? The lot for the current tower is pretty small. Then we're looking at taking the surface space for the additions without really adding parking. The renderings dont appear to show any multilevel parking being added. So it's an issue when you double your occupancy while halfing your parking. Hmmm

But i should say, i like the renderings. It's a nice way to rehab the place from it's duldrum existence. The new space needs to have reasonable square footage though. Those old apartments were expenseive, and overly for what you got. They tried to sell the "view", which was crap. I remember laughing when a friend of mine looked there and they told her an efficiency was $600 a month back in 2001. I think my full reply was something like "for this piece of crap?" Their reply, "well just look at the view". My reply "you mean of the car dealership and target....wooooooo". And that was for an apt that didnt have washer/dryer either....horrible green carpet, and a single pane glass wall of uber inefficiency. Yeah, not impressed. That's the sort of thing that needs to be corrected for ANYTHING here to be successful.

[lasomeday]

The renderings show the pool in the back (west side of main building).

That looks like it could be the new swanky place to hang out! Glad I have a view of it from my office!

[HangryHippo]

Ha! Aloft style roof!

This is much more interesting architecturally and better for sure. That being said, the European that's taken hold in me longs for at least one Soviet Tract housing type development in OKC

Regency Tower doesn't soothe your European soul's longing for Soviet housing?

[bchris02]

On Fire Multi-story residential development would be a brand new high rise project downtown. Lick your chops but I'm not biting my lip just yet ;-)

On-fire development would be several downtown high-rises. Those type of developments come in waves. Look at Austin and how their skyline has been completely transformed by all the residential. When I lived in Little Rock they built three high-rise residential towers one after the other and renovated a few more similar to this Tiffany development. I am excited about this tower being renovated and its good for OKC but I wouldn't call it a multi-story boom just yet. My gut feeling is we'll see a boom after Central Park is complete providing the economy isn't in the toilet at the end of this decade.

[HangryHippo]

When is work going to begin on this conversion? Anybody know?

[Praedura]

Regency Tower doesn't soothe your European soul's longing for Soviet housing?

It would be AWESOME if the Regency were to have an exterior renovation like this one.

Unfortunately, no chance now. Maybe 20 years from now.

[seaofchange]

Did I miss additional parking somewhere? The lot for the current tower is pretty small. Then we're looking at taking the surface space for the additions without really adding parking. The renderings dont appear to show any multilevel parking being added. So it's an issue when you double your occupancy while halfing your parking. Hmmm

But i should say, i like the renderings. It's a nice way to rehab the place from it's duldrum existence. The new space needs to have reasonable square footage though. Those old apartments were expenseive, and overly for what you got. They tried to sell the "view", which was crap. I remember laughing when a friend of mine looked there and they told her an efficiency was $600 a month back in 2001. I think my full reply was something like "for this piece of crap?" Their reply, "well just look at the view". My reply "you mean of the car dealership and target....wooooooo". And that was for an apt that didnt have washer/dryer either....horrible green carpet, and a single pane glass wall of uber inefficiency. Yeah, not impressed. That's the sort of thing that needs to be corrected for ANYTHING here to be successful.

my friend lived there and it was actually a quite nice view from his apartment. you could see downtown and it was great during storms to sit on his balcony and relax. and his apartment was actually renovated and very spacious. and utilities were included. it was a 1 bedroom and he paid 650 a month. not bad in my opinion.

[lasomeday]

Construction chain link fence went up today.... May be having construction start soon.

There has been a lot of activity at the building the last few weeks..... It could be to keep vagrants out or construction starting. I hope construction.

[HangryHippo]

Construction chain link fence went up today.... May be having construction start soon.

There has been a lot of activity at the building the last few weeks..... It could be to keep vagrants out or construction starting. I hope construction.

Me too. I am a huge fan of this project and hope it's beginning to ramp up!

[Pete]

No building permits as of yet but they may be doing demo first.

[Plutonic Panda]

I am super excited about this project. It really signifies along with everything else how much momentum OKC has going for it. It isn't just the urban core or just the suburbs that are booming, it's the ENTIRE CITY! So excited for this and can't wait to see the final product.

[Spartan]

This is a reasonably urban locale though unlike Deer Creek.

I badly wished the NW Expwy had a LRT and walkable streetscape.

[Plutonic Panda]

Yeah, there is so much potential in this area to renovate it with tons of cool structures. Would be nice to see the street reconstructed in cement, four lanes in the middle as a limited access kind of thing(but NOT a highway. You would still have to stop at all the lights and such), then two lanes on each side nearby those lanes as a low speed limit narrower lanes with rail on each side and 12ft. sidewalks. I'll try and come up with a picture of what I am describing. I also wonder if bringing May Ave. back to grade would work as well.

[ljbab728]

Uh no, plupan. I drive on NW Expressway frequently and don't want to see any more driving lanes no matter how they are configured. And I see absolutely no benefit to making the May intersection a traditional stop light intersection.

[Plutonic Panda]

Well, I guess we just disagree I guess May Ave. is fine the way it is, but I would still like to see what I described happened. It wouldn't impact traffic at all really and would make the area more walkable on each side. Add pedestrian bridges or tunnels to connect the streets every so often. It wouldn't be an urban utopia, but it'd be a hell of a lot better than what is there now and there would be light-rail throughout to.

[ljbab728]

I didn't say all of your ideas were bad, just the extra driving lanes.