Aloft Hotel

[BDP]

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Cool! Thanks so much.

Looks like they are really hustling now.


wxyz will be right where that sign is located, both above and below (first and second levels in the lobby).


With Urban Johnnie close to opening, there will be four great hangout spots within a stone's throw: wxyz, UJ, DD Grill and WSKY.

Also, WSKY is expanding and there will be another restaurant/bar at the far west end of Aloft.

Are they still planning on an 809 Sports Grill, or was that just rumor?

[Pete]

Are they still planning on an 809 Sports Grill, or was that just rumor?

There hasn't been any sort of building permit for the restaurant space as of yet.

Last I knew, they were still seeking a tenant for that space.

[OKCisOK4me]

This is not a great picture, just took it out of my window, but you can see the sign in place. (never posted a photo before, hope it gets bigger when you click it!)
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Man, I'd love to see that lot to the west of Aloft and the pocket park go by way of development.

[catch22]

Man, I'd love to see that lot to the west of Aloft and the pocket park go by way of development.

I wouldn't. Need to keep the super-blocks away. I'd like to see the pocket park extended down to Main. Would be a great pedestrian thoroughfare.

[Dubya61]

Is the lot (to the west) owned by the Clark Building people?

[OKCisOK4me]

I wouldn't. Need to keep the super-blocks away. I'd like to see the pocket park extended down to Main. Would be a great pedestrian thoroughfare.

I wasn't saying develop the pocket park. I'd like to see development between the the one building (across from Maywood Lofts...having a brain fart on its name) and the pocket park. Basically the parking lot and where that construction trailer is sitting. Park stays.

[catch22]

Oh okay. I reread your post and now I see what you are saying.

I believe Richard McKown's group bought part of that corner (one or two lots but not the whole corner).

You are thinking of the Clark Building.

I would like to see that corner developed also.

[OKCisOK4me]

Oh okay. I reread your post and now I see what you are saying.

I believe Richard McKown's group bought part of that corner (one or two lots but not the whole corner).

You are thinking of the Clark Building.

I would like to see that corner developed also.

Thank you! I kept thinking Cline but I know that's Midtown/AutoAlley...

Now if developers can figure out how to incorporate that multi-level parking structure north of Main Street just west of the viaduct with room to allow for a future commuter rail line ramp to be built over your extended pocket park to Main then a lot of us will be smiling!

[Pete]

There are three separate properties between the Clark Building and Aloft:

1. The parking lot immediately east of the Clark, owned by the same people
2. A lot that extends east from that parking lot to about the middle of the pocket park, owned by Ron Bradshaw & Co.
3. The eastern half o the pocket park which is actually City right-of-way

[soonerguru]

I wouldn't. Need to keep the super-blocks away. I'd like to see the pocket park extended down to Main. Would be a great pedestrian thoroughfare.

Great idea.

[Spartan]

That would be very easy too, because there's already a plaza with a vista of Bricktown, and a pocket park doesn't have to meet the same standards for bridging the Rock Island ROW (future Amtrak connection) that an actual automobile thoroughfare would. There have been numerous calls for connecting Oklahoma Avenue, which hasn't come to fruition just because that's a much more difficult proposition regardless of what a great idea it would be.

[Pete]

Photo from Spartan:

[pw405]

Hey,... the "a" is missing on the east side of the upper-level signage.

[Urbanized]

OMG! They'd better not leave it like that! Who do we call to demand that they include that "A"??!?






These are jokes.

[Pete]

Has anybody peeked inside at the lobby recently?

It doesn't look like there is any way they will be open in a month.

[betts]

I haven't because they've been working on the sidewalk around the entrance but I'll take a look today if I can.

[ethansisson]

OMG! They'd better not leave it like that! Who do we call to demand that they include that "A"??!?

LOL

No disclaimer next time. It's funnier.

[no1cub17]

Has anybody peeked inside at the lobby recently?

It doesn't look like there is any way they will be open in a month.

Opening has been pushed back to 2/20 per the starwood website. Shocking, I know!

[Pete]

2/20 even seems a bit aggressive but here's hoping that actually meet this one.

This project is going to end up almost a full year behind schedule.

[OKCisOK4me]

Hey,... the "a" is missing on the east side of the upper-level signage.

That's where the loft for overnight employees is located...

[soonerguru]

2/20 even seems a bit aggressive but here's hoping that actually meet this one.

This project is going to end up almost a full year behind schedule.

And yet it is a very impressive development. Hard to believe they would go to so much trouble for an Aloft.

[betts]

And yet it is a very impressive development. Hard to believe they would go to so much trouble for an Aloft.

I wonder if it's because the owner is planning on living there. If it's your home, you take more care.

[Chadanth]

I wonder if it's because the owner is planning on living there. If it's your home, you take more care.

The owner is going to live onsite??

[betts]

Yes. I've been told he's got a two-story apartment on the west end, where you see all the windows.

[Spartan]

I wonder if it's because the owner is planning on living there. If it's your home, you take more care.

Supposedly Jim Thompson always does top-notch but this is top-notch for him