Chesapeake empire marches on

[kinggober]

Yeah it's black now and the east side of the building is gone (for PG5)
I'll try and snap some pics on my way home.

[ChargerAg]

Any idea what they are building to the Southeast of the RTC building. I see cranes and what look like a retaining wall in the distance on the RTC camera. The site map shows that this was supposed to be a retention pond. Maybe this is something in regards to the highway?

[Pete]

It's definitely not part of a highway...

My guess it's just infrastructure for the retention pond, as they have been piling dirt in that general area for years.

[LuccaBrasi]

Yeah it's black now and the east side of the building is gone (for PG5)
I'll try and snap some pics on my way home.

I'm surprised CHK did not convince the City to paint the arena black as part of thier sponsorship deal......

[Snowman]

I'm surprised CHK did not convince the City to paint the arena black as part of thier sponsorship deal......

Painted brick is much harder to maintain than the bricks original color. Especially black, a color that does not hide dirt well and tents to fade.

[Spartan]

Oh wow, black brick on the Ford Center would have looked slick.

[LuccaBrasi]

Painted brick is much harder to maintain than the bricks original color. Especially black, a color that does not hide dirt well and tents to fade.

Correct. My comment was actually intended in a joking manner since many of the buildings the empire is buying, they are then painting/staining them black.

[ChargerAg]

I wonder how much that adds to the cooling bill.

[kinggober]

I can't figure out how to grab the HTML from my iPhone so here's a link. If someone wants to post them thy would be great!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53062852@N00/6800294008

[Pete]

Thanks!

Untitled by KingGober, on Flickr


Untitled by KingGober, on Flickr

[Pete]

$400K permit to remodel one of the floors in the Harvey Parkway building and $200K for 5,900 square feet in the Caliber Center.


Has anybody been by Nichols Hills Plaza lately? Is there construction happening in the old Crescent space? I new grocer is supposed to be opening there soon.

[Dustin]

Here is the master plan:

http://i.imgur.com/ZDq85.jpg

I found this over on reddit. It was posted by a guy who is a construction sales consultant working on the Devon Tower at the moment. This master plan is a little older than the updated one and it has buildings all the way up to 23 and he says when finished, there should be about 28 buildings total!

[ChargerAg]

Wow that seems sort of crazy. Do you have the reddit link? i would be curious to read the comments.

Looking at that it seems really planned out but in a really weird/crazy way.




Also i wonder what is crossed out in orange. it is only on the buildings that are currently under construction. Interesting that it is on the lake as Pete has never seen a permit for that.

[Dustin]

Wow that seems sort of crazy. Do you have the reddit link? i would be curious to read the comments.

Looking at that it seems really planned out but in a really weird/crazy way.




Also i wonder what is crossed out in orange. it is only on the buildings that are currently under construction. Interesting that it is on the lake as Pete has never seen a permit for that.

Here is the reddit link: http://www.reddit.com/r/oklahoma/com..._tower/c3z5kk3

Crossed out areas were "personal names"

[Pete]

Here is the master plan:

http://i.imgur.com/ZDq85.jpg

I found this over on reddit. It was posted by a guy who is a construction sales consultant working on the Devon Tower at the moment. This master plan is a little older than the updated one and it has buildings all the way up to 23 and he says when finished, there should be about 28 buildings total!

Wow, great find. Thanks so much.

I'll update the aerials I created with this new information.

[Skyline]

It's almost like you found part of the Holy Grail.

[ChargerAg]

The real Holy Grail is the drawing showing the new tenants for Classen curve, the triangle, and all the other retail they are building out.

[Spartan]

Well this is definitely the East Holy Grail. Wow, complete with traffic circles..

[metro]

The real Holy Grail is the drawing showing the new tenants for Classen curve, the triangle, and all the other retail they are building out.

So maybe the holy coaster?

[Spartan]

Can someone explain to me what reddit is and how Ttownzfinest (with a "z") posts this highly credible working masterplan and then mentions they will actually go up to Building 28?

[Pete]

The guy is in the construction field and had access to that plan, which looks to be a utility drawing.

We've seen most of that stuff in the past in various forms and places.

This is the way Chesapeake does business... Keeps everything hidden and secret. Even as buildings are nearing completion you still can't find renderings of them anywhere. I've called Rand Elliott who referred me to CHK's PR firm who didn't even bother to return my call. And this is for buildings like #14 which is about 80% complete anyway.

The things I find are usually in city documents they are required to file -- like for the data center and central plant. When something falls completely within their existing PUD they don't even have to do that.


Similarly, big things are in the works for Nichols Hills Plaza but they do nothing but play covert. Even the tenants there don't know what is going on; there was a forum a bunch of them formed in order to try and figure it out.


It's a very strange way to do business and I've never seen anyone act like this before.

[Spartan]

That's how you do business when you're $6 BILLION in the hole and it wouldn't stun anyone on Wall Street to see you either file bankruptcy or double in size at any given time.

Somebody should go take a camera to their cafeteria building. Guests are allowed on Fridays, and the food is always very good. In the entrance to the cafeteria building they have renderings for the new Building 14-17 prototypes, they look incredible.

[metro]

FYI they have more than one restaurant on campus, they aren't in one building.

[wsucougz]

Spartan - YJGM

[Spartan]

FYI they have more than one restaurant on campus, they aren't in one building.

Cool.