As I walked passed the notorious white van on Friday, I noticed it belongs to the Journal Record. The new camera is awesome! 100x better than the last camera.
As I walked passed the notorious white van on Friday, I noticed it belongs to the Journal Record. The new camera is awesome! 100x better than the last camera.
#1 sign you're not quite accustomed to a major bldg. going up in DT -
you check out the devoncam (right side of image) and instead of a red crane your first thought is how da hades did someone tag the whole side of that bldg.
Note to self - get a nap in this afternoon
LOL, I've caught myself being briefly fooled by that as well.
Oooh, Christmas lights in the park already.
wow. all this brouhaha over a new office building. apparently skyscrapers are supposed to be some sort of symbolically phallic structure used for the sole bragging rights to other cities that "ours is bigger than yours".
The tower will be located south of the east parking garage -- the one on the left of the photo. It will be close to the street (Sheridan).Is the sitework shown the hole for the podium, rotunda, or tower?
The rotunda will be centered between the two garages and set back from Sheridan. The podium will be built in front (south) of the west parking garage once it is expanded to 10 levels, then the park will be between the rotunda, podium and Sheridan.
Not to mention about 50 some odd stories tall. ~75% taller than the tallest building in our skyline.
id be happier if Devon instead decided to build 2 or 3 structures of equivalent size and height that still surpasses the currently tallest skyscraper downtown.
I mean, look at what they have planned, its mammoth! So large that it looks displaced existing alongside all the other much smaller buildings.
The only remaining question is how much longer will OKC have to wait before yet another structure of similiar size is built to accompany the Devon Tower so that our downtown skyline looks more visually sound to the eyes.
While it might make you happier, my understanding is Devon purposely designed the property so that there would be plenty of public space included inviting the public to enjoy the grounds as well as Devon employees. Mr. Nichols could have just put up 2 or 3 structures like you say and built them right up to the curb and blocked out the public just like most other office buildings downtown but instead wanted the public to be able to use part of the property as well. So the way I see it, the design was to invite the public to enjoy part of the grounds and be able to still accomodate all their future growth of employees. To me that's a win-win solution.
Well, the PD wants to add 300 bodies or thereabouts, and the rest of city services apparently are short on peeps, and the county says a new jail is needed, and with all this extra activity, the city might need to revamp its own court system into more space, so who knows?
Maybe a 38 story special Oklahoma City/County Government Services Tower can spring up and up and up.
Just what we need...more bureaucrats.
I'm sure in a few years we might get another announcement for a building, probably not as tall as the Devon tower, maybe 30-45 stories or something. Never know. The future I think is bright for Oklahoma City, lets just keep taxes and unemployment low and I think we will continue to grow.
Remember, this is a World HQ - In order to get another building this size, we need another Fortune 500 to move their World HQ or at least USA HQ to OKC (assuming the company is much larger than Devon).
With that said, let's put the wishful thinking aside and get one building done before we start arguing over the next one, which is nothing more than electrostatic charges inside our armchair brains.
Sorry to dredge up the past but what's up with that white van again? It's just chillin, in the middle of the night!
You guys do know that when the Devon employees move into their newly-built building and parking garage, they will be vacating an equal number of parking spaces elsewhere in downtown, right? You do know that they are already officing downtown, and it's not like a new business is moving down here and taking up a bunch of new spaces, right? You do know that they are actually building many, many new spaces, and although they are consolidating their parking into one building they are actually creating a NET ADDITION to downtown's parking availability, right? RIGHT?
oooh whoopee - Devon is vacating space on the other side of town - hallelujah! Thanks Devon, we should thank you for that - taking away the spaces most near public services such as a Library, County Court, City Hall, and vacating spaces on the other side of town - you are the best company ever!
I will say the City takes a lot of blame on this too. They essentially built a garage for Devon. Anyway, forget about it - I don't want to take away from the construction cam - it is very interesting to watch. I know that 99% of the people on here seem to want "progress" at any cost - so I know it does no good to suggest people take a step back and look at things from another angle.
There are currently 3 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 3 guests)
Bookmarks