Dowell Garage

[PhiAlpha]

Now with the closure of westbound 10th in front of Fassler/Dust Bowl it is even worse.

It's open again


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[Pete]

From Metro:

[Pete]

City of OKC just posted they expect NW 4th to remain closed until mid-June.

[catch22]

City of OKC just posted they expect NW 4th to remain closed until mid-June.

What year?

[Plutonic Panda]

What year?

Feeling generous today? I almost thought what decade. ;P

[shawnw]

It's moving along pretty quickly, though I still don't see the need for a street closure with that whole surface lot right next to it. There's a picture I keep meaning to take where you can see the construction of both the dowell and main street garages in one frame...

[Pete]

Photo from https://twitter.com/dtOKCbuilds:

[Urbanized]

Great news; steel almost topped out. We (downtowners) get 4th Street back soon. Or we had better, anyway...

[Pete]

From shawnw... 4th is now back open:

[Pete]

Ugly, blank cinderblock wall going up on this project (photo credit to shawnw). You can bet this will be repeatedly tagged by graffiti:

[5alive]

How does he get by with this!?


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[Pete]

This is what the west side looked like before the addition:

[Plutonic Panda]

Now this is textbook definition of better than crap makes us..... OK that maybe inappropriate, so I'll stick with the original one.

[shawnw]

That's how he got away with it... the permit was "to improve the west facing wall [of his previous garage] with a new wall [and another parking structure in between while we're at it]"

[Pete]

This project bothers me more than any other downtown because it happened after the Downtown Design Review Committee was established and specific guidelines were adopted.

Just a total fail of not only the people and processes that are supposed to guard against this junk, and completely irresponsible by Dowell to even propose it, let alone build it.

[shawnw]

I lamented on Instagram about this. But I don't have enough followers to create a backlash.

[5alive]

I have learned by following the various parking garage posts that the facade can be most anything ...It galls me that Dowell does this!


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[CurtisJ]

You can bet this will be repeatedly tagged by graffiti

Pete maybe you are on to something there, maybe this can be improved by painting a large mural?

I completely agree that the "design" here is awful.

[catcherinthewry]

I'm not a big Dowell fan. I was talking to one of his contractors earlier this year and he said that Dowell asked him to do some stuff that was against city code. When the contractor told him he couldn't break the city code, Dowell told him that he (Dowell) could do whatever he wanted to because of "all the stuff he does for the city". What an arrogant SOB.

[Plutonic Panda]

What exactly does he do?

[shawnw]

well, "Dowellville" wouldn't be what it is today were it not for him, BUT we're happy with it crappy...

[Richard at Remax]

at least it will be easy to tear down when the time comes

[CuatrodeMayo]

The blank wall is blank because it it up against the property line. If and when the adjacent parking lot is developed, that wall will be concealed. It needs to be solid to maintain a fire separation between the garage and a future building. This isn't intended to be a facade, but a firewall.

Now the rest of the facades that face the street...smh.

[HangryHippo]

I'm not a big Dowell fan. I was talking to one of his contractors earlier this year and he said that Dowell asked him to do some stuff that was against city code. When the contractor told him he couldn't break the city code, Dowell told him that he (Dowell) could do whatever he wanted to because of "all the stuff he does for the city". What an arrogant SOB.

Yep, Dowell is an arrogant prick. And his "work" downtown is consistently some of the ugliest stuff around, which is particularly odd considering the amount of time he takes to do anything.

[shawnw]

Nothing like painstaking attention to near-mediocrity.