OKC Vs. Tulsa

[Swake]

Hotels under construction or planned, 700 or so new rooms

Promise Hotels (7 metro hotels):
Hilton Garden Inn on SE Corner 2nd and Cheyenne, 134 rooms, partial rehab, partial new construction.

Hampton Inn at 3rd and Cheyenne, part of Place One development. 120 room new construction

Holiday Inn Express on SE Corner Detroit and Archer, 110 room 5 story new construction hotel


Anish Hotels (9 Tulsa area hotels):
Residence Inn at 5th and Denver, 110 room new construction hotel

Unnamed Hotel conversion of Parker Drilling office building at 2nd and Main.


Brickhugger (downtown aLoft, Mayo Hotel)
Best Western in former city office building at 6th and Houston, 82 rooms.


Wil Wilkens (Atlas Building Residence Inn, Brady District Hampton Inn)
Unnamed hotel in mixed use development at Elgin and Archer

[BG918]

The mixed-use development at Elgin & Archer on the parking lot across from ONEOK Field is supposed to have a TownePlace Suites in addition to office space and ground level retail, and a new brewpub next to it at Elgin & Brady being developed by Elliot Nelson and Eric Marshall


Also a new build commercial project in the Blue Dome District along Greenwood which has several proposed residential developments clustered around it

[Swake]

New $45 million Tulsa County Juvenile Justice Center at Archer and Elwood, starts construction in 2015

[Swake]

$48 million restoration of Tulsa's art deco Central Library, under construction now.

[Jake]

Good for Tulsa. Glad to see Tulsa and OKC doing well.

Perhaps this thread should be turned into a "Tulsa Development" thread.

[ljbab728]

Good for Tulsa. Glad to see Tulsa and OKC doing well.

Perhaps this thread should be turned into a "Tulsa Development" thread.

You mean like this?

Tulsa & Suburbs

[Jake]

Oooooooooh! Didn't even know it existed!

[Plutonic Panda]

Oooooooooh! Didn't even know it existed!

Not to be rude here, but how did you manage to miss that? Some goes for others wanting a Tulsa development thread. Good to see Tulsa getting about 10% of the projects that is going on here in OKC. They have my respect.

[BG918]

I think Swake's posts were more to inform about the development that is ongoing in downtown Tulsa since some on this thread brought up that there wasn't very much going on. Like has been mentioned downtown Tulsa is about 10 years behind downtown OKC in its renaissance and is just now really starting to get things going. I'm excited about the prospects in both downtowns.

[Plutonic Panda]

I think Swake's posts were more to inform about the development that is ongoing in downtown Tulsa since some on this thread brought up that there wasn't very much going on. Like has been mentioned downtown Tulsa is about 10 years behind downtown OKC in its renaissance and is just now really starting to get things going. I'm excited about the prospects in both downtowns.

As am I man. I'm actually impressed with what was posted. I didn't know that much was going on or planned down there. I generally drive around downtown to see what's going on when I'm there and I hope Tulsa really gets going with their downtown. They need a streetscape project going ASAP. I guess I missed most of the construction, but by the looks of it, a lot of it isn't slated to begin until 2015, so I suspect Tulsa will see more announced by then.

[Plutonic Panda]

Here's another development that just started in the 918 today

Margaritaville resort

$365 million
27 Stories
483 hotel rooms
800 full-time jobs(WOW!)
est. 135 million impact on the economy a year
one of the largest single private developments in the history of the state





- Work begins on $329 million Margaritaville casino and hotel - Tulsa World: Homepage3

[Jake]

I only click on "New Posts" when I visit this site. Then look to see which user just posted the last comment. It helps me avoid arguments and off-topic posts like this one... oops.

[Plutonic Panda]

I only click on "New Posts" when I visit this site.

Ah, I understand. That makes sense. I've never used that function, so I forgot about it.

[Plutonic Panda]

I only click on "New Posts" when I visit this site. Then look to see which user just posted the last comment. It helps me avoid arguments and off-topic posts like this one... oops.

That's a pretty good idea though haha.

[HOT ROD]

ya, definitely apologize for not knowing/seeing the Tulsa mega thread. Ill have to check if there is a forum or two about downtown development (such as what BG, SWAKE, others) have posted here.

This is what I was asking for, very clear, objective, and factual about what's going on and even some history or 'trade secrets' if you will; little to no subjective put down or snub.


thanks all.

[HOT ROD]

i just took a look at the mega thread and it appears to be single project focused rather than a city compilation sort of thread we recently have going here.

Personally, I like the city compilation since it's more of an update for those of us who aren't from Tulsa to keep up on what's going on. I think the individual threads are probably more focused for OKC since this is its home forum. my opinion only. Would Swake/BG be willing to start a city compilation sticky in the Tulsa section? Maybe Pete/mods could move the recent posts over. Or not -

[Spartan]

The problem is we haven't had any good Tulsa updates in a loooooooooooong time, besides for suburban stuff and the "Gathering Place" park.

I for one really appreciate swake and BG's updates in this thread. I occasionally try to dig through Tulsa Now (a painful experience) and it always gives me the impression nothing is happening.

[AP]

I would really love for Pete to start TulsaTalk as I would read it regularly.

[bchris02]

The Margaritaville hotel/casino is really impressive. That's on top of the existing Hard Rock casino. I wish something like that would be done with Riverwind or one of the other OKC area casinos.

[BG918]

Personally, I like the city compilation since it's more of an update for those of us who aren't from Tulsa to keep up on what's going on. I think the individual threads are probably more focused for OKC since this is its home forum. my opinion only. Would Swake/BG be willing to start a city compilation sticky in the Tulsa section? Maybe Pete/mods could move the recent posts over. Or not -

I think having a single downtown compilation thread would be good, located in the Tulsa subforum. It's better that way because it's a bunch of mostly smaller projects that don't need their own threads. Maybe a midtown development thread as well since there is quite a bit happening there too. The big projects like Gathering Place and the River Spirit tower probably deserve their own threads. Swake knows a lot more than I do about Tulsa development (he lives there, I don't) and could start it and update it if he wants. I could add things periodically as I am in Tulsa every few months for work.

[Swake]

Feel free to move the posts.

I think part of the awareness problem is that the Tulsa World is behind a pay wall now and has really declined since being bought out by BH Media.

[soondoc]

Could the Chickasaw Tribe and all they money that have possibly do something like this near the DT area? They could even build a mega resort with perhaps indoor skiing! I mentioned this on another thread but they have huge bucks and could make this happen. Imagine a huge resort and hotel with indoor skiing? It could look something like this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=indo...l%3B1200%3B900

[adaniel]

Chickasaws cannot build anything outside of their immediate "nation" boundaries, which pretty much include all of South Central Oklahoma but stops at the South Canadian River.

[Laramie]

IIRC one of the tribes released plans for development proposal ($400 million) about six years ago where they wanted to do something like this in northeast Oklahoma City. The development included a 16-20 story hotel and a casino. It met resistance from Remington Park Racino and city leaders.

2008

By The Associated Press
The Shawnee Tribe is planning to unveil its plans for a resort and casino in northeast Oklahoma City.

Officials with the Miami, Okla.-based tribe plan to detail their plans Wednesday during a news conference at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.


Tribal officials say they have a contract to buy and develop more than 100 acres on the west side of Interstate 35, between Britton Road and Wilshire Boulevard.

The tribe is currently seeking trust status for the land, which is required before they could build the casino.

Tribe plans casino, hotel in OKC | News OK

There's an OKCTalk thread: http://www.okctalk.com/general-civic...asino-okc.html

[Swake]

IIRC one of the tribes released plans for development proposal ($400 million) about six years ago where they wanted to do something like this in northeast Oklahoma City. The development included a 16-20 story hotel and a casino. It met resistance from Remington Park Racino and city leaders.



Tribe plans casino, hotel in OKC | News OK

There's an OKCTalk thread: http://www.okctalk.com/general-civic...asino-okc.html

Legally tribal casinos in Oklahoma have to be located within that tribe’s national boundaries and then only on federal land reserved for the tribe and held in trust by the BIA and therefore technically not in the state. Most of central Oklahoma and all of OKC is outside of all the tribal nations so no casinos can be located there. Tulsa is split up by the Creek, Cherokee and Osage nations. The boundaries of the three nations all come together at a point just northwest of downtown.