Big group of building permits today by the Gardner Tanenbaum group to build a large apartment complex to be called Liberty Pointe near the old GM plant:
Big group of building permits today by the Gardner Tanenbaum group to build a large apartment complex to be called Liberty Pointe near the old GM plant:
Very strange place for an apartment complex.
This is great!! I wonder what else will come after this. This is one of the most under developed areas in the metro.
All those Tinker/Boeing jobs are within a mile or two.
That's a joke of a location..
Why? It's primed with opportunity.
With Boeing in the area too I'm sure it will be successful even if it doesn't meet Spartan's approval.
If it wasn't prime with opportunity, all these developers wouldn't be building over there all the sudden.
this was rezoned into a spud last summer ... good to see this moving forward .. between Military/contractors this will fill up very quickly
It's also the only game in town for several miles in any direction. It's not a fast growth area, but it is a growth area. Remember 240/Sooner is only 1 mile away so you've got plenty folks with new homes being built all the time in the area. That neighborhood you see in the map in less than 5 years old...and it filled up within about 1 year of opening. Boeing is just up the street by a few hundred feet.
Now if we could get Copper Creek to actually BUILD at 240/Sooner, maybe we could get a grocery store out here!!!!!
Nope, not even close - the tornado passed west of sooner & 59th, and didn't cross sooner until north of 44th street. Liberty trails is at south 66ish something, east of Sooner.
Benefits to this part of town:
Boeing is going in as others have mentioned.
The Oklahoma Heart Hospital is at 240 & Sooner. An expansion phase is currently under construction that looks like it will practically double it's size.
It is a quick & easy commute downtown (10-12 milesish?)
Also easy to get out of the city heading east - maybe suitable for somebody with family in Shawnee.
Close proximity to the Lake Draper area - while I haven't been out to the lake in about 5 years, I know the city had many improvements recently: more paved areas that allow you to get to "points" on the lake's shore which are good places to dump bodies/hang out/hike for a day. Draper also draws off-road dirt bike/4 wheeling crowd for its trail system. While not a huge draw, it is a bonus of this area.
Also, the First-Southern MegaBaptist Convention Center is near. While I don't personally like anything about that place, it is an attraction for tons of people, weather they play music, worship, volleyball, recruit/work there, the place is huge because many people are involved with it.
Essentially, jobs are moving to this area - so will homes.
It appears so far that you're the only one who's laughing, Spartan.
This site seems to be quite odd largely because of the atmosphere of the area being that of an abandoned plant. I think having it on the other side of the highway would change the perspective of the location.
A mile north of that location, on Air Depot, is where all the new Boeing stuff is being built.
And the Boeing buildings are also owned by Gardner / Tanenbaum.
They have been wildly successful with all their apartment complexes so I wouldn't bet against this one.
This is one of those that will either pay off or be an epic fail. Although with the proximity to Tinker and Boeing, it's going to be full in NO time.
This isn't good for the Tinker area.
http://newsok.com/u.s.-air-force-to-...rticle/3655139
I may well be proved wrong over time, but my immediate thought when seeing this picture was of the miles of what are now slummy apartment tracts built too close to industrial areas in cities such as Dallas, LA, & Houston. Tannenbaum may make a short-term gain, but the city will inherit a long-term problem.
It is an awesome place for it. There is a nice three story apartment complex on Sooner, between SE 44th and SE 59th that actually touches Tinker AFB and it is nearly full. I know it can succeed as long as they don't listen to all the nay Sayers on this page that don't live on this side of town. Now they need a couple restaurants over here. If you work at Boeing, you have to drive all the way around Tinker for a restaurant or eat at McDonalds or Popeyes at Sooner. This side of town has been neglected for years and for some reason those that are not from the East side think it can be nothing but a factory or farm land. I think it is a great start. The houses nearby are not five years old because of a tornado. They are still building new homes between Sooner Air Depot on the South side of I-240. I never understood the logic in zoning the whole SE side of the metro as industrial anyway. I think it is one of the many reasons that Crossroads struggles. Here you have acres and acres of open land right across I-240 and the one thing the area needs, residential, are off limits.
Every day I hear endless posts about Sprawl but we hear nothing about the NW side sprawling to Woodward while the SE side has vast open prairies and nothing around. This is closer to downtown that Penn and Memorial and it feels like the country. You would think people would advocate filling in the area to give some symmetry to the grown instead of having it all on the NW side. We on the East side have no problem living close to a factory. In fact, why would any new companies move to the area if their potential employees have to live 10+ miles away? I say bring in some more.
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