Plaza Court

[Pete]

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Information & Latest News

Tenants

• McNellie's
• Irma's
• Prairie Thunder
• YMCA
• Stash

Links

County Assessor Record
Midtown Renaissance
Doug Loudenback article
Gallery

[Spartan]

Does anyone know where Desmond Mason's art gallery ended up going?

[BoulderSooner]

Does anyone know where Desmond Mason's art gallery ended up going?

His studio is in the plaza court building Ground floor

[metro]

Just left (west) of Subway. Been there a long time.

[Spartan]

I always look for it but never spot it. Which side of Prairie Thunder?

[Pete]

Plaza court to get new landscaping plus some improved screen elements for the parking garage and an outdoor seating area:

[Anonymous.]

This parking strip has always been a nightmare.

[PhiAlpha]

Now if only they could do all of this and build a similar building on the EMSA lot west of it.

[onthestrip]

Parking re-striped to 85 inches..? 7 foot parking spots is way too narrow.

[Pete]

Now if only they could do all of this and build a similar building on the EMSA lot west of it.

That property was one of the targeted sites for "impact redevelopment" by the new Midtown Plan.

Hope that happens some day.

[Pete]

There is a new retail tenant in Plaza Court called Stash:

http://stashok.com/

https://www.facebook.com/shopstashokc

[Urbanized]

Awesome. That is a great store out of Norman. They usually participate in all of the PopUp and other events that Allison Bailey coordinates. I tried to get them to join our marketplace tenants when we had that, but they just weren't ready to do it. Fantastic addition to downtown.

[catch22]

I'm very impressed with how much retail is coming downtown...and it's been a very silent wave, that will keep growing.

[Pete]

I'm very impressed with how much retail is coming downtown...and it's been a very silent wave, that will keep growing.

Yes, my thoughts exactly.

I'm in the process of compiling a directory of urban retailers because it's getting to be a long list.

[Urbanized]

All locals. A number of years ago, when criticism of specifically Bricktown's lack of retail success was at a fever pitch on this board, I predicted that locals would first have to pioneer retail in downtown, and that their successes - combined with increasing housing in the core - would ultimately the formula for attracting the nationals (the only thing that the other posters were interested in at the time). I was shouted down for my trouble. Times have definitely changed here AND in downtown itself.

[Pete]

^

Very wise.

And suddenly, CVS wants in on the action.

[bchris02]

To support retail you have to have rooftops, with the exception being destination retail. Nobody is going to drive downtown to shop at a CVS or a grocery store, but now that there are people living downtown and a lot more coming, it is starting to make more sense.

[Urbanized]

The irony related to my previous post is that when nationals and destination-type retail do arrive downtown, they are most likely to land in Bricktown or somewhere closely adjacent, for a number of reasons. A few years ago that would have been coveted, but I think most people now understand how much character local retail adds, and how valuable a concentration of good local retail is.

As someone connected to Bricktown, I am of course happy to contemplate the added foot traffic they will generate, but I won't lie; I'm a tad jealous when I see all of the great local stuff popping elsewhere. Well, as envious as you can be while still being excited for them and for downtown as a whole.

[Pete]

I'll be posting my Urban Retail List soon, but not including restaurants and services, I have 82 businesses on the list and I'm sure I've missed some.

[no1cub17]

Stash has a great selection of stuff. A fair bit pricey perhaps, but totally worth it. We happened on it randomly awhile back bought an awesome hand-cut Oklahoma-shaped cutting board. Can't stop staring at it in our kitchen (and I hardly cook)!

[edcrunk]

Ive never seen a more ghetto sign than the one at Stash.

[HangryHippo]

Plaza court to get new landscaping plus some improved screen elements for the parking garage and an outdoor seating area:

Whatever happened with this proposal?

[Spartan]

To support retail you have to have rooftops, with the exception being destination retail. Nobody is going to drive downtown to shop at a CVS or a grocery store, but now that there are people living downtown and a lot more coming, it is starting to make more sense.

No **** Sherlock.

[Plutonic Panda]

Whatever happened with this proposal?

I to would like to know

[Pete]

This was just posted on the Stash Facebook page:

It has been a blast serving you, OKC. We are closing our extended pop-up shop in Midtown. Look for our online shop to go live this summer + for us to pop-up this winter in OKC! Thank you for all the love and support. We hope you'll come see us at the Norman shop very soon!