I agree....very bad idea. I'm actually pretty proud to take visiting out-of-town friends to Bricktown and show them our clean downtown. A giant eyesore like that would be embarrassing, and I agree it would make OKC a laughing-stock given the national anti-oil sentiment.

I travel a lot and our state's roads and bridges are in horrible shape, almost as bad in some areas as a third world country. This money be much-better spent improving our roads, or perhaps toward mass-transit such as a light rail system for OKC.