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Originally Posted by oneforone
If we built Bricktown according to the rules of the snooty class, Bricktown would still be nothing more than few night clubs and a few restaurants. Some of you are probably too young to remember when Spagetti Warehouse was the only happening thing in Bricktown.
In order for a tourist district to survive you need a nice mix of restaurants, clubs and event centers. The opening of a McDonald's is not going to turn Bricktown into Wal-Mart after 10pm.
Get over yourselves. Maybe if you spent a little less time complaining about everything you might find sometime to find a (better) job, a girlfriend, a new hobby, anything.
In other words some of you need to get a life. Stop pissing and moaning about every little thing under the sun.
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Well... For a lot of us this is our life, we live and work in this district/neighborhood. We are planners, architects, and Oklahoma City citizens making sure that the powers that be have the best interest of the district/neighborhood, its history, and future in mind. I think you may be misunderstanding some of the complaints people are having.
McDonald's in itself is fine to have in Bricktown as long as it is built to the standards for which the area demands. While the building itself is brick and fronts two streets it also retains a large parking lot and drive-thru which are counter-productive to the atmosphere Bricktown is trying to maintain (pedestrian friendly, human scale, dense). Had the business been part of a larger multi-story development with ground floor retail, I think a lot of the naysayers would be hard pressed to complain. But, that's not the case.
Now, with that I think as it (McDonald's) stands those two glaring problems could be omitted given time and density (parking lot and drive-thru could be demolished for more store frontage). The store would be accessed only by pedestrian traffic from neighboring bars, hotels, and tourist attractions.
While you may see it as complaining or having no life, we (complainers) want to ensure that Bricktown is developed right the first time and not have to go back and fix things because we were impatient.