Forcing your employees to walk is a good thing.

Spreading employees across multiple buildings encourages web meetings - not walking.

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Also, forcing your employees to walk on company time is not so productive... just looking at it from the perspective of simple cash money!

^^ Have you spent much time around the Chesapeake Campus? Because it's always full of people walking now. The employees walk a lot, and I think the fact that there is a nice place to walk has made the neighborhood a better place for non-Chesapeake people to walk. Functions just like a college campus- people in Norman so much more likely to bike/walk when they can travel through the OU campus, even when they aren't OU students or personnel.

If the employees and Chesapeake enjoy walking from building to building then that is fine with me. I just wouldn't want to do it.

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I would wager that the employees will be more productive overall having to go for walks on company time. One of the companies I do work for has a fitness center/shower inside of it, and employees are encouraged to use it on company time because it gives them more energy to get more work done. Healthy employees also get sick less.

There are a couple people I see running around in golf carts. Or maybe you could get one of those machines that do the walking for you, like they have at the grocery stores.

I live in the Chesapeake area...and I agree that they have really made it a nice place to be. I'm torn because as much as I agree that it's great to have your employees walking/staying fit/etc...I just as much would love to see them put up a tower downtown! But now with the Devon project...I think we'll see at least a couple of new towers on the planning books before too long.

I don't work there, have only rarely been close to the campus, but I don't see how having it where it is could be worse for the city than leaving what used to be there on the ground and them tossing another tall building DT. Nothing against tall buildings on my part, but the University of Gas campus seems pretty nice all in all.

I'm not opposed to walking at all - I just don't want to do it in a suit and 100 degree heat or rain or sleet just so I can attend some meeting in another building.

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Drop the suit, get a speedo!

I think there needs to be variety in a city, and chesapeake's campus is first class and top knotch.

I agree with the posters who said we should make sure Texans know that Chesapeake is OKC based!

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we don't have that many companies based here.... so we mos def can't let dee eff dub rob us of chesapeake.

I don't believe this is true. Someone I work with very closely has actually seen the architectural renderings of their new Fort Worth HQ. According to him/her it is very sleek and modern -- and high rise. Chesapeake is going to have a major footprint in Fort Worth.

From what I understand they did purchase the building but they are going to do interior and exterior renovations. But the overall shape of the building will remain intact, here is a pic...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1432/...2aba12.jpg?v=0

My guess is exterior stuff will be landscaping and minor things.

I'll take your word for it. An associate of mine had seen renderings of building that looked much cooler than this, and hyperventilated with excitement when telling me about it. I'll see what I can find out and get back to you.

LOL - you are getting very close to my ideal way to get fired.

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Fired.. or a HUGE promotion.

This is up at Skyscraperpage.com now

Wow!!!

Chesapeake already moved into the existing building in downtown fort worth.

my original post said "someone should fix the date on skyscraper page stating that mid-continent in tulsa was built in 1918 and not 1984."

however, i read up on it and found out that they added 20 stories in '84. sooooooo.... my bad. didn't know that tho, they did a great job... can't even tell.

Every other building in OKC just became very small. The new bar has been set.

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The 20 story addition actually cantilevers over the 1918 building because it wasn't originally built for such an expansion. The architects and Flintco did an AMAZING job making it look like it's always been that tall though down to the intricate details at the crown. Mid-Continent is a beautiful building both inside and out. It is revered in Tulsa just as First National is in OKC.

the devon tower only has two more floors than the bok center, but is almost 300 feet taller....is that correct? How could that be?

Scroll back a few pages and someone extensively explained it. Keep in mind the lobby is going to be like 60 ft tall ceilings, first few floors will have like 17 ft ceilings to allow for mechanical and other things, then mechanical floors are like 20 ft ceilings, then you have like 75 ft crown, so needless to say, not all floors will have the same floor height, also modern buildings have bigger ceiling heights than older buildings did.