Does anyone know what they are building on the Southeast corner? Looks like a fast food place with drive thru windows. I also heard they were building an OnCue on the corner also. Does anyone know?

Should have done this first. County Assessor shows it owned by Onyx. They are building a McDonalds.

Did you notice the corner lot is owned by Walgreen Co? This intersection is going to be very busy.

Wow...a McDonalds, a gas station and a Walgreen's! What a fantastic array of throw-away retail. I bet you have to go at least 2 miles to find any of those things. Seriously, is there even one intersection in the "new" NW OKC that is not overserved by such establishments? Is there any thought given to zoning at all? Sorry for the rant... in a bad mood, I guess.

I couldn't find anything about Walgrens on the assesssor site. Did I overlook something?

That intersection is surrounded by housing additions. What else is supposed to into that area trendy night clubs, clothing boutiques and sushi bars?

For every person complaining about fast food, gas stations and chain drug stores there will be a 100 people behind them handing over their money knocking the Nimby complainer out of the way landing them in the next county.

McDonalds and OnCue have done fairly nice buildings with nice landscaping recently so they deserve a little credit. On the other hand if Starbucks or was moving in I bet you would be planning a party.

OneforOne, you completely misunderstand my post. I am not suggesting that any of the things you mention be placed there. I'm not an idiot. It's the suburbs. I understand that. It's not about forcing it to be upscale. It's about a theory of development that says there should be retail on every corner. In OKC there seems to be more vacancy than is necessary, and if commercial development were zoned, say, to Memorial Road and Edmond Road, for example, there may be a drug store for every 2000 residents rather than for every 1000 residents, and would that be such a bad thing? I don't fault the landowners for selling their land, but it does look tacky. A Starbucks on every corner would also look tacky.

Sorry, just really hard to read your sentence and make sense out of it...

You are trying to disregard what he means by picking apart his grammar -- so it would appear he doesn't have a worthwhile opinion. I don't agree with what he typed, but I can understand it fully. If you can't understand his intent, you are a moran, not him.

To answer him, yes, a sushi bar would be nice. A coffee shop would be nice. A wine bar. A cafe. A farmers market stand. A toy store. A Something that those households would enjoy *walking* to and mixing among the other patrons. What we don't need is the same block that up a mile up the street. They have a simcity mentality, just cut and paste the same block over and over and over... Sure it works, but it doesn't add a ton of real value to the city. It adds a ton to their bottom line though.