Steelyard

[bchris02]

He might be seeing the Criterion Theater, which steel IS going up for.

[shawnw]

Steel looked done at criterion the other day

[baralheia]

Is it just me, or does that seem rather ironic? "Let's call it the steelyard! But, uh, we're just gonna build it out of wood."

All giggles aside, I can't wait to see these buildings begin to rise up out of the dirt. It will be awesome to watch this area transform.

[traxx]

He might be seeing the Criterion Theater, which steel IS going up for.

Ah, that might be it. I just know that I saw steel going up in that general vasectomy. But I was looking from 235 so I may've been a bit off on the location.

[sooner88]

Ah, that might be it. I just know that I saw steel going up in that general vasectomy. But I was looking from 235 so I may've been a bit off on the location.

Ummm....

[Urbanized]

Steelyard refers to WH Stewart Co., a steel/metal fabrication company that stood in this location for close to a century.

[Martin]

Ummm....

apparently activity around steelyard and criterion is cutting off the flow of traffic along sheridan. -M

[Eddie1]

I see what you did there...hahaha

[no1cub17]

apparently activity around steelyard and criterion is cutting off the flow of traffic along sheridan. -M

Take a bow!

[PhiAlpha]

apparently activity around steelyard and criterion is cutting off the flow of traffic along sheridan. -M

I would assume that's to keep the issues from multiplying during construction over the next nine months.

[baralheia]

Steelyard refers to WH Stewart Co., a steel/metal fabrication company that stood in this location for close to a century.

Yes, I know. I was merely being silly.

[traxx]

Well we couldn't very well call it The Woodyard.


Also, drove by today and I do believe what I was seeing was for Criterion.

[Pete]

From today:

[Urbanized]

LOL I'll bet if he had it to do all over again Gary wouldn't have signed up for The Project With No End In Sight. That said, it is critically important, and when they are done with it those guys will have accomplished something really special (and hopefully will benefit enough financially to make it worth doing). That project has been an absolute bear.

[Spartan]

Brooks is going to create one of the strongest senses of place in Oklahoma, which alone will bode well for meeting his proforma targets. Providing a huge number of residential units in Bricktown, which has never seen large scale rooftop development, was always going to be tough. Plus I think Brooks cares about his legacy, so this is the project for him.

We need to do more to celebrate the developers who do the right thing, and we especially need to stop celebrating developers who just produce the same thing over and over. Steelyard is distinctive and different.

[Urbanized]

What was mostly tough was the land underneath, which was absolutely rotten, in a literal sense. Perhaps the worst brownfield anywhere in the central city, with tons of abandoned infrastructure to boot. Everything that happened below the soil on this project was nothing less than heroic. Once it gets above ground (which is essentially happening right now), it is going to be cake compared to what came before it. Should be exciting to watch it come together, and I agree, it is going to provide a really nice sense of place where one has never existed.

[Pete]

When you walk the street between the Steelyard, the hotel and the Criterion, it's very exciting to visualize all that completed and teeming with people and activity.

What's unique here is how all this is going to come together in a very short period of time and thus make dramatic change quite quickly.

Will be really fun to see all these projects opening up, one right after the other.

[soonerguru]

And a shoutout is earned for the evil, tyrannical, borderline Nazi Obama Administration, for their federal brown fields grant, for making this endeavor remotely feasible.

[baralheia]

I.. Wha? I'm having an "if it weren't for my horse" moment...

https://youtu.be/sJ0s0KUUpxo

[Urbanized]

C'mon Guru. Brownfield redevelopment policy was introduced under Clinton and consistently supported and expanded under WJC, GWB and BHO. There is no reason to try to turn this discussion into a political one.

[ourulz2000]

And a shoutout is earned for the evil, tyrannical, borderline Nazi Obama Administration, for their federal brown fields grant, for making this endeavor remotely feasible.

Gross.

[Spartan]

Brownfields grants come from the EPA. It is both a program and a department that most Oklahomans want eliminated, so it does seem relevant to point out that OKC can occasionally benefit from federal resources and expertise.

[soonerguru]

Gross.

You may have missed my sarcasm.

[UnFrSaKn]

Dramatic change is coming to the east entrance of Bricktown | News OK

[gopokes88]

Brownfields grants come from the EPA. It is both a program and a department that most Oklahomans want eliminated, so it does seem relevant to point out that OKC can occasionally benefit from federal resources and expertise.

Lol. I would bet every possession I have on this earth most Oklahomans have no idea what a brown field grant is much less want then eminated. Making broad statements like this contributes to hyper partisanship and gridlock.