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Interesting. I don't want to rag on the store, but I have had pretty consistently terrible experiences there. Messy store, store systems not working, things out of stock, an extremely chaotic vaccine...

It was a fairly nice piece about Oklahoma City in general, despite the obvious pitying snark in many of the included quotes and anecdotes regarding this specific project. Not too many big believers...

FWIW, while it will ultimately be up to their vote on Thursday (and then the City Council vote a few weeks later)—which I'll be very interested to see—the staff summary recommended the approval of...

Documents have been officially filed with the Planning Commission for the April 11th meeting. The staff report can be found here:...

Meteorologist and weather data nerd here. For anyone interested --

For the 1973-2024 period, OKC averaged 70.7 hours of snow being reported and 15.1 hours of freezing rain being reported...

If the Oklahoman article was correct and they're serious about having their rezoning request heard by the Planning Commission on April 11th, they'd have had to submit their paperwork by February...

The part about the expected rents being on par with First National was interesting to me. I know those are by no means cheap, but I still would've assumed they'd have to be more expensive to make the...

This. I live along the route and always make a point to glance at the buses as they pass by. More often than not there are multiple people riding each bus. And all for about one-fifth of what the...

On a recent episode of Chris Hayes' podcast Why Is This Happening? with Eric Klinenberg, who recently published a book recounting stories of individuals during the peak of COVID, he said the #1 thing...

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https://nondoc.com/2024/02/21/despite-del-city-threat-grand-boulevard-site-picked-oklahoma-county-jail/

I mean, technically yes, but it is only ~800 feet to people's homes. I don't think their multiple concerns are assuaged by a narrow strip of businesses between their neighborhood and the jail.

For anyone who can't read the article, it sounds like the intention is to preserve 14 of the 32 acres for greenspace and the brook that runs through there. So the 129 homes would go on 18 acres, for...

Putting aside how I feel about their commentary, the author is referring to a proposed set of units (16-20, AFAIK it is still being debated) on the SW corner of NW 30th and Hudson where the church...

I was just going off of the census population history from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City#Demographics

1970 368,164
1980 404,014
1990 444,719
2000 ...

Thanks for sharing this article, Pete. I'd tried to do my own digging at well but was really surprised at how little I found. Just references to obscure LLCs on websites. I just assumed I was missing...

You're right. It wasn't too bad of an article (most of the recent press has had the exact same quotes and information). I think it was early-morning me responding to "...Oklahoma City? OK." (with the...

This snark and incredulity really represents the bulk of the response I've seen from this wave of national stories.

And using the TIF award as evidence of local optimism for the tower seems...

It's now even got a whole piece from ABC News.
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I don't know if related, as I hardly go to the small (despite being nearby), but when I was last in Dillard's the last week of December they had all sorts of noisy ground fans set up along the back...

Thanks for the details Pete! I've been eagerly awaiting learning more ever since the consolidation and rezoning up this swath was proposed. This looks absolutely transformative for the north end of...

I feel like I'm going crazy, but what is the new name? I am not seeing it in the press release (probably skimming too fast).

Did you just spend at least $140,000 on two (?!) EVs without a plan for use or a basic understanding of different levels of charging?

Which is exactly what anyone would have predicted would happen with such an outlandish and unserious proposal handed to local news sources, and hence why it annoyed so many of us. It is a complete...

I'm actually slightly cringing that those renderings were put forth. It's fun to dream, but many people will gloss over the "aspirational" aspect and it detracts from what is otherwise going to be a...