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The food is good but could have predicted this. Of course, there's some magic that goes into a successful place, but these didn't help IMO:

- Space is too big. Lots of extra square feet they're...

Just want to point out that government already spent 70+ years changing the way people lived through zoning, transportation infrastructure, and finance rules that created an automobile-dependent...

I'm not saying this will be a fantasy land where no one drives. Even if only 10% of people change their transportation behavior in 20 years, that's a huge difference for our roads and highways.
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Unfortunately they are not looking at how much transportation is going to change in the next 10-20 years. Regional desire for public transportation options, living closer to work, one-car households,...

On a metropolitan level, consider:

Someone living near edge of town: May spend 50-70% of shopping/dining budget within Oklahoma City, may find it easy to also travel to nearby suburban shopping...

> Remove actual grove of trees along creek, put creek into concrete ditch
> Construct typical strip mall
> Call it "Oak Grove"

Traffic to and from Thunder games is probably comparable or smaller than daily rush hour, but since it typically occurs outside of rush hour, it just means that the capacity of the road is utilized...

Recently completed office tower in Tulsa with internal parking garage. (325,000 sf; Floor 1: retail; Floors 2-6: parking; Floors 7-17: office). It is ugly but it takes up a fraction of the block...

How about "Construction Update: They are now working on the part of the boulevard behind the Uhaul building. It still looks terrible."

Ed Shadid had designs completed showing how to save the Union Station by changing the site plan: Shadid prepares for bus station hearing with new design concepts | Red Dirt Report
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It is easy to park almost everywhere in OKC.

That said, people don't choose to drive in from the suburbs because they are looking for an easy place to park. If they wanted an evening out with a...

And we would all stop getting speeding tickets at that speed trap north of 13th.

The fact that the idea of creating a cap for pedestrians to cross the boulevard is coming up is a sign that everyone already knows how big of a mistake the boulevard is

Broadway can't be a thoroughfare anymore. It has too much activity all day and into the night to be a speedway in and out of downtown. It's awful to watch people who actually want to stop and spend...

Cleveland is a great neighborhood. The inner north loop is definitely the most gay-friendly area.

Scroll down on this page and there is a map of 'likely homosexual households.' 16th to 39th,...

True, but the canal is crossed by several streets that did not require 40' stilts

Still can't stop staring at how much better the OKC Boulevard "Grid" option would improve some of these sites.

The Reno/Walker site would have a lot more vacant, publicly-owned land if the city had chosen Alternative D for the boulevard.
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Worst part: It won't even meet their stated purpose of being better vehicular access.

I entered downtown from the west on Crosstown Boulevard yesterday, and noticed: If the "grid" option had been...

However, in the case of urbanism, you could compare sprawl-supporters to climate change deniers. Those who research urban growth patterns have concluded that higher density urbanism is better- from...

As always, every time you see an article supporting the idea that driving and the suburbs are the way of the future, check the author.

90% of the time, it will be written by Joel Kotkin.

This...

Parking garages have entrances/exits that cross sidewalks with poor visibility
Parking garages have cars in them, so you can hear engines and honking echoing all day
Parking garages don't have...

That's definitely the worst area because it was the core of downtown and was almost 100% lost. But plenty of other entire neighborhoods/blocks are gone. There's a zoomed out version here: 60 Years of...

Here's an interactive slider showing the 'deurbanizing' of downtown from 1954. Amazing what was lost:

60 Years of Urban Change: Oklahoma and Texas | The Institute for Quality Communities

Developers certainly aren't winning with Alternative C. Alternative D would leave about 10 acres more of square blocks that would probably be handed over from ODOT ownership to OCURA RFP processes.