Scissortail Park

[shawnw]

You know, Arc de Triumph just happens to be in a 10 lane roundabout. So by association ?

Yes I've been, but hardly comparable.

[Laramie]

Art really impacts and enhances projects.

The feather adds to the variety of art you'll see in the core. Hope plans for this along with the sculpture pieces planned for the Thunder Alley Entertainment Block comes to fruition. The feather keeps with the Skydance and Scissortail theme.

[mugofbeer]

Art really impacts and enhances projects.

The feather adds to the variety of art you'll see in the core. Hope plans for this along with the sculpture pieces planned for the Thunder Alley Entertainment Block comes to fruition. The feather keeps with the Skydance and Scissortail theme.

Too bad OKC doesn't have a couple of hundred million laying around.......

https://www.google.com/search?q=sing...bile&ie=UTF-8#

[HOT ROD]

I also love this much more than the sputnik (not sure what they were going for with that).

The only improvement I could recommend would be an interactive component - such as if the lights changed or turned off/on as you touch them.

[Pete]

[shawnw]

I've never seen cars in that lot, it's like they started parking there after the construction just to be like, hey now, don't take this, it's claimed.

[BoulderSooner]

I've never seen cars in that lot, it's like they started parking there after the construction just to be like, hey now, don't take this, it's claimed.

they used to use it as a truck pull through ... from 12th to harvey or vice versa .... with 12th street closed they can't use it for that any more ..

this was the basis of their argument that they would have to move their entire business is the city took that parcel ..

now that the can't use it in that manner the city should re explore taking that property

[GoGators]

Why doesn't the city enforce the code requirements for an approved parking lot here? Is it grandfathered in?

[shawnw]

I think the gravel makes it okay?

[Pete]

From yesterday:

[mugofbeer]

Enjoyable pic. Thanks!

[Laramie]

Enjoyable pic. Thanks!

Agree

Looks like something you would see on a winter postcard; also there's one of the Myriad Gardens (#1441): https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=23724&page=73

[Pete]

[Canoe]

I bet people will want to park on the meat company's land once the park is finished.

[David]

They're going to try and turn it into a pay parking lot, I suspect.

[shawnw]

yep to both

[Pete]

This shows the planned on-street parking for the lower section of the park; the numbered spaces are handicapped.

[ChaseDweller]

Every time I see pictures or a map of the lower park, I get re-furious over the Cusack parcel.

[Pete]

^

It's going to look even weirder and more out of place as this area starts to take shape.

[Plutonic Panda]

Every time I see pictures or a map of the lower park, I get re-furious over the Cusack parcel.

You’re not kidding. I love the idea thrown out awhile back that if the city can ever get a hold of it, call it the Square of Shame in memory.

[Pete]

The city would never have done this for the main park.

In fact, they had to give the old Goodwill site right on the boulevard to one of the landowners at a great discount when he protested the amount they paid him for upper parkland. In that situation, no amount was too high to pay. Here, they just cheaped out even though they had excess money in the budget from MAPS 3.

[Grant]

What I've never understood is why the lower park has that ridiculous L shape and is only one block wide. Surely we could've taken the same two block width of the upper park all the way down to the river...

[HOT ROD]

they'll want another MAPS to "Do the Park Right". ....

and you bet the State Fair board will cook up some pork to add to that too.

[Canoe]

I had hoped that the local monied elite was going to step up and do the park right. Some of them have, but most of them have not.

[dankrutka]

I had hoped that the local monied elite was going to step up and do the park right. Some of them have, but most of them have not.

This isn't Tulsa. OKC billionaires ain't got time for philanthropy that doesn't benefit them.