It’s amazing to see the renderings come to life
Looking at the finished renderings for the garage and housing surrounding it, the convention hotel and the convention center, am I the only one who feels like the Fairfield Inn and Suites is going to be pretty out of place there?
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It already looks out of scale.
Far smaller than anything else going in around there.
They could double the size of it; make it an oval shaped with 260 plus rooms.
Really feel that Oklahoma City should have gone with no less than 735 rooms with its Omni. Our convention center & conference hotel will be ready for expansion, potential 1,000 rooms three years beyond their initial opening.
As part of the first amendment to the purchase agreement between the buyer and OCURA, the surface parking lot was given a variance for the surface lot to allow parking while the CC Garage is being built. Once the garage is constructed, spaces will be available at or below market rate. The buyer has until December 31, 2023 to begin construction of a "commercial or mixed use development" on the parking property in accordance with the Urban Renewal Plan.
It's OCURA though, so we'll see if that has teeth.
Ahh, I bet that is why I was thinking 'additional hotel'.
All this group does is hotels so if they do build something there, you can bet on another one that is very similar.
Totally agree that they underbuilt the Fairfield (should have been at least 8 floors) as this will be highlighted even moreso with the garage and apartment wrap (itself will be 8 floors).
would be nice if they built a tower type expansion of the Fairfield on the southern expanse, facing Shields.
Something along the lines of 12+ floors would be nice and fill in the block without overshadowing the existing 5 floor hotel. They could do a "multi-brand" on the block, Fairfield + Marriott (in the new tower). That'd be nice and could be the 'expansion' cc hotel.
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
Agreed, it looks like some hotel you'd find off a suburban Interstate exit.
Whats the square footage of the new convention center vs the old? And are they planning on starting on the condos soon? or is that still demo work going on?
New: 200,000-square-foot exhibit hall, 45,000-square-foot meeting space, 30,000-square-foot ballroom.
Cox: 100,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space, a 25,000 sq. ft. ballroom, 21 meeting rooms
Also, the new facility can be expanded to the south.
There won't be condos but affordable apartments and commercial space.
The parking garage on the south part of that lot will be built first (should start soon) and Boulevard Place likely won't start for another year.
I pass close by the convention center twice daily and with the roof line coming together it really has a commanding presence in that space for sure.
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