Mystery Tower( speculation, news and ideas) post here!

[Pete]

I would also add that a speculative tower and a tower by a new-to-OKC business are not outside the realm of possibility.

[Midtowner]

Why not something like this?

[lasomeday]

Gross!

[Thundercitizen]

Why not something like this?

New to OKC rather than new to earth.

[Just the facts]

Why not something like this?

That is what is wrong with architecture today. That building only makes sense if it is sitting by itself so it can be viewed all at once in its totality. I am hoping for something that looks good viewed from 10 feet away - (ie - the sidewalk).

[s00nr1]

Why not something like this?

This looks like something out of the movie "Inception"

[BDP]

Give me even money on MidFirst, 3-1 each on Continental and American Fidelity, 5-1 on the local field, and 10-1 on the national relocation field.

[s00nr1]

I will take the 3-1 on American Fidelity.

[Bellaboo]

Give me even money on MidFirst, 3-1 each on Continental and American Fidelity, 5-1 on the local field, and 10-1 on the national relocation field.

King183, who seems to know something, said it will 'shock you' when the anouncement is made, that the 1,000 Boeing jobs would be small time. He could be talking about something besides MidFirst....could be 2 towers here.

[lasomeday]

That is what is wrong with architecture today. That building only makes sense if it is sitting by itself so it can be viewed all at once in its totality. I am hoping for something that looks good viewed from 10 feet away - (ie - the sidewalk).

So, something like the Beekman Tower in NYC would be perfect?

[skanaly]

ART DECO!! that's all I have to say...what ever it is, I would love to see beautiful details. Also, in my opinion, downtown would look much better with a 720-780 ft tower. After that...let the giants be built!!

[Popsy]

Cemex

[MDot]

Cemex

What do you mean?

[s00nr1]

I assume he is speculating that Cemex will be making some sort of corporate move to OKC.

[MDot]

I assume he is speculating that Cemex will be making some sort of corporate move to OKC.

I recall not to long ago that a few people on here were speculating that a cement company from Mexico was going to relocate here.

[G.Walker]

I assume he is speculating that Cemex will be making some sort of corporate move to OKC.

see post #586, rumors about Cemex started a year ago:

http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=23526&page=24

Well if it is Cemex, at least we know they can build skyscraper very cheap, since they are one of the largest building material suppliers in the world, lol.

[MikeOKC]

I recall not to long ago that a few people on here were speculating that a cement company from Mexico was going to relocate here.

If CEMEX were to consolidate their operations and announce it would be Oklahoma City, that would be nothing short of a stunner. CEMEX is huge - as in 46,000+ employees worldwide huge.

Interesting: "This is a world-class company; there certainly aren't many based in Latin America," says Stanford Business School professor John Roberts, who has studied Cemex.

The third largest building materials company in the world.

I'm curious as to why CEMEX was thrown out in this thread. Has it ever been discussed here? Where's the connection? That would be incredible.

[MikeOKC]

see post #586, rumors about Cemex started a year ago:

http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=23526&page=24

Well if it is Cemex, at least we know they can build skyscraper very cheap, since they are one of the largest building material suppliers in the world, lol.

Thanks, G. Walker...here's the post on March 25, 2011:

Please take this with a grain of salt, but a few weeks ago I was talking with a co-worker about how downtown was on the up and up. Her husband works for Devon and she was talking about Continental Resources moving downtown (this was before it was officially announced the other day) and she mentioned CEMEX was moving to OKC. This is an international company based out of Mexico. She may honestly have had no idea what she was talking about, but she was right about Continental (which most already assumed) and I just found it odd that she mentioned this specific international company....

Here's the website for the international headquarters of CEMEX.

[Just the facts]

So, something like the Beekman Tower in NYC would be perfect?

That is a Thunder Moneyball

[Skyline]

This thread has exploded today in less than 12 hours since created. Look at the number of views and replies!

[Pete]

Shows you how much interest there is in downtown.

Lots more people on the site the last several days as well.

[metro]

So, are we looking at 3 possible towers. Stories and possible construction start dates?

Mystery Tower..... lets just call it Midfirst Bank Tower 35 stories (2012)
Convention Hotel Tower..... lets just call it Four Season Tower 30 stories (2013)
Sandridge Tower....AKA Sandridge Tower 30 stories (2012)

Could there possibly be more???

Highrise Residential Tower? 30 stories (2013)
American Fidelity Tower? 40 stories (2013)
Continental Resources Tower? 55 stores (2014)

Am I dillusional or is there a lot of concrete, glass, and steal that could be upon us?

Dilusional. I still don't see why people think Amercan Fidelity can build a monster tower. They do t have that many employees on Classen, maybe 500 tops. They don't even occupy most of the third building they do have, if you were to stack all 3 on top of each other, you'd only have a 15 story building, and not much girth at that, as far as mid rises are concerned.

I honestly see them building a Sonic type of HQ only slightly larger, in the C2S area.

[Pete]

I'm not saying this new tower is for them but American Fidelity currently occupies four buildings: 1 10-story, 2 seven-story, and 1 2-story.

The three biggest buildings all have full basements as well, so that's a total of 29 levels.

[metro]

Pete, ok, I could be wrong on my levels on the Classen buildings, but I'm pretty sure they don't occupy much if any of the 3rd building, as they have a for lease sign out front and have for some time. So subtract the northern most building on Classen.

[redrunner]

The way CHK splashes around money, you can bet they would pay about $100 million for those properties -- maybe more. That combined with a possible sweetheart deal on the Pretakes properties and downtown TIF money would go a long way towards a brand new 40-story building.

Exactly what I was thinking.