Really had a fun time at the DD Christmas Crawl last night.
There were hundreds of people out, most in Christmas costumes or PJ's or other regalia and by the time we packed it in around 10:30, both WSKY and Slaughter's Hall were absolutely packed and pumping.
As I commented to my friends, it's amazing to see this many people out in this district considering there was almost nothing here just a few short years ago.
Definitely they need to do this in the summer sometime.
Posted this in the wrong thread a second ago: I just noticed on Redfin two lots for sale on 3rd. I wonder if someone will end up building something similar to the firehouse home on 1st.
Sign is getting ready to go up on the 2nd Street rail bridge.
Will be a great gateway into the district and help to further define it:
Perfect. Maybe this will help cut down on the amount of people thinking I am speaking specifically of the Deep Deuce Apartments whenever I mention something being in Deep Deuce.
I saw some signs in Norman near campus earlier this week that said "Don't Deep Deuce My Neighborhood." Does anyone have an idea what that means?
I translate it as "don't crap on my lawn"
Gentrification is bad in a lot of areas. Mainly big cities where people are pushed out because of it in areas around the core. I can give tons of examples of this in Los Angeles. Oklahoma City could use gentrification in a lot of areas, but gentrification is not always a good thing.
In the Campus Corner case, I'd be for more gentrification though I'm not sure if it needs it. Some new urban infill to connect OU with downtown Norman would be great.
I wonder if the owners of the Deep Deuce apartments are wishing they could make the investment to turn all of their surface parking into underground parking and build more units. So much of that area is parking.
I was pushed out of the Campus Corner area because of gentrification. My house/apartment thing was sold and the new owners raised rent up $100 every time a lease was up so that people would move out so he could fix it up and re-rent at twice as much. I liked the area, but it became a den of rich kids and mcmansions. So many houses around me got demolished and rebuilt as stupidly large, cheaply built luxury homes.
This angle really shows the emerging density of Deuce Deuce and Bricktown.
So much better than the year 2000! Great pic, Pete!!
Really needs some landscaping and trees tbh. I love the buildings but the entire area from that angle looks so bare.
It's an amazing transformation. Look at the street view for that area in 2007/2008 and see how many of those lots were just bare. The apartment buildings weren't there, Aloft wasn't there, OKSea wasn't there. About the only thing that was in the area were the row houses on 3rd St.
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