{"id":624636,"date":"2010-01-08T05:25:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T10:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1040707"},"modified":"2010-01-08T05:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T10:25:33","slug":"oklahoma-city-in-jan-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/624636","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City in Jan 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was a frigid, windy day..temps in the teens, wind ripping through the streets. Some snow still on the ground from the 14 inches we got two weeks ago. Couldn’t take being out in it longer than 30 minutes at a time..but I did manage to get some good pics, despite their generally not being many people out. OKC is really coming together, and there are some shots where you can see new urban districts coming together, others where you can see the potential for the future.<\/p>\n

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\nThis walkway is full of people enjoying their Starbucks in the summer<\/p>\n

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\nCentennial Plaza in Lower Bricktown<\/p>\n

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\nI hate Lower Bricktown, by the way<\/p>\n

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\nI love Upper Bricktown, though<\/p>\n

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\nBricktown Ballpark<\/p>\n

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\nA look down Flaming Lips Alley<\/p>\n

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\nSheridan Avenue through Bricktown<\/p>\n

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\nNew clothing store on the canal<\/p>\n

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\nThe new digs for the London-affiliated Academy of Contemporary Music<\/p>\n

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\nFuture lofts<\/p>\n

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\nNew Bricktown Candy Shop (they also have a deli and coffee bar)<\/p>\n

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\nIsn’t it beautiful, all that wasted potential..<\/p>\n

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\nOil firm Harding & Shelton is renovating these buildings<\/p>\n

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\nRecently renovated office building and American Banjo Museum<\/p>\n

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\nOn the other side of this underpass and across the impassable E.K. Gaylord is the convention district<\/p>\n

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\nGreat row of buildings..I would say storefronts, but we know there are no stores here<\/p>\n

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\nBricktown Brewery.. an OKC institution<\/p>\n

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\nPeople! They must be cold..<\/p>\n

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\nNew chocolate and espresso bar ala CoCo Flow<\/p>\n

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\nThis building was white..much better<\/p>\n

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\nThis could almost be a cool street..if it weren’t just a parking lot entrance<\/p>\n

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\nA very rapidly expanding company..which being in Bricktown is important to their goal of recruiting young college grads.<\/p>\n

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\nA great place to eat in Deep Deuce<\/p>\n

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\nI love it when buildings with contemporary design merits build off of each other<\/p>\n

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\nNot anywhere near Bricktown<\/p>\n

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\nNew Sage Gourmet Market & Deli..great place<\/p>\n

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\nAbout ready for move-ins<\/p>\n

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\nA mixed-use renovation<\/p>\n

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\nThere at the end of the street is the old Calvary Baptist Church..Martin Luther King once applied for a job as their pastor but was turned down because he was "too old"..a church in Birmingham instead hired him and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

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\nMidtown OKC skyline<\/p>\n

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\nHarvey Ave in downtown<\/p>\n

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\nFormer Federal Reserve bldg<\/p>\n

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\nMethodist Church was severely damaged by bombing<\/p>\n

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\nNorth Robinson Ave streetwall<\/p>\n

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\nLights along North Broadway in Automobile Alley<\/p>\n

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\nRobinson Ave in downtown<\/p>\n

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\nSkyline from Midtown<\/p>\n

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\nFilm Row streetscape work underway<\/p>\n

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\nMixed-use renovation<\/p>\n

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\nAnother mixed-use renovation<\/p>\n

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\nGreat historic neon sign<\/p>\n

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\nA glimpse at some of the in-tact old buildings that exist in the no man’s land beyond Classen Blvd<\/p>\n

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\nSkyline view from Classen..love it<\/p>\n

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\nThe old Fred Jones Auto Factory is going to become the new OCU Law School<\/p>\n

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\nOne of my favorite old buildings in OKC<\/p>\n

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\nThe Chicago style floor-to-ceiling minipaned windows are awesome..hope they keep those<\/p>\n

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\nDid I mention I like this skyline view a lot?<\/p>\n

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\nNew home furnishings place<\/p>\n

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\nDramatic facade<\/p>\n

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\nFirst floor–IAO Gallery, second floor-5 lofts<\/p>\n

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\nWork it<\/p>\n

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\nActual storefronts along Walker Ave in the Arts District<\/p>\n

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\nHudson Ave in Arts District<\/p>\n

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\nDowntown Library<\/p>\n

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\nArts District density..buildings with some serious potential<\/p>\n

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\nDeveloper recently bought up this whole block<\/p>\n

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\nCity Hall + OKC Museum of Art<\/p>\n

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\nCity Hall<\/p>\n

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\nDowntown Library + City Hall<\/p>\n

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\nDevon Tower construction behind the library<\/p>\n

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\nPark Ave in downtown<\/p>\n

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\nPlaza Court bldg (old) + Leadership Square (new)<\/p>\n

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\nThe old Skirvin Hotel..now a Hilton<\/p>\n

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\nBreathtaking<\/p>\n

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\nAnd a fitting end to this post, as Broadway unceremoniously dead-ends in front of the Cox Convention Center<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a frigid, windy day..temps in the teens, wind ripping through the streets. Some snow still on the ground from the 14 inches we got two weeks ago. Couldn’t take being out in it longer than 30 minutes at a time..but I did manage to get some good pics, despite their generally not being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2CuM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}