Posted on 01/24/2024 7:32:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Plans to build the tallest skyscraper in the United States are shaping up in an unlikely metropolis: Oklahoma City.
Developers at a real estate company are adjusting the already ambitious plans to construct the Boardwalk at Bricktown Tower by a few hundred feet to make the building reach 1,907 feet high — which would make it the tallest in the country, the Oklahoma City Free Press reported.
“The symbolic height honors the year that Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state of the United States,” Matteson Capital said in a statement.
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OKC was where we all went on the weekends when I was at Shepherd. If I planned it right I could get a park side room at The Hampton Inn and watch the ball game. A good town to be a single guy with walkin’ around money.
Will it be tornado proof?
Tall enough.
Bricktown is a small, quaint historic district with a nice retro-designed ballpark. It feels much like a scaled-down version of LoDo and Coors Field, here in Denver. That would be the last place I could ever imagine for a super-tall glass and steel tower.
And how close is OKC to the New Madrid fault line?
Aren’t you forgetting the Moore F5 tornado? That one generated the highest wind speeds ever measured on Earth at over 300 mph, and the area it struck was erased, like it had been hit by a hydrogen bomb. And Moore is closer to downtown OKC than Norman.
Until a tornado comes. Why waste money on such things? Just build good buildings and quit trying to break records.
Also makes OK more of a target area for those looking to destroy places of significance.
My thoughts, too.
Please don’t spoil the charm of Bricktown. I have fond memories of the place, particularly The Biting Sow.
EC
And how frequent?
And what about prairie winds just as a matter of course.
I wonder if they have checked for caves and what the sinkhole issue is like there?
Nobody thinks anymore. They just do.
How many migrants can be housed in that building?
They have earthquakes down there too.
Yep!
Unjustified by the land value there, a stupid investment.
Should have chosen Kansas City. Everything’s up to date there.
bkmk
Ultra tall commercial skyscrapers may be impressive vanity projects for architects and urban planners but they are technically obsolete and therefore, economically unviable.
The reason is obvious. Think about how you are reading this comment. Over the Internet from home, over a Wi-Fi connected mobile laptop, or a smart phone.
How can the developers make a proposal that makes economic sense for this investment? How can they charge enough rent per square foot to cover the cost of development, maintenance and make a profit?
It is impossible. This is both technical and economic insanity.
I would be quite pissed off if any of my tax dollars were being dumped into this boondoggle.
“Commercial real estate is in a downward spiral and they’re building this?”
Maybe the building will be both commercial and residential. Think about it ... commute to work by elevator!
It’s fugly. :-(
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