Things are looking up (way up) this week for what may become North America’s new tallest building: Southern California-based firm AO announced in a social media post today that the Oklahoma City Council had approved the development team's request for unlimited building height for the proposed 1,907-foot-tall Legends Tower.
The ambitious 126-story scheme in downtown OKC is part of the Boardwalk at Bricktown development led by Matteson Capital. The group told media outlets in March that the $1.5 billion mixed-use project was fully funded.
AO's latest update also hinted at an intended groundbreaking "this Fall."
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“This is the moment we have all been waiting for, to see how tall we can get,” Ward 7 Councilwoman Nikki Nice said as the item was introduced Tuesday.
https://journalrecord.com/2024/06/okc-council-approves-rezoning-for-1907-foot-legends-tower/
By any standard or metric, what on earth is the attraction of this thing?
by the standard of a dick haha, skyscrapers symbolise the male genitals.
by the fact it’s title “the tallest in the country” and how out of place it is. The legends tower will most likely be a big tourist attraction if built to its full height, so that could also lead to other investors building tall towers next to it for easy recognition, if you look at Dubai before and after the burj khalifa you will notice that the addition of the tower is what lead to it getting the skyline it has, the burj khalifa was built outside the main downtown but other investors built next to it which wouldn’t have happened if the tower wasn’t built. The same thing can happen with OKC, that’s why it’s important towards the city, it can be what shapes okcs skyline like what happened to Dubai. OKC is said to have the most potential out of any US city, so this could be what starts that patient growth.
OKC is not Dubai... and OKC is not a destination. Also, Dubai was fucked up before the Burj's construction. That's not what led it to where it is today.
I still think the ultimate plan is to just build the low to medium rise podium buildings and leave it at that. But to get financing for those buildings, the developer decided to hype up the project with a semi-serious proposal designed for maximum PR. The trick to getting financing is to convince skeptical FOMO investors that other, more sophisticated investors have already gotten first dibs.
this is the only rational explanation
If so, that would be a blow to Ms. Nice et al. It's hard to believe it's main, in fact only, attraction isn't boosterism and civic pride—"nation's tallest." It's a hollow symbol, of course.
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in 10 years, base jumping and related extreme sports....
home of America's tallest!
It's the coming recession's Chicago Spire! Hope OKC likes a giant hole in the ground.
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai was constructed long after Dubai had established itself as an emerging high-rise city. During its five or more years of construction, it did draw many other developments around it. But the Burj is a much more dynamic structure than this OKC tower complex, and the Burj is supported by a great amount of infrastructure around it. The way the proposed tower meets the ground with the jumble of podium buildings still needs work. I think if built in its current form, it may become known as " The Finger of OKC" .
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