Oklahoma City, is the next Big city. (Boardwalk at brick-town)
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- Опубликовано: 24 фев 2024
- This is my first video so I didn’t really know what I was doing with the editing and what to say, but it’s about why I think the boardwalk at bricktown/legends tower will greatly benefit OKC
This could lead to developers building skyscrapers 2,000 feet tall in New York City and Chicago as well.
Yea, but I don’t think OKC having the tallest would push investors to build taller in nyc or Chicago, maybe 10-20 years after but it wouldn’t be recent because it would have to be a investor not the city itself
Playing with my mind now
I think NYC made it illegal to make skyscrapers bigger than the WTC. It's symbolic.
Also, it's height is 1776, in reference to the founding of the USA.
A tornado will destroy.
@@Patrick-yh5yd it will be built to survive tornados and it will probably be one of the safest places to be during one. Second downtown OKC has never been hit by a tornado ever, I don’t think it will get hit just because a tower is built there
From Los Angeles, I am wowed at OKC and love visiting.
I moved from LA to OKC where I bought a ranch outside of the city. I was there for 7 but took a job with Qantas so I'm in Australia now but OKC is where I will retire. My son is taking care of my OK property.
Thanks for the effort. Good video
BTW: OAK keep up the good work. I happily subscribed today.
It is AMAZING how much downtown has grown in 20 years. The voters just approved a new arena down town, NO sign of progress slowing down.
Cool video and channel!
I live in Edmond (OKC Suburbs) and it’s nice here, my opinion on the new tall building is that it’s just weird for OKC to have that in OUR skyline, I think if they built that they would have to build more Devon Tower type building before even trying to build “America’s tallest building.”
the funds have been secured for this project. OKC has a negative hotel occupancy rate and needs 3500 rooms plus so the building/buildings would have full capacity
OKC is getting a ton of new hotels, this, OKANA, oak, I’m pretty sure the citizen is part hotel
@@-OAK- for sure and the citizen is a hotel. a large hotel has 400 rooms and OKC needs 3500 more and IMO legends tower would have no issue filling rooms and leasing residential units.
good vid
I love your vids, one of the main reasons I made this video was because of your video.
I have a video suggestion but idk if it is something you might do, you could talk about the potential growth this project could bring, it has secured funding, and it feels like it’s an 80% chance it gets built.
Like it said in the video OKC can experience a ton of growth considering Dubai tripled in just 20 years, and OKC and Dubai are both big in the oil industry and both made a big tower.
While you’re at it you could also show some of the projects currently being built in OKC to show its growth, there is the OKANA hotel, OAK OKC, The citizen OKC, the innovation hall, and more.
Like I said idk if it’s a video you would do, but I would love to see a video where you can better explain the topic, and spread the idea of OKCs possible growth.
Your video could give me pointers on how to make my videos better, I could see how you would do it and I could try and format it like you for my potential videos.
If you do plan on doing it and you need some projects to talk about, I recently made a video talking about all of the current OKC mega projects.
Which I think I did a better job presenting on.
@@-OAK- Appreciate all of this, I do plan to make a video on this project once it progresses. Currently there are obviously still a few more things that need to be approved for it to really start, but I can look into all of the things you're talking about and include them in a follow-up if things continue to go this way for the tower project!
I can see America have another Skyscraper boom thanks to this project i think cities like Denver, OKC, Orlando, Detroit (yes i could see it make a comeback), Austin have that possibility and to also grow like Dubai has now i thought that maybe Phoenix but Sky harbor is too close I mean maybe they could find spots away from airport range but it sounds hard to do speaking of witch Okc could grow as fast as Phoenix has!
We would need mass illegal immigration for that. Cheap labor, and they don’t take welfare benefits.
Not Denver or Detroit, too many problems in those cities
@@Electrodexify I can understand Detroit but why not Denver? The reason why i think it works because the Denver airport is further away.
Okc growing good but idk about big city anytime soon there still some issues that is slowing its growth more than it should
It’s the 19th fastest growing city? How is it slowed?
@@-OAK- i mean okc metro should be growing as fast as austin or charlotte but its not
Any of those fastest growing cities are sprawling jungles. As they can't urban plan properly
I'm an Okie!!! So exciting!!!
Same 🔥🔥🔥
Being from Chicago, we've had countless building plans for the tallest in the world/US. Unfortunately 99% never go through or get downsized.
I’m pretty sure that’s usually due to funding problems, construction problems, or relocation.
Oklahoma citys current tallest building (the Devon tower) was originally supposed to be 100 or so feet taller, but there were problems that lead to it shrinking down to 844ft
The 1907 foot building is going to be built. It passed the height of the building. They break ground in july
The next biggest city in America ? Idk bout that but if we kept growing it would be more like Dallas with LA land size. Land on which to grow on and suburban growth prolly even new suburbs added so like LA it would be very large and spread out with a core more comparable to Dallas if people keep moving there
So like Houston? It has the same land size as OKC.
I'm not a Boston fan and I realize this is a homer video but comparing OC to Boston is beyond silly at best. Boston has a tiny city limits area with it's suburbs tightly wrapped up on it. OC covers many more square miles and is basically open with hardly any city structure at all. Boston has 10 times the population when considering the area population...
I’m using Boston as an example towards its population, I’m not actually comparing them. I know Boston is a lot smaller. My favorite city is literally boston
Wow didn't know Boston city population was 7 million?
@@dwightanderson8331 wait I didn’t even realize that, Boston’s metro population is 4mil this guy is suggesting Boston has a bigger population than the state of Massachusetts 😂
@-OAK- good observation! That makes them less than 3 times more in their metro not 10 times.
What about tornados?
They will destroy everything.
Love the progress that OKC is making. Norman is slowly coming alive as well. Exciting time to be living in Oklahoma.
Edmond and the wheeler district are especially booming
Nah homie
Dallas better
@@ipods36 Leave it to a Texan to express their insecurity. You keep Dallas, if I wanted insane traffic, higher property tax and higher crime, and a high misery index Dallas would be a top pick. Nah, I prefer little ol OKC. Where I live I can be in the country in 2 minutes or downtown OKC in 30.
@@cccharlie007 lived in Norman for 23 years and in Bethany the last two, still, I don’t care
They should probably put that in other cities like Atlanta and charlotte or phoenix way bigger and actually need it for employment
OKC is one of the hottest job markets in the country, it’s current 5th, so that makes more sense for OKC than those cities, and if you think this looks bad in OKC it would look way worse in Phoenix their tallest building is the same height as okcs 5th tallest. About 480 feet.
OKC is also growing faster than both of those cities
I just checked, OKC is a faster growing cities than those cities and rank higher than them in the job market being 5th. So it makes more sense in OKC than those cities.
@@-OAK- phoenix and Atlanta have for sure a faster growing population growth and economy do you see the projects that are being constructed and it is becoming very known than OKC has ever been mentioned
@@adielgonzalez4738 i literally just checked the rankings, OKC is growing faster, have you seen the developments coming to OKC? Oak OKC, the citizen tower, OKANA, and this tower OKC in general is getting over 5 billion dollars in developments
OKC was also one of only 14 cities from 2010-2020 to grow 100k the only other city you named that did that was Phoenix
OKC is the 20th fastest growing city, and Phoenix is the 25th, the other cities you named aren’t on the list because it only goes to 25
@@-OAK- wdym 💀 Atlanta is much more known than OKC and Charlotte is growing faster than OKC with almost a mill
I feel like our population is so spread thin. Why don’t we all just move into one massive hyper city with 100 million people? It would look like cyberpunk.
New York is 10million and it’s overcrowded
@@-OAK- Tokyo is 30 million and people love Tokyo. I’m also not talking about New York, I’m talking about a brand new city started from scratch with our new urban planning knowledge, or a relatively empty city like Houston or even ok city.
Dream on
ranks 20th in population
And size he’s right
just dont be there april-june
First off, Boston has a metro population of over 7 million. OKC is currently at around 1.4 million. Second, people visit dubai because of the stunning beaches and dry weather. NO ONE wants to visit OKC. It's not a pretty region of the country, there is nothing to see outside the city and does not offer a desirable climate.
Dubai is a dry, hot desert, there’s nothing visually to see in Dubai, the reason it’s tourism boomed was because the burj khalifa, not people finding “it’s beauty” it tripled its growth rate after the burj khalifa was built, that’s just straight up proof to my evidence. and I was using Boston as a example of population not actually comparing them.
There’s a lot to see outside of OKC like the worlds biggest casino, the most diverse terrain in the usa and some of the most beautiful spots in ameirca in south east, and west Oklahoma, and more, they even have some of the oldest mountains in the world, and the tallest hill in the world.
I’m sorry but the only thing you got right in this comment was Boston having a bigger metro population, everything else you said was dead wrong
@@-OAK- I've driven all the way through Oklahoma on i40. To me it looks like flyover country. it's a matter of opinion I suppose. I live right next to the Great Smoky Mountains so I have a high bar for natural beauty I suppose.
@@TimLucasdesign I-40 passes through the flat part of the state, the beauty is down south west, and east, search up turner falls, quarts mountains, glass/gloss mountains, grand lakes, and the Ouachita Mountains, OKC has the most diverse terrain in America, and has either the 3rd or 4th most ecosystems. It’s not opinion it’s a genuine fact. Oklahoma in terms of land is faaaar more beautiful than Dubai, Dubai is practically all sand, it’s basically like Las Vegas but not a entertainment city and is next to a large body of water. Even in OKC there’s nice spots like lake Hefner.
@@TimLucasdesign I didn’t mention it in my last comment but there’s also medicine park, which is probably the most beautiful town in the state, its built along a river that you can swim in that goes into a giant lake with mountains, president Roosevelt has been there
@@-OAK- I guess I need to spend more time there and find out :)
Dubaii has nothing to do with an accident for tourism. They were losing oil money as the oil is becoming scarce and they CHOSE to go all in on tourism destinations to transfer over oil money to tourism money. Do your research first.
The ONLY reason OKC is “bigger” than Boston is because it’s 10 times its size. That same size ( 600sq miles in Boston would prove how big OKC is NOT!
I was never comparing them directly I was using Boston as a example of population, I know that. My favorite city is boston
And hopefully the NFL is coming
There's no way this project will be built. The developer will need to borrow millions upon millions of dollars to build this project, and lenders aren't stupid. Omaha's current office vacancy rate is around 8%. The city's growth rate is about 1% per year. This place remains in the country's outback when it comes to business and the need for office space. What is the plan to fill this building to 90% occupancy? There is no such plan as it would be impossible. What lender is going to put the necessary fortune into building this property? None! They would lose every cent they put into it.
It’s already been approved and construction starts this month, same with the new NBA stadium. Okc is growing at a steady pace and Omaha is smaller than OkC its not comparable.
Like it or not Omaha may be smaller by not much in population 1M vs 1.4M size. Though Omaha is essentially more compact, more dense and is about 4 times less land wastage area than OKC. OKC has an ugly spiderweb of interstates and highways and so many parking lots in it's downtown it makes OKC look ugly. In comparison Omaha is very light on highways, yet the city is still planning on removing one and converting to a boulevard. Also Omaha has way more walkable districts that flow into each other and are not isolated walkable islands like OKC. Currently there are a lot of tower cranes in downtown Omaha and all over the city. The current tower being built in downtown, was designed to be marginally taller then the current tallest because Omaha wants a natural skyline and not one that looks weird like the OKC of developers trying to compensate for something.
He has 100% of the funds already from private investors so it's already fully funded without loans.
You have to look at MSA population to know how big a city really is, Boston is #11 OKC is 42. Cities have limits, eventually everything grows out into the suburbs, Boston is way bigger than OKC. That building is never going to get built, only reason they are even considering OKC is because it would cost 20B in a real city to build it vs 1.5B there 😂
I will say this tho if it did get built I would prolly go check it out. I’m only a couple hundred miles away tho 👍
Dubai is triple okcs size, and when they started the berj khalifa it was only 300k people more than OKC, and they built the tallest in the world, also the reason they are picking OKC is because it’s the city with the most potential, infact there has been a big boost in developments due to the fact that everyone is saying it’s the next big city, Maddison capital literally said “OKC is a playground for investors” and that’s why he’s choosing okc
If he was going on cost there are alot more cheaper city’s with similar populations, so that’s doesn’t really make sense
Maddison capital is also trying everything he can to make sure it gets built, he wants it built and is willing to do anything for it to happen
And I know Boston is bigger in terms of metro population, I was just using it as an example to show its population
boston : 48.4 sq mi okc: 620 square miles
@@mmmmcolbert8787 I know, I’m still just using it as an example, and like I said Dubai for the worlds tallest while only having a population of a million and being triple the size of OKC. So if Dubai were to shrink to the size of OKC or OKC were to grow to the size of Dubai they would have relatively the same population
@@-OAK- can’t really compare OKC to Dubai.. Some of the richest people on earth are in Dubai, oil royalty. Whole different world out there. Plus the worlds tallest building is a much bigger attraction than tallest in the United States. Even if it topped out at 1900 feet there would still be 4 other buildings taller in the world. Those people are insanely rich and have been long before they built the tallest building on earth.
No it’s not. OKC downtown does not have the road infrastructure to support more people and cars. Too many parts of OKC are run down junk.
Sooooooo you're just gonna decide that it stops there and never continues with plans for the future? 😂
That’s what construction is for
OKC already has a spiderweb of highways? Are you serious?
Even then OKC needs less highways in downtown not more.
I hope not
It’s the last thing we need rn
Well
Not the last
But let’s focus on stopping crime and stuff like that
Then we can be huge
Tthe city grew over one hundred thousand in ten year's not the state the state grew more.
I meant the city, idk why I said the state.
It might but you can't be Texas it's a tornado alley area I don't know y'all can beat Nashville Denver Seattle I know you ain't going to pass Charlotte
All of Texas is in tornado alley and it’s the second most populated state, Kansas City too, Chicago gets more tornados yearly than OKC, and it has a smaller city border as well as it’s the 3rd biggest city in the country. I don’t think it being in tornado alley matters that much
i live here it’s so boring so fr
It’s probably just because you grew up there or don’t look for stuff to do.
I grew up in San Diego, and have been to LA many times, I find OKC more fun than both. It’s really just a sense of not looking for stuff to do. Because the only things I’ve done in SD is eat food and go to the zoo. Quite literally nothing but beaches and views.
But I’m sure there is more if i were to actually look for it.
I’ll admit LA if I were to actually look for stuff to do is way more fun than OKC, but I have had more fun in OKC than LA.
And I’m dead serious when I say this San Diego literally has nothing to do, I’ll actually look for stuff to do and there is nothing, only beaches and views, and sometimes comic con.
@@-OAK- yeah I understand that the only main attraction in OKC is Bricktown. I mean, there’s honestly nowhere else that brings that much attention and bricktown filled up with a bunch of hotels or clubs
@@issacoleyt7935 that’s the main place, but it’s not the only thing.
The wheeler district I flooded with people on the weekends, frontier city brings about 1mil people a year, heck the biggest attraction in OKC isn’t even brick town it’s the bombing memorial.
I could make paragraphs on what to do in the city but that would take way to long and you would most likely not read it due to how long it would be.
@@-OAK- the bombing Memorial is pretty legendary, huh?
Is it Republican? Democrat cities have high taxes and people move out.
There isn’t any info on the developer’s political side. But the city is ran by republicans so the idea of increased taxes would be their idea not this buildings
Why? Oklahoma City sucks
Coming from someone who lived in San Diego for most of his life, OKC is a better place to live than SD and LA
Oklahoma is great place to live and raise your family, but is it fun like Cali ? Of course not but it sure is waaay cheaper and less homeless and druggies ang gang violence. I mean for now that is. Born in raised Fresno, been in Tulsa Oklahoma since 2008. Back n forth visiting family in Sac and Fres and SD
@@MikeyLee559 I’d say OKC is definitely way more fun than San Diego, I’ve lived in San Diego most of my life, and there is literally nothing, but in OKC there is a lot.
And Oklahoma is the future is going to become a really fun state with all of the things that are coming, like the developments from this tower, the American heartland theme park, ext.
@-OAK- nah nothing beats Westcoast Asian and Mexican food bro, also the party life is insane Tj literally like 20-30 minutes away. Nothing in OKC really unless u like to hunting or fishing in the woods bout hr away. Lol good in OKC is better then Tulsa maybe but till this day I've never had better Asian and Mexican food besides in Cali and in Tijuana street tacos or El Gordo tacos in SD.
@@MikeyLee559 what are you talking about “the only good stuff is fishing”
Brick town, LA Ferris wheel, paseo district, wheeler district, boathouse district, automobile alley, arts district, midtown, park union, scissor tail park, way better restaurants than cali, aside from Mexican, (fight me on that if you want but it’s objectively true), frontier city, amazing museums like the first Americans, western and cowboy heritage, and the bombing memorial, I could still go on but it would take paragraphs, I’ll admit LA is definitely more fun, but OKC has so much more to do than San Diego, I’m not saying your not right about LA, but San Diego literally has nothing but views. I’ve lived here for 12 years out of my 15, I would know