Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building

Re:Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA'... by skywhopper on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @11:57AM (#39106018)

Weird that the fact that this is in Oklahoma City specifically is left out. Yes, sure, that'd be the obvious choice, and I know most folks in the world and even the US would stop processing at "Oklahoma" anyway. But this is such a ludicrous project for OKC; why wouldn't it be in Tulsa or Muskogee or Bartlesville instead?

Regardless, the money going into this would be so much better spent across a wider area of the city, where it could actually contribute to other development and revitalization. Take a look at the Renaissance Center in Detroit for a great example of a block of high-intensity development in a crumbling city that did nothing to help the city's overall state, and probably made things worse in the short to medium term.

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Re:Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA'... by realityenigma on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:30AM (#39127147)

I'm not sure a lot of you have ever been to Oklahoma City or if you have, even recently. Tulsa is not the premier city in Oklahoma anymore and hasn't been for close to 2 decades. While this is a ridiculously tall proposed structure, Oklahoma City is growing fast and a lot of the residential domiciles in that area are full. 1,776 (a funny number) of housing isn't that much when we have entire subdivisions with 500 - 2000 houses going up all over the city at a constant rate. Will this be built, probably not. Will the smaller towers be built, quite possibly. I drive by the proposed spot often and it could support some of the smaller towers etc.

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