
This walkway is full of people enjoying their Starbucks in the summer

Centennial Plaza in Lower Bricktown





I hate Lower Bricktown, by the way


I love Upper Bricktown, though



Bricktown Ballpark



A look down Flaming Lips Alley

Sheridan Avenue through Bricktown

New clothing store on the canal


The new digs for the London-affiliated Academy of Contemporary Music

Future lofts

New Bricktown Candy Shop (they also have a deli and coffee bar)




Isn’t it beautiful, all that wasted potential..

Oil firm Harding & Shelton is renovating these buildings



Recently renovated office building and American Banjo Museum


On the other side of this underpass and across the impassable E.K. Gaylord is the convention district

Great row of buildings..I would say storefronts, but we know there are no stores here


Bricktown Brewery.. an OKC institution

People! They must be cold..



New chocolate and espresso bar ala CoCo Flow

This building was white..much better

This could almost be a cool street..if it weren’t just a parking lot entrance

A very rapidly expanding company..which being in Bricktown is important to their goal of recruiting young college grads.



A great place to eat in Deep Deuce




I love it when buildings with contemporary design merits build off of each other





Not anywhere near Bricktown






New Sage Gourmet Market & Deli..great place




About ready for move-ins


A mixed-use renovation





There 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.



Midtown OKC skyline


Harvey Ave in downtown


Former Federal Reserve bldg




Methodist Church was severely damaged by bombing




North Robinson Ave streetwall

Lights along North Broadway in Automobile Alley

Robinson Ave in downtown

Skyline from Midtown




Film Row streetscape work underway

Mixed-use renovation

Another mixed-use renovation

Great historic neon sign

A glimpse at some of the in-tact old buildings that exist in the no man’s land beyond Classen Blvd

Skyline view from Classen..love it

The old Fred Jones Auto Factory is going to become the new OCU Law School

One of my favorite old buildings in OKC


The Chicago style floor-to-ceiling minipaned windows are awesome..hope they keep those



Did I mention I like this skyline view a lot?







New home furnishings place


Dramatic facade


First floor–IAO Gallery, second floor-5 lofts


Work it

Actual storefronts along Walker Ave in the Arts District


Hudson Ave in Arts District


Downtown Library

Arts District density..buildings with some serious potential



Developer recently bought up this whole block

City Hall + OKC Museum of Art



City Hall

Downtown Library + City Hall

Devon Tower construction behind the library

Park Ave in downtown

Plaza Court bldg (old) + Leadership Square (new)

The old Skirvin Hotel..now a Hilton

Breathtaking


And a fitting end to this post, as Broadway unceremoniously dead-ends in front of the Cox Convention Center
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