One Technology Center's New Leasee?

[mrB]

quote:
For the record

By Staff Reports
6/15/2008  12:00 AM

Commercial Building Permits

(Listed by owner, tenant or building name. Weekly update lists new commercial construction, expansions and enlargements of more than $50,000. Information is from initial applications and is subject to change. Dollar amount is valuation declared by owner.)

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One Technology Center-4th Floor, 100 S. Cincinnati Ave., interior alteration-office space for Matrix, $600,000.
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http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectID=32&articleID=20080615_46_E2_hComme256654


excerpt from City of Tulsa News Release dated 09.27.07 =
Visionary Plan to Move City Hall to One Technology Center Approved
... The next steps include assembling a relocation team consisting of City employees, managers and representatives of Matrix, a consulting architectural firm that worked with the City to study the space configurations for the One-Tech building. Matrix may also assist in providing more detail space planning, based on the preliminary studies of groups that need to be in close proximity to each other and groups that have more interaction with the public...

http://www.cityoftulsa.org/News/Archives/OTCMove7-13-07.asp

Is the One Technology Center getting ready for a new leasee? I wonder if they are staying after they "assist in providing more detail space planning"? Rental revenue is starting to roll in!

[TulsaSooner]

I think that's a City floor and will hold the permit offices, some City Council stuff and I don't know what else.

I would imagine the work being done is to accomodate the permit traffic and maybe work for a Council chambers.

[cannon_fodder]

I'll remain skeptical of the new City Hall until their old house is sold for a profit, or at least a break even.  All the numbers hinged on the disposal of the old property, which hasn't even been mentioned since they moved into their new shiny home.  As the city tries to pressure other downtown property owners into utilizing abandoned buildings by getting them in usable condition... they abandon their own when it gets run down.

/frustration