City Hall Moving?

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New Home For City Hall Considered

KOTV - 3/16/2007 6:18 AM - Updated 3/16/2007 12:40 PM

The city of Tulsa is looking to move its city hall offices to another location. During a briefing Friday morning, Mayor Kathy Taylor and her staff discussed a study proposal to purchase the One Technology Center on the northside of downtown. The building used to be the WilTel building.

The city of Tulsa has entered into a purchase-option agreement with the owner of the 15 story glass building. It's a 120-day option, which isn't costing the city any money. At the briefing, city officials say they would consolidate several departments into the One Technology Center. Officials said consolidation would be efficient and improve communication between various departments.

The One Technology Center building was completed in 2002. Tulsa's city hall at 200 Civic Center was built in 1969.

Financing has not yet been worked out, but the current market price for the building and parking garage is around $80 million. Officials say the site where Tulsa's city hall is now located could be used as a hotel site for the Tulsa Convention Center and new downtown BOk Arena.

http://www.kotv.com/news/topstory/?id=122623

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no and hell no.  instead of taking prime office space off the market, they should be working to bring in a high tech company that would actually want to use that space.  If they want to consolidate offices into one space there are plenty of buildings with lots of empty floors.  Is city hall completely occupied?  sounds like to me city gov is pretty fat.  My company occupies almost as many floors and we employ 800 people downtown.

they think that hotel operators will be interested in that building.....I seriously doubt it.  That building is an intergral part of that entire complex, you can demo it thats for sure, and no one is going to want that old building.

The only thing they could do is sell the entire city plaza to some indian tribe to turn it into a casino complex.

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