County considers what to do with Driller's stadium (15th and Yale)

[sgrizzle]

Nice(r) hotel. Not everyone can stay at the Microtel.

[Conan71]

Nice(r) hotel. Not everyone can stay at the Microtel.

No, just little people like jockeys.

[waterboy]

You know what? It would make a good outdoor theater. You could use the new LED technology on the outfield scoreboard. You could use the infield for high dollar cabanas with food and drink and keep the bleachers for the common folk. A sort of modern day drive-in! First run movies for 8 months of the year. Weatherize the cabanas and stay open all winter.

It could work.

[Limabean]

Children's Museum.....

[PepePeru]

250 ft. tall ten commandments monument

outlined in purple neon with light up gold letters for easy viewing at night.

[sgrizzle]

250 ft. tall ten commandments monument

outlined in purple neon with light up gold letters for easy viewing at night.

Wouldn't that be too God-y?

[Gaspar]

Parking with shuttle busses for the new driller's stadium?

[Ihearttacos]

it will be torn down and paved, like all good Tulsa places, for fair parking that happens ten days a year...and ticket booth storage the rest of the time

[GG]

I talked to one of our County Commissioners last week and told him about this thread.   

They do not know what they are going to do with the property.   

However, they got a kick out of some of your suggestions.   

[OurTulsa]

I hear the horse facilities at the fairgrounds are much-much improved.  What could be added to ensure some of the top notch horse shows/competitions/sales continue coming to Tulsa.  Outside of the Pavillion is there meeting space on the fairgrounds?  Is there a need for meeting space with horse/agricultural related shows?

How about a sister for the Driller - facing the corner.

With the OK extension office nearby, how about the County's biggest Community Garden...complete with weekly classes on growing foods adapted to our climate. 

[patric]

Nice(r) hotel. Not everyone can stay at the Microtel.

Microtel's Ralph Jones cut a deal with a county commissioner to put up the money to build the fairgrounds' $2.1 million simulcast facility in exchange for exclusive rights to the hotel business there.
Ten years later the fair board voted to allow Rick Bjorklund to negotiate the purchase of the simulcast facility over the objections of Randi Miller.

In 2004 the Fair Board paid Microtel's owners a $215,000 settlement because they could not agree on the construction of a second hotel.

Its really, really tangled.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=041231_Ne_A1_2150046758

[USRufnex]

I know of a certain minor league sports league who would love to have a team play there.... they've given me their handy-dandy business model, website login and password, and super secret handshake... 

5.06.2008
USL Open to Resusitating Tulsa NASL Franchise
http://theoffsiderules.blogspot.com/2008/05/usl-open-to-resusitating-tulsa-nasl.html

[FOTD]

I know of a certain minor league sports league that would love to have a team play there.... they've given me their handy-dandy business model, website login and password, and super secret handshake... 

This demon would pray for us if it would help.

How much dough would it take to redesign and build it out for soccer?

Gaspar, rendering?

[joiei]

I would go and they don't even have to have fireworks.  Way back when I was an avid fan of the Tampa Bay Rowdies.   I got to see Pele play twice. 

[Double A]

Lots of gun shows at the fairgrounds, how about a shooting range?