More Downtown Housing

[TheArtist]

  Just ran across this on Channel 6.    http://www.newson6.com/story/15454644/more-options-for-downtown-tulsa-living-on-the-way

TULSA, Oklahoma -- Tulsa broke ground on another option for downtown living Tuesday.

Vacant property behind the Double Tree Hotel on West 11th Street will be the future home of the Riverbend Gardens Townhomes.

Riverbend Gardens will offer 40, 2-bedroom rental townhomes.

"If you're going to revive your downtown core area, it is significant that you have affordable living units for people who want to live downtown," said Julius Pegues, Tulsa Development Authority....




Anyone have any info on who the developer is?

Though its not in an area of downtown that I usually haunt, its still good to see more housing going inside the IDL  and the downtown population numbers still going up.

[ZYX]

While the renderings make the design look very suburban, I'm glad they at least appear to be pushing the buildings out to the street. Besides, it's always good to hear about more housing coming to downtown.

[SXSW]

The design looks pretty awful.  Good to see housing, glad this is pretty much tucked away in a corner of downtown.  I imagine OSU Medical students will like having such a close living option to the hospital.

[Red Arrow]

This is what I think of when someone says "Urban Housing".  (Philadelphia, PA)


http://maps.google.com/maps?q=phila&hl=en&ll=39.920549,-75.168371&spn=0.014893,0.032272&sll=36.153982,-95.992775&sspn=1.003483,2.06543&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.920473,-75.16838&panoid=fgrk1xaPV28neG1mJTX61w&cbp=12,216.15,,0,0

Or, if your wallet is a bit more upscale.... (Beacon St, Boston, MA)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50+beacon+st,+boston,+ma&hl=en&ll=42.356594,-71.067628&spn=0.007175,0.016136&sll=42.349791,-71.060429&sspn=0.028703,0.080895&vpsrc=0&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=42.356614,-71.067514&panoid=NpcL5JqRrYlYu7Q5-RXb2A&cbp=12,301.39,,0,0

A short history of Philadelphia row houses plus some more about owning one.

http://www.philaplanning.org/pubinfo/rowhousemanual.pdf

Another street in Philly.  Note the former mode of transportation.  The wire and tracks are still there but I don't think the trolley still runs on this street.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Philadelphia,+PA&hl=en&ll=39.945843,-75.161202&spn=0.001871,0.005056&sll=36.153982,-95.992775&sspn=1.003483,2.06543&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=39.945843,-75.161202&panoid=RtSPy2vMUa0pE9Hf4P9psQ&cbp=12,202.24,,0,0

[we vs us]

That's a weird place for housing.  Not very hospitable.

[jacobi]

Not very hospitable.

Wait is that a pun because the hospital is right next door/ 

But seriously folks,....

Yeah the are ugly but they ARE better than an empty chunk of land.  This lot was originally supposed to have been the second tower of the excelsior (doubletree) hotel.  They never built the second tower (but have a kitchen big enough for both.  It's freegin 'uge!)  Alot of the housing around there is pretty run down.  I don't mean tyhe central park towers or renaissance uptown.  I mean the two or three other communist era cinder block structures that really are inhospitable.  While these designs are really ugly and yes, we all would rather live on beacon street (or in brookline  ) remember one thing.  Suburban cardboard housing serves as a nice infill placeholder until something better is built.  People there is better than no people there.  It would be difficult to do something urban on this spont because of the depth of the property (at least until sombody with money builds something better there!)

[Conan71]

Interesting how a project like this flew totally under the radar until ground-breaking and that TNF got scooped by Ch 6 on this one (Ah, but you can read about it in the Whirled next week!)

How did our clatch of well-informed informants miss that one?

[jacobi]

Interesting how a project like this flew totally under the radar until ground-breaking and that TNF got scooped by Ch 6 on this one (Ah, but you can read about it in the Whirled next week!)

How did our clatch of well-informed informants miss that one?

I actually knew about it because it was on the COT website list of downtown projects.

[TheTed]

It had been in the World quite a while ago. Hadn't seen anything lately.

Published: 3/25/2010  2:30 AM
Last Modified: 3/25/2010  5:59 AM

A Mississippi developer has submitted an application to the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency to obtain tax credits for the construction of a proposed development in downtown Tulsa.

Riverbend Gardens, a 40 unit apartment complex, would be on 11th Street between Houston and Denver avenues, south of the Doubletree Hotel Downtown.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100325_11_A9_AMsisp425780

[godboko71]

So did they take out the run down apartments (yellow brick) next door and across the street (looks like old motel?) I would love to see the space between the road and the highway turned into wooded greenspace, would make living or staying in anything across the street more livable. Green space would soak up lots of highway sound.

If they didn't take down the yellow apartments to bad they could have got another 10 units in.

[BKDotCom]

Interesting how a project like this flew totally under the radar until ground-breaking and that TNF got scooped by Ch 6 on this one (Ah, but you can read about it in the Whirled next week!)

How did our clatch of well-informed informants miss that one?

Here's the March 25, 2010 Tulsa Now Forum thread (most recent reply June 2011)
First reply:  Conan71

[Conan71]

Here's the March 25, 2010 Tulsa Now Forum thread (most recent reply June 2011)
First reply:  Conan71

Ah, short memory.  I didn't realize this was the lower income project.  Thank you!

[Hoss]

Ah, short memory.  I didn't realize this was the lower income project.  Thank you!

I wouldn't necessarily say 'short memory', seeing how the project is 18 months old...oh, wait, what?

[carltonplace]

They are making tons of progress on this project. The structures are up and they should be putting roofs on in the next couple of weeks.

[Gaspar]

 Just ran across this on Channel 6.    http://www.newson6.com/story/15454644/more-options-for-downtown-tulsa-living-on-the-way

TULSA, Oklahoma -- Tulsa broke ground on another option for downtown living Tuesday.

Vacant property behind the Double Tree Hotel on West 11th Street will be the future home of the Riverbend Gardens Townhomes.

Riverbend Gardens will offer 40, 2-bedroom rental townhomes.

"If you're going to revive your downtown core area, it is significant that you have affordable living units for people who want to live downtown," said Julius Pegues, Tulsa Development Authority....




Anyone have any info on who the developer is?

Though its not in an area of downtown that I usually haunt, its still good to see more housing going inside the IDL  and the downtown population numbers still going up.

Ahh yes.  The same builder that pooped this: