(PROJECT) A Gathering Place For Tulsa

[sauerkraut]

I don't understand why it's so important to have water in the river, it's only for looks anyhow and with a $80 million dollar price tag a dry river looks better & better all the time. It's not worth spending all that money just to see water in the river. Let it be dry. IMO the G.P. is over kill anyhow looks like a over glorified 41st street playground to me. The trails at RiverSide are the most important thing not the frills IMO of course.

[Hoss]

I don't understand why it's so important to have water in the river, it's only for looks anyhow and with a $80 million dollar price tag a dry river looks better & better all the time. It's not worth spending all that money just to see water in the river. Let it be dry. IMO the G.P. is over kill anyhow looks like a over glorified 41st street playground to me. The trails at RiverSide are the most important thing not the frills IMO of course.

Shouldn't matter to someone who doesn't live here.

[sauerkraut]

Shouldn't matter to someone who doesn't live here.

No it would not. However, This about us residents who do live here and are facing an extra $80 Million dollars for water in the pond. IMO for that kind of loot, let it be dry we are already used to a dry river as it is. Too much money. Focus on doing the Zink Dam and be done with it.

[Townsend]

IMO of course.

your opinion is doodoo

[heironymouspasparagus]

I don't understand why it's so important to have water in the river, it's only for looks anyhow and with a $80 million dollar price tag a dry river looks better & better all the time. It's not worth spending all that money just to see water in the river. Let it be dry. IMO the G.P. is over kill anyhow looks like a over glorified 41st street playground to me. The trails at RiverSide are the most important thing not the frills IMO of course.

Oh, carp!!!!   Now I'm gonna have to start supporting a dam dam.....

[carltonplace]

Fence went up last week. The little cut through between the neighborhood and the River trails parking lot at 30th and Boston Pl has been blocked. You either have to go down to 31st St (no sidewalk) or get on the trail at 24th or 21st.

[Townsend]

Information on Tomorrow's 'Gathering Place' Ground Breaking

http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/information-tomorrows-gathering-place-ground-breaking



Ground will be broken tomorrow for  'A Gathering Place for Tulsa'. It will begin tomorrow at 10 a.m.   Wear your picnic attire, walk the grounds with family and friends, and imagine the future that awaits Tulsa. Children will have the opportunity to participate in the noon groundbreaking ceremony!

Local Tulsa food trucks will be on site, kids and family activities will include a giant tape tunnel from the Tulsa Children's Museum, hula hooping and more.

LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES

Red Dirt Rangers (Kid's Show)
DJ Spencer LG
Full Flava Kings
Special performances by the KIPP Tulsa Marching Band and Union Renegade Regiment
FOOD TRUCKS

Andolini's
Cactus Jacks
Doghouse
Fourays Eatery
Hoop's
Jared's Pro Pops
John's Diggity Dogs
Josh's Snow Shack
Jubilee Concessions
Klemm's Smoke Haus
Local Table
Lola's
Mangiamo's
Masa
Mod's
Mr. Nice Guys
Pita Place
True Bean Ice Cream Rescue
Wings on Fire
ACTIVITIES

Tulsa City-County Library – Bookmobile and Story Time
Tulsa Children's Museum – Tape Tunnels
Woody Guthrie Center – Cornhole and Sing-alongs
SUP Oklahoma, LLC – Balancing Activities and Paddling Simulations
Tulsa Fire Department – Fire Truck to play on
Tulsa Roughnecks FC – Soccer Activities
Tulsa Ballet – Dance Activities
Tulsa Zoo – Art Project with Animal Skins and Competitions to compare speed/strength to animals
Tulsa Opera -Preview of Cinderella show
Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust – Giant Puppets
Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa – Potted Plants Art Project
Oklahoma Museum Network – Mobile Museum
Oklahoma Aquarium – Arts and Crafts
Come Play – Hula Hooping, Giant Twister, Art Project on large Canvas
Manhattan Construction – Construction Equipment to play on
YMCA – Family Circus (Trapeze), pickup soccer
Zarrow Center for Art and Education – Pinwheel Art Activities
First Tee Tulsa – Snag Golf with Velcro and Tennis Balls
FabLab Tulsa – Interactive Activity
PARKING

Public Parkingwill be available between Cheyenne Ave. and Detroit Ave. from 9th St. to 13th St.

Nonstop shuttles will escort guests from parking areas to the Groundbreaking Celebration site at the following locations:

10th and Cincinnati Ave
10th and Main St.

[Red Arrow]

Information on Tomorrow's 'Gathering Place' Ground Breaking

http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/information-tomorrows-gathering-place-ground-breaking



Ground will be broken tomorrow for  'A Gathering Place for Tulsa'. It will begin tomorrow at 10 a.m.   Wear your picnic attire, walk the grounds with family and friends, and imagine the future that awaits Tulsa. Children will have the opportunity to participate in the noon groundbreaking ceremony!

Interesting concept... Drive from suburbia to downtown to take a shuttle to suburbia.

[Townsend]

Interesting concept... Drive from suburbia to downtown to take a shuttle to suburbia.

There has to be an answer to the "Weren't no parkin'" folk.

[sgrizzle]

Interesting concept... Drive from suburbia to downtown to take a shuttle to suburbia.

31st & Riverside is Suburbia?

Where do you live, farmland?

[Townsend]

Where do you live, farmland?

Bixby, yes

[Red Arrow]

31st & Riverside is Suburbia?

Where do you live, farmland?

Urban: http://goo.gl/maps/32dXk

Not quite so urban: http://goo.gl/maps/3obSX

Room for a garage that doesn't face the street: http://goo.gl/maps/87ym9

Farmland: http://goo.gl/maps/XASy2

[TheArtist]

There are two general "concepts"/definitions of what suburban means.  Context can inform which is the intended.  When the conversation is urban versus suburban, then suburban in this context you can infer that your talking about the "type" of built environment (urban= pedestrian/transit friendly) (suburban= auto centric).  When your just talking about whether an area is "urbanized" (or urban versus rural) your generally talking about whether it has buildings on it.  And if you really want to get picky about it, you can even have an area full of high-rises and skyscrapers and it not be considered urban, but suburban.  Much of Dallas can fit that bill.  Lots of buildings but not pedestrian or transit friendly type development.  While some smaller towns can have shorter buildings but be quite urban.

What kind of development, versus whether its developed on or not, regardless of the type.   

Kind of like by definition "All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.

We generally call a place like BA suburban because of the nature of it's built environment, which is "below urban, or suburban".  That must necessarily indicate that there is a built form that is different from that, "above it" or urban.
Though the neighborhoods around the park there by the river are quite nice, they aren't really much different otherwise than some suburban neighborhoods in BA.

[sgrizzle]

Went to the groundbreaking today. Tons of stuff to do, and they had signs all around showing where the features are going to be. There is also a 306degree theater giving a demo, but the line was longer than the iPhone line.

[Red Arrow]

Went to the groundbreaking today. Tons of stuff to do, and they had signs all around showing where the features are going to be. There is also a 306degree theater giving a demo, but the line was longer than the iPhone line.

306 deg? Typo?