(PROJECT) A Gathering Place For Tulsa

[sauerkraut]

The Gathering Place according to Sundays newspaper will be a big project. I thought it was only going to be something like a over glorified playground on a big patch of green. It looks like they will even be re-doing RiverSide Drive. The article said it'll take 5-7 years to finish the whole thing and just  phase one won't be done till 2017. This is a huge undertaking.

[sauerkraut]

I wonder who thunk up the name "Gathering Place"? It seems to me  they could of came up with a better name. Oh well.

[ZYX]

You have long criticized this project, and you had never before taken the time to actually find out what if was?

That tells me all I need to know about your stance as a "Proud Global Warming Deiner (sic)."

[heironymouspasparagus]

I wonder who thunk up the name "Gathering Place"? It seems to me  they could of came up with a better name. Oh well.

Given all the facts of the project and your "concern" about it, the name is obviously perfect.  Oh well....

I second what ZYX said.  You ARE absolutely a Rush fan! 

WWRD?   What Would Rush Do?  Same as you - jump to ill-considering, uninformed, totally invalid conclusions based on no information whatsoever.  Don't you ever get tired of being soooo wrong, sooo much of the time??

[Conan71]

You have long criticized this project, and you had never before taken the time to actually find out what if was?

That tells me all I need to know about your stance as a "Proud Global Warming Deiner (sic)."

Deiner, isn't that the poor guy who pushes the gurneys around at the morgue? 

[BKDotCom]

I wonder who thunk up the name "Gathering Place"? It seems to me  they could of came up with a better name. Oh well.

I believe it's a temporary "production name" 
I think I heard there'll be a naming contest

[sgrizzle]

I believe it's a temporary "production name" 
I think I heard there'll be a naming contest

Guthrie Green was called "Brady Park" until close to completion.

[sgrizzle]

306 deg? Typo?

Yes, typo

It's a 360 degree room, but the images are 270. Freudian Algebra.

[TheArtist]

The Gathering Place according to Sundays newspaper will be a big project. I thought it was only going to be something like a over glorified playground on a big patch of green. It looks like they will even be re-doing RiverSide Drive. The article said it'll take 5-7 years to finish the whole thing and just  phase one won't be done till 2017. This is a huge undertaking.

Did you ever look at the models and renderings?  Have you ever noticed the price tag?  How many hundreds of millions of dollars does it need to be before you yourself might consider it a "big" project all on your own without the paper having to tell you it was lol?

Earlier this year or late last year it was in the national media that a philanthropist donated 100 million to NYC's central park and it was touted as the largest donation of its kind to a city park in the nations history.  I suppose what happens in Tulsa probably doesn't register to the national media types but Kaisers donation to this park trumped that by quite a bit. Plus what others have donated to this park. Then add to all of that what Kaiser has donated over the years to River Parks and other parks in Tulsa really is incredible. 

[sauerkraut]

Did you ever look at the models and renderings?  Have you ever noticed the price tag?  How many hundreds of millions of dollars does it need to be before you yourself might consider it a "big" project all on your own without the paper having to tell you it was lol?

Earlier this year or late last year it was in the national media that a philanthropist donated 100 million to NYC's central park and it was touted as the largest donation of its kind to a city park in the nations history.  I suppose what happens in Tulsa probably doesn't register to the national media types but Kaisers donation to this park trumped that by quite a bit. Plus what others have donated to this park. Then add to all of that what Kaiser has donated over the years to River Parks and other parks in Tulsa really is incredible. 

I work  long hours and don't have time to follow every city project, it did not seem like it was that big on maps of the area. My main focus has been the Jogging Trails since I'm a jogging nut. As long as the trails are there I'm happy!

[heironymouspasparagus]

I work  long hours and don't have time to follow every city project, it did not seem like it was that big on maps of the area. My main focus has been the Jogging Trails since I'm a jogging nut. As long as the trails are there I'm happy!

So....what you are saying is that since you don't have time to follow every city project, you really had little - in fact, no - understanding of the project at all.  And yet, somehow  you had formed a negative opinion about it.


Maybe if you HAD spent an amount of time studying it, knew something about what you were talking about... well, then maybe you could have helped them come up with a better name....  huh, imagine that...?

[sgrizzle]

The Gathering Place according to Sundays newspaper will be a big project. I thought it was only going to be something like a over glorified playground on a big patch of green. It looks like they will even be re-doing RiverSide Drive. The article said it'll take 5-7 years to finish the whole thing and just  phase one won't be done till 2017. This is a huge undertaking.

This project is over $300M at this point.

That's a hell of a swing set.

[joiei]

I work  long hours and don't have time to follow every city project, it did not seem like it was that big on maps of the area. My main focus has been the Jogging Trails since I'm a jogging nut. As long as the trails are there I'm happy!

So in other words it is all about don't inconvience me. Me, me, me.  Their are other trails you know.

[patric]

The Board of Adjustment on Tuesday afternoon will consider a proposal to build an office building on the northeast corner of 31st Street and Boston Place to be used as the construction management and security facility during construction of A Gathering Place For Tulsa park.
According to the application, the facility would be in place for up to five years. Submitted plans show it would be surrounded by an 8-foot-high wooden fence and medium height landscaping. Plans are to begin construction of the building this fall.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepage3/proposed-facility-for-a-gathering-place-has-some-residents-upset/article_9b273d5f-b801-5b80-8370-641f5ce49ec1.html


No mention of the all-night prison-yard floodlighting?   It will only be there 5-10 years.

[sauerkraut]

So in other words it is all about don't inconvience me. Me, me, me.  Their are other trails you know.

I really have no intrest in city projects, I'm divorced and my kids are well grown up so I don't follow the building of a new park, it's private money for the most part but the river dams will be taxpayer money. Sure, There are other trails but the Riverside Trails are the most handy for me to use, the Mingo Trails  offer  no place to park, I don't run on the streets cars and people don't mix... It's not just about me, the jogging trails are most popular reason people use RiverSide Park,  hundreds of people use the jogging trails-- Anyhow it seems like it'll be quite a project when it's totally done in 2020.