More SINGLE Family Homes Proposed Downtown

[Townsend]

Might not be a very far out idea, think "Kaiser Family Foundation".  KFF has invested plenty in the area so far and puts money into head-start programs.  Education is a big deal to Kaiser and KFF.

Good thing.  Our fearless state leaders sure seem to hate education. 

Do the prison lobbyists oppose education in Oklahoma?

[SXSW]

Emerson used to be a very good magnet school. Does anyone know what happened to it? Was the magnet program there moved?

Maybe the solution is to improve Emerson, which serves downtown, Brady Heights and the neighborhoods east of there to Peoria and up to Pine, I believe.  With Roosevelt closed part of that area west of downtown may be included as well.  Or you build a new school closer to the Pearl (or in the Pearl) that serves that neighborhood and adjacent areas (north of 15th to I-244 to Utica, carved out of Kendall-Whittier's large boundary area.  Most families would be living in the more residential Pearl anyway but it would be convenient for downtown along with Tracy Park, Forest Orchard and Cherry Street north of 15th.  There may even be an old building that could be repurposed.  OKC is doing this with their new downtown school carving out a new boundary.  http://www.johnrexschool.com/

Riverview is already in the Lee/Edison/Edison boundary so that puts that area at an advantage.  I think this area is Tulsa's next popular neighborhood because of its location and it could develop into a fairly dense mostly residential neighborhood in between Boulder and Boston, with an office core north of 15th.  There is so much surface parking there currently that could be redeveloped.

Jacobi, there is something sort of similar to what you're talking about in the works.  The Oklahoma School for the Visual & Performing Arts is planning a move to the former Roosevelt Elem building just west of downtown.  I don't know the latest on their progress but maybe someone else does.  http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/oklahoma-school-for-the-visual-performing-arts-eyes-old-tulsa-public-schools-roosevelt-elementary

I've always thought Tulsa School of Arts & Sciences should move downtown and build a new building or two on the surface lots by TCC and partner for classes and shared facilities.  Plus it would get rid of another parking lot.  Maybe GKFF could involved in that?

[jacobi]

Jacobi, there is something sort of similar to what you're talking about in the works.  The Oklahoma School for the Visual & Performing Arts is planning a move to the former Roosevelt Elem building just west of downtown.  I don't know the latest on their progress but maybe someone else does.  http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/oklahoma-school-for-the-visual-performing-arts-eyes-old-tulsa-public-schools-roosevelt-elementary

I've always thought Tulsa School of Arts & Sciences should move downtown and build a new building or two on the surface lots by TCC and partner for classes and shared facilities.  Plus it would get rid of another parking lot.  Maybe GKFF could involved in that?

I thought the arts school had been shut down for picking up Roosevelt? Couldn't agree more about TSAS.


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[rdj]

A school already operates within the IDL.  On Elgin between Brady Distric/Greenwood/Blue Dome.  It is a TPS charter school called Deborah Brown Community School.

http://www.dbcschool.org/

[TheArtist]

There are plenty of great elementary schools around.  It's middle schools and high schools where things start getting more difficult to find really good ones if your in or around downtown.

[carltonplace]

They are pouring concrete already.

[SXSW]

Are there any other current for-sale residential projects planned downtown other than this one and the ones on Boulder?  If these do well hopefully there will be more of these types of modern rowhomes built especially on the vacant lots of the East End.

Hopefully someday the empty lots west of OSU-Tulsa and the parking lots south of downtown between 15th-18th could see similar development. 

[cannon_fodder]

I think some of Brickhuggers project is supposed to be condo, but I'm not sure (YMCA, Vandever?).

I recently heard downtown has a residential occupancy rate above 95%.  So by all rights, there should be a building/renovation boom.  I hope that spills over to more standard amenities downtown (grocery stores, busiens open longer, walgreens, etc.).