Hill Across from OSU Tulsa

[Weatherdemon]

I think this was an old water tower site but I'm not 100% sure.
Anyway, it appears there is something going on up there as I see a backhoe, bulldozer, and water truck up there and most of the vegetation has been removed.

What did I miss that is going up there?

[Townsend]

They removed the headstones but they left the bodies.

[Hoss]

I think this was an old water tower site but I'm not 100% sure.
Anyway, it appears there is something going on up there as I see a backhoe, bulldozer, and water truck up there and most of the vegetation has been removed.

What did I miss that is going up there?

Isn't that Standpipe Hill?

[Townsend]

Isn't that Standpipe Hill?

Yes.  A "last stand" during the riots.  If I remember right, the militia fired cannon on it.

[Weatherdemon]

Isn't that Standpipe Hill?

Nice!
http://www.tulsagal.net/2010/03/standpipe-hill.html

[Noodlez]

New sign for OSU
http://www.newson6.com/story/23242704/osu-tulsa-takes-steps-to-make-brand-more-visible

[Weatherdemon]

New sign for OSU
http://www.newson6.com/story/23242704/osu-tulsa-takes-steps-to-make-brand-more-visible

Oh. Seriously?
That was the best that anyone could come up with for that?

Thanks for the info.

[DTowner]

That's a high value use of this prime spot!  

[Townsend]

Yes.  A "last stand" during the riots.  If I remember right, the militia fired cannon on it.

Nope, I was way off...apparently that might've been one of the machine gun placements.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Nice!
http://www.tulsagal.net/2010/03/standpipe-hill.html

Great shots of Tulsa....love it!

[takemebacktotulsa]

Oh. Seriously?
That was the best that anyone could come up with for that?

Thanks for the info.

OSU tulsa controls all that vacant land up there.

[SXSW]

That is a great vantage point for pictures of downtown.  Hopefully they also make access up there easier.

I still wish OSU would make the decision to locate all of its current and future research facilities at the Greenwood campus.  I realize some of the facilities are in Stillwater for a reason but most should be in Tulsa, as well as more undergraduate and especially graduate programs.  Have the entire western part of the campus around the existing ATRC be developed into research buildings spilling over into the northern end of the Brady District.  Then the classroom/academic buildings clustered around the existing buildings along Greenwood Ave. at the eastern part of the campus.  Then the areas west of the hill can be for future student housing, north of I-244 and south of John Hope Franklin between Cincinnati Martin Luther King Jr. and Boulder.  Fairview could be turned into a pedestrian pathway from the housing across the hill into the campus.

[patric]

That was the best that anyone could come up with for that?

"OSU-Tulsa plans to level the top of (Standpipe) hill and create terraces down the side to control erosion.
They've cut down trees, but will plant more, and at the top they'll place a large, lighted "O," easily visible from the highway and the Brady District."


So is the "O" for "Obscene" ?

[TurismoDreamin]

OSU once had big plans for all that land they sit on.

[SXSW]

Turismo, do you have that master plan in jpg or pdf form?  That must have been when OSU proposed the Vision 20/20 plan: 20,000 students in Tulsa by 2020.  I would be interested in knowing if this plan is still valid or has been updated.

Anyone familiar with OSU know why they they didn't follow through with this plan?  Was it purely lack of funding?