Harringtons

[TheArtist]

Just a little south of your place...and west.  You may be able to see it from the street out front of your shop.

Enjoyed the Chalk Festival Saturday.  I even sneaked into the shop and looked around a little bit.  Really enjoy looking at all the stuff!!

Thank You!  We had a very good day, it was worth the effort of the event.  Bet next years will be even better.

[TheArtist]

This photo is from a few days ago

Ok, 8th and Main not 7th.  From that pic I thought perhaps someone was talking about downtown BA or some small town with a very desolate downtown for there aren't any other buildings in the background.  Looks so lonely and forsaken as if its some lone abandoned building along a desert highway.  I was like, "surely that's not OUR downtown!". But yes, it's right on the edge of the massive parking crater zone.  

[Red Arrow]

Ok, 8th and Main not 7th.  From that pic I thought perhaps someone was talking about downtown BA or some small town with a very desolate downtown for there aren't any other buildings in the background.  Looks so lonely and forsaken as if its some lone abandoned building along a desert highway.  I was like, "surely that's not OUR downtown!". But yes, it's right on the edge of the massive parking crater zone.  

It does look lonely out there all by itself.  It needs some friends.  (New buildings)

[carltonplace]

This is from the Tulsa Deco District's FB. Main Street looking North from about 6th St.



The Alvin Hotel was on the Southwest corner of 6th and Main, south of the Alvin was the Gem Theater.

[BKDotCom]

This is from the Tulsa Deco District's FB. Main Street looking North from about 6th St.

The Alvin Hotel was on the Southwest corner of 6th and Main, south of the Alvin was the Gem Theater.

Ugh.  Parking looks like a nightmare.

[TheArtist]

Ugh.  Parking looks like a nightmare.

I know, right?  So glad we have so much more parking now than then, makes for a much more vital and busier downtown.  Oh, wait.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I know, right?  So glad we have so much more parking now than then, makes for a much more vital and busier downtown.  Oh, wait.

Progress!!



The pic carltonplace posted confuses me...during Chalk Fest, we walked by the Vandever's building, and I thought it was on 6th.  Looks like that pic is pointing east...from just west of Main....??  (Alvin would be just to the right, out of the frame...)  But then the shadows are all wrong...

Braniff Bldg!!  How many remember Braniff Airlines??

[carltonplace]

the post card is Main looking North. Notice the McFarlin Building on the right just accross from the Sinclair Building at Bartlett Square.

Here is a closer look at 5th and Main, also looking north

[davideinstein]

Ugh.  Parking looks like a nightmare.

Ride a bike.

[DTowner]

Isn't it better to have an apartment building in the middle of a sea of parking lots than a vacant building in the middle of a sea of parking lots?

While I agree that this little outpost is likely to be lonely for a number of years, Tulsa's downtown development has tended not to follow the path set out by city officials or even those in the know.  Whatever else happens or doesn't happen in this area, this is an improvement and should be celebrated as such.

[MyDogHunts]

It is awfully lonely but if it sells out all the small apartments at a good rate I think it is a benchmark for other properties.  Is this a first of it's type in downtown?  I know the Mayo... this is not so fancy.

[heironymouspasparagus]

It is awfully lonely but if it sells out all the small apartments at a good rate I think it is a benchmark for other properties.  Is this a first of it's type in downtown?  I know the Mayo... this is not so fancy.

A lot of the rooms for rent places have been blasted out of existence.  Mostly they couldn't be upgraded enough to become premium priced places, so they had to go.  There were quite a few in that south area of downtown - have had friends that lived in some of those - but most all of what you see as a parking lot say, south of 7th or so used to be a building of some sort....many two and three story walkups.

Look at Elgin, east side of street - between 6th and 7th...two remaining examples of what there used to be many.

[carltonplace]

It is awfully lonely but if it sells out all the small apartments at a good rate I think it is a benchmark for other properties.  Is this a first of it's type in downtown?  I know the Mayo... this is not so fancy.

There are reasonable rent spaces in downtown (and near downtown).

In Downtown
The Blair, Riverbend, The Renaissance, GreenArch

Near Downtown
University Club along with about a dozen Riverview area apartment buildings and a few apartment buildings in Owen Park and Brady Heights. There are also lots of garage apartment choices. One can easily rent for around a dollar a square foot and be walking/biking distance from Downtown and the river.

[MyDogHunts]

What about recent renovation of a building like Harrington's?  I know there were some apartments in a building across from the Tavern, but outside of the Art District I can't recall seeing any other older buildings converted to apartments or lofts.

Tulsa does have much beauty.  Downtown will continue to bloom. It feels good.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Took one of the grandkids to downtown for his first excursion (2 1/2 years old) this weekend!  An amazing time was had by all!  He learned a couple of new words - skyscraper was the best...and he says it so well!  He may well be a city dweller by the time he gets to that age!