Old YMCA building to become apartments

[swake]

The article says there will be 50 425 SF apartments that will rent for $450/month plus utilities.  That is a pretty good deal for downtown, but 425 SF is tiny. 

The comments on the article are entertaining. Agenda 21! The UN is coming to get you!

[DowntownDan]

So the target will likely be 18-30 year old single people who are in school or entry level positions.  Sounds like a good deal.  Wonder if they can make arrangements with TCC and OSU to work together for student-like housing situations like an on call shuttle to take you from the apartment to the downtown campuses. 

[Conan71]

So the target will likely be 18-30 year old single people who are in school or entry level positions.  Sounds like a good deal.  Wonder if they can make arrangements with TCC and OSU to work together for student-like housing situations like an on call shuttle to take you from the apartment to the downtown campuses. 

Probably a lot of wild & crazy guys living there.

[TulsaRufnex]

You realize that nobody between the age of 18 and 30 was born at the time of SNL's Wild and Crazy Guys skit?... now, git off my lawn, you crazy kids!    

$450 plus utilities for a 425 sq ft studio probably qualifies in Tulsa as a "pricey low-end" option... not bad for downtown.
Where's my futon?

[swake]

You realize that nobody between the age of 18 and 30 was born at the time of SNL's Wild and Crazy Guys skit?... now, git off my lawn, you crazy kids!    

$450 plus utilities for a 425 sq ft studio probably qualifies in Tulsa as a "pricey low-end" option... not bad for downtown.
Where's my futon?

No so! They dusted that off just this year

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/10/andy-samberg-wild-and-crazy-guys-snl_n_2846780.html

[Conan71]

You realize that nobody between the age of 18 and 30 was born at the time of SNL's Wild and Crazy Guys skit?... now, git off my lawn, you crazy kids!    

$450 plus utilities for a 425 sq ft studio probably qualifies in Tulsa as a "pricey low-end" option... not bad for downtown.
Where's my futon?

That's not too bad a deal.  My studio at Center Plaza (now Central Park condos) was $305 a month, all utilities paid in 1987.  I think it was around 500- 600 square feet.  Seems to be about a comparable rent.

[LeGenDz]

That's not too bad a deal.  My studio at Center Plaza (now Central Park condos) was $305 a month, all utilities paid in 1987.  I think it was around 500- 600 square feet.  Seems to be about a comparable rent.

Buddy of mine that stays there is paying about $1200 now (all bills paid). 

[TheArtist]

  Apparently there are currently 767 units under construction in OKC's downtown/near downtown area with a new announcement of another 327 unit downtown development bringing the "proposed/in the works" tally to 817, which together "UC+Proposed" = 1,584 units.  Wonder what our comparable tally would be? 

[SXSW]

  Apparently there are currently 767 units under construction in OKC's downtown/near downtown area with a new announcement of another 327 unit downtown development bringing the "proposed/in the works" tally to 817, which together "UC+Proposed" = 1,584 units.  Wonder what our comparable tally would be? 

You have the recently completed GreenArch that is 70 units.  In the under construction category you have the YMCA Lofts with 82 units, the Vandever building with 44 units and Harringtons with 7 units.  In the proposed category you have phase 2 of GreenArch on the lot across the street that will be another 70 (?) units, Hartford Commons will be 162 units, Bill White will be 50 units, Brady Flats with 40 units and Enterprise with 77 units.  Rumored projects include converting the Tulsa Club into apartments (at least 100 units?) and the second phase of One Place that should have a hotel and apartments (maybe another 100 units or more?). 

So a total of 602 apartments either just recently completed, under construction or proposed not including rumored projects.  What we're missing in Tulsa that OKC has just started doing in the past couple years is building large several hundred unit projects in the downtown area.  We have mainly been just renovating existing buildings with a few new build medium-sized projects like Metro Lofts and GreenArch.

[tulsasooner]

Any information on the Brady Flats?  Are they still going to happen?  How about the Hartford Commons? 

[carltonplace]

Any information on the Brady Flats?  Are they still going to happen?  How about the Hartford Commons? 

Re Brady Flats on Boston...I haven't heard anything but I'd be surprised if the name hasn't changed.

Re Hartford Commons; this was from July: http://www.gtrnews.com/greater-tulsa-reporter/12030/downtown-tulsa-living-expands

To the east of the Blue Dome District, aptly named the East Village District, projects are moving forward for the area that has endured years of neglect.

Developer Urban 8 plans to break ground at the end of summer on its planned development of eight 3-story townhomes that will sit between 2nd and 3rd Streets and Greenwood and Kenosha Avenues. The townhomes, available for purchase, will feature the option for a rooftop terrace; square footage will range from 2,600-3,400.

Construction will begin by the end of the year on Hartford Commons, a 162-unit apartment complex developed by Elliot Nelson and Casey Stowe, of Nelson Stowe Development LLC, and American Residential Group. It will sit in the same block with Urban 8.

[rdj]

Tulsa is several years ahead of OKC in downtown housing.  They're real estate guys have been jealous of what Tulsa has done in that area.

[carltonplace]

We also have more downtown contiguous residential neighborhoods than OKC does, though the IDL erased some of that contiguity.

[DTowner]

What, no update on the 120 Lofts?  

There is now a construction trailer at Bill White's, so it looks like work is starting to move forward on that project.

Ideally, I would like to see most of the East Village (east of Frankfort to the IDL, from 4th to 6th) become primarily a residential neighborhood with low-rise (2-3 stories) and midrise (4-7 stories) apartment/condo buildings and row houses, with a mix of some resident focused retail and a few restaurants.  While apartments in converted office buildings and high rise buildings will appeal to folks who want the full urban living experience, many want more of a neighborhood feel with an urban overlay, from which it is an easy walk to anywhere downtown.  I think of the Back Bay neighborhood in Boston along Commonwealth Ave. (with a more modern look instead of the cool 19th Century architecture and brownstones) as a great example of a neighborhood feel in the middle of an urban area.

[carltonplace]

What, no update on the 120 Lofts?  

Also no update on the First Street Lofts Loss