TriArch pitches multisport project to reverse Tulsa's infamous parking crater

[rdj]

I've always thought that lot was ripe for an apartment building that would be attractive to the young TCC student.  Incorporate parking into that facility.

[DowntownDan]

This is obviously just a proposal that would need to be given more thought and subject to many changes if it were to become reality, but I like that people are talking about it.  Personally, assuming investment is limited, I would rather see the momentum of infill and repurposing continue in Brady, Blue Dome, East Villiage, CBD, and BOK Center area.  A soccer stadium downtown would be awsome, but I'd prefer it be in one of the established districts, maybe in the East Villiage where there are lots of open lots in need of something useful.  The south end parking crater is going to take a monumental investment of new construction to transform it and you'll always be held back by TCC and the Churches who seem to like having suburban stadium style parking.  Kudos for those who are fighting the good fight though and I wish you all the luck in the world. 

[carltonplace]

I've always thought that lot was ripe for an apartment building that would be attractive to the young TCC student.  Incorporate parking into that facility.

I agree that housing in both the form of urban apartments and urban brownstone along with retail and service options and public green space would be perfect here. I salute the creative thinking and applaud that folks are looking for solutions to a serious surface parking issue, but I'm just not on board with the soccer stadium. I'd prefer a neighborhood that contributes to the street presence of Boston Ave rather than a big blank wall that detracts from it. Hopefully this will get the conversation started, I'm glad TCC is finally interested in reversing the damage they have caused.

[SXSW]

I'd be interested to know TCC's future expansion needs in the area.  Do they have a master plan?  I had heard a few years ago that there was interest in moving their conference center and other functions near 41st & I-44 to downtown.  If so where do they want that to go?  They own a lot of land but somewhere around 10th. & Boston makes the most sense as they start to build outside the 9th/10th/Boston/Cincinnati block as we've seen with the Center for Creativity and the rehab clinic.  Does TCC have any other health science projects planned?

Right now Boston acts as a pedestrian corridor for the campus as students go between buildings on both sides and from the parking lots to the south.  I think you enhance that corridor by adding new campus buildings to the parking on the SW and SE corners at 10th & Boston and make that the center of campus.  That also enhances 10th as a pedestrian corridor between Boston and Cincinnati.  Build urban housing on the lots south and east of campus.  Integrate green space into those projects, possibly even a playing field over parking as proposed here.

[Tulsasaurus Rex]

Btw, there is a retail component to the street level area, just not able to see it in the renders.

I guess I missed that. Where does it say that?

I'd be interested to know TCC's future expansion needs in the area.  Do they have a master plan?

I would very much like to know that, too.

[TheArtist]

I guess I missed that. Where does it say that?

I would very much like to know that, too.

I don't know where it says that but I was at the DCC when they made their presentation.  Right now they are trying to keep things flexible so that they can entertain different possibilities depending on potential funding.  One neat thing they showed was using those large metal shipping containers as kind of "retail incubator" small shop type spaces for retail/restaurants on the street and second levels. 

The shading canopies and roofing of the buildings would have solar panels, there would also be a geothermal component, the rain water would be filtered and reused on site. It would actually generate more power than was needed. Another neat feature was that the field could be cooled a little during the summer and kept well above freezing in the winter.  What they are trying to do is get it so that once funded, it will generate enough money on it's own to keep up maintenance and do programming for the park and field.