Brickhugger buys former Nordam HQ, plans Mixed-Use Development

[dsjeffries]

NORDAM has sold its former 11.5-acre headquarters complex in downtown Tulsa's East Village to Brickhugger, LLC for $7.1 million. Brickhugger plans to turn the 266,178 sq ft office-industrial complex into a mix of apartments, retail, office and restaurant space. More details on the Project Page.

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Map thanks to cannon_fodder

[Conan71]

We discussed on the downtown development thread, but probably a good idea for a new thread to discuss and criticize.  A project this size will really help set the tempo for the rest of East Village and knowing the Snyders are behind it is fantastic.  Local and organic growth!

[BKDotCom]

Well.  There goes my plans to redevelop this area after I win the lottery.

[LandArchPoke]

I'm so happy to see someone like Brickhuggers buy this property. I've seen way too many plans for this site by people that include knocking down the buildings and putting in a sea of parking lots with a strip style retail (there was a particular grocer who wanted this site that went down south instead) and if people remember Top Golf wanted this site very badly which would have been a sea of parking and closing off that street.

The Richards own that parking lot directly to the west, along with the former fire station, and former KOTV studios and I know they hope to eventually do some sort of large mixed-use development on those parcels so that in combination of the Nordam site would be huge.

Now if someone can talk First Baptist into selling the parking lot off Elgin/Detroit & 4th/5th and then get All Souls to either sell their 2 blocks or actually develop something this entire part of downtown will give Tulsa a pretty awesome urban core in a few years if Santa Fe Square, PAC lot proposal, and other infill projects all get done.

[Conan71]

I remember 10 years ago on here, everyone was convinced there would be an urban Wal-Mart to anchor the East Village renaissance.  Glad that never happened.

[SXSW]

This is exciting but part of me hoped for NORDAM to keep their property and move their HQ downtown.  With the downsizing at Williams and potentially other O&G companies downtown could use more non-O&G workers especially those working at a large company HQ office.

[cannon_fodder]

Whose to say Nordam can't move their HQ downtown anyway, if they wanted to. That would be a nice move, but I doubt it happens.

This will likely result in the East Village continuing the growth of urban and walk able neighborhoods downtown.  The Hodges Bend/Blue Dome area is amazing at the moment. If Santa Fe goes down, wow.

I anticipate Brickhugger saving the brick buildings (no pun intended), and the rest go away. Not a lot you can do with 50 year old tin industrial buildings. There are things of course, but not that many. I won't consider that a universal loss anyway.

I would anticipate lots of partners.

Very excited.

[DTowner]

I know it says they are looking at doing a mixture of residential, retail, office, and restaurants, but I really hope this becomes primarily dense residential.  I would love to see a mixture of mid-rise and low rise apartments/condos with some townhouses sprinkled in.  Some fist floor retail and/or office with residential above would also be great.  I would prefer not so see an attempt to create yet another entertainment district downtown.  All the entertainment downtown (and the Pearl) is very walkable from this area, so make it a true downtown residential neighborhood.

[davideinstein]

Was a perfect spot for a soccer stadium.

[SXSW]

Was a perfect spot for a soccer stadium.

Home Depot is even better.

[saintnicster]

Home Depot is even better.

Gotta think biger.  If you're going to seize property and kick out functioning businesses, might as well aim for the moon... 

How would a soccer stadium look at 3rd and boston?

[LandArchPoke]

Gotta think biger.  If you're going to seize property and kick out functioning businesses, might as well aim for the moon...  

How would a soccer stadium look at 3rd and boston?

The Home Depot site is actually the perfect location for a soccer stadium downtown. It's the only viable site you could put a stadium with expansion potential to MLS size that would NOT require closing parts of the street grid. Saying Home Depot and Williams Tower is ridiculous, get real. Home Depot is a big box retail tenant, they relocate ALL the time - multiple Fortune 1000 HQ's in the same building? Not so much. I've said before on here as well that it would not be difficult to incorporate Home Depot into a new mixed-use development downtown. Having a soccer stadium on the Home Depot site and offering Home Depot incentive to relocate into a development below next to the stadium would really help ignite development in the southern part of downtown and help establish that urban retail can be done correct and successful in Tulsa.

[AquaMan]

Interesting to me that the Home Depot site was originally the home of Tulsa's minor league baseball team back in the day.

[RecycleMichael]

My new office is the beige building in the background. I am excited for new neighbors.

[davideinstein]

I catch so much grief for my Williams thread, ha. I just like connectivity. Going beyond these sites, we could just get rid of the east side of the IDL as well.