Move Up downtown living tour
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Yesterday, we went to out to the downtown living tour here in OKC. This was a cool event with 11 downtown residential properties having simultaneous open houses so people could tour and see how living in downtown OKC is shaping up.
Since I live near downtown, I am very interested in how the residential life in downtown is coming along. I am really excited for the development that is happening and hope there is great success with occupancy so that we will have continued development as well, and hopefully even get some more retail options and even an urban grocery store some time (Whole Foods, anyone??).
Anyway, there were some great properties to see. Maybe a third of them were older properties and buildings that are being restored and converted to residential, with the rest being new construction. The new stuff is primarily over in the triangle north of Bricktown with the older buildings being in downtown and midtown.
Personally, my favorite was the old Sieber Hotel in midtown. This very old six story structure is being nicely restored to residential rental apartments with some upscale features. There are crown moldings, modern kitchens, tiled bathrooms, and some beautiful windows. I just don’t think there’s a substitute for a historical structure, no matter how nicely you build something new.
Hadden Hall was another property in midtown that looks like it will be similar to the Sieber, but it was just beginning its restoration so there was nothing really to see yet.
