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Originally Posted by stevej37
^^^ It looks (from the link) very clean, modern and nice.
Been thru there (about 40 years ago) didn't look anything like that at that time.
It's a 14 hr drive from here.
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40 years ago that area was mostly vacant old manufacturing facilities, parking lots, wasted space. I grew up there and worked in downtown OKC in the 90's. (now 90 miles east). They kicked off the MAPS project under Mayor Ron Norick in the 80's, a small sales tax I believe to start the funding for Bricktown. has not stopped since. The whole corridor across I-40, downtown is unrecognizable. Amazing amount of development along with a new arena potentially for the NBA franchise team.