The Battle To Build America’s Tallest New Skyscraper - Legend's Tower 

I am an Architect also and this seems like a publicity stunt for the overall development and it is working, we are talking about it. It seems like another phallic exercise that should go nowhere, it is an outdated model from the early 2000's. What financial institution will gamble on this? Also the Developer doesn't even have a website, I work in Orange County and we have a few of these sketchy developers from Newport Beach that play with smoke and mirrors.

Think they call it vapor-tecture - hallucinatory architecture

Thank you!! I've been saying this. I live here. Many people think it'll be built. But this is all hype and publicity for the actual project.

The bottom towers are already going to be built staring this summer. The building will definitely be built if it’s approved because the demand is definitely there

@@jessmcafee2557all hype is what’s going to get it to be built 💀 it’s based off demand

Chicago barely even gets super talle anymore there’s only ONE being built right now and compared to New York they are booming. New York has a scary amount of empty buildings and apartments because they are too expensive. Going up even more north you find your self in Toronto which is building 43 tall building right now and they have 57 building ideas. Maybe you should look which cities are actually doing good and bad.

I believe they are building one in Miami as we speak.

Got a problem with NYC or Chicago?

Miami, the city is building like crazy for years now, go see how many skyscrapers were built in the past 2 years and how many are under construction or already approved.

You left out Fort Worth

I agree with the other 3 towers able to under-go construction.

well, it’s not just a concept, it’s been approved my oklahoma city councils and the building has its full funding for the project. also “concept” and “proposed” are very different.

The developer just announced a week ago, the 1.5 billion project is fully funded now. They need faa approval to build that high.

so, it is, you were wrong

Welp....

Not true. I live here and have so for 59 years. Yes we have tornadoes but it will not take down a building maybe some windows. Don’t be an idiot.

Tornado Alley has moved eastward to Mississippi and Alabama…

Sounds like someone ignorant who isn’t from OKC would say. Tornadoes have never hit OKC they have only hit the suburbs like twice far away from the inner city. Majority of the tornadoes hit the country sides.

Very rare

Okc has never been wiped out by a tornado! Get your facts straight

This has like 2000 apartments. This is exactly what we need.

@@SubtleHawk 2000 apparentlents could be built in to revitalized city blocks that would compliment OKC's skyline and revitalize the city. a single high rise monolith is going to be a very unsightly and do very little for street life below.

@@TimLucasdesign This is a good project! Having a building with 2000 apartments and stores, restaurants, and everything there at walking distance is awesome! There's literally nothing wrong with it unless you've been lobotomized or you just don't want housing to ever get built. There's literally nothing wrong with this project.

@@SubtleHawk Look at how Nashville built out their skyline. Nothing over 40 storeys and the skyline feels dense and balanced. img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/62c3761f-abd6-4182-a441-c6478fc771bc/DJI_0036_37_38_39_40.jpg/:/cr=t:0%25,l:0%25,w:100%25,h:100%25/rs=w:1280

none. The use will be mixed residential, hotel, and retail. The residential will be luxury condo, market and workforce rental, luxury rental, boutique luxury hotel (Dream by Hyatt), and Key luxury hotel (Hyatt). The hotel rooms are surely needed, downtown has about 5000 rooms to date and probably less than 750 of that total would be luxury. The retail would likely consist of destination shoppes OKC doesn't currently have; the city has made HUGE strides in the past 15 years but still lacks many of the national chains most tier 2 cities have - so this would likely fill some of that. There is no planned office space here; although you'd expect a minimum amount for the workforce assistance center and property management, etc.

Yeah Avoid all woke's anti-occidental lefties looser's ideologies movement Gr8 project Lot of cities in USA needs more skyscrapper project loke this MAGA in action whit this project right there in Oklahoma City Amen !!!!!!

Exactly, when you're the only brand new Luxury supertall in the market - you fill a niche and create your own new market. It will likely take a while but Legends Tower will get filled, if built.

Boardwalk at Bricktown has been planned for several years as 3 roughly 27 floor residential towers and a hotel tower; but recently received massive adjustments (including the supertall plan and the shorter towers raised to 35 floors) due to the new $1 billion Oklahoma City NBA arena that voters approved as well as a multi-use soccer stadium; both will be in the same downtown vacinity creating a sort of LA-Live district. Developer is taking a chance on OKC due to the momentum the city has been seeing which has translated into it being over 700,000 residents (up from 580K in 2010) and metro over 1.5 million (up from 1.3 in 2010). With OTHER announcements, plans, and developments, OKC is becoming a sort of boom town that's still a bit organic. Legends Tower is the only thing that's not organic but it's nice to see something speculative given a chance there. Go for it.

Wouldn't want something this tall in Milwaukee, but I do feel that the city deserves a tower in the 1,000ft range. Our current max is approx 600ft..

Lmao

its still a shitty state and city and this building will only be for the rich if it gets built

Exactly !!!! Crappy Jealeousy & woke's anti-occidental ideologies are everywhere in 2024 Thanx God for this greatest skyscrapper project

Double LMAO - Honey, OKLAHOMA City is no Dubai. I’m sure it’s a nice place but it’s no international hub or even on a national level. It won’t happen.

still doesn't mean its a good place lol its still a trashy sad looking city with no culture

The city renamed part of the North Canadian River near downtown as the Oklahoma River, when it built low water dams to raise the level to a consistent height. Korny? yes. But there are MANY things in Oklahoma City named after it or the state (Including 'Oklahoma City Boulevard' - where Legends Tower will be located) so there is precedence. .... btw - don't knock on OKC too much, OKC Boulevard used to be where the former elevated I-40 Crosstown was located but they moved it further south opening up huge areas for development - a very good move.

They barely have a NBA team..population is barely a mil.. Nashville is 2miland won't build anything over five hundred feet.. please

OKC is one of 14 cities in the US that gained over 100k people in the last census, this would not be empty. I live here and OKC is growing insanely fast.

totally agree with you in principle but this wont be office, it will be mixed use residential and 'some' destination retail.

@@zebrajenks hmmmm.. Whats the annual rate of office space absorption, retail development and housing construction in the downtown area? And whats the average rental price on downtown area properties? As I said, a project this size isnt a guarantee even in the biggest markets. Likewise, if it exceeds demands for office, retail or residential property in the downtown, roughly a mile radius of either Brick town, the Chesapeake Arena or the intersection of I 35 and 40, it will gain tenants at the expense of other lower grade properties. Having been through OKC on multiple occasions, this is not a downtown that serves as a destination. You work there, see a concert or ball game, or already live there. If you're down in Moore or Norman, up in Edmonds, or out towards either El Reno or Shawnee the odds are you dont go into OKC very often. And why several other towers in the downtown or nearby suburban areas are likely to go dark if this gets built. As for the new arena, hell the Ford Center was brand new 20 years ago and of course in order to keep Omaha, Austin, Little Rock or Tulsa from wooing the fair maiden (the Thunder) the politicians are falling all over themselves to give the current owners a nearly $1B freebie. As best described in the web site Field of Schemes.

OKC will have a billion dollar NBA arena around the same time as this will be finished and a 75 million dollar soccer stadium in the same area. OKC is one of the fastest growing large cities in the US as in one of the 14 cities to gain over 100k people in the last census.

@@zebrajenks plus its still much cheaper than alot of major cities , and people want homes. hopefully the state does something about thier education though.

Already been approved. They just need approval to exceed the height limit

how about, 'people'. ... maybe, people that want to live in a luxury residential highrise. ... There - fixed your thought.

not enough people : (

this is a huge step. but yes, infill is happening downtown just this is a huge one.

well, thats why grounded lightning rods exist

It's not office space.

i dont' think so. it will just be another market that OKC doesn't really have. It does already have highrise real estate but most of the recent luxury versions have been conversion. This project will be the first residential highrise and luxury highrise development built downtown in more than 30 years. It will fill a niche, not sure if the total number of units planned will be filled though. .. (but eventually, probably yes).

There's no shortage of space in this region of the country, so we absolutely can build out and sprawl, as we have. But it doesn't come without its drawbacks. Many people complain about it, as it's very hard to make a sprawled city easily walkable and/or put in expansive public transit I personally don't mind it, I'm more of a car person anyway and don't mind driving everywhere, but some people do mind. Keeping things close together and expanding upward is more attractive to people for that reason, I'd assume Oh, and as for the wind, we actually have a lot of smart designs in place to combat stuff like that already. Too complicated for me to explain here, but it's interesting reading up on the ways people have wind-proofed, earthquake-proofed, or whatever-proofed skyscrapers. Though you won't catch me on the top floor of any skyscraper in strong winds, too freaky for me, no matter how safe it is

It would bring inntorist which means more tax money and jobs the hotels the restaurant and all the little businesses around it will prosper

It is infill developement to the max. Currently, the lot is a 'mini' parking crater with a heritage building cladded with aluminum for U-haul Hq. This will create walkability on a different scale that likely will help add density to the rest of lower bricktown and points south (currently greenfield).

you mean "YOU" dont want to vacation in Oklahoma. .. Plenty of others do vacation in OKC.

maybe there's people who don't want to live on a coast but want to live in a luxury highrise/supertall. OKC isn't the only city in the flatlands, and OKC already has some towers including one almost 1000 feet.

yes you may be right- anything is possible but OKC is on the small side and not really what I would consider a city that could support a large project of the proposed magnitude. OKC is a very nice city and a great place to raise a family but it's not Las Vegas as far as entertainment... goes.@@rchilde1

The landfill stands out to the south when you get above the trees and buildings

​@@twcstransamwow the landfill we just call that Dallas

@RamoneRitchie lol true, but there is another one just 5ish miles south of downtown okc at I240 and Bryant that's about 10 stories high

@@twcstransam I’m sure it’s nice, I don’t mean to be condescending.❤️

Google has a converter, Oklahoma is redneckville and have no clue how to use metric.

It’s in America, no one uses meter buddy

Personally, I prefer my measurements in "Freedom-Eagles per Football Field"

built in 'murrica, being decided in 'murrica, where no translation is needed. Educate yourself and know how to do the math when you want to be a busybody. I do the eurocentric metricmath translation all the time watching the Dubai exploits.

Maybe if you practiced some mental math you work hear your precious metric numbers as he is talking, I mean even just doing part of the conversion is easy to get a rough (inaccurate) idea 1907 ÷ 3 = 632 meters (after you've mastered this simple part you'll learn to take about 10% off the answer to get closer) to get a little more accurate but harder brain math 1907 ÷ 3.3 = 577 meter If you want dead on balls accurate you can always use a Google converter.

Just google the conversion

Austin wasn't anything special a couple decades ago either

Austin had to start somewhere, and did. So is OKC.

might want to try a visit before making such a comment. It's not NYC nor claiming to be, but there's plenty to visit and see.

Im from LA and know NYC, its just nothing in comparison so a visit would be very unlikely.

What are you talking about decreasing population we just had a hundred thousand people last year moved to our city and there is plenty of office space downtown

Oklahoma City is DEFINITELY NOT decreasing in population, it's one of the fastest growing major cities in the nation. And this isn't an office development.

Really bugs ya, huh? Good.

Chicago/ Milwaukee??

@@donaldewert2332 I forgot Chicago. That would be a good city since they once had the highest tower (Sears/Willis tower)

​@GabrielGarcia-dc6rl hey would you rather have this tower in OKC than let's say ahhhh Detroit lol

@@WashinRob what? Do you speak proper English? Read my original comments

@GabrielGarcia-dc6rl dude I was being funny. I'm saying if this tower was ever built I rather have built in OKC than Detroit. If you know anything about Detroit you would agree with me

Says some costal mega city snob that can't take a little hick city getting attention. Mind your own business.