@@marcossperezzy6281 Well that would mean that they would have to add more than double that height of the antenna, the antenna is already very tall and if they make it taller, it'll cause safety concerns, that's why they didn't want an antenna for the Central Park Tower.
It's a huge red flag for me when a project like this puts the crown jewel in phase 2 (or 3). Financing can dry up, the make up of the city council and local governments can change, inflation could continue to worsen, along with the price of materials and labor, or a myriad other issues.
This may turn into another Jeddah Tower if the economy tanks. Personally, I doubt this gets built, though it has a better chance than a Bears waterfront dome in Chicago.
Some RU-vid dude talking about red flags on a secured funding project Like, can't make this shit up, hahahahahha Literally investors worth billions have already signed off, yet this RU-vid dude doesn't understand finances...... 🤷🤦
Facts. Technically Taipei 101 in Taiwan shouldn't have been built either due to the typhoons, but engineering allowed it to be accomplished. Engineering will overcome the tornados for Legends Tower in OKC.
@@ArchitectureAdmireragreed. I see nobody seems to have a problem with NYC building skyscrapers even though they are next to an ocean that produces hurricanes.
@@whatlol_e DG had 1 year left. Arnold has 3. Arnold would have transferred if DG stayed. DG knew that and did OU a favor. You must be new to college football.
@@jackalenterprisesofohio OKC isn't even in the US's top 30 metro areas in population. It has tons of flat land and it's landlocked so skyscrapers aren't necessary. Having something that tall in that metro area is Dubai levels of tacky- ness and overcompensation "Aren't We cool?! Look at what we have! Please like us! Are we cool now?!"
This building will have an observation deck and restaurant on the top two floors for the public to enjoy. The pandemic shows you why this will be a residential and hotel skyscraper rather than an office one.
In reality the developer only wants the 3 smaller towers. They are using the hype around the “Tallest tower” to get it approved then will cancel once the others are done.
Literally have been told the plans Gives a RU-vid take when billionaires have already given money to pay for it... Bwwwahahahha Cool story bro Jelly much?
No, it hasn't been approved. All that happened was that the Oklahoma City Planning Commission recommended that the city council approve the developer's re-zoning request, and that must first be approved by the city council before anything else is approved. And that's not a slam dunk! And even if the city council approves the re-zoning, the developer still must have the site plan approved by the planning commission, and that also isn't a slam dunk! And if a site plan is approved, it, too, must be approved by the city council. This has a long ways to go.
Hahaha You mad bruh? Oklahoma has the most liberal marijuana laws, is the reddest state in the country and cheapest housing.. Add to that a 900million NBA arena.. Dawg We competing with Texas not the rest of the country. 😂😅😂
It's nowhere close to being America's next major city... and it never will be. It's a small metro and has never been a destination. San Antonio-Austin, Orlando-Tampa, Nashville, Charlotte, etc. are the cities to watch, not OKC.
The developers are likely counting on this city becoming the next Austin or San Antonio. Those cities were very similar not that long ago and became the beneficiaries of businesses and people tired of places like California and New York. I think it's a build it and they will come thus the glitzy look.
But Austin and San Antonio have been destinations for decades (Important tech hub and fastest growing city in America respectively)... OKC isn't anywhere near their tier.
DG you didn’t see the rendering of legends tower with humungous LED billboard screens taking up the entire span of each side? Believe that is what the commission is declining
The lights they denied are the giant led advertising screens that they were wanting to put in the tower, they don’t have renderings with it, but they have drawings where they had giant build board screens going up the building
This has elements of Brisbane during the 1980s when on several occasions the "World's Tallest" was proposed by various developers. Though they didn't go ahead, they set the foundation for a raft of new skyscrapers downtown, that includes 5 towers over 70 stories with several more proposed. Brisbane's tallest tower now sits at 96 stories, which has led to changes in how people view the city with Brisbane to host the 2032 Olympics. A memorable, impressive skyline helps to attract business, investment and highly motivated people, which can be seen in Brisbane's phenomenal growth in importance since it's "Big country town" days. I think this is just the beginning for OKC as you will find America and the wider global community shifting attention to this city.
My concern would be a bait & switch move. Where a developer uses a grand plan to get approval to build in a prime location just to switch it up after the fact and not build the big tower at all because that was the plan all along. Not saying this developer would do it, but we've seen examples of this elsewhere. Foxconn fleeced the Wisconsin taxpayers. Amazon played games with HQ2. Infosys pulled a bait & switch style move to get valuable land near the Indianapolis airport with grant plans just to turn around and build a much smaller version of what they had marketed. I don't know if it was intentional or not but it is suspicious. I believe that once the OKC City Council approves the plan, it is game over for roadblocks. The big tower will be officially approved and it is up to the developer to build it or not. I believe they will use the next year or two to secure a high profile tenant to take up most of the space. I think it is very doable to steal an HQ from Seattle where people are getting killed by real estate prices. I think if they can land a high profile tenant, the full 1907 feet will get built. If they cannot, don't be surprised if it ends up at 600-800 feet.
I saw "Hyatt" and knew to be skeptical, the Pritzker family owns them and one of them, the Illinois governor, is a person who removed the toilets in his Chicago home to avoid taxes. They are criminal.
Much respect to OKC if this breaks ground. Seems like OKC city government has the same energy as our city council here in San Antonio. Too stuck in the past and progress is always slow as hell
Great video but the tallest building slide is inaccurate in scale. One WTC uses the 450ft spiral antenna to get to 1776 ft, but the roof of WTC is only around 1350 feet, about 100ft shorter the Willis Tower's roof. OKC already looks very lopsided with their one tall 800ft building, so there is no telling how out of whack this monster will make the city look if ever built to that height, which I still doubt.
The image used for the thumbnail is extremely inaccurate. Willis tower has the highest roof at 1,400 something feet. Its antennas are taller than One World Trade Center.
Given the utter decimation and devaluation of commercial office space in downtown areas across the country and with half the professional workforce working from home now why on earth would anyone build this. It will be mostly empty.
I was born in Okc and raised in central Oklahoma and spent my first 50 years there. I know the city and the people. I am a little surprised and hopeful that this will be built. I suspect most of the people in the OKC area are as well. My question is what Oklahoma politicians are going to get rich from this project?
While the rest of the world laughs at OKC's tacky-ness, and overcompensation. It's Dubai levels of "Hey please like us! Aren't we so cool?! We got this even though we aren't in the top 30 US metropolitan areas in population!"
People worried about the possibility of a tornado making a direct hit on OKC need to calm down. Florida has endured so much from some of the strongest and most destructive hurricanes, and yet that hasn’t stopped them from getting up and moving on. I hope this tower get built.
Normally, money always wins out. So, the bets should be for the tower to be built. However, whether or not it gets constructed, it is going to plant the seed to build other skyscrapers outside the major metro areas.
There is no way any lender will finance a giant building in a relatively small office market, especially given the covid-related problems office buildings around the country have suffered. It has been widely reported that "funding has been secured" but never a mention of who the lenders might be.
The reason for going up to 1907 feet high is to honor the year that Oklahoma became a state, 1907. This isn’t some kind of competition to see who can build the highest, but OKC will have the tallest!
I'm not sure how this would work. Most people who live out in the country like their space. If you want high density and are okay with the cons as well as pros that come with it then go there, like NYC. Imposing a dense skyscraper in the open is counterintuitive.
I'm a native Oklahoman from Tulsa and has family in OKC and I think the towers look great just like the Devon Energy building. The only problem that I have is that they look out of place. You'll have these two huge towers that stand out to the other buildings that are from the 60s and 70s. These towers would look better in cities like NYC or L.A., maybe Houston or Dallas.
This would look just as out of place in Dallas Houston or La, their tallest buildings are all 1000 feet. That’s only 150 feet taller than the Devon tower
I have news for all of you, skyscrapers are outdated for USA anyways it’s extremely old school for us. Many people in Chicago and New York City don’t like skyscrapers on many reasons. And no F’ING cities are worth living in any ways. A lot of these so call skyscrapers are also empty the leasing rates are so over value. These companies are here today gone tomorrow simple as that. And yes, OKC metro does have activities of tornadoes and tremors activity just matter of time.
Just more redundant office space. Either it will stand empty or if it fills all other buildings will empty. Where do these tens of thousands of people plan to park?
0:28. This figure is a completely inaccurate representation of building heights in the US. For starters, the roof height of the One World Trade Center is roughly 1300 feet, shorter than the roof height of the Sears Tower. If the antenna’s on the Sears Tower were included in its height it would only be 30 feet shorter than the One World Trade Center. This figure is treating the sears tower as if the antennas are at 1450 feet, not the roof height.
i think if it gets built it could become a new york style town attracting more investment and possible other towers being built there in the future' taxes arnt nearly as high in oklahome as new york either
OKC just doesn't seem like a city that would be prime for such a building. I don't know about OKC's economics, but it never stuck me at all to be honest.
One World Trade center is not the tallest building in America. It only has 94 floors. The tallest apartment in Manhattan is on the 131st floor and is selling for a whopping 250 million dollars. The spire on the World Trade Center is basically a giant lightning rod. If we are just counting usable floor space then the spire doesn't count.
@@TheMrPeteChannelof course. However, I’d argue there is FAR more successes than failures…. Do you think NYC should stop building skyscrapers because of hurricanes?
This same thing can be said about Dallas, houston, Austin, San Antonio, Kansas city, and basically any city. Every state gets tornados even New York. Downtown OKC has never been hit by a tornado.
It's not even in the US's top 30 metropolitan areas in population. It's Dubai levels of gaudy-ness and overcompensation. Also NFL is an inferior version of Rugby with pads, more commercial breaks, and inconsistent rules and arbitrary referring that can influence entire game outcomes.
@@HoshizakiYoshimasaOnce again you are wrong. OKC is the 20th largest city in America and in the next decade will be in the top 15.. Know your facts before talking
They don’t count the antennas on it that’s why it’s at 1400ft. But the scale is still way off because sears floor height is taller than World Trade Center floor height. It also has Trump tower floor height taller than sears tower. I’m wondering who made the scale it’s very inaccurate.
That model of how all the skyscrapers stack up against each other's completely wrong, the Sears Tower is not that short, as a matter of fact this Sears Tower is taller than the One World Trade Center from roof height, I'm just saying let's get a more accurate representation of skyscrapers.
They maybe looking at economics. OKC is much cheaper to build and way cheaper to live compared to large cities. Quality of life is much better. I’ve been and lived on both coast almost twice as expensive.
Feasibility is suspect and as a local, i would rather see a couple of 40 to 50 story towers, complimenting the Devon tower instead of diminishing it. The entertaining thing about the situation is how it seems to stick in the craw of some costal and mega city snobs, who's attitude seems to be "damned uppity hick town, who do they think they are?" They could better concern themselves with local decay rather than fret over a symbol of "flyover country" ascension.
Never going to be built in one of the poorest states in the country. Wouldn’t even look good there anyway, they already have 1 building that looks weird and looks like it doesn’t belong
OKC isnt even in the top 30 US metrod in population. Trying way too hard. Like a nerd desperately trying be one of the cool people. Dubai levels of gaudy-ness and "Look at our City! Look at what we got! Are we cool now?! Please like us!"
@@-OAK- People don't judge cities within their city limit lines anymore. Boston metro area is ranked 11th, Minneapolis is ranked 16th and OKC is all the way down at 42.
