North downtown development project ‘Alley North' in motion after groundbreaking
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A new development intersecting three major areas of downtown Oklahoma City is officially in the works after a groundbreaking Thursday morning.
Everything from retail, restaurants and more is the idea coming to NW 13th Street and Broadway Avenue.
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It was an empty lot for decades according to Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, but it's now the site for the vision you see in the renderings.
'We're going to turn this into something really exciting,' Holt said.
The transformation plans involve about a dozen or so acres on the northern edge of downtown. The development is being dubbed Alley North and a groundbreaking Thursday morning set it in motion.
Officials with the Oklahoma City based real estate developer Pivot said this will be a popular junction connection Automobile Alley, Midtown and the Innovation District.
'Alley North is set to become a mixed-use walkable neighborhood that includes the new Guernsey headquarters, an executive office building, boutique hotel, retail fronting Broadway all centered around a public park,' Candace Baitz with Pivot Real Estate said.
Holt said empty lots have been a blight since downtown areas were demolished in the 1960's and 1970's.
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'I'm just always so happy when I can be a part of a groundbreaking or a ribbon cutting where we turn in one of those empty lots or surface parking lots into something beautiful, something productive for the city,' he said.
Design firm Guernsey will also have their headquarters in a multi-story building there as well. There's two large open patio areas on that building that they want to be open for community use outside of work hours.
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