Well, it’s an improvement
From December 2004:
I haven’t heard that [Bradford] Commons are going to be Cabrini-Greened out of existence, but at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to see bulldozers heading down 8th Street.
A year and a half later, the bulldozers had been there, and yes, they’d done that. Now there’s a new use for the land:
The Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority today approved conceptual plans for an eight-story, 196-room Embassy Suites to be built in the Oklahoma Health Center.
The proposed site at NE 8 and Phillips Avenue was home to a Section 8 complex until a few years ago.
It will boast multiple water features throughout its four-story indoor atrium. The facility will also include a 16,000-square-foot multi-function banquet area, an on-site restaurant to seat 133 patrons, a market deli restaurant, a business center, a 627-square-foot exercise facility and a concierge lounge on its 8th floor. Temporary parking will be available to the south of the project until future development of a 316-space parking garage is developed.
And suites make sense for a hotel near a hospital complex, right?
No start date has been announced.
