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From Architect's Newspaper, a month ago
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Developer Scot Matteson has revealed plans to build a whopping supertall smack dab in the middle of Oklahoma City. If built, Matteson's ambitious Oklahoma City tower would surpass the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower in Lower Manhattan as the country's tallest building.
The skyscraper designed by California architects is mostly residential, fitted with 1,528 units. The current iteration also features restaurants, shops, and a 480-room Hyatt Dream Hotel, alongside 85 condos. Siemens and Thornton Tomasetti are the project engineers.
At the foot of the supertall would be a new $900 million stadium for the Oklahoma City Thunder, a project that was approved by the city council on December 12. The new arena will replace the Cox Convention Center, where the Thunder currently play across the street.
The building area is 3.5 million square feet spread over 4 acres. Renderings also include a 17,000-square-foot lagoon on site, and a 57,000-square-foot podium rooftop crowning the forthcoming basketball arena.
So far, the Oklahoma City Council has approved $200 million in tax-increment financing to support the venture. Under the current deal, the $200 million would be paid after the apartments are completed.
Renderings show 3 towers perched above the new stadium that functions as a podium, encompassing a new mixed-use complex the California real estate developer calls The Boardwalk at Bricktown.
WHY OKC? Matteson said that he sees opportunity in Oklahoma, and that Oklahoma City is particularly attractive thanks to its "low unemployment rate, rising wages, booming construction and growing population."
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The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and the world's tallest structure, with total height of 2,722 ft, or just over half a mile, and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 242.6 m spire) (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world since its topping out in 2009, supplanting Taipei 101, the previous holder of that status.
