Sometimes a public shaming can be good for less-than-desirable land uses. Case in point: designers mobilizing to remodel a notorious parking crater in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Jarrel Wade reports on the details of a proposed a makeover for the notorious parking crater located in Tulsa's cathedral district. The surface parking lot was the "winner" of 2013's Golden Crater award from Streetsblog USA, in a vote that was described as a landslide.
"The designers, a group of local architects and design consultants, are presenting their designs for a multisport field and facility Wednesday to the Downtown Coordinating Council." The design actually adds parking capacity, but underneath the multi-sport field designed by Jones Design Studio. The design was originally proposed as a submittal to the 2014 Tulsa Young Professionals Street CReD contest, which "called for conceptual designs to replace surface parking." After winning that competition, the design is seeking more institutional audiences.
According to the article, the south side of Downtown Tulsa has been "the focus of planners for years, hoping that someone would marry parking with business space on the same land mass. The area between Eighth and 12th streets from Boulder to Detroit avenues is filled with parking lots."
FULL STORY: Designers pitch multisport project to reverse Tulsa's infamous downtown 'parking crater'
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