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Ward 6 Councilwoman Meg Salyer talks with developer Gary Brooks about his development "The Edge at Midtown."
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Hello,
I'm,
Meg,
Salyer
and
I'd
like
to
welcome
you
to
the
ward
6
council
show
with
me
today
is
developer.
Gary
Brooks,
who
celebrated
a
ribbon
cutting
this
week
for
an
incredibly
exciting
downtown
project,
called
the
edge
and
Gary
we're
going
to
be
building
a
number
of
apartment
units
at
the
corner
of
thirteenth
and
Walker,
basically,
between
12
and
13,
Walker
and
Dewey
right.
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B
A
A
B
I
hi
I
joked
early
on
that
I
could
do
I've
done
two
thousand
units
and
the
suburbs,
and
nobody
really
pays
much
attention
unless
you're
a
neighbor
right
next
door,
but
the
minute
I
stepped
down
town.
There
were
an
awful
lot
of
people
that
wanted
to
know
what
I
was
doing
and
why
and
what
it
was
going
to
look
like
at
office
downtown
for
many
years
with
Mark
befort
and
our
companies.
We
moved
out
of
downtown
about
2003
and
I
guess
it
was
Chuck.
Wigan
had
the
property
under
contract
for
a
number
years.
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A
Identify
for
our
viewers,
you
and
I
know
exactly
what
we're
talking
about,
but
just
to
make
sure
people
are
aware
of
location,
we're
talking
about
the
old
mercy,
hospital
site,
really
they're
at
thirteenth
and
Walker
and
when
mercy
relocated.
Many
many
many
years
ago
up
north
the
hospital
property
was
abandoned.
It
was
ultimately
acquired
by
the
city
by
urban
renewal.
It
had
some
serious
asbestos
problems.
It
was
a
very
difficult
project
to
think
about
redeveloping
with
the
building
in
place.
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So
ultimately
the
building
was
demolished
and
the
site
available,
and
probably
over
the
last
10
years,
we've
had
a
couple
of
developers
make
proposals.
But,
as
you
said,
the
recession
came
at
it
at
an
inopportune
time
and
a
project
that
had
been
selected
by
urban
renewal
was
never
completed,
and
so
the
project
went
back
out,
which
is
when
you
decided
to
get
involved.
All.
B
B
B
Finally
listened
to
him
after
much
prodding
and
came
downtown
and
had
flashbacks
in
the
80s
when
he
was
take
my
wife
to
kaisers,
to
have
mint
chocolate
chip,
ice
cream
and
didn't
take
me
long
to
grasp
the
vision
of
the
city
and
Bob
hired
Mickey,
Klag
and
Chris
Fleming.
What
they're
doing
in
Midtown
it's
just
spectacular
and
within
about
an
hour
I
knew.
This
was
something
that
I
would
needed
to
chase
really
hard
great.
B
We
we
have
250
units,
it's
really
nothing
magical
about
the
number
when
you
start
with
the
site
and
the
restrictions
of
the
side
and
height
and
all
the
things
that
that
kind
of
determine
how
big
a
box
you
can
build,
and
we
ended
up
with
right
at
250
units,
which
is
a
great
number
four
for
us
to
manage,
and
we
felt
like
it
was
a
really
good
number
of
units
to
bring
into
the
marketplace
at
any
one
time.
Wasn't
too
many
wasn't
too
few
for
us
to
operate.
So
why.
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Have
a
hundred
and
fifty
nine
one
bedrooms,
okay
624
up
to,
I
think,
757
square
feet.
We've
got
81
two-bedroom
two-bath
units,
so
our
mix
is
heavy
on
the
one
beds,
which
is
typically
what
we
find
in
an
urban
setting
more.
So
we
might
have
a
stronger
mix
of
tues
versus
ones
in
the
suburbs
but
downtown.
We
know
that
that's
a
better,
a
better
mix
sizes
range
from
963
up
to
actually
about
1611
square
feet
on
the
two
beds.
B
B
Waffles
that
one
got
me
excited,
I,
love
them
all,
but
the
excitement
of
the
area
and
you
need
every
type
of
product
you
need
small
in
phils.
You
need
larger
product,
you
need
rehabs,
you
know
the
market
needs
a
lot
of
different
options
and
choices
and
I
think
that's
what
midtown
is
offering
that
maybe
we're
not
even
seeing
in
some
of
the
other
areas
what
the
housing
is
really
expanding
in
all
the
zones.
As
you
would
know,
it.
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Is
you
don't
you
so
Carrie
I
know
that
you
worked
really
closely
with
the
surrounding
neighborhoods,
and
this
is
an
interesting
project
and
inch
location,
because
you
are
bounded
on
more
than
one
side
by
very
significant
historic
neighborhoods
talk
a
little
bit
about
you
know
your
conversations
about
the
exterior
and
and
what
you
had
to
do
and
agreed
to
do
to
make
this
project
fit
into
the
neighborhood.
Well,.
B
Obviously,
we
needed
to
be
very
sensitive
to
the
surrounding
neighbors,
particularly
heritage
hills,
I'm,
not
sure
if,
if
there
would
be
another
site
anywhere
in
the
city,
that
would
have
this
significant
of
surrounding
a
historical
surrounding
neighborhood.
We
also
knew
that
our
renewal
was
going
to
be
very
concerned
about
it
from
the
original
proposal.
It
referenced
the
style
and
the
character
and
the
surrounding
neighborhood
many
many
times
throughout
the
RFP.
So
we
sat
down
and
we
really
began
to
diagnose
an
RFP.
B
Those
words
aren't
in
there
at
four
random
they're
in
there
for
a
reason,
and
so
we
began
having
just
some
dialogue
with
the
neighbors.
I
was
probably
a
little
naive,
I
think
the
first
meeting
there
were
about
a
hundred
harrods
Hills
neighbors
there
and
my
Styles
to
be
pretty
transparent,
which
sometimes
can
get
me
in
trouble,
but
always
like
people
to
know
what
I'm
thinking
and
if
I
asked.
B
If
they
ask
me
a
question,
the
same
question,
six
months
later,
going
to
get
the
same
answers
so
I'm
not
sure
if
I
may
have
created
even
more
conversation
after
that
first
meeting.
But
you
know:
I
want
to
be
sensitive
to
I'm,
a
neighbor
right
and
I'm,
a
significant
neighbor,
so
I
respected
their
opinions,
didn't
always
agree
with
them,
but
everybody's
going
to
bring
their
life
their
life
experience
right
to
a
situation
and.
A
We
certainly
know
that
heritage
hills
is
another
one
of
those
neighborhoods
that,
with
its
designation,
is
an
HP
neighborhood
a
number
of
years
ago
those
properties
have
been
lovingly
and
beautifully
restored,
and
so
much
of
Oklahoma
City's
early
history
from
the
Overholser
mansion
there
on
fifteenth
Street
to
you
know
you
can
just
go
down.
Those
block
see
how
much
history
is
here.
So
I
think
there
was
a
lot
of
good
give-and-take
about
what
that
all
meant-
and
this
is
a
slightly
different
product
for
the
urban
part
of
downtown.
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B
A
You
for
doing
that
and
I
one
of
the
other
things
I
think
it's
just
important
to
maybe
get
to
wrap
up
with
his
parking
is
always
an
issue
downtown
and
I.
Think
we've
spent
some
time
together
talking
about
parking
issues.
I
was
visiting
with
some
downtown
property
owners
yesterday
about
the
issues
you've
addressed
that
in
a
significant
way
for
this
project.
Maybe
you
could
just
share
with
us
a
little
bit
about
the
parking
well.
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B
B
Today,
I
don't
have
that
option,
so
we
have
to
build
large
parking
garages.
We've
done
our
best
to
hide
it
and
make
sure
that
it's,
it's
really
not
visible
from
the
exterior
first
thing
we
did
was
meet
with
the
church
in
the
school
next
door
to
try
to
figure
out
what
are
some
of
the
parking
issues,
and
so
when
we
develop
the
site,
we
actually
have
some
first
level
parking
spaces
that
are
open
to
the
public
that
we
expect
to
be
used
by
the
retailers
around
there.
B
A
You
know,
as
you
said,
a
great
mix
of
units
you're
going
to
amenities,
I
got
dog
park
and
some
fun
things
on
site,
and
you
know
I
believe
this
is
a
project
that
will
really
do
nothing
but
contribute
to
the
continued
vitality
and
that
the
growth
and
choices
available
to
people
as
they
begin
to
think
about
moving
back
down
into
the
inner
city.
So
I.