City of Oklahoma City Videos, 27 Feb 2014

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From YouTube: Santa Fe Station Open House

Description

A glimpse inside the historic Santa Fe Station and plans for its future as a regional transportation center.

The station and the adjacent street are slated to undergo $28.4 million in renovations, with work expected to begin in 2015. Station improvements will include:
· Restoration and renovation of the station
· Improvements to the boarding platforms, ticketing and baggage area
· Streetscape enhancements on E.K. Gaylord from Reno to Main
· Pedestrian access to Bricktown

Funding for the renovation will come from the following sources:
· MAPS 3 - $9.75 million
· Project 180 - $1.58 million
· TIGER Grant - $13.59 million
· ODOT funds - $1.5 million
· ACOG funds - $2 million

Santa Fe Station is home to AMTRAK's Heartland Flyer, which provides daily service between Oklahoma City and Ft. Worth.

The station was built for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1934. The building is located in the heart of downtown Oklahoma City, 100 South E.K. Gaylord. The station's architecture and interior epitomize the Art Deco era with carved and painted geometric designs, period chandeliers and aluminum canopies, door and window frames.

A

Been wanting to do that ever since I got that as a gift, I thought this was an appropriate place to try it out. So obviously, I need to practice some more welcome to historic, Santa, Fe Station. My name is Rick cane and I'm privileged to act as emcee for this day's entertainment or excitement. You know as someone who has officed in a historic railroad property for the last 20 years. To me, this is really a special day, as we gather here to kind of kick off, injecting new life into this facility.

B

Isn't it a magnificent building and I think one of this generations most proud achievements is the fact that we are able to restore historic buildings like this over and over again due to the Renaissance that's occurring in Oklahoma, City I think we should be very proud of, what's being created here in the 28 million dollars that will go into the restoration of this building is coming from a variety of sources. There will be local money, there will be state money.

B

Of course there will be federal money through a tiger grant, there's also a legion of community oversight. We have the ACOG is very much involved.

B

We have our transit steering committees, we have our Maps three oversight board and, of course we have our steering committee for four Maps three as well, and so there's gonna be a lot of time for input here in the next few years, but I think we can all look forward to the day that this building is back to its former glory and, at the same time, the maps three streetcar goes forward and starts to serve people in downtown Oklahoma City.

B

C

Is a great day, as mayor said, what I want an accomplishment to bring together partners of this level to facilitate the renovation of this great building? Let me take you back just a little bit: let let's let the old man take you back for just a little bit more than 50 years ago. I walked through that door right. There, I walked through that door, and this was the biggest most beautiful. Building. I didn't been up to that point. You know it was just one story: houses, doctors offices, but this was like a cathedral for me.

C

We often came here to either pick up our relatives coming from Chicago or Gainesville or on those blessed days when I would get to get on the train and go to Chicago or Gainesville. At that time there were four trains a day, the Lone Star and the Texas cheap. They were, and so this was a Meyer said. It was a bustling little community in here, with ticket sales going on people waiting for their train ride over time. What we lost, we lost the Texas chief in 1971 and then in 1979.

C

We lost the long story, but 20 years later, through the efforts of many partners like the city of Oklahoma City, we were ODOT was able to secure the Heartland Flyer and get Amtrak to come to Oklahoma, City and run to Fort Worth and all the stops in between I look.

D

Forward to a day, we take the train from Tulsa to Fort Worth, via this very Depot, or to a time when a manufacturing plant might consider locating in a rural Oklahoma community because of the quality and the variety of its transportation infrastructure options. I look forward to a future that connects us all to a path to prosperity and I. Thank all of you for coming today to take part in this very historic event. Thank you. So much for being here.

E

We're standing here today in the building that was identified through quite an extensive study as a place where this hub can best be situated for the betterment of the Oklahoma City metro area. The transit options include commuter rail, streetcar, bus, rapid transit bus and the final determinations of some of those things are yet to come, and all of the local communities will have input into that discussion.

E

But we do stand here today in the center of the first ever regional effort to better serve our citizens and connect them together. I think this is a huge undertaking.

E

We I think that it gives us the opportunity to do as a community. What none of us could do alone. I think you have only to look from wherever you are in the metro area to downtown Oklahoma, City and you'll realize we are not alone. The Renaissance that has started and continued in Oklahoma City is proof that we aren't standing alone and that we can move forward together so again, a historic moment that we're all here recognizing this today. This.

B

Needs to be a Transit Center, going forward for the 21st century, and so try to open your eyes, open your minds and open the ideas of how we can make this the centerpiece of public transit going forward. This is a very important day in that step and I hope. You'll acknowledge, as we do one more time that the people, the work of all the people that have gotten this here and, at the same time, acknowledge yourself. This is a historic day for Oklahoma City. Thank you all.

B