Breitbart
Plans are in motion to build what would become the tallest skyscraper in the United States — and it is coming to an unlikely city.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has a population of just under 700,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Although it has around a twelfth of the population of New York City, developers are trying to use it to take away the Big Apple’s title as home of the largest building in the country. More
because skyscrapers are the best investment ever!
Isn’t Oklahoma home to some of the most powerful tornados on record?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Oklahoma_tornado_outbreak
This makes perfect sense…
Better make it airplane proof.
If I remember Oklahoma City correctly, you could go to the top of that soon-to-be-built skyscraper and see a view just about as scenic and captivating as what you’d see at ground level.
City planners might want to read about what happened to the arrogant people who tried to reach Heaven by building the Tower of Babel.
Just sayin.
How high can they stack single wides?
The reason NYC has tall buildings is because Manhattan is a small island. By the end of the 19th century the only way to expand was up. For Oklahoma, the only reason for building this very tall skyscraper is bragging rights, giving NYC the finger.
Which, come to think about it, is a really good reason.
It makes absolutely no sense at all. Hopefully no one will finance this stupidity.
Where is that again? Who cares?
Why? That’s like the biggest turd contest.
Suspect a shadow Chinese based developer has their hot dragon breathe all over the incentive to build an unnecessary skyscraper.
Oklahoma is mostly plains and doesn’t have a large population. China again might be marking their bought and paid for territory on US soil.
Sky scrappers, and even Cities are so yester-year. One thing we should have learned from the Wu-Flu scammdemic is that density is not our friend. Tallest buildings are only monuments to hubris. Urban centers are dying faster than drunken sailors on a sinking ship.
Well, it isn’t like someone would bomb a building in Oklahoma City. Wait, what?
why don’t they move some of the empty buildings from nyc there?
Anybody got the Address?
50 Years ago, Springfield, Illinois, built a 30 Story Skyscraper called the
Forum 30….It immediately was dubbed “The Penis of the Prairie”
Yes, let’s build the largest building ever smack dab in tornado alley, what could go wrong?
Give the Okies a break. From the top they’ll be able to wistfully view other, better states.
With commercial real estate (CRE) in a nosedive, why would anyone take such a risk? Go to the middle east, check out those skyscrapers. Most are partially empty with no hope of ever filling up. And someone in Oklahoma is making the same mistake? Why? As long as they’re making the same mistakes as the middle east, be sure to drastically limit parking.
Just what OKC needs a giant phallic symbol. The view from nearly 2000 ft. above the ground would really give them a better view of the backs of their heads. And could Bugs Bunny hit a homerun over it?
Reminds me of Rex’s Erection…
http://www.ohioforgotten.com/exploration/rex/
Just what OKC needs a giant target for Mindless, Murdering Muzlims!
A great TORNADO target!
They should replace those buildings at its base with two of these and also put one on top.
https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/5ab40ccc2ed63a101d561e1b/master/w_1920%2Cc_limit/GettyImages-628193660.jpg
That would be one heck of a bird killer to all the birds who saw their reflection in that shiny dome.
One of the worst days of my life was a late summer day in OKC when the temp AND the humidity was in the 90s.
a mosque or maybe new cair quarters?