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This development is in a big empty field to the north of Quail Springs Mall in NW OKC, along the booming Kilpatrick Turnpike Corridor. This area is seeing a lot of Class A office developments and million dollar suburban homes, but developer Larry Owsley wants to bring the urban lifestyle to this suburban mecca.
So he's taking a 250 acre field and building this Italian-themed lifestyle center. More than 2,000 residential units (lofts, zero-lot line townhomes, condos, etc) and millions of square feet of office and retail properties, in addition to stage/performance areas, an IMAX theater, parks, and a large conference hotel. Owsley wants to include lots of service retail like cleaners and grocers (Whole Foods or HEB) so that residents will theoretically never have to leave- in other words, he's trying to create a true urban neighborhood in the middle of sprawl central.
Currently, the street to the north of the development is being widened, and dirt work is progressing on the whole interior of the site. The IMAX is scheduled to open by spring 2009.
So he's taking a 250 acre field and building this Italian-themed lifestyle center. More than 2,000 residential units (lofts, zero-lot line townhomes, condos, etc) and millions of square feet of office and retail properties, in addition to stage/performance areas, an IMAX theater, parks, and a large conference hotel. Owsley wants to include lots of service retail like cleaners and grocers (Whole Foods or HEB) so that residents will theoretically never have to leave- in other words, he's trying to create a true urban neighborhood in the middle of sprawl central.
Currently, the street to the north of the development is being widened, and dirt work is progressing on the whole interior of the site. The IMAX is scheduled to open by spring 2009.



