OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Construction is continuing on a shrine for a beloved Oklahoma priest who was killed in Guatemala.
Blessed Stanley Rother is well-known in the Catholic community for his mission work in Guatemala.
Rother served in Guatemala during the country’s civil war, which was a dangerous time to be a leader of a church. In 1981, he was murdered for his faith.
Read MoreOKLAHOMA CITY – City Care will host its fourth annual signature event, The Odyssey Project, on Thursday, August 12. The evening will include food, drinks, art, music and meaningful conversation benefiting City Care’s work to end cycles of social injustice and extreme poverty in the community. The event will take place from 6 – 8 p.m.
Read MoreFor the first time in its 30-plus year history, the Crystal Bridge Conservatory in Myriad Botanical Gardens will undergo a complete renovation of its interior spaces.
The last day for the public to enter the Crystal Bridge is Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Then it will close to the public until late 2022.
A plant sale for those plants that will not be transferred to the renovated space will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 29. Garden members will have early access from 9 to 10 a.m. To join, go to myriadgardens.org.
Among the many upgrades designed to enhance visitor experience are new path layouts, educational exhibits, improved ADA accessibility and a new gift shop.
Read MoreThe OU Board of Regents passed agenda items Friday approving a freshman housing master plan to replace the nearly 60-year-old towers and authorizing the transition of all fundraising efforts to the OU Foundation, a private nonprofit entity.
President Joseph Harroz said university administration is “endeavoring on a multi-year plan” to replace Walker, Couch and Adams Towers, which were built in the mid-1960s, with new structures.
According to the agenda, the item authorizes the university administration to negotiate the terms of an agreement and a fee, starting with the highest-ranking firm. Five architecture firms — ADG Inc./Mackey Mitchell Architects; KSQ Architects, P.C./Rand Elliott Architects; Bockus Payne Architects/Ayers Saint Gross; Frankfurt-Short Bruza Associates, P.C./KWK Architects and MA+ Architecture/TreanorHL — are being considered for involvement in the plan, and ADG Inc./Mackey Mitchell Architects has the highest ranking from the board.
Read MoreConstruction is set to start this winter on a $3 million pedestrian bridge that will create a safe passage at Northwest Expressway and Wilshire Boulevard for users of the Oklahoma City Trails.
Read MoreBelle Isle Library renovation begins.
The $5.5 million renovation of the Belle Isle Library, opened in 1963, is expected to be completed by early 2022.
Read MoreVisitors entering the Oklahoma State Capitol will have a grandiose experience as they go into the people’s building, where a $193 million renovation project is more than 75% completed.
The $60 million exterior renovation finished in April.
With 18 months still to go, Project Manager Trait Thompson and his team are on the short stretch to the finish. It would take five legislative sessions to get the restoration done and there are two more sessions to go.
Read MoreConstruction on the future home of BancFirst is looking a little blue these days, but that’s a sign of progress.
The tower’s curtain wall is being replaced all the way to the fourteenth floor. BancFirst will occupy floors 2-14. Once the bank and its operations move in, then the glass replacement will continue for the rest of the building.
Read MoreNorthCare, an organization that provides mental health and substance abuse services, and their architect, ADG, worked together to master plan a new campus on 23 acres along what is being developed as a non-profit corridor near downtown Oklahoma City. NorthCare’s primary goal for the new campus was to consolidate its multiple metro locations into a one-stop solution for consumers’ behavioral health needs.
Read MoreEDMOND — Oklahoma Christian School recently celebrated the groundbreaking of its new 72,000-square-foot elementary building, which is scheduled to open in August 2021.
“This is a major milestone in the history of OCS,” said Al King, headmaster. Last year, Oklahoma Christian School signed an agreement with Life.Church to sell its two, aging elementary buildings, allowing the school to begin a campaign to fund a completely new elementary building on land next to the high school.
Read MoreOKLAHOMA CITY – The Journal Record will honor its 17th class of Achievers Under 40 on Aug. 28 at the Embassy Suites Oklahoma City Downtown/Medical Center at 741 N. Phillips Ave.
The 45 honorees will be recognized at the Achievers Under 40 event set to start at 11:30 a.m. and profiled in a special publication of The Journal Record. Registration and networking will begin at 11 a.m.
Read MoreOKLAHOMA CITY – A project to erect a statue honoring businessman Fred Jones in downtown Oklahoma City is in development.
The sculpture, alongside stainless steel panels highlighting the story of Fred Jones, would be placed right across the street from what was once the Fred Jones Manufacturing Co. plant – now home of the 21c Museum Hotel and office complex. The statue would be placed on the north side of W. Main Street at Fred Jones Avenue, in front of multifamily housing development owned by Fred Jones Ave Partners LLC. Architecture and interiors firm ADG is handling the project.
Read MoreOklahoma City Public Schools’ effort to redesign its system is about to reach a major milestone in the next few days. Analysts are expected to make recommendations on facility updates or closures and the district will hold public comment sessions on those recommendations later this month. The project, Pathway to Greatness, is a collaborative effort intended to disrupt the status quo by redesigning OKCPS for the future. The project will align the district’s resources to provide equitable learning opportunities for all students to achieve the district’s vision of every student graduating ready to fulfill their unique purpose in a healthy, vibrant community.
Read MoreOKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City Public Schools’ effort to redesign its system will take a sizable step forward in the coming weeks.
Analysts are expected to make recommendations on facility updates or closures in January, and the district is expected to hold public comment sessions on those recommendations later in the month.
That project has been named the Pathway to Greatness, and officials expect to use that to, among other things, improve the district’s utilization rate. That is what they call the portion of chairs filled in classrooms. Although the number of students enrolled in public common education across the state has been steadily increasing, the number of students enrolled in Oklahoma City Public Schools has been decreasing. District officials, including new Superintendent Sean McDaniel, said the administration needs to reorganize the district to better manage its resources. That could mean consolidating schools, changing the school district’s boundaries or adjusting the number of grades located within a school.
Read MoreMOORE — The first complete picture of what city officials and residents want for Old Town came into view last week.
The fourth of five meetings for Old Town revitalization was held at The Station on the night of Dec. 6. Though nothing concrete came out of that meeting, the most visible image of Old Town’s potential future came in the form of a new zoning map designed to fix the area’s problems.
“How can we change zoning in Old Town to encourage doing the right thing in a suburban environment?” A.J. Kirkpatrick, from ADG P.C. who has been working as a consultant on the initiative, said.
The zoning changes would bring brand new classifications for housing, commercial and mixed use areas. Kirkpatrick said based on surveys of what residents and property owners preferred, and where in Old Town they were most needed, showed where the lines for retail and residential properties should be.
“I think people really want to build up the Main and Broadway area,” Kirkpatrick said.
Read MoreWhen The Medallion Group was planning its new offices in its Chisholm Creek development, leaders knew they wanted a place where they could visit with clients in an informal setting.
“On that project, they really wanted the break room to be the hub for their space, a place where they could bring their clients, and sit them down in a more informal setting,” said ADG interior designer Jennifer Jones.
Read MoreOKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Archbishop Paul Coakley announced The Boldt Company will serve as construction manager for the building of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine on Monday.
The shrine will be the final resting place for the Okarche, Oklahoma, native.
“It is exciting to take the next step toward building this beautiful shrine in honor of a courageous priest from Oklahoma,” Coakley said in a release. “I would like to thank the members of the Rother building committee for the many hours of work that lead to the important selection of a contractor, and I welcome Boldt as a new partner in this inspiring project."
The shrine will be built on a former golf course at S.E. 89 between Shields Boulevard and Interstate-35.
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