Devon will present more ideas to Oklahoma City
BY STEVE LACKMEYER
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Published: November 19, 2008
The Downtown Design Review Committee on Thursday will consider a request by Devon Energy to remove the bridges linking the west and east City Center garages, shown above, and to create a glass curtain facade for an addition to the west garage facing Hudson Avenue. Photo By Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman
More details are emerging this week about the proposed Devon Energy world headquarters as the project is being presented to the Downtown Design Review Committee.
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• An addition to the Colcord Hotel, which Devon Energy bought in August, that could provide meeting space and a fitness center and connection to the tower.
• Removal of bridges connecting the east and west City Center garages. Devon is negotiating to buy the westgarage from the city.
• A west garage addition would extend it west to Hudson Avenue and add a glass curtain facade.
Taller garage planned
Klay Kimker, Devon’s corporate services manager, said the bridges removal is related to the company purchase of the west garage and expansion from five to 10 stories. "From a security standpoint, it’s better off to separate the two garages as we are intending to have only employee parking in the west garage,” Kimker said. John Wood, project officer with Hines, the tower’s developer, said the bridges also would diminish the architectural significance of the rotunda portion of the new complex if they are not removed. With the garage’s west extension, the company proposes a glass curtain facade facing Hudson that will allow for a fitness center between the addition’s second and third parking levels of the addition. Wood said the Colcord Hotel addition is the least developed item. Architects are tasked with linking hotel and tower. They are looking at whether meeting rooms and a fitness center can be included in the addition.Devon Energy’s manager of corporate services
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