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30 Years Later: The Oklahoma City National Memorial
Reflections from Hans & Torrey Butzer on the design and inspiration for the Memorial ...
April 24, 2025
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the tragic bombing in downtown Oklahoma City finds the city itself experiencing nothing short of an amazing urban renaissance, after having pivoted from a suburban focus to a vibrant celebration of its central business district.
During the 2028 Summer Olympic Games, the world will see how far Oklahoma City has come when it hosts canoe slalom at downtown’s Riversport Rapids and softball at Devon Park in the city’s northeast.
The world will also see a spate of new downtown development. A new $900 million arena is scheduled for completion in 2028, and this major tract of undeveloped downtown land is now planned as a 60-acre, mixed-use entertainment and sports development featuring a multipurpose stadium for the city’s professional soccer franchise.
Urban Land spoke to several people about the instrumental roles they played in helping Oklahoma City rebuild over the past three decades and the importance of the public/private partnership in that process.
You can read Ben Johnson’s piece, 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐡 𝐀𝐦𝐢𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝𝐲: 𝐎𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 2028 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 on Urban Land Online — https://shorturl.at/lcSTi

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