MAPS convention center plans discussed
The largest piece of the MAPS 3 plan has drawn the largest number of questions from voters.
Mayor Mick Cornett and Roy Williams, president of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, have spent lots of time addressing those questions, which range from the convention center’s possible location to why a new convention center is even needed given that the Cox Convention Center was renovated in 1999 as part of the original MAPS plan.
Location, location
A chamber study came up with four possible locations for the convention center.
Early renderings showing the proposed downtown park include the convention center on the park’s east side, south of the Ford Center.
Jim Cowan, executive director of the Bricktown Association, said although the group supports MAPS 3, some merchants are concerned about putting the convention center next to the park, because it would actually be farther away from Bricktown than a possible location south of Bricktown at the Producer’s Co-op, a cotton mill that went up for sale last year.
"We’re pro-MAPS,” Cowan said. "We just want to make sure that convention center is carefully and closely studied.”
Supporters of the location east of the park point to Houston. Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center is next to Discovery Green Park, which is similar in concept to the MAPS 3 park.
John Klumb, spokesman for the convention center in Houston, said selling the convention center to meeting planners became much easier when the park opened last year.
A third possible location for Oklahoma City’s convention center is a lumber yard next to the cotton mill, and the fourth is on the north side of Bricktown.
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