Monday, October 9th 2017, 6:50 pm
A plan to make Bricktown more accessible from the new Oklahoma City Boulevard has hit a road block.
City officials want to acquire the parking lot behind the U-Haul store to make Oklahoma Avenue a straight shot to Reno from OKC Boulevard.
Recently, OKC completed work to allow drivers to go around the U-Haul parking lot and into the Harkin’s Theater parking lot. It originally hoped U-Haul could use the parking lot to the west of the store and retro-fit its building by changing the store entrance to the westside as well.
The City says it negotiated with U-Haul for two years.
“Unfortunately we have been unable to reach a settlement, so we are proceeding with condemnation,” says OKC Dir. of Public Works Eric Wenger.
In a letter sent to Public Works today, U-Haul’s District VP Brett Hogan says "construction for what the city is asking will approach five million dollars. In response, the city offered us just over one million."
Meantime, U-Haul is gathering signatures on Change-dot-Org.
The city says the eminent domain process will last several months.
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