This will definitely make New York City want to take that title back for tallest in the US

Bro that tower will be visible from Texas

I think this skyscraper is great. I hope there will be more development in the downtown area and the city can have a beautiful skyline

Downtown OKC has never been hit by a tornado. Not sure why everybody thinks tornados would be a problem. I guess they have never heard of Engineering…

It's a huge red flag for me when a project like this puts the crown jewel in phase 2 (or 3). Financing can dry up, the make up of the city council and local governments can change, inflation could continue to worsen, along with the price of materials and labor, or a myriad other issues.

The view of the wheat field and cattle ranch across the street will really attract the high end condo buyers😂

I feel like this building does not fit in OKC

lmao this tower is gonna look goofy in the middle of oklahoma 💀

This building will have an observation deck and restaurant on the top two floors for the public to enjoy. The pandemic shows you why this will be a residential and hotel skyscraper rather than an office one.

In reality the developer only wants the 3 smaller towers. They are using the hype around the “Tallest tower” to get it approved then will cancel once the others are done.

No, it hasn't been approved. All that happened was that the Oklahoma City Planning Commission recommended that the city council approve the developer's re-zoning request, and that must first be approved by the city council before anything else is approved. And that's not a slam dunk! And even if the city council approves the re-zoning, the developer still must have the site plan approved by the planning commission, and that also isn't a slam dunk! And if a site plan is approved, it, too, must be approved by the city council. This has a long ways to go.

Oklahoma City has skyscrapers? I never even knew.

The most random location ever

The lights they denied are the giant led advertising screens that they were wanting to put in the tower, they don’t have renderings with it, but they have drawings where they had giant build board screens going up the building

Conservatives should be happy OKC is becoming America's next major city. Hopefully they invest more so it won't look like a backwater town anymore.

DG you didn’t see the rendering of legends tower with humungous LED billboard screens taking up the entire span of each side? Believe that is what the commission is declining

The developers are likely counting on this city becoming the next Austin or San Antonio. Those cities were very similar not that long ago and became the beneficiaries of businesses and people tired of places like California and New York. I think it's a build it and they will come thus the glitzy look.

Much respect to OKC if this breaks ground. Seems like OKC city government has the same energy as our city council here in San Antonio. Too stuck in the past and progress is always slow as hell

My concern would be a bait & switch move. Where a developer uses a grand plan to get approval to build in a prime location just to switch it up after the fact and not build the big tower at all because that was the plan all along. Not saying this developer would do it, but we've seen examples of this elsewhere. Foxconn fleeced the Wisconsin taxpayers. Amazon played games with HQ2. Infosys pulled a bait & switch style move to get valuable land near the Indianapolis airport with grant plans just to turn around and build a much smaller version of what they had marketed. I don't know if it was intentional or not but it is suspicious. I believe that once the OKC City Council approves the plan, it is game over for roadblocks. The big tower will be officially approved and it is up to the developer to build it or not. I believe they will use the next year or two to secure a high profile tenant to take up most of the space. I think it is very doable to steal an HQ from Seattle where people are getting killed by real estate prices. I think if they can land a high profile tenant, the full 1907 feet will get built. If they cannot, don't be surprised if it ends up at 600-800 feet.

This has elements of Brisbane during the 1980s when on several occasions the "World's Tallest" was proposed by various developers. Though they didn't go ahead, they set the foundation for a raft of new skyscrapers downtown, that includes 5 towers over 70 stories with several more proposed. Brisbane's tallest tower now sits at 96 stories, which has led to changes in how people view the city with Brisbane to host the 2032 Olympics. A memorable, impressive skyline helps to attract business, investment and highly motivated people, which can be seen in Brisbane's phenomenal growth in importance since it's "Big country town" days. I think this is just the beginning for OKC as you will find America and the wider global community shifting attention to this city.

It’s an abomination, like who are going to be the tenants.

there’s no need for that tall of a skyscraper in OKC….land is so cheap

This is great!

Who knows, maybe it will inspire development of the surrounding area, but right now it looks completely out of place

Given the utter decimation and devaluation of commercial office space in downtown areas across the country and with half the professional workforce working from home now why on earth would anyone build this. It will be mostly empty.

Normally, money always wins out. So, the bets should be for the tower to be built. However, whether or not it gets constructed, it is going to plant the seed to build other skyscrapers outside the major metro areas.

Great video but the tallest building slide is inaccurate in scale. One WTC uses the 450ft spiral antenna to get to 1776 ft, but the roof of WTC is only around 1350 feet, about 100ft shorter the Willis Tower's roof. OKC already looks very lopsided with their one tall 800ft building, so there is no telling how out of whack this monster will make the city look if ever built to that height, which I still doubt.

With the new arena and new stadium.. it’ll fit right in.

People worried about the possibility of a tornado making a direct hit on OKC need to calm down. Florida has endured so much from some of the strongest and most destructive hurricanes, and yet that hasn’t stopped them from getting up and moving on. I hope this tower get built.

There's demand in okc. 40k people move in every year in okc metro going on 13 years straight

There is no way any lender will finance a giant building in a relatively small office market, especially given the covid-related problems office buildings around the country have suffered. It has been widely reported that "funding has been secured" but never a mention of who the lenders might be.

I’ll believe it when i see it…

The lights are tacky for OKC? Do they not understand that OKC could use the growth and have a Times Square of its own.

Can someone explain why the spire counts towards a buildings height? If I wear a hat with a 3’ spike on it does that make me 3’ taller?

Wow. Cant wait to see this massive building if it gets built lmao

Could a skyscraper like this withstand an EF5 tornado?

i dont see this ever getting built to this height.

I'm a native Oklahoman from Tulsa and has family in OKC and I think the towers look great just like the Devon Energy building. The only problem that I have is that they look out of place. You'll have these two huge towers that stand out to the other buildings that are from the 60s and 70s. These towers would look better in cities like NYC or L.A., maybe Houston or Dallas.

Yea, but what happen when Mr. Tornado comes rambling through.???

Let's see what a F5 tornado feels like in that tower!

I suspect if the Legends Tower is not in the first phase, it's never going to get built. I like the look of it, though.

Because that oilfield money is going to build us our middle finger to everyone else 😂

The image used for the thumbnail is extremely inaccurate. Willis tower has the highest roof at 1,400 something feet. Its antennas are taller than One World Trade Center.

Where does the cattle auction go

If Legends Tower gets built and it's really going to be 134 floors it will beat the 131 floor Central Park Tower in Manhattan.

I'm not sure how this would work. Most people who live out in the country like their space. If you want high density and are okay with the cons as well as pros that come with it then go there, like NYC. Imposing a dense skyscraper in the open is counterintuitive.

That's it, make the Freedom Tower just tall enough to beat it.

You’ll be able to see that from Ardmore.

The reason for going up to 1907 feet high is to honor the year that Oklahoma became a state, 1907. This isn’t some kind of competition to see who can build the highest, but OKC will have the tallest!

Would be cool I think the final product isnt even close to the renderings. Maybe just the first phase then done. We shall see.

So nice, i want one of this in my city bogota xd

I live out here and I'm still doubtful of it.

So, it's actually happening. I had my doubts on this. 😂

To tall for OKC. It should be built in Dallas or Houston or Atlanta.

I don't understand, just make it 2000 ft, American developers always think so small...

where they gonna park

I think it looks really cool. Kind of random location though.

i think if it gets built it could become a new york style town attracting more investment and possible other towers being built there in the future' taxes arnt nearly as high in oklahome as new york either

Why would they build this in OK ?

People are relocating everywhere due to the cost of living crisis. We have several neighbors from California, Washington and Texas.

0:28. This figure is a completely inaccurate representation of building heights in the US. For starters, the roof height of the One World Trade Center is roughly 1300 feet, shorter than the roof height of the Sears Tower. If the antenna’s on the Sears Tower were included in its height it would only be 30 feet shorter than the One World Trade Center. This figure is treating the sears tower as if the antennas are at 1450 feet, not the roof height.

I have news for all of you, skyscrapers are outdated for USA anyways it’s extremely old school for us. Many people in Chicago and New York City don’t like skyscrapers on many reasons. And no F’ING cities are worth living in any ways. A lot of these so call skyscrapers are also empty the leasing rates are so over value. These companies are here today gone tomorrow simple as that. And yes, OKC metro does have activities of tornadoes and tremors activity just matter of time.

tornado's are going to have fun with that.

Thumbs up!

1,3 billion for the complete project seems very cheap. May be for the main tower yes

Just when you think you've seen it all

I wouldn’t be surprised if the NIMBYs don’t fall over themselves to prevent this from being built.

One World Trade center is not the tallest building in America. It only has 94 floors. The tallest apartment in Manhattan is on the 131st floor and is selling for a whopping 250 million dollars. The spire on the World Trade Center is basically a giant lightning rod. If we are just counting usable floor space then the spire doesn't count.

The beginning of the supertalls boom for America i guess.

What in the world for? OK has a smaller state population than Alabama and that tower will remain2/3’s empty.

Oklahoma City? why not Chicago that' s where the skyscraper was born.

Sears Tower is 1,729 feet.

WHY?

Careful it could come with bigger population.

The tallest building to get destroyed by a tornado 😮

Brilliant idea in a state known for TORNADOES. Mindless bragging rights is what this comes down to.

They maybe looking at economics. OKC is much cheaper to build and way cheaper to live compared to large cities. Quality of life is much better. I’ve been and lived on both coast almost twice as expensive.

That model of how all the skyscrapers stack up against each other's completely wrong, the Sears Tower is not that short, as a matter of fact this Sears Tower is taller than the One World Trade Center from roof height, I'm just saying let's get a more accurate representation of skyscrapers.

If OKC doesn't want it Chicago will except it

Feasibility is suspect and as a local, i would rather see a couple of 40 to 50 story towers, complimenting the Devon tower instead of diminishing it. The entertaining thing about the situation is how it seems to stick in the craw of some costal and mega city snobs, who's attitude seems to be "damned uppity hick town, who do they think they are?" They could better concern themselves with local decay rather than fret over a symbol of "flyover country" ascension.

Go Oklahoma City maybe they will get a NFL team one day. I WILL ROOT FOR THEM.

Shabang 🎉

the graphic at 0:19 is not even close to accurate

Why wont they just make that tower 2 in nyc,lol....OKc too close to new madrid fault...

The build-ugly-wind-turbines-everywhere and to hell with scenery or aesthetics crowd may love this tower.

I OKC is ok. I know someone from college who lives there now. I hate him, Because he's a jerk, but it's not the city's fault.

Tall buildings are always so plain and ugly

the chart at 0:18 is horribly inaccurate

Molaría si lo hicieran pero mejor en ny

I think it should have a much cooler name tho for such a tower...like 'The Legends'.....just don't use the word 'tower'.

OKLAHOMO CITY…what the duce…?

Never going to be built in one of the poorest states in the country. Wouldn’t even look good there anyway, they already have 1 building that looks weird and looks like it doesn’t belong

OKC isnt even in the top 30 US metrod in population. Trying way too hard. Like a nerd desperately trying be one of the cool people. Dubai levels of gaudy-ness and "Look at our City! Look at what we got! Are we cool now?! Please like us!"

Show the heights in.meters as well as feet.

Doesn't make any sense to build something like that in the middle of nowhere (Oklahoma City).

Ugly & random, also, didn't a building in okc get bombed in 1995?

This makes me think OKC is an insecure place. It’s like buying a huge lifted truck to feel taller.

Tornadoes 🌪

Geez, too many flashing lights, really? Have you seen literally every city in China, where like a hundred buildings are all connected together in one system? 😂😂😂

This is sad. The World Trade Center should remain the tallest...