Downtown Living Tour - Part 4
By Brad on May 9, 2008 in Cool Stuff, Family, Our Town | comments(4)
Our last stop on this tour (which was actually our very first stop that morning) is the Park Harvey apartments. I think these apartments capture the essence of downtown living, with tall buildings surrounding it and stunning views (from the higher-up floors) of Oklahoma City.
As you might expect from most downtown homes, space is at a premium, so these are not the most spacious homes (or the most economical). However, I thought the Park Harvey apartments did a decent job maximizing space and making it feel more roomy than the floor plan might suggest. On the down side, if you lease or buy one of these apartments, you’ll pay as much for 1000 square feet here as you might for a house more than twice its size somewhere outside of the downtown area.
Like The Legacy at Arts Quarter, you’re paying a premium for convenience — of course, that assumes living downtown would be convenient for you. For me, it would be very convenient because I work downtown and I could easily spend all my time downtown. If I lived in Park Harvey, I literally would just walk next door to get to my office building. You can’t get any closer than that without actually living within the same building you work in!
And, like the other urban housing places, you are also paying a premium for the novelty of downtown living. For some people it’s not worth it, but for others it certainly is. I, for one, like the convenience and the novelty of living downtown. I just can’t do it right now. 
Although the Park Harvey apartments didn’t rank as my first or second pick, it really would be a toss-up between Park Harvey and the Block 42 townhouse for my third overall pick. The building is dated because it was originally built in the 50s (see more details at the end of this post), but the developers have done a nice job of renovating the space and giving an updated look. The apartments themselves are quite nice, with modern fixtures, appliances and decor.
This one bedroom apartment that we looked was roomy enough for a bachelor or even a couple that didn’t mind smaller space. The views from this particular unit were pretty cool, although its south- and west-face windows are likely to make this room quite warm during the Oklahoma summer afternoons and evenings. But the morning, late evening and nighttime scenery would be quite awesome. Continued
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