Does anyone know what the plans are for the lots directly behind CHOS at 1511/1515 S Rockford Ave? The house at 1511 was bulldozed and the lot was sold to "FUNDUS PRAEDIUM LLC" in June, 2015. Group M Investments (Redid Campbell Hotel & 11th St Lofts) sold 1515 S Rockford to Fundus Praedium in January 2015 "C/O Thomas Schadle" (The CFO for the Catholic Diocese in Tulsa). Fundus Praedium purchased the adjacent lot 1519 S Rockford on May 2015 from the Sheriff's Auction.
Streetview:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Coffee+House/@36.1401889,-95.9719708,3a,75y,94.88h,70.55t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sjqgyNyQBifhqdWhrraH7ZA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DjqgyNyQBifhqdWhrraH7ZA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D53.398117%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x87b6ec97422b33c1:0x8a44b6e1ecdee326!6m1!1e1My guess would be parking lots unfortunately. They don't have a lot of parking to begin with. There is current construction in the school lot so maybe this is part of some expansion plans. Regardless, it looks like they have plans for those lots. I would hope they at least have plans to add some sort of building, but based on the fact that parking along that street is always congested and over time you can recognize the same employee cars of the school park there (in such a way that no one else can park between driveways), I'm guessing that is a big issue for them.
Along with the news that the new Cherry St LLC development will turn 7 lots into parking, this seems to be a trend now. Yes, parking is tougher around there than other parts of Tulsa, but buldozing buildings to make way for parking is the same thing that happened in downtown in the 90's and created the eye sore which was crowned "Parking Crater" of the US. Do we want Cherry St to become the new parking crater? Rather than a bustling densely-populated unique urban collective in the midst of a neighborhood, it is becoming another auto-centric development full of chain stores and giant lots of asphalt. Maybe a real urban area in Tulsa is a pipe dream as long as gas and land is so cheap, most people keep moving further out and of course no one will build parking garages or invest in good working public transportation. People already complain about parking downtown even though we have far more parking spaces than people there and you rarely have to walk more than a couple blocks.