Relocation of OG&E Substation at 10th and I-235
OG&E (OKC's gas & electric utility company) currently has a substation along NW 10th near I-235.
They are planning to move it about a hundred yards (or less) north.
Borrowing a recent pic, here's what is going to happen.
original:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/c...ary022220a.jpg
source:
https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=29284&page=13
Why bother?
I'm not sure of all the in and outs on this topic, but I believe it's a combination of wanting to get
out of the way of new development along 10th street and the need to upgrade the substation itself.
They managed to make an arrangement with Neighbors Holding LLC, who owned nearby property to make a land swap.
Here's an aerial showing the lot ownership prior to the swap:
https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=44788
The land swap was years in the making.
An email from 2015 shows some details of the arrangement between the city and Neighbors.
https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=44788
Afterwards, the new ownership looks like this:
https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=44788
(in that older photo, the Contemporary Arts Center is still in early construction with the yellow siding)
The relocation of the substation has not started yet.
Once it is thoroughly removed from the old site, Neighbors is free to redevelop it.
There has been no word on what they might put there.
Of course, I've known about this for awhile.
The reason I posted today is that the new shot of the Arts Center (marked with an double arrow above) appears to show the future substation site about ready to go.
It has been scraped down and leveled and has various pieces of equipment and machinery sitting on the west end.
Makes me think that action may be finally about to occur on this.
Or maybe not -- we'll see.
While I was contemplating this, I thought about putting together a compilation of the various developments going on this area.
There's a lot of activity!
Here a photo that I've labeled with the various ongoing projects.
This is an older aerial from January 2019 (a little over a year ago), but it shows good coverage of the area.
Even still, I didn't manage to get them all in.
The Hub - a new 6 story mixed use development - will be built adjacent to the old Dolese site, but the location is slightly out of view in that photo.
https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=44788