But Tulsa’s Gathering Place has been open for just about a year now the award-winning 66 acre park has visited daily by thousands of locals and tourists now Oklahoma City has cut the ribbon on its own urban oasis Rory Taylor reports on phase one of scissortail park it’s
Awesome people have begun to enjoy scissortail Park in downtown Oklahoma City it’s the first phase of a 130 million dollar Maps project the park features a four acre lake 10,000 feet of sidewalks for walking biking and skating a large promenade for food trucks and of
Course a playground to keep the kids busy we have a really neat playground area for children all kinds of neat activities there’s a little water feature in there there’s all kinds of unique interactive things that they can with sand or just things for them to do unique kind of
Play equipment the slide it’s a two-story climb to the top it’s not just stairs and ladders you there’s a like rock climbing on the inside of the tower to get to the top the concert area is called the Great Lawn six acres capable of holding 30,000 people we’re gonna expect to
See lots of concerts from small maybe jazz or blues type of events to large-scale concerts up to 50 of them a year beginning with the Kings of Leon who headlined the grand opening weekend we exceeded our expectations of the number of people we were gonna have official count coming
Through the gate we’re 28,000 people for the Kings of Leon concert for Friday night alone new features will be added as more of the part is developed so we’re starting to rent our pedal boats the dog park leash cutting is this weekend we’re gonna do that at two o’clock
On Saturday from 9:00 to 1:00 on Saturday we’re also gonna have our first-ever we’re excited farmers market 36 acres is open to the public now with phase 2 on the way phase 2 is 34 acres that will be south of i-40 the the Suja Tale bridge will connect the two phase
Two will include athletic fields a nature area a cafe and another entertainment area that will support events like Shakespeare in the Park Rory Taylor the Oklahoma news report
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