U-Haul Balks At OKC Offer For Bricktown Parking Lot

<p>U-Haul&rsquo;s area vice president is speaking out about a battle with Oklahoma City over the company&rsquo;s Bricktown parking lot.</p>

Tuesday, October 10th 2017, 6:55 pm

By: Karl Torp


U-Haul’s area vice president is speaking out about a battle with Oklahoma City over the company’s Bricktown parking lot.

OKC is going through eminent domain proceedings to acquire U-Haul’s parking lot to permanently connect Oklahoma Avenue between OKC Boulevard and Reno Ave.

U-Haul says putting the parking lot on the other side of the building and reconfiguring the building will cost a lot more than what the city is offering. U-Haul claims moving utilities and remodeling the entire first floor of the building will run around $4.8 million.

“We brought contractors in, completed construction drawings and that’s what the bids were based off of,” says U-Haul Area V.P. Brett Hogan.

Hogan says the city has offered $1 million to move the parking lot and reconfigure the inside of the building.

"I'm not for sure that they've really dug into the building and did a really good estimate," says Hogan.

While the eminent domain process goes on, the city has opened a detour to go around the U-Haul parking lot on Oklahoma Avenue.

Karl Torp

Karl Torp anchors our weekend evening newscasts. He couldn't be more excited to call the &quot;Sooner State&quot; home.

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