Tallest building in U.S. may be built in Oklahoma City

If a developer's plans come to life, the tallest building in the U.S. won't be found in New York City any longer.

[jamesbradford]

A lot of people don't realize it, but if you remove the antenna from 1WTC it's actually not the tallest building in America at all

[TheBigBrassGuy]

I've lived in Oklahoma all my life. It would definitely have to be built particularly strong to withstand out weather conditions, but I would absolutely love to see this happen, for something so notable to finally be in Oklahoma. People give my state way too much flak I think

[Nacho_Notseta]

Let’s have more skyscrapers in different cities rather than in NYC

[boatymcboatface]

It would just guarantee NYC builds a taller one, so maybe it wouldn't be a bad thing.

[toasterpirate]

Yes this would be incredible, i dont know why the reporters are disregarding okc so much, i hope this plan is just the start of many plans to make oklahoma city more prominent in the US

[kellyjones]

Why doesn’t it seem right? Yuck, yuck…. Because it is Oklahoma? Exactly what did you mean by that? I lived in the Tri-state for 14 years. I went to Art College in Philly. OKC is a beautiful city with inspiring people.

[nulnoh]

What you gonna do with all the sqft? Who's renting? Will it cause an over supply of Office space?

[sedrah]

the tornados are gonna play darts with this tower

[parkerdutcher]

I live in Oklahoma, while it would be amazing to see and would bring a lot to downtown and bricktown I feel like a tornado would knock it down with the weather in Oklahoma it's sort of risky in my opinion not to mention the recent earth quakes we have been getting

[rrsee-zkzu]

wait so you mean to say the US is struggling with affordable housing and approves of such projects instead? Also isn't the city in tornado alley???

[davidsimon]

It can be very successful to be located in OKC. Look at Las Vegas. It is out in the desert much more isolated than OKC and it has been very successful with lots of people going there every year and it even has an NFL team today. People thought it was ridiculous for OKC to have an NBA team at first and right away the team was really good and made it to the finals and has a great fan base. Right now OKC thunder is at the top of the Western conference. There is nothing different about Dallas and OKC both have the same flat farm land around them. Oklahoma does have mountains by the way . Oklahoma is the 23rd highest state above sea level. The Black Mesa has beautiful scenery with a very high altitude of 4973 ft high. Oklahoma has the highest hill in the world too. Cavenal Hill is 1999 feet high from the ground and 2385 ft above saa level with beautiful 2500 ft mountains in Ouchita Mountain Range. The Wichita Mountains are Beautiful too. You should really see Gloss Mountainns in Oklahoma as well. The mesas there look like Utah, Arizona and Mexico mesas which are located inNorth west Oklahoma.

[tjr-tt]

One WTC is a major disappointment and cop-out. I hope they do build this, maybe it’ll make some other developers in NYC build something taller and better.

[TheNewJustinian]

May 3rd, 1999. I don’t need to say anything else.

[justinwiens]

its wtvr as far as whether, or not they build it. i simply highly advise them to move the antenna to the left, or right once its complete

[cmdrriotz]

Why doesnt it seem right tho? Nothing wrong with it at all.

[s]

That’s amazing!!! If that was built maybe that area can become the next Dubai!

[braxtonjackson_]

It’s time to build taller than one wtc.. but why here??? why OKC??

[Jonus_Grumby]

It might look like a tremendous eye sore, devastate the housing market in the downtown area, and sit half vacant, but if it pisses off a couple of New Yorkers.... totally worth it.

[kale_xo]

When someone mentions something good for a growing & thriving State Capitol…
“…but tornados”
THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE ANYTHING NICE lol

Oklahoma City has never been hit by a twister (knock on wood)
When people mention either of the Moore EF5’s they think OKC. No, there is Moore and then there is OKC. Moore is a city, a southern suburb of OKC. They are in two separate counties, Cleveland and Oklahoma Counties.
Regardless of this (because anything can happen here in the spring & fall) it shouldn’t deter anyone from doing bigger and better things. I’ve lived here for 30 years and I’ve never seen a tornado with my own eyes and I live in the same county as Moore. It happens here, yes. But we always get right back up and rebuild and become better than before. Scary storms are not all Oklahoma has to offer either. We are one of the fastest growing states and OKC is the 20th biggest metro area in the country. Look at most of the big cities in the US … NYC, Chicago, LA, Denver, Portland, Seattle - look at what’s happening in those cities. That’s not happening here. Scary storms also happen most of these bigger cities with existing skyscrapers. Imagine that.

I personally think it’s only right to put the nation’s tallest building right in the center of this great nation. Kinda symbolic.

[rosamatanane]

We don't need tall buildings we need housing for the less fortunate