May 2, 2019. There has been an eruption of mixed-use developments sprout up across the country. A mixed-use development is a combination of residential and nonresidential uses in the same building or complex.

April 25, 2019. While the role of the built environment to society should not be compared to that of human life, we should also not ignore the value and impact these structures have on our society.

April 18, 2019. J. David Chapman returns to his weekly Lot Lines real estate column after winning his Edmond City Council race.

April 11, 2019. I was one of 1,000 people who left inspired from the mayor’s annual prayer breakfast, and was at my desk at 9:01 a.m. on the 17th floor of the First National Center.

April 4, 2019. The term “mort main,” which is Latin for dead hands, refers to the ever-deteriorating condition of a building or land when it is owned by an entity that lives forever; as nerd lawyers say, in perpetuity.

March 28, 2019. One of the biggest challenges in urban infill development is to cobble together enough land to develop a viable project. Sometimes the end results can be much different than imagined when the assemblage effort first began.

March 21, 2019. On Feb. 20, my friend Earl Neighbors turned 92 years young. About a week earlier, Earl’s family trust sold the last property that he owned in Automobile Alley.

March 14, 2019. In mid-January, I bought myself a birthday present from Commonplace Books: (one of a batch of autographed copies of) Sam Anderson’s "Boom Town." A couple of weeks later, I rode the newfangled Oklahoma City streetcar for the first time, giving a guest from Plano a quick tour of Bricktown on a brutally cold morning.

March 7, 2019. Suffering from cabin fever during this last frigid weekend, I left my warm fireplace and drove to northwest Oklahoma City, spending an hour touring four high-rise condominium units that will be sold in a (mostly) absolute auction on Tuesday and Wednesday

February 28, 2019. Big Uglies are structures that, when removed from an otherwise ideal location, could pave the way for exciting urban placemaking.

February 21, 2019. Every national real estate conference today includes sessions entitled the new sharing economy or a discussion of gigs – farming out your couch, your house or your car for extra cash. All of which impacts the metrics of value creation, including in real estate. Enter into this arena the Oklahoma startup SendaRide.

February 14, 2019. Since January of 2010, more than 93 rural hospitals have closed throughout the U.S., eight of them in Oklahoma,

February 7, 2019. Viewing the current Oklahoma County jail and juvenile justice center sites as well-located but woefully underdeveloped real estate, city and county officials should explore tax increment financing as part of a funding package that voters can support.

January 31, 2019. Some critics say there are now too many TIF districts, but I would suggest that we have just scratched the surface of tax increment financing's potential for good in Oklahoma.

January 24, 2019. Here’s to hoping that we in Oklahoma’s business and development community can find users and projects that execute sooner, not later, in order to fully realize the benefits of opportunity zones in our state and its cities.

January 17, 2019. The Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency is a governmental body working like it should, and a model for others.

January 10, 2019. Recently, I drove through the Paseo District and marveled at what it had become; with the area once a bastion of boarded and derelict buildings, its 20-year renaissance is nearly complete.

January 3, 2019. New Year’s causes us to look both back and to the future, and no starker contrast comes from Oklahoma City’s Paseo District.

December 27, 2019. I am certain that 2019 will be the beginning of an urban renaissance for downtown Edmond.

December 20, 2019. This holiday season, I will no doubt think of the wide smile that John R. Weeman Jr. couldn’t suppress when speaking about his work in Oklahoma City on the Skirvin Hilton Hotel.