The Original Downtown Plaza Hotel (DTP)of Tulsa was built in 1966. It was the first modern hotel in downtown Tulsa. In 1966 downtown Tulsa was a thriving business center with many shops, restaurants, and theaters. The DTP offered to the guest many ammenities that you don't find in any hotel today. I was unable to find a photo of downtown Tulsa from 1966, but I did find one from 1952.
The DTP had on site a full service Restaurant, Lounge, Hair Salon, Dry Cleaner, Gift Shop,nd Small Market place. It was a city inside a hotel. The guest never had to leave the property.
After a little research about this magnificent place, I have found that it was indeed a PLAZA. The Webster's dictionary definition of Plaza:
Main Entry: pla·za
Pronunciation: \ˈpla-zə, ˈplä-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Spanish, from Latin platea broad street — more at place
Date: 1683
1 a: a public square in a city or town b: an open area usually located near urban buildings and often featuring walkways, trees and shrubs, places to sit, and sometimes shops.
Over the last 40 years with the drive for the suburbs, the downtown area of Tulsa, like many cities in the United States died. Over the last few years there has been a large comeback of the downtown areas in the smaller cities, like Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Austin, Colorado Springs, St. Louis and the list goes on.
Many younger Americans are moving back into the downtown areas and they are investing their money in Businesses and real estate. Why the move from the Burb's to the downtown? Well, from the way I see it and from living in the downtown areas of Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Ft. Lauderdale, Savannah and St. Louis everything was accessible 24 hours a day and was within walking distance or via subway or taxi.
It was the place to be. Where you could feed off the energy of the city at anytime of the day. The buildings are beautiful and everyone belongs.
So we at the DTP are proud and excited to part of Tulsa's 2025 project. A project to bring more to Tulsa and more back to the downtown area. Tulsa is building an 18,000 seat arena (The Bank of Oklahoma Arena)set to open late summer of 2008 and Tulsa is spending several millions of dollars on a full renovation of the convention center.
Our plan for the DTP is to bring her back to life for everyone from anywhere in the world to call home during their visit to one of our countries most beautiful cities and a place for locals to gather in our restaurant, lounge, and other venues that we will be adding over the next few months.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more.
Jay and the DTP staff
The DTP had on site a full service Restaurant, Lounge, Hair Salon, Dry Cleaner, Gift Shop,nd Small Market place. It was a city inside a hotel. The guest never had to leave the property.
After a little research about this magnificent place, I have found that it was indeed a PLAZA. The Webster's dictionary definition of Plaza:
Main Entry: pla·za
Pronunciation: \ˈpla-zə, ˈplä-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Spanish, from Latin platea broad street — more at place
Date: 1683
1 a: a public square in a city or town b: an open area usually located near urban buildings and often featuring walkways, trees and shrubs, places to sit, and sometimes shops.
Over the last 40 years with the drive for the suburbs, the downtown area of Tulsa, like many cities in the United States died. Over the last few years there has been a large comeback of the downtown areas in the smaller cities, like Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Austin, Colorado Springs, St. Louis and the list goes on.
Many younger Americans are moving back into the downtown areas and they are investing their money in Businesses and real estate. Why the move from the Burb's to the downtown? Well, from the way I see it and from living in the downtown areas of Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Ft. Lauderdale, Savannah and St. Louis everything was accessible 24 hours a day and was within walking distance or via subway or taxi.
It was the place to be. Where you could feed off the energy of the city at anytime of the day. The buildings are beautiful and everyone belongs.
So we at the DTP are proud and excited to part of Tulsa's 2025 project. A project to bring more to Tulsa and more back to the downtown area. Tulsa is building an 18,000 seat arena (The Bank of Oklahoma Arena)set to open late summer of 2008 and Tulsa is spending several millions of dollars on a full renovation of the convention center.
Our plan for the DTP is to bring her back to life for everyone from anywhere in the world to call home during their visit to one of our countries most beautiful cities and a place for locals to gather in our restaurant, lounge, and other venues that we will be adding over the next few months.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more.
Jay and the DTP staff
1 comment:
We stayed at Downtown Plaza and was probably the best hotel experience we have ever had. It was extremely clean the staff was so polite and very helpful. We had problems with our keycard and they came and helped us personally. The parking is a little close but if you look around you can figure it out. It was well lit and I actually felt secure going from my car to the hotel. I would recommend this hotel over and over again and really only have a positive comments to Downtown Plaza if we come back to Tulsa and need a hotel stay this will be where we go.
Thank you to all the great staff for making our stay so pleasant.
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