The $1.6 Billion Quest to Build America’s Tallest Skyscraper in…Oklahoma
Move over New York. A developer plans a 1,907-foot tower overlooking sprawl and farmland. There are skeptics—‘I just burst out laughing.’
OKLAHOMA CITY—Scot Matteson’s team came before this city’s planning commission last week seeking to tweak a development he plans to build in a parking lot hard up against a railroad track and wrapped around two sides of a U-Haul storage facility.
Instead of capping the buildings at the Boardwalk at Bricktown at 345 feet, he’s now thinking one should top out at 1,907—more than twice the height of the tallest building in town, and the biggest in the U.S.
“We figure it would be iconic,” said Matteson, a California-based developer who briefly made tabloid news by dating one of the Real Housewives of Orange County.
Many offer other names for Matteson’s planned Legends Tower: The Redneck Burj Khalifa, The Burj Khaloma, The Jetsons Meets Las Vegas and Hot Pie in the Sky.