And it probably shouldn't. For the money that you would spend trying to make it work from an acrhitectural and engineering standpoint, you could revitalize 5 times the area on land.
Given the nature of the Arkansas River, near impossible or grossly infeasible because of the cost, when you could build one for a third of the cost a scant few hundred yards away
How's the river looking these days? I know the Fort Towson dam has had all 6 flodd gates full open for the last 3 weeks and that's just barely keeping up with the amount of rain heading to the SE.
I drove over it about a week ago and was shocked - it was actually flowing! And it looked like it had depth! Like maybe over your head in places!
That plan is amazing, and probably will not happen, but it looks really cool and I wish they could find a way to do it, with or without a soccer stadium. Oklahoma needs something like that.
It's not a plan. It's a conceptual rendering Mainly because it's not a plan and it's not based in reality, let alone, sustainable design or construction. You can do it in CGI like George Lucas does or in some sort of 3D rendering software, and that's it. Oklahoma needs to promote greater urban density, workable light and heavy rail transportation rather than crayola fabricated fantasies.
If those man-made islands proposed were in the Arkansas now... I bet they'd all be underwater today... that river looks really nice when there's actually water running through it... Joy Lewis/Tulsa World/7-5-07 Yeah, Bing Thom's The Channels plan has been dead for months. It would have required $700 million in public funds and a theorized $100 million of private monies. People who, over the course of decades, have held a high interest in beautifying the Arkansas River overwhelming hated this plan. Why? Because it would have ignored the actual riverfront in pursuit of an incredibly expensive, naive and contraversial plan... It has been replaced by this: http://www.tulsaworld.com/common/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleID=070621_238_A1_hOKto84204