Oklahoma City has approved a building that would, if it rises, top every skyscraper in the country. Legends Tower is planned at 1,907 feet, a number chosen to mark Oklahoma’s 1907 statehood, which would make it the tallest building in the United States and the Western Hemisphere, surpassing One World Trade Center.
Project Scope. Developed by Matteson Capital and designed by architecture firm AO, the 134-story tower anchors a planned mixed-use district called The Boardwalk at Bricktown. The program packs in a 350-key Hyatt hotel, roughly 1,776 apartments and about 110,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, with three shorter companion buildings, a second hotel, plazas, parking and a lagoon filling out the surrounding complex. City council cleared the height, but the project has faced delays, including an FAA review of the tower’s effect on flight paths at nearby airports, and the developer has signaled willingness to shorten it if required.
Why It Matters. A supertall in Oklahoma City would be an outlier. Buildings this tall almost always go up in coastal financial capitals or Gulf and Asian megacities, not mid-size American metros, and the economics of filling 1,776 apartments and two hotels at this height are the real question hanging over the project. If it gets built, it reframes what’s possible for skyline-defining development outside the usual handful of cities. For now it sits in the planned column, ambitious and unbuilt.
Project Team & Details
| Developer | Matteson Capital |
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| Owner / Client | Matteson Capital |
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| Architect | AO |
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| Status | Planned |
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| Funding Source | Private |
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