Thank God!

It's Tulsa's busiest highway - and the state wants to widen it to six lanes from Riverside to Yale. Some houses are in the way, mainly on the south side of the interstate but far more businesses will be bulldozed - most of them between Lewis and Harvard. Ray Sanders, ODOT Project Manager: “There will be some homes and businesses impacted by the project but this is the alignment that provided the least amount of impacts.”

Sanders says there's no way to widen the highway without taking houses because they're so close as it is. To get the I-44 up to modern standards - the lanes will be wider, the ramps will be longer, and the road will be much straighter.

At intersections like Peoria - there's more room - so while at least one business will go, the Camelot Hotel might be safe. Further east towards Lewis and Harvard - the businesses are much closer to the road - and dozens will have to move out to make room.


Dang-- There not going to tear down the Camelot

There are a ton of folks pulling for a miracle there. It would be great to see that rehabilitated or at least to see a new hotel on that site with the facade preserved.

The Facade is cool... The design of the hotel was a great idea... If somone was buying the propery, the best thing to build is a hotel... They have the land and its right off I-44...

A hurricane fence currently surrounds the property and the windows that aren’t boarded up are punctured by bullet holes. A police officer, patrolling the outside of the building, said that at one time vagrants and drug addicts hung out in the hotel... I just want to check it out from the inside... How it looks and what was so great about it...

There have been a couple of plans to redo it, I think both died due to a very bad word


Asbestos.

Too expensive to restore, too expensive to tear down. The city really needs to step in and force the Maharashi to do something with it, that thing is killing the far south Brookside area.

I remeber reading about that one time...

Camelot owner hopes for "Peace Palace"

The present owner of what was the Camelot Hotel is Maharishi Ayur-ved University, a school for teaching transcendental meditation and the teaching of the founder of TM, the Maharishi Mahesh Yoga.

The building or parts of the property may be turned into a “Peace Palace,” described on www.MaharishiPeacePalace.org, as “a beautiful modular building that is covered in white marble. The Peace Palace will include exhibition and lecture halls, offices, residential rooms and a dining hall.” According to a TM practitioner who recently relocated to Tulsa, “We will be building a Peace Palace on part of the land where The Camelot is located.”