Oklahoma City Underground

The Oklahoma City Underground is a tunnelunderground network was lined with restaurants,
system running beneath a 20-square-block-area inshops and offices. The Concourse declined in
Downtown OKC, connecting 30 important buildingspopularity as the last oil boom ended. A major
in the area. One of the most extensive enclosedrenovation to the tune of $2 million was carried
pedestrian systems in the United States, coveringout from 2006 to 2007, following which it was
three-quarters of a mile, the OKC Undergroundrenamed the Underground. This facelift was
was formerly called the Oklahoma City Concoursecarried out under the direction of architect Rand
after founder Jack Conn, a prominent banker ofElliott who transformed the dated looks of the old
the time. Originally built in 1931, the tunnel wastunnels into something much more presentable to
reconstructed between 1972 and 1974.the modern world, resembling a “work of
Once an integral part of life in Oklahoma City, theart”.