Gates Building

Former Hardware Store Given New Life

On the corner of downtown Tulsa's Historic Arts District stood a 1920s-era Hardware Building that's been transformed into a restaurant and office space with sweeping ballpark views.

The 1920s-era Gates Hardware Building was renovated and adapted to become a 28,000 square-feet mixed-use space. The building was structurally deficient with rotten wood, instability, and different-sized windows in opposite directions. The team performed a gut renovation creating two retail components on the street level and 14,000 square feet of open office space on the second level; all while paying homage to the building’s origins with raw steel, spots of exposed brick, and metal partitions throughout.

Completed in early 2016, the mixed-use development underscores the creative culture of the City while paying tribute to the building's industrial history.