PROJECT 180包括近8英里的道路和超过222英亩的俄克拉何马城的中央商务区，是一个雄心勃勃的公共工程计划，将一个混乱的单行道街道，没有停车或行人设施改造成一个市中心发展的模式。面对低廉的住宅空间，零售租赁下降以及司法部公共无障碍获取的重要报告，城市领导人对德文能源世界总部的TIF收入进行了再投资，全面改造了市中心的公共空间。
詹姆斯·伯内特与项目指导委员会和一些当地设计和工程公司合作，制定了解决交通，安全，可步行，开放空间，中距，中间交叉口和环境图形的计划。该计划消除了单向街道，增加了800多个停车位，并概述了一个“零件包”，使用现成的材料建立一个签名的外观和感觉的市中心核心。街道干净的美学和功能流通正在吸引新的经济发展和活力的城市中心。
改造的道路拥有狭窄的行车道，专用的自行车道，无障碍停车场和改善的混凝土路口。超过2,500棵新的树荫，以及高效LED灯具，场地家具和地下设施，安装在路边后面的舒适区。该区域缓冲城市标准人行道与道路交通，具有特殊的单元铺设，便于维护和使用公用设施。
Encompassing nearly 8 miles of roadway and over 222 acres of Oklahoma City’s Central Business District, Project 180 is an ambitious public works program transforming a confusing grid of one-way streets without parking or pedestrian amenities into a model for downtown development. Faced with low residential occupancy, falling retail tenancy and a critical report on public accessibility from the Department of Justice, city leaders reinvested the TIF proceeds from the Devon Energy World Headquarters in a comprehensive renovation of downtown public space.
Working with the project steering committee and a number of local design and engineering firms, the Office of James Burnett synthesized a plan to address traffic, security, walkability, open space, medians, mid-block crossings and environmental graphics. The plan eliminates one-way streets, adds over 800 parking spaces and outlines a “Kit of Parts” that uses readily available materials to build a signature look and feel for the downtown core. The streets’ clean aesthetic and functional circulation are attracting new economic development and vitality to the center of the city.
The renovated roadways feature narrowed travel lanes, dedicated bike lanes, accessible parking and improved concrete intersections. Over 2,500 new shade trees, along with high efficiency LED light fixtures, site furnishings and underground utilities, are installed in an amenity zone behind the curb. This zone, which buffers the city standard sidewalks from the roadway traffic, features special unit paving for ease of maintenance and access to utilities.
