{"id":104029,"date":"2025-06-17T04:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T04:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/104029\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T04:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T04:57:13","slug":"oklahoma-city-thunder-could-have-opportunity-to-redevelop-current-site-of-paycom-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/104029\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder could have opportunity to redevelop current site of Paycom Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City \u2014 The future of the current Paycom Center site could become more clear following an Oklahoma City Council meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On the agenda are several items related to the new nearly billion-dollar arena slated for construction on the current site of the old Myriad\/Cox Convention Center, currently under demolition.<\/p>\n<p>One item, a preferential rights agreement, would give the Oklahoma City Thunder the opportunity to purchase the current property for the Paycom Center and redevelop it.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder would have to execute a purchase within 5 years of the new arena opening.<\/p>\n<p>A city spokesperson said other than ordinary planning and zoning regulations, there would be no restrictions on how the property could be redeveloped.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for the Thunder provided no comment about plans, citing the pending vote from City Council.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the new arena is expected to start in 2026 and open in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City \u2014 The future of the current Paycom Center site could become more clear following an Oklahoma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,9303,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-104029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-oklahoma","12":"tag-oklahoma-city","13":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","14":"tag-oklahomacity","15":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","16":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114696935582210424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}