Automobile Alley

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Automobile Alley is an urban neighborhood in Oklahoma City, located roughly along North Broadway Avenue in Downtown Oklahoma City. The district contains numerous low and midrise heritage buildings and shoppes. It is listed in the National Historic Register of neighbourhoods.

Automobile Alley (AAlley for short) was a popular retail district in the 1920s and was home to most of the city's car dealerships. It had declined alaong with the rest of Downtown during the 1970s and 1980s. During the mid 1990's, there was an effort to redevelop the area has transformed many of the showrooms and storefronts of AAlley into upscale lofts, galleries, and offices.

Today there is a new push of development in the area as well as nearby Midtown that began with the recolation of the historic, upscale Colcord Oyster Bar to an Automobile Alley storefront from the renovated Colcord Building in the Central Business District. Additional development are announced seemingly weekly which will further enhance AAlley's position as downtown's new chic and hip urban centre.

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