On your left, look for the tall, pale-gray tower with tight rows of small square windows, rising like a clean-lined cliff against the sky.
This is First Place Tower, planted at 15 East Fifth and facing Boston Avenue like it wants to be noticed. What you’re seeing is really two eras stacked into one address: the lower, midrise portion came first in 1949, a 20-story statement that Tulsa meant business. Then, in 1973, the city went bigger-adding the 41-story tower that shoots up to about 516 feet, making it one of Tulsa’s tallest. Standing here, you can almost feel that 1970s confidence: straight lines, no frills, just height and hustle.
Ownership has had its own plot twists. From 2006 to 2017, it belonged to Maurice Kanbar, a California entrepreneur with a serious downtown portfolio, before he sold it to his operating partner, Stuart Price.
Ready for Mid-Continent Tower? Just walk northwest for 0 minutes.
