Three developments underway to revitalize West Lindsey

This week, the Norman City Council approved a final plat for a new commercial building at the northwest corner of Berry and Lindsey streets.

1209 West Lindsey LLC, a company tied to Norman real estate developer Hunter Miller and restaurateur Hal Smith, paid $915,000 for the 0.84-acre tract in July 2024.

Aerial overview of the development parcel outlined in red at West Lindsey Street and South Berry Road, near Legends Restaurant, Donut King, and Starbucks.

The site, formerly a gas station, is currently occupied by an auto shop and a taco truck.

Ground-level view of the West Lindsey site in its current state — a small strip with a food truck, an older canopy structure, and parked cars along the street.

Site plans submitted with the plat application show the site will be fully redeveloped. The plans call for a 9,750-square-foot building set in the center of the site surrounded by parking. The building is intended for restaurant and retail uses, with space for a drive-thru lane on the east side. The site plan shows the building will have 4 separate suites; however, no tenants were announced at the time of approval.

The two curb cuts onto Lindsey will be reduced to one on the southwest corner of the site with a new shared access drive on the north side of the site providing access to Berry Road.

East of the site, across Berry Road, Miller and Smith are also developing a new restaurant that gained approval in late 2023.

Construction view of the cleared 1035 S. Berry site, with an excavator, equipment, and orange silt fencing on graded red dirt.

Miller purchased the land for $600,000 in 2020 before selling it to 1035 S Berry LLC, a company he owns with Smith, for $1.18 million in late 2023. The company filed a $2 million building permit late last year before beginning construction on the site earlier this year.

Architectural rendering of the proposed 1035 S. Berry building — a brick retail-and-restaurant structure with an outdoor patio, branded for the Hal Smith Restaurant Group (HSRG).

Plans call for the Hal Smith Restaurant Group to occupy the location at 1035 S. Berry. The restaurant is slated to be the group’s Mama Roja concept. Mama Roja currently operates one location in Oklahoma City on Lake Hefner.

Further west on Lindsey, Miller is constructing a five-unit strip center that gained approval in early 2023. He filed a $4 million building permit in February 2024, and site work began shortly after. Vertical construction is about to begin.

Ground-level view of the 1300 W. Lindsey site being cleared and graded, with older buildings and a cell tower in the background.

All five units at 1300 W. Lindsey are currently listed for lease.

Aerial of the Berry & Lindsey intersection with all three developments' site plans overlaid on their parcels, including a Hal Smith restaurant plan.