After years of pent-up demand, a housing construction boom is starting up downtown that will add more than 700 units- more than twice what was built in the last quarter century.

The choices include the 17-story Park Harvey Center, a former office building being converted into 164 apartments, and Legacy at Arts Quarter, a 303-unit, four-story complex being built in the Arts District at NW 4 and Walker. Deep Deuce and Bricktown, meanwhile, are magnets for the first construction of condominiums downtown since the opening of Sycamore Square in 1982.

Projects include The Hill, 157 townhomes at NE 2 and Stiles; The Brownstones at Maywood Park, townhomes along NE 3 and Oklahoma Avenue; the Central Avenue Villas, 30 condominiums at NE 4 and Central Avenue; Block 42, a five-story, 42-unit condominium complex at NE 4 and Walnut and The Centennial, a five-story condominium complex in Lower Bricktown.

Construction is scheduled to begin on all the for-sale housing within the next couple months. And all of the housing has an average price of at least $200,000.

The Brownstones at Maywood Park
• Units: 127 over five years
• Price: $400,000 to $850,000
• Development Team: Triangle Development Partners Bert Belanger, Anthony McDermid, Pat Garrett Ron Bradshaw, Jason Bradshaw
• Architect: TAParchitecture
• Contractor: Triangle Development
• Estimated completion: 2011