Oklahoma City officials set schedule to decide on site for new convention center.

Oklahoma City leaders grappling with how to get the $287 million downtown convention center back on track set an aggressive schedule Monday to settle on a site for what is viewed as the centerpiece of the voter-approved MAPS 3 downtown redevelopment projects.

Plans call for the city council to vote July 7, compressing into 79 days a process that in the first go-round took much longer.

“This is a really tight time frame but we believe it’s a doable time frame,” Mike Mize, a MAPS 3 design and management consultant with ADG, told members of the city’s convention center advisory committee.

The city reopened the search for land for the 550,000-square-foot convention center, a headquarters hotel and parking after giving up two weeks ago on efforts to acquire a former car dealership on W Reno Avenue.