- Jul 31, 2019
Website connects developers, businesses, investors
Opportunity zones represent a new way to invest in the Oklahoma City renaissance. This week, we are unveiling the website www.okcopportunityzones.com to market our opportunity zones to potential projects, businesses and investors. The site allows projects and business owners in an opportunity zone to enter information about their project, including the size of investment they are seeking, their project start and completion dates, the location of the project or business, if de
- Jul 23, 2019
Retaining, recruiting talent fuels growth
Oklahoma City is a great place to live – we all know it. And now there’s a bigger push to let the rest of the world know. The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber just launched a new relocation and talent-attraction website, www.abetterlifeokc.com, with features aimed specifically at helping companies recruit or retain talent in the Greater Oklahoma City region. Professionals considering a move here are interested in seeing multiple job opportunities. One of the new features of the
- Jul 17, 2019
Tackling an important reform issue
Leaders in central Oklahoma have made significant progress on criminal justice reform in the past few months. In May, Oklahoma County commissioners created the Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority. The trust will recommend the most efficient use of resources in the operation, financing and development of jail facilities and in rehabilitation, addiction, mental health and other diversion programs. At the authority’s first meeting, the trustees unanimously nominated Trici
- Jul 9, 2019
Art investments bring dividends
Oklahoma City has been hard at work creating a sense of place with public art. Thanks to the 2009 initiative that requires 1% of the construction budget for public projects to be spent on public art, we’ve seen 10 years of new sculptures, murals and art installations across Oklahoma City. Matt Goad started this week on the public art project for the Will Rogers World Airport terminal expansion on the east end of the airport. His geometric, pop-art-inspired style will welcome
- Jul 2, 2019
Celebrating a historic milestone on Bricktown Canal
If you lived in Oklahoma City before the Bricktown Canal opened in 1999, you know that Bricktown was a very different place. The first MAPS program built the ballpark and the canal, dramatically changing the look of Bricktown, accelerating the development in that district and bringing crowds looking for entertainment and enjoyment. Bricktown was created when Army troops, there to maintain order after the 1889 Land Run, withdrew and left an undeveloped area next to the emergin
