Over the past 18 months, Tulsa’s retail market has experienced a marked slowdown in leasing and sales activity due to the volatility in the national economy that has forced several national retailers to close their doors. As a result, the past year has been tough for local retail commercial real...

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More than 60 people attended a special meeting the night of May 26 to continue a debate that began months ago over whether the city should provide the capital for a $6.3 million sanitary sewer line through the Stone Canyon basin area along East 76th Street North.   And though most of the a...

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CLAREMORE — With great fanfare in January 2008, officials announced plans for Oklahoma Plaza, a $110 million mixed-use development on the southwest side of town. But progress on the 129-acre project has been slow, leaving residents wondering about its fate. Rickey Hayes is a contracted retail c...

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The First Bank Building is one of many construction projects under way in Owasso. (Photo by Rip Stell)  Just up U.S. Highway 169, retailers J.C. Penney, Ross Dress for Less and others hope to start drawing customers into the 150,000-square-foot third phase of Smith Farm Marketplace by March....

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TULSA – Tapp Development has adopted a page from the Remy Cos. playbook. One month after Bixby’s 5,000-seat SpiritBank Event Center opened as the anchor to Remy’s Regal Plaza shopping center, the city of Glenpool announced plans Tuesday to start construction next summer on a 30,000-square-foot c...

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TULSA – A group of Los Angeles investors paid $14.1 million for Owasso’s one-year-old Garrett Creek shopping center. Tulsa County Courthouse records show Hollywood Continental Apartments LLC of L.A. paid $135.77 per square foot to Hawkeye Development LLC of Owasso for the 104,216-square-foot cent...

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TULSA – A pair of Tulsa-area consultants have drawn national attention helping suburban communities strengthen their retail base. Since launching Owasso-based Retail Attractions in December, Rickey Hayes has inked contracts to help eight Oklahoma cities and towns strengthen their sales tax reven...

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What makes a city great? Strong economic development, good schools and low crime rate are just some of the qualities that come to mind. While Tulsa has some wonderful attributes, looking at other cities might give us some additional points to consider. Of course, people with different lifesty...

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