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Entries for April 2019

One of my major concerns about strategic plans that are developed for a multiyear time period is that they invariably do not anticipate changing economic and social phenomena. Case in point: Although the Cuero Development Corporation Strategic Economic Development Plan, October 2011, did stat...

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The nearly vacant Heritage Park Mall in Midwest City hasn’t created a decline in its neighboring retail center. The Town & Country shopping center on N. Air Depot Boulevard is 90 percent occupied. The only vacancy was left after Payless shoe store closed its location in the ce...

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ENID – Retail consultant Rickey Hayes said Enid has the same challenge other tertiary cities face. He said the big-box retailers don’t see the data they want when looking at tertiary cities. He said he tries to give those companies a city’s full story. “Data without a b...

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ENID, Okla. — Enid could be experiencing some major new retail developments in the near future. During an Enid Regional Development Alliance luncheon Thursday afternoon, Rickey Hayes, a retail development specialist in partnership with the city, revealed that three potential tenants have ex...

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