As the construction industry struggles, how is your firm faring? I feel like we’ve been extremely blessed, compared to what’s going on around us. I believe that anybody in the industry who sees what’s coming their way and makes changes and reacts to the market has a good chance of turning things around. All things [...]

A new downtown hotel is in the works in the heart of the Brady Arts District. Local hotel developer SJS Hospitality LLC, which recently completed the Courtyard by Marriott – Historic Atlas Life hotel at Fifth Street and Boston Avenue, and land owner Brady 41 LLC, a partnership between Tulsans David Sharp and Gregory Oliphant, [...]

Phil Roland attributes Broken Arrow’s booming commercial development to the 2005 addition of Bass Pro Shops, just off the Broken Arrow Expressway between Elm Street and Lynn Lane. But the addition of Bass Pro can be attributed, in part, at least, to Roland. Roland, principal of Roland Homes and Roland Investments, began buying land in [...]

The question has been asked many times as to why Broken Arrow would financially assist new or expanding businesses. There are a number of reasons. As it pertains to FlightSafety International Inc. in particular, the city will enjoy several benefits, one being the retention of 675 high-paying, quality jobs. It would take 25 to 30 [...]

The executive director of the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture, Lee Anne Zeigler, will be a speaker for the Page One series June 17 at the Tulsa Press Club. She will discuss TFA’s efforts to revitalize downtown. A nonprofit organization that started in 1995, TFA advocates downtown preservation and development. Zeigler will discuss the pioneers who [...]

A large group of Oklahoma industrial properties is set to trade hands. The Gardner Tanenbaum Group announced last week it retained Dallas firm Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP to sell a nearly 2 million-SF industrial real estate portfolio that spans Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Ardmore. According to an executive summary of the offering, the group anchored [...]

River City Development, the developers of Tulsa’s first downtown luxury apartments at the Philtower in 2004, will announce today downtown Tulsa’s first condo developments for sale. RCD has been working with experts out of Portland, Ore., which is nationally recognized for its successful downtown regeneration, to identify downtown Tulsa’s needs and develop an action plan. [...]

On June 23, the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Tulsa’s Young Professionals will open The Forge, an entrepreneurial incubator five years in the making. “It started with a lunch meeting,” said Amie Roberg, founder and owner of CastleCom, who has been at the project’s helm since its inception. The meeting was with Nordam’s Bailey Siegfried, [...]