Should the City Council approve the resolutions Tuesday, the Tulsa Public Facilities Authority would vote on an amended agreement with URC Development on Thursday.
Mayor G.T. Bynum pitches his development plan for the southwest corner of 71st Street and Riverside Drive to city councilors Tuesday. The public meeting is at 10 a.m. in City Council chambers.
City councilors are scheduled to vote on a proposal to abandon nearly nine acres of park land on the southwest corner of 71st Street and Riverside Drive and to endorse a proposed commercial development on the site that could include the state’s first REI store.
New Tulsa International Airport CEO Mark VanLoh was hired to replace Jeff Mulder, who took a similar position at a larger airport. He was one of more than 30 people to apply for the job and will be paid approximately $200,000 a year.
The plaintiffs’ assert, among other things, that TPFA does not own the land in question and had no right to sell it for commercial purposes, nor did it follow proper procedures in attempting to do so.
Tulsa almost became a testing ground for the use of unmanned aircraft systems in urban settings. But the idea crashed last summer along with former Mayor Dewey Bartlett’s political fortunes.
We spent about 30 minutes on Friday talking politics with Tulsa Voice columnist Barry Friedman and Laura Belmonte, head of OSU’s history department.
President Donald Trump has made Elizabeth McCormick’s and Mimi Marton’s lives busier than normal, and that’s saying something.