Critics may like REI but not the process
The council has no authority to stop the project, but, intended or not, its vote could leave Dallas-based developer UCR Development and anchor tenant REI wondering whether Tulsa wants them.
They shouldn’t.
Listen Frontier: Canfield & City Councilor Blake Ewing
On this week’s episode of Listen Frontier, senior staff writer Kevin Canfield and City Councilor/local entrepreneur Blake Ewing talk Tulsa: The future of Vision 2025, the Arkansas River, what Tulsa needs downtown and would Blake ever run for Mayor?
Listen Frontier: Canfield & City Councilor G.T. Bynum
On this week’s episode of Listen Frontier, senior staff writer Kevin Canfield and City Councilor GT Bynum talk about Bynum’s flirtation with the priesthood, meeting his wife and the dam proposal.
Get Ready: Stretch of Riverside Drive to be closed soon
The city of Tulsa next week will begin preparing residents for a major change — the closing of Riverside Drive.
A two-mile section of the road — from 21st to 41st streets — will be closed from July 13 to the fall of 2017 to reconstruct the road. Local traffic only will be allowed along Riverside Drive from 35th place to 41st street.
Jack Henderson is ‘in love with the river development, now’
Speaking before a skeptical crowd of constituents gathered at Rudisell Library to hear about the latest river-development proposal, Henderson took on the naysayers who had stood to question how north Tulsa would benefit from building dams in the Arkansas River.
Marching for justice: The leader behind Tulsa’s grassroots group trying to oust Sheriff
Marq Lewis starts every rally of We The People Oklahoma with a chant: “Why are we marching? We’re marching for peace. We’re marching for justice.” Kelly Kurt reports for The Frontier on the man behind the movement.
REI’s top-secret rollout
City leaders are getting ready to ask Tulsans to pay a big chunk of the $300 million it would cost to build four dams in the Arkansas River, but they won’t tell Tulsans what they plan to build on city-owned property along the river.
I’m talking about REI.
Listen Frontier: Marq Lewis talks We The People, grand jury petition process
Marq Lewis says We the People Oklahoma collected more than 8,800 signatures seeking a grand jury investigation of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.