If you missed last night's PLANiTULSA session at the Greenwood Cultural Center, then drop everything today and hurry on down to the BOk Center and attend this afternoon's session of PLANiTULSA.
This is your chance to put your two cents in!
No more whining!
Bring your ideas to the BOk Center today between 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM.
Parking is free at the Parking Garage of the Old City Hall building at 200 Civic Center. Enter from the west off of 6th Street.
Be there! We want to hear from you now -- not later when it's too late to add more concrete to add width to the walkways in the nosebleed section (oops, that should be a comment in one of my previous blogs).
I therefore repeat: I don't hear whining! So be there and be heard now!
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I went to the Get Motivated Seminar today with a bunch of friends from Coldwell Banker.
It was the first time I have had the privilege to visit our new convention center, the BOk Center and I have to say I was overall very impressed even though I would make a few changes if I were queen of the world.
I had to get over my first impression that it looked like the space ship from Lost in Space. Someone mentioned that it reminded her of a big roll of duck tape.
Nevertheless, it is a beautiful new facility and a tribute to our city for getting the thing built. Downtown Tulsa has needed something to get it jump started and this just might be what we needed.
OK, OK -- traffic was gridlocked at 6:30 am because 18,000 people converged on downtown Tulsa at the same time. What else?
I am full of my own opinions, I want to hear from you!
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QuikTrip Corporation celebrated it's 50th anniversary by sponsoring a big bash at River Parks yesterday.
The festivities began at noon on the west bank of the Arkansas River. Leon Russell came with his band and so did Hanson. They are all from Tulsa originally.
The night ended with a giant fireworks display. The event was free to the public and the weather was absolutely gorgeous.
In my opinion, the best part of the entertainment was the trip down memory lane with a video collage of QuikTrip commercials where we all got to see Lamar and his antics again.
Thank you, Chester Cadieux, not just for yesterday's entertainment, but also for having given us a safe clean and enjoyable place to buy gas, pop, coffee, and food for the past fifty years. We know we can count on QuikTrip to be give us a memorable experience every time we go there.
The first QuikTrip stored opened on South Peoria at 52nd Street in the Brookside area in 1958.
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Will Tulsa become the oil capital of the world again?
When I was a kid, my father exported oil field equipment overseas. We lived in New York because New York City was the place from which everyone did their exporting. (He had moved his family there in 1940 from Houston, Texas in order to be in the export business.) However, Daddy's clients were in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Whenever Daddy left home he would stop in Tulsa first, visit his clients, then stop in Houston, and then head on to Mexico, South America, and later on Australia and the far east. He always talked about the Oil Show, the IPE (International Petroleum Exposition), and the fact that Tulsa was "the Oil Capital of the World."
Then in 1976 my parents moved back to Houston along with everyone else who was involved in "the oil boom."
When I moved to Tulsa in 1984 there were still many large oil companies in downtown Tulsa. Then "the oil bust" came and everyone started leaving town and moving to Houston. Tulsa no longer was the de facto oil capital.
Downtown Tulsa Unlimited struggled to keep downtown vibrant. Then The Williams Companies diversified into the telecommunications industry and things started hopping downtown again. Oops, Williams Communications and Worldcom declared bankruptcy in the same year.
The strength of Tulsa's economy has been in the fact that there are many small companies here that support the oil business. While many of the majors had left town for Houston, we still had Helmerich & Paine, Parker Drilling, Hilti, Baker Oil Tools, etc.
Added to the oil industry were businesses specializing in aviation, telecommunications, and call centers.
What will be the impact of Hurricane Ike's having slammed into the Houston ship channel and the refineries along the Gulf of Mexico, not to mention the skyscrapers in downtown Houston?
Will the captains of the oil industry reconsider their having moved their capacity directly into the jaws of storms which seem to be coming with greater ferocity and frequency?
Will the oil industry retreat back into the mid-continent?
Will Tulsa once again become the true "oil capital of the world?"
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Is anyone out there in Active Rain land offering landman services to their sellers to help them acquire the mineral rights under their land?
I have the expertise to do this and I think it would be even more valuable than home staging and other ancillary services that we offer to get the homes sold.
It seems to me that in an era when landmen are doing "roof-top leasing" to get homeowners in subdivisions to lease out their minerals, we really owe it to our homeowners to help them to get those minerals back.
It is our generation that should be doing this. The longer we wait to put the cake back under the icing, the harder it will be to identify the heirs of landowners who retained the mineral rights many years ago.
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