It's opening day for the Tulsa Drillers at Oneok Field, and some of the downtown property owners who are forced to pay for its construction filed a petition today for summary judgment in their lawsuit to overturn the assessment for the Tulsa Stadium Improvement District. The case against the ballpark...
Posted by Michael Bates on April 8, 2010 9:58 PM
Photo by Daniel Hickman. On Saturday I went to a barbecue with lots of good food and a wide variety of people. One of the highlights of the day was a lesson in the economics of downtown preservation and demolition. In the midst of a political discussion across the...
Posted by Michael Bates on September 14, 2009 12:27 PM
I'm in the throes of a major effort at work and only have time to throw you a few links to good reading elsewhere: For your viewing pleasure, Tulsa TV Memories links to the Life archive and photos from February 1952 of KOTV general manager Helen Alvarez. Besides photos of...
Posted by Michael Bates on June 10, 2009 8:18 AM
I've got some thoughts about the Council's 5-4 vote to approve the assessment roll of the Tulsa Stadium Improvement District -- the controversial funding mechanism for funding the Tulsa Drillers new downtown baseball stadium -- but no time right now. Watch for something Monday morning. Steven Roemerman has posted some...
Posted by Michael Bates on June 6, 2009 4:29 PM
Tulsa City Councilor Rick Westcott emailed me a short time ago to point out the bind into which downtown property owners have been put by Mayor Kathy Taylor's administration's insistence that owners had only limited rights to protest the assessment for the new Tulsa Stadium Improvement District, which will finance...
Posted by Michael Bates on May 28, 2009 12:58 PM
Last fall Novus Homes LLC, W3 Development LLC, and principals of the two companies filed suit against Tulsa Development Authority for breach of contract involving TDA's termination of the exclusive negotiating period with Novus Homes LLC for redevelopment of the vacant the half-block west of Elgin Avenue between Archer and...
Posted by Michael Bates on April 15, 2009 5:39 PM
A surprising item in today's Whirled: The Tulsa Stadium Trust received only one bid Monday to construct a nearly $40 million downtown baseball stadium and no bids to finance $25 million of its cost. The construction bid came from Tulsa Stadium Construction Co. LLC, which guarantees that it will build...
Posted by Michael Bates on December 2, 2008 11:49 PM
I've been seeing e-mail traffic urging people to show up at tonight's City Council meeting in support of the Tulsa Stadium Trust. I understand that Bank of Oklahoma and other downtown employers are trying to pack the council chambers tonight. Those who show up should remember that the vote isn't...
Posted by Michael Bates on September 11, 2008 12:13 PM
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