FIVE potential Tulsa sites for USL1 or MLS

USRufnex · Nov 14, 2007

1. Jenks River District Devlopment group gets approval for TIF development.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=11&articleID=071114_1_A9_hSome68134

JENKS -- Despite opposition from Jenks Public Schools, a review committee approved a tax increment financing district that would help the River District Development Group pay for infrastructure costs on a $1 billion development.

The 8-3 vote Tuesday supports diverting one penny of the Jenks sales tax and the property taxes the development is estimated to generate to cover a projected $294 million in infrastructure costs over an 18-year period.
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2. Tulsa Landing on the west bank of the river

https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=607695

http://www.tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=46194&page=1

The “Tulsa Landing” concept was pitched to voters five days prior to the Oct. 9 election. Voters were promised the $500 million lifestyle entertainment complex would happen once they approved the .04 percent sales tax increase.

Voters rejected the tax by a 6,000-vote margin.

The landing concept is cutting edge, Cox said.

“Anytime there is a project that brings all the components together, it works,” he said. “People will readily come.”

Passage of the tax would have greased the skids, Cox admitted.

“We would be taking the elevator up,” Cox said. “At this point we are on the stairs, and we will be taking it step by step.”

“We are still doing what we said we would do downtown and still do the river,” Himelfarb said. “It will just take a different arrangement in terms of land acquisition and structure of some sort of deal.”
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3. East Village/East End downtown Tulsa development

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=071109_238_A1_hAdow60366

Economic Development Director Don Himelfarb said the city has spoken to all of the principals "and we are actively engaged in trying to make something happen on the east side of downtown."

Himelfarb would not say whether the East Village area would again be considered as a possible future home for the Tulsa Drillers.

In the summer of 2006, Global Development of Washington, D.C., proposed transforming 34 acres, which included the parcels now under option with Seay and Williams, into a mixed-use development that would include a new minor-league baseball stadium to house the Drillers.

Global had issues with some of the land purchases, allowing Williams to come in and negotiate sale contracts on land Global had planned for the stadium.
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---for those who don't know, these Global Development people were the same folks who bought DC United in summer 2005, and were proposing an MLS stadium for Tulsa in late 2005... then backed out of the DC United deal, and the soccer stadium for Tulsa became this...
http://www.globaldevelopmentpartners.com/EastEnd.html
https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=282013

4. A newly renovated Chapman Stadium (Skelly Stadium)

https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=526660
---new press box with 20 luxury suites
---reduction of capacity to 26,000 fixed seats
---removal of the blue/gold school colors in the stadium, replaced by Tennessee ledgestone and beige
---the field will be replaced, no public reports confirming field turf or grass yet

5. NEO-Broken Arrow Stadium

This option has zero news stories yet but when you hear more than one rumor, well...
evidently, the folks in Tahlequah would have no problems playing some home games in Broken Arrow every year if the stadium were built... seems far-fetched, but evidently there's been talk... and BA wants to compete with Jenks and Tulsa...
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070918_1_A15_hDesp05642

The city had sought a research-based approach to help determine people's perception of the city and a vision for its future, Sterling said.

"This is something that has been in discussion for several years -- that a new community brand should be established," Sterling said.

He said the purpose of the rebranding is to help attract, retain and expand the leisure- and business-travel market and reinforce the city's commitment to business and economic vitality.
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