A local team of developers and investors is one step closer to converting a Bricktown warehouse into affordable apartments with help from funds designated to improve blighted areas. While Bricktown is hardly an area of blight, it once was; but along with Downtown, it has benefited from tax increment finance dollars. Read more

In the world of federal grant applications, progress often can be measured in months.

But the stars aligned at the end of the last fiscal year for the Norman Economic Development Coalition. And Executive Director Don Wood says his organization has an extra $2.5 million to show for it.

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St. Anthony Hospital is set to embark on two projects that will expand its MidTown Oklahoma City campus and create a new facility in Mustang. The cost of the combined projects is about $83 million. Read more

A 124-room Holiday Inn Express will replace the former Steffen’s Ice Cream building in Bricktown. Work will begin this spring, and be completed within the next 12 months. A building permit filed with the city listed the job value of the project at $18 million. Read more

As the Oklahoma City Thunder prepares to begin the 2012-2013 season, fans will have additional seating options in former press boxes at the top of the arena. Read more

If one little girl has her way, the MAPS 3 f park planned for Downtown Oklahoma City will include a castle surrounded by a moat. That, a carousel and a boardwalk along the Oklahoma River were just a few of the suggestions brought forth by members of the public who attended a Sept. 13 meeting about the park. Read more

Developer Randy Hogan returned to the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority Oct. 18 with revised plans for a building in Lower Bricktown. The original design was criticized by OCURA commissioners last month for the front of it being oriented toward a parking lot, rather than facing the Bricktown Canal, and for a narrow walkway between the proposed building and its neighbor to the east, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill. Read more

After a competitive process to redevelop a city block in MidTown, developer Gary Brooks broke ground Oct. 18 at the Edge. Read more

At the September Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Meeting, developer Randy Hogan’s plans for a restaurant building along the Bricktown Canal faced opposition, and he was asked to reexamine the project. Read more

A master plan for sidewalks in the MAPS 3 program that faced tough questions by the Oklahoma City Council is being sent back to the Council for approval virtually unchanged. Read more

Around the former home of Kerr McGee, purchased by SandRidge Energy in 2007, crews are working to create SandRidge Commons, the company’s home base in Downtown Oklahoma City. Read more

If the entrance to a proposed building in Lower Bricktown is not changed, developer Randy Hogan may face a long road ahead in his plans to build along the Bricktown Canal. The project was delayed for at least a month after the Sept. 19 Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority meeting, where commissioners voiced their disapproval at Hogan’s plans to have the main entrance face a parking lot rather than the canal. Read more

When Roy Williams visits other cities on official business, he looks for things that worked, things that didn’t, and creative economic initiatives and the subsequent growing pains every city experiences as it increases in population and stature. Read more

It may not look like much now, but over the next two years, Oklahoma City will be reintroduced to Kerr and Couch parks downtown. A transformation is under way at the adjoining parks in a joint effort by the city of Oklahoma City, SandRidge Energy and Chesapeake Energy. Read more

Four teams of architectural firms were notified Aug. 8 that they will be presenting MAPS 3 convention center concepts on Sept. 21 before the Consultant Review Committee. Read more