Urban Renewal?

According to various news outlets the city of Tulsa and the Tulsa Drillers (minor league affiliate of the NL Champion Colorado Rockies) have reached an agreement to negotiate a deal to keep the Drillers from moving to Jenks (AKA Yuppieville). The two parties have until May 30 to reach an agreement that involves building a baseball stadium in the east-side of Downtown (1st-6th and Elgin). You know, the part of Downtown where all the restaurants and bars are...the part where they should of built the BOK Center...the part where they had originally, foolishly planned on building a Wal-Mart...that part.

This sounds like a good deal for the city, and as far as Jenks is concerned...fuck Jenks. One of the big arguments I've heard being tossed around is the fact that people from Broken Arrow, Bixby and Jenks don't want to have to drive to Midtown on Downtown to watch a baseball game, which is hurting the ticket sales. Refer to previous sentence for that resolution to that argument. Specifically the part right after the ellipses. There ya go.

Hopefully the city government has started to finally commit to making Downtown exciting and comparable to Oklahoma City's downtown which is far superior to ours. I pray they have to level that death-trap Club UV or whatever the fuck it's changed its name to now. Only 4 people shot in the last year? That's not too bad, at all.

A developer is planning on spending $30 million on land in the historic Greenwood district to put in some kind of development (the details are understandably hazy). For those of you that don't know, the entire district of Greenwood was burnt to the ground in the 1921 race riots, evidently the worst in U.S. history. It's only taken 87 years to begin some kind of development there, which is the most apt illustration of the way Tulsa does business. Way to go, team!