The Tulsa World has an article up about recent moves by the Tulsa Development Authority to entice a new investor into replacing the grocery store formerly operated by Albertson’s, at Pine and N Peoria. This is great news, since there are no other full-size grocery stores on the north side of town – a huge nutrition barrier. The authority had required another parcel of the land to be developed by November 2009, but that requirement has been pushed back five years. Commonsensical enough, no? If you can’t keep a grocery store open in the location, it doesn’t make much sense to require a grocery store + more new development (though new development is needed).
For some reason I decided to risk my hopefulness for the area to be deflated by the inane commenters of TulsaWorld.com. What a mistake… (more…)
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