While this is described as being near Yukon, it is in the OKC city limits and will provide tax revenue to Oklahoma City.

http://www.oklahoman.com/article/5365880?embargo=1


A Tennessee developer has plans for a $50 million shopping center at Interstate 40 and Czech Hall Road called the Market at Czech Village.

Tennessee-based GBT Realty Corp. has 80 acres under contract to develop the regional neighborhood center near Yukon.

GBT expects site work on the 450,000-square-foot retail development to begin immediately after it completes the land purchase in spring 2015. The development is expected to open in spring 2016.


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$50 million retail center planned for I-40, Czech Hall Road near Yukon, OK | NewsOK.com (http://m.newsok.com/50-million-retail-center-planned-for-i-40-czech-hall-road-near-yukon-ok/article/5365880)

Czech it out: GBT plans 450,000-square-foot retail center in OKC | The Journal Record (http://journalrecord.com/2014/11/11/czech-it-out-gbt-plans-450000-square-foot-retail-center-in-okc-real-estate/)

Isn't this like the third variation of a plan similar to this for that site by different developers over the last ten years. It seems like there is not much need of it being developed yet, since there is still plenty of room to build in established developments about a mile away either direction on i40.

$50 million retail center planned for I-40, Czech Hall Road near Yukon, OK | News OK (http://newsok.com/50-million-retail-center-planned-for-i-40-czech-hall-road-near-yukon-ok/article/5365880)

Hard to imagine a big-box retailer or fast food place that isn't already in the area:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/czech1.jpg

Yeah the site plan definitely looks like its meant for a Wal-Mart Supercenter but with one only a mile away I don't see that happening. There has been rumors of Crest in Yukon. Could this be that?

I could see a Home Depot and an Academy store in this area. People underestimate the affluence of the area. Lots of people have disposable income here but don't have any convenient stores to spend it in. With the widening of I40 nearly complete seems like a smart move for any retailer.

This shows a proposed signal into the retail center. One would assume they would almost have to have a signal at the East bound entrance and westbound exit. If you exit coming westbound and want to turn left it's can be pretty bad now. This will increase traffic making it dangerous.

Happy Yukon is growing, but man, could the development be any more spread out? This is looking more and more like Edmond. Great for property value, but man traffic is going to be a total nightmare soon.

That's all well and good, but that's not Yukon, that's Oklahoma City. Yukon really should have annexed more land on both sides of I40 back in the day, because they have missed out on quite a bit if you look even further east at the area around Mustang Road.

This is their marketing package.

http://www.gbtrealty.com/uploads/project_542581113a52f.pdf

Czech it out: GBT plans 450,000-square-foot retail center in OKC | The Journal Record (http://journalrecord.com/2014/11/11/czech-it-out-gbt-plans-450000-square-foot-retail-center-in-okc-real-estate/)

Czech it out: GBT plans 450,000-square-foot retail center in OKC

By: Molly M. Fleming The Journal Record November 11, 2014

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma County’s western neighbor, Canadian County, is one of the fastest growing areas in the state. The increasing population attracted GBT Realty Corp. to the area. That’s why company plans to build a $50 million, 450,000-square-foot retail development on 80 acres at the intersection of NW 10th Street, N. Czech Hall Road, and Interstate 40 near Yukon.

The Market at Czech Hall will be the company’s first time building a shopping center in Oklahoma. However, it has been leasing shopping centers since 2008. GBT Realty is still in the process of acquiring the land, which it expects to complete in spring 2015, with the center to open summer 2016.

GBT Realty Managing Director of the Shopping Center Division Jeff Pape said that, over the past year, the company has frequently heard from national retail tenants that they want to expand their presence in the Oklahoma City market.

“We see this as a great opportunity,” Pape said.

The center is 40-percent leased, with final negotiations underway with grocery and sporting goods anchor tenants. The area will also have five junior box stores and 11 outparcels for banks, restaurants and other service providers at the property’s front.

Pape said the company starts with its tenants and then decides on the space it needs.

“There’s been quite a bit of interest,” he said. “It’s been a very good response. We’re very pleased with the activity.”

He said it’s too early to give tenant names, though he said that a majority of the retailers have a presence in Oklahoma City. The company boasts of relationships with Publix Supermarkets, Harris Teeter, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Wal-Mart, Target, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Walgreens, Best Buy, Dollar General, Ross Dress for Less, Bed Bath and Beyond, Marshalls, PetSmart and Old Navy.

Greater Oklahoma City Chamber President of Economic Development Kurt Foreman said the center confirms the growth that is happening in Canadian County. The Yukon School District, which includes some of western Oklahoma City, has grown from about 5,000 students in 2000 to 8,092 students in 2013. The high school was built four years ago with extra classrooms, but all the class space is filled now.

“It’s an attractive place for retail growth because of the numbers there,” he said. “It’s a great opportunity to bring more services to a region in the city that is growing.”

The I-40 corridor already has two shopping centers, the Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City and Westgate Marketplace. Foreman said those places serve different customers, so there will be room for this center, as well. Also, there are residential neighborhoods across the interstate from the Market on Czech Hall Road.

“It’s always positive to see retail growth in this part of Oklahoma City,” Foreman said.

There are Harris Teeter grocers in Dallas so maybe we'll get a Harris Teeter. That would be nice.

Harris Teeter teeter would be nice. I really miss the one I used to shop at in Charlotte. It is a Kroger brand now so if Kroger wants to enter the market they could do it as Harris Teeter, but I would say it would be more likely to be plain Kroger.

Actually after reading their proposal it appears that Phase I will be the grocery tenant. It just so happens that the the shape of the building for the grocery tenant matches the most recent Crest construction at SW 104th and May exactly. According to posts on OKCtalk about the size of that store were listing it as 95,000 sqft. It makes sense. Otherwise Crest is waiting on Yukon/ODOT to get their act together to put a new exit in what was proposed to be a development off Frisco Road. According to what information was available even with no delay that wasn't slated to be completed until 2020.

I could see a Home Depot and an Academy store in this area. People underestimate the affluence of the area. Lots of people have disposable income here but don't have any convenient stores to spend it in. With the widening of I40 nearly complete seems like a smart move for any retailer.

Academy make a lot of sense, otherwise they are pretty much not even going to try and compete with Dicks and the some of the Outlet Shops for the possible customers on the west side of the metro. Home Depo I kind of doubt, there is already a Lowes one mile away from there and they already have a store like five miles away.

What an awful development. This is an insult to Czech villages.

Granted, I am happy to see the retail tax going to OKC and not Yukon.

Wasn't OKC considering lowering parking requirements for developments like this, some how it seems like it has even more than the average ridiculous amount (only plausibly filled the Saturday before Christmas)

That's all well and good, but that's not Yukon, that's Oklahoma City. Yukon really should have annexed more land on both sides of I40 back in the day, because they have missed out on quite a bit if you look even further east at the area around Mustang Road.

I'm not positive but it's possible that OKC had annexed that area before Yukon started much in the way of annexing. When that was happening few had any idea about what might be coming in the way of new developments. There was virtually nothing along I40 in the Yukon area than.

It's interesting they bring up the growth of the Yukon school district. Over the past year, the Mustang school district grew at nearly 9x the rate of Yukon and has almost 3k more students. The city of Tukon has managed to somehow stall growth. I suspect it has a lot to do with the location of the floodplain of the river, the location of Express Ranch, and the lack of major roads to provide egress from I40 to the northern areas of Yukon.

Wasn't OKC considering lowering parking requirements for developments like this, some how it seems like it has even more than the average ridiculous amount (only plausibly filled the Saturday before Christmas)

If all of the out parcels are filled the amount of parking is nowhere near excessive. The ratio of parking spaces to stores appears to be much less than someplace like Westgate Marketplace.

It's interesting they bring up the growth of the Yukon school district. Over the past year, the Mustang school district grew at nearly 9x the rate of Yukon and has almost 3k more students. The city of Tukon has managed to somehow stall growth. I suspect it has a lot to do with the location of the floodplain of the river, the location of Express Ranch, and the lack of major roads to provide egress from I40 to the northern areas of Yukon.

Yukon has mostly been growing south to i40 and east to the lake & now the Turnpike for decades, there just does not seem to have been much reason to build north or west to this point, this growth passed the city boarders going south & east years ago and finally past the school boarder on the south side. It is not like there is much of a drop off going to Mustang schools, so there is little reason for home buyers to not fill up the OKC land that was the natural progression of these trends, the area has easy access to i40 and the Yukon/OKC shopping centers off i40 in the area. I do not see this trend changing till the farmland in OKC off i40 in the area is full enough that westward growth becomes more appealing to developers.

Most of the growth in Yukon schools is coming from development near the Turnpike and some from the banner area for upper levels.

It's interesting they bring up the growth of the Yukon school district. Over the past year, the Mustang school district grew at nearly 9x the rate of Yukon and has almost 3k more students. The city of Tukon has managed to somehow stall growth. I suspect it has a lot to do with the location of the floodplain of the river, the location of Express Ranch, and the lack of major roads to provide egress from I40 to the northern areas of Yukon.

Kilpatrick

Is the development on Frisco Road dead or are both still planned?

Still on as far as I have heard.

I think there are still a lot of moving parts for the Frisco road development. I wouldn't plan on it in the next year or 2 from what I've heard. I do bet it still happens at some point though.

Hard to imagine a big-box retailer or fast food place that isn't already in the area:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/czech1.jpgthe west side doesn't have an Old Navy. They've been rumored for many years but nothing came to fruition. The inner west side of OKC could support another Target, Costco, SAMs is small and outdated, I could think of a handful of others west side is missing, even Academy.

It's interesting they bring up the growth of the Yukon school district. Over the past year, the Mustang school district grew at nearly 9x the rate of Yukon and has almost 3k more students. The city of Tukon has managed to somehow stall growth. I suspect it has a lot to do with the location of the floodplain of the river, the location of Express Ranch, and the lack of major roads to provide egress from I40 to the northern areas of Yukon.

Are you kidding ? There is an exit from the Kilpatrick on HWY 66 on the Northeast side. Hwy 66 is a divided four lane from the East on the North side . You have access from I-40 on GB Blvd, Czech Hall and Mustang Rd., (all 4 lane roads) all for a mere 2.5 miles of town North to the floodplain.
There are no egress problems to Yukon from East, South or West.

Grow west: Despite GBT plans, Yukon sticks with Frisco Road retail development | The Journal Record (http://journalrecord.com/2014/11/17/grow-west-despite-gbt-plans-yukon-sticks-with-frisco-road-retail-development-real-estate/)

Grow west: Despite GBT plans, Yukon sticks with Frisco Road retail development | The Journal Record (http://journalrecord.com/2014/11/17/grow-west-despite-gbt-plans-yukon-sticks-with-frisco-road-retail-development-real-estate/)

Not surprised. Even though Yukon says that development in OKC helps them (which it does), they'd still much rather have businesses in their city limits.

Based on what I've seen and the guy I've talked to at Academy, I'd bet they end up there. I could also see a Marshals or Old Navy going in as well.

That might be an excellent place for a fifth WinCo location, especially thanks to its proximity to Wal-Mart.

Just please put in a Penneys so I don't have to drive my Wife across town!

Speaking of that, the Cosby Ranch bldg in Mustang was going to be a live in treatment center for girls age 13-17. The City Council voted against the zoning approval b/c the center would not bring in any money to Mustang. I'm in complete agreement with that too. There are only 12 sq miles in the city limits and with churches buying up land and taking more of that area, where is the tax base going to come from? I hope the Mustang City council keeps this in mind going forward.

Grow west: Despite GBT plans, Yukon sticks with Frisco Road retail development | The Journal Record (http://journalrecord.com/2014/11/17/grow-west-despite-gbt-plans-yukon-sticks-with-frisco-road-retail-development-real-estate/)

Grow west: Despite GBT plans, Yukon sticks with Frisco Road retail development

By: Molly M. Fleming The Journal Record November 17, 2014

YUKON – GBT Realty Corp. announced last week plans to build a 450,000-square-foot retail center at Interstate 40 and Czech Hall Road in Oklahoma City. Despite the proximity, the city of Yukon has not changed its plans to build a 750,000-square-foot retail center at Interstate 40 and Frisco Road.

“It’s the right thing to do,” said Grayson Bottom, Yukon city manager. “We’ve gone way too far to back off now.”

The city’s work on the area helped spur the Oklahoma Department of Transportation into changing its eight-year plan, which will now include creating an eastbound and westbound Frisco Road exit. The interchange is in the city’s tax increment finance district, which would fund the city’s portion of the construction costs. The total estimated construction bill is $16 million, with the city funding $5.6 million. The city will also fund the engineering and environmental studies, as well as any utility line relocations.

For the retail site’s development, the city is working with Louisiana-based Prairie West Properties LLC. The site is west of Canadian Valley Hospital. Yukon Economic Development Authority Executive Director Larry Mitchell said the city has recently acquired the right of way to start developing the road to the retail site.

While it’s not uncommon to have retail centers close to each other, the west Oklahoma City-Yukon area will have a combined 1.2 million square feet in new retail space. Price Edwards & Co. Senior Vice President of Retail Jim Parrack said he thinks the area can support that much new development.

“The outlet mall and the Westgate Marketplace have proven that the area was under-retailed for a long period of time,” he said. “Also, the area draws significantly from western Oklahoma. Western Oklahoma is doing really well. There’s more money and more people out there that come back to Oklahoma City. I think if they’re done right, they’ll be successful. There’s still a pretty good number of retailers that ask about that area of town.”

Parrack spoke recently about the lack of Class A retail space in Oklahoma City. He said he thinks the two new centers will aid retailers that want to be in west Oklahoma City, but he doesn’t expect companies to settle for those spaces rather than the market they really want.

“I don’t think people will go over there that can’t find a place in Moore,” he said. “For people that want to be in west, northwest Oklahoma, I think the new centers will attract those folks.”

The Frisco Road exit will also lead to a 250-acre sports complex at Frisco Road and U.S. 66. The complex could have facilities for softball, baseball and soccer.

“Yukon didn’t have the facilities to accommodate the growing interest in those sports,” Mitchell said. “They were undersized. We didn’t have enough room for parking. There were teams going to other communities for tournaments, but that wasn’t the motivation.”

Mitchell said with the school district’s football field, the bar was set high for athletic facilities. Now, the city is trying to provide equal-quality venues and has partnered with a consortium of five companies to complete the plan. Those companies will help with financing, master planning, and the project’s development and construction.

“We will control what we can control,” Bottom said.

I thought Penney's was going out of business.

I thought Penney's was going out of business.

I certainly would not be investing in them but they were planning a Yukon location near the Target store but backed out since the shopping center was opening up just after the recession started.

I certainly would not be investing in them but they were planning a Yukon location near the Target store but backed out since the shopping center was opening up just after the recession started.

I still shop there, I just always hear about how they are doing poorly.

I'm not kidding.

I hope somebody decides to use some of the space for a Polka Palace.

I'm not kidding.

I hope somebody decides to use some of the space for a Polka Palace.

Czech Hall is just a block away .....

This thread probably could benefit from being merged with the other one.

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Are you kidding ? There is an exit from the Kilpatrick on HWY 66 on the Northeast side. Hwy 66 is a divided four lane from the East on the North side . You have access from I-40 on GB Blvd, Czech Hall and Mustang Rd., (all 4 lane roads) all for a mere 2.5 miles of town North to the floodplain.
There are no egress problems to Yukon from East, South or West.

Wow, where to start here? Thank you for emphasizing my main point. There are NO major roads to provide egress from I40 to the northern areas of Yukon. I'm making the point about access to the undeveloped portions of the city of Yukon whose northern boundary is Wilshire.

1. As pointed out there is the Kilpatrick turnpike. No disagreement there, so my choices are to exit on either Main St or Wilshire. Anything north of Main St is a two lane unimproved asphalt road and if you consider Wilshire west of Kilpatrick as sufficient to support any sort of regular traffic you are sorely mistaken.

2. Main St in Yukon is bisected by a grade level railroad crossing which will at times impede traffic. Main St west of Ranchwood is also limited to 30 mph until you are west of Garth Brooks.

3. Mustang Rd doesn't exist in Yukon. That road is named Yukon Parkway within city limits. It becomes a two lane unimproved asphalt road north of Main St. and is limited to 35 mph north of the railroad tracks.

4. Czech Hall Rd doesn't exit in Yukon. That road is named Cornwell within city limits. North of Main St it becomes a narrow two lane highway but it does gain a shoulder 1/4 mile south of Wilshire.

5. Garth Brooks Blvd becomes a two lane unimproved asphalt road north of Main St. The speed on Garth Brooks is limited to 35 mph.

In addition Yukon is patrolled by an over zealous police force that will ticket you for 1 mph over the limit. This makes traversing across the developed city area a big pain.
The main gist of all this is going to be that for the most part Yukon is tapped out on development except for the land left over in the Frisco Rd area and anything that hasn't been developed along Main St. All it will take is for Walmart to decide it wants to relocate across I40 to build a larger store and Yukon's commercial tax base will collapse.

Wow, where to start here? Thank you for emphasizing my main point. There are NO major roads to provide egress from I40 to the northern areas of Yukon. I'm making the point about access to the undeveloped portions of the city of Yukon whose northern boundary is Wilshire.
1. As pointed out there is the Kilpatrick turnpike. No disagreement there, so my choices are to exit on either Main St or Wilshire. Anything north of Main St is a two lane unimproved asphalt road and if you consider Wilshire west of Kilpatrick as sufficient to support any sort of regular traffic you are sorely mistaken.

2. Main St in Yukon is bisected by a grade level railroad crossing which will at times impede traffic. Main St west of Ranchwood is also limited to 30 mph until you are west of Garth Brooks.

3. Mustang Rd doesn't exist in Yukon. That road is named Yukon Parkway within city limits. It becomes a two lane unimproved asphalt road north of Main St. and is limited to 35 mph north of the railroad tracks.

4. Czech Hall Rd doesn't exit in Yukon. That road is named Cornwell within city limits. North of Main St it becomes a narrow two lane highway but it does gain a shoulder 1/4 mile south of Wilshire.

5. Garth Brooks Blvd becomes a two lane unimproved asphalt road north of Main St. The speed on Garth Brooks is limited to 35 mph.

In addition Yukon is patrolled by an over zealous police force that will ticket you for 1 mph over the limit. This makes traversing across the developed city area a big pain.
The main gist of all this is going to be that for the most part Yukon is tapped out on development except for the land left over in the Frisco Rd area and anything that hasn't been developed along Main St. All it will take is for Walmart to decide it wants to relocate across I40 to build a larger store and Yukon's commercial tax base will collapse.

Your point is ? You said no major roads to the North side of Yukon. .First off, why would you need a lot of egress to farmland ?. well, on GB Blvd, from I-40 it's only 1.5 miles to the RR tracks, and points to the North will never be developed because of the 100 year flood plain.
I know Yukon better than most, I'm good friends with Shirley Cornwell whose grandpa Cornwell Avenue was named after. I moved there when the population was around 3,000. And in the 60's we called it Czech Hall Rd and Cornwell as the same. Yukon Parkway has been Yukon Parkway for just a few years now, and we all know why. The exit for Czech and Cornwell is more about Czech Hall Rd than Cornwell. There is no egress from I-40 to Cornwell, it's either 10th Street or Czech Hall. My point about Mustang Road, which is the exit from I-40, is why I used it as the reference point. You know how long that 2 mile stretch of Yukon Parkway has been called Mustang Road ? Well, it's been Mustang Road for decades.
But besides all this technical rash, out of the 26 or so square miles of Yukon, the North Canadian river bottom makes up the majority of the corporate city limits, all the way to Banner from Sara Road. Yukon has more 4 lane roads in it's population density than it really needs.
Now what your point is about - Undeveloped land that will never be developed in a flood plain ? Even though my reference was about you claiming NO egress from I-40. You have three 2 lane roads that serve that area off of main street. Richland, Cemetery and St HWY 4, lets call it this instead of Cornwell. Now there is a state plan to increase this road to 4 lanes in the works, but it's still years out. But for the areas to the Northwest, I don't think the sparseness in the area would qualify.
Tax base collapse ? On GB Blvd, everything South of the interstate where the building is booming is in Yukon, no worry about a collapse there.
And to end it.... Cops giving a ticket for 1 MPH over ? You just lost all credibility.

Just out of curiosity I checked FEMA's site and the flood zones around the river is generally just between a quarter mile to a half mile wide (north to south) in Yukon, so in most places the established parts of Yukon can continue expanding between a mile to a mile and a half north. It is going to be a long time before the area around Wilshire that far west is going to be marketable as something other than it is now.

Just out of curiosity I checked FEMA's site and the flood zones around the river is generally just between a quarter mile to a half mile wide (north to south) in Yukon, so in most places the established parts of Yukon can continue expanding at least two miles north. It is going to be a long time before Wilshire that far west is going to be marketable as something other than it is now.

North of Wilshire is OKC. Yukon is very limited as far as buildable land goes, like was pointed out, it's west along old 66 is about it, and a few of the farmers that I know out there won't sell.

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Czech Hall shopping center in west OKC delayed | News OK (http://newsok.com/czech-hall-shopping-center-in-west-okc-delayed/article/5465943)

OKCTalk - Academy to anchor huge shopping center near Yukon (http://www.okctalk.com/content/233-academy-anchor-huge-shopping-center-near-yukon.html)

Had a hunch Academy would put a store there.

At least OKC didnt give them a couiple million to open a store here like Enid did.

This is a nice win for OKC's coffers though, being that this will get most of its shoppers from Yukon and Mustang yet OKC gets the sales taxes.

OKCTalk - Academy to anchor huge shopping center near Yukon (http://www.okctalk.com/content/233-academy-anchor-huge-shopping-center-near-yukon.html)
So did they scale this down because earlier renderings showed a much larger plan and bigger stores. Are they going to develop this and let someone else develop the other part of it or is this just their first phase?

So did they scale this down because earlier renderings showed a much larger plan and bigger stores. Are they going to develop this and let someone else develop the other part of it or is this just their first phase?

I like the pictures of the first plan. This new picture...not so much. So basically they're just going to build less than a dozen storefronts and leave the remainder of the development to some mythical 'others'? TWO traffic lights have been approved for what is basically a strip mall now.

They are just doing the project in phases, as in the norm.

Look at Westgate Marketplace, University North Park, etc. They were all done in the same manner.

I'm still waiting for that JC Penneys store they were supposed to build in the Yukon area. Driving the Wife to Moore or Quail Springs on Sundays gets in the way of my NFL viewing.

I'm still waiting for that JC Penneys store they were supposed to build in the Yukon area. Driving the Wife to Moore or Quail Springs on Sundays gets in the way of my NFL viewing.

Get her a drivers license.

They are just doing the project in phases, as in the norm.

Look at Westgate Marketplace, University North Park, etc. They were all done in the same manner.

I'm not arguing, just asking for clarification. The new picture says future development by others, rather than Phase II. Does GTB Realty plan to continue development, or are they doing a small portion and making the remainder of the site available for others to complete?

I'm still waiting for that JC Penneys store they were supposed to build in the Yukon area. Driving the Wife to Moore or Quail Springs on Sundays gets in the way of my NFL viewing.

JC Penneys got cold feet about opening a store (originally to be in the one of the buildings adjacent to Target) since when the recession hit at the same time the building was ready for them to move in, someone else took the space.

Also between they time they originally had planned moving there and the buildings being finished, they were in damage control mode after an attempt to change their model went bad, they were cash strapped from at least that time and continued on a downward spiral till about two years ago when near bankruptcy. Who knows if they will try again, there trend has mostly closing stores (granted one of their problems is many of their stores are in declining malls with time left on a lease)

Academy to open store in development near Yukon | News OK (http://newsok.com/academy-to-open-store-in-development-near-yukon/article/5471023)

Apparently this project is a back alive supposedly as a "Main Street USA " model per KOSU morning report.