Big employer taking hard look at OKC

[Just the facts]

I'm still hoping to find out what happened with the OKC negotiations.

As soonerguru said - I hope OKC walked away from the table on this deal.

[KenRagsdale]

In addition to all of the above, the Cherokee Nation kicked-in $500,000 to sweeten the deal. ("Tulsa World", 122513)

[catch22]

Good for Tulsa I guess; but this is the perfect definition of a Pyrrhic victory. You expend more resources to win than you acquire in the victory.

[venture]

Imagine a country where tax incentives and related items such as these weren't permitted and everyone had to compete on an equal playing field...tax wise.

[LakeEffect]

Imagine a country where tax incentives and related items such as these weren't permitted and everyone had to compete on an equal playing field...tax wise.

That's the biggest problem in "economic development". No one really WANTS to give out incentives, in the econ. dev. business, but because some do, you get into a horrible spiral of having to out-do others for some projects.