Unpopular opinion but I don't hate the logo. That said, I think everything related to this olympics should focus as heavily as possible on Oklahoma City, rather than the state of Oklahoma. Similar to the Thunder intentionally being the OKC Thunder rather than the OK Thunder, this should be a celebration of the strides our city has made to get to this point, not the state.
Especially since the OKC Chamber is taking the financial risk, the people of OKC have paid for the facilities that made this possible (similar to the Thunder), and because OKC will be putting even more money into all this. I do think the state will come up with some money, but city residents have already made most of the investment. Few realize the city subsidizes Riversport to the tune of $5 million a year.
Any success in OKC is almost in spite of the rest of the state dragging us down.
I doubt the official media recommendation for location was ever going to be anything other than Oklahoma City, the Olympics seem strict on sticking with city names, with the other reference to location recommended while talking about events here as being part of the LA games in general.
Right, just saying that the only reason this is happening at all is due to OKC investing in itself, as well as the efforts of Mayor Holt (tight with LA28 leader Garcetti) and Mike Knopp (built relationships with the international canoe/kayak community).
The State had zero to do with any of this, at least as far as I know.
Really, think about where Oklahoma would be without the heroic efforts of OKC. I wish OKC could secede from the state and just do our own thing.
Amen!
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
Between the 2010 and 2020 census, Oklahoma grew by 208,000.
During the same period, the OKC MSA grew by 173,000. Pretty much says it all.
Oklahoma County bought the old GM plant and that was a huge part of the growth. And the City owns all the surrounding land where the rest of the expansion has happened and is planned.
The state offered some incentives and the City and County many more, but almost all the major funding came at the federal level. I realize local politicians helped secure that funding.
When is the City of LA approving the venue changes that move events from within the City of LA to here? Are there concerns the City of LA won't approve?
and the fact that I argued (and got crucified), that Tulsa's MSA is as large area wise as OKC's CSA. I know that includes Osage County, the state's largest by area and least dense; but OKC's MSA also includes Lincoln County (large and not dense) as well. And even if you dropped Osage, Tulsa's MSA would still be larger than OKC's MSA in area. Anyways.
173,000 is a factor of 2.2 over 78,000, meaning OKC's Metro growth was more than double Tulsa's during the last census decade. Don't even talk about city. It's not keeping pace (but in fairness, they are adding at the natl avg which does help offset the loss in the rest of the state).
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
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