The Tulsa Region has a long history of business success,starting with the oil boom in the early 1900s that brought many oil barons to the city. Oil was discov-ered just south of Tulsa in 1905—yielding the sweetest crude the world had ever seen. At one time, this city was the largest oil-producing center on earth, with more than 400 oil companies located here. Tulsa soon became known as the “Oil Capital of the World.”
Since that time, many other industries have found success here: manufacturing, aerospace and transportation, to name a few. Because of area’s low cost of doing business and skilled workforce, it is an ideal location for business growth. And as a result, today Tulsa is a vibrant city with many diverse, profitable industries and an ever-expanding array of living and entertainment opportunities.
Bartlesville Development Corporation Bixby Metro Chamber of Commerce
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MidAmerica Industrial Park
Miami Area Economic Development Service Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Muskogee City / County Port Authority The Osage Nation
Owasso Chamber of Commerce Skiatook Chamber of Commerce Town of Skiatook
Tulsa Airport Authority
Tulsa County Industrial Authority Tulsa Regional Chamber
IT IS HOME TO ONE OF THE WORLD’S
LARGEST AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
MAINTENANCE BASES.
American Airlines’ 3.3-million-square-foot Maintenance & Engineering Center is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Besides maintaining its own fleet, American solicits third-party aircraft maintenance and recently completed construction on a new $9.8 million, 81,400-square-foot, wide-body aircraft hangar at Tulsa International Airport.
IT IS GROWING ITS ENERGY SECTOR.
Energy plays a significant role in the region’s economy,employing thousandsand contributing to a diverse economy. Highlights of recent growth in Tulsa/Northeast Oklahoma include the establishment of Word Industries and Borets-Weatherford’s North American headquarters, plus expansions of Midstates Petroleum, Baker Hughes and Cimarex. Other growing energy companies include Williams, ONEOK, Helmerich & Payne, Samson Investment Co., ConocoPhillips, and HollyFrontier Corp. Examples of Tulsa’s growing alternative energy sector include Blue Energy Fuels, a designer/builder of CNG fueling stations.
IT IS NURTURING ITS PROGRESSIVE
CORPORATIONS.
The region is home to headquartered companies and regional offices including
ConocoPhillips, FlightSafety, QuikTrip Corporation, US Cellular, Verizon, The Bama Companies, Williams Companies and NORDAM. For the 12th straight year, convenience store giant QuikTrip once again captured a spot on Fortune magazine’s 2014 list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” QuikTrip employs nearly 12,000 people nationwide.
IT IS INVESTING IN ITS
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.
The Tulsa International Airport (TUL) is undergoing a five-year capital improvement plan for
22 projects to rehab existing infrastructure and add new infrastructure for a total of $150 million. Aside from its 4,000 acres, the airport has an additional 700 acres considered “shovel ready.” The airport serves five million annuallyfrom the four-state region of northeast Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas.
IT IS HOME TO THE NATION’S
MOST INLAND WATER PORT.
The Tulsa Port of Catoosa offersyear-round, ice-free barge servicewith river flow levels controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and is located at the head of navigation for the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System in northeast Oklahoma. The port’s 2,000-acre industrial park is a fully equipped, multimodal transportation center.
IT IS ATTRACTING
YOUNG, CREATIVE
TALENT.
With more than 7,000 members, Tulsa’s Young Professionals (TYPros) is considered among the
largest organizations of its kind in the United States
and serves as a best practices role model for other metro regions. Part of its mission is to attract and retain college gradu-ates and young professionals. TYPros is also considered an up-and-coming political force.
IT IS PRODUCING HIGHLY SKILLED
WORKERS AT ITS MANY COLLEGES
AND UNIVERSITIES.
The Tulsa Region is home toseven progressive colleges and universitiesthat have thousands of well-trained graduates each year. Both state schools, OSU-Tulsa and OU-Tulsa, provide higher ed/graduate degrees right here in the city, and the OU-Tulsa Schusterman Center offers a number of advanced medical pro-grams. The University of Tulsa has a long list of notable undergraduate degrees, a law school and a petroleum engineering school ratedNo. 4 in the nation. Oral Roberts University, a private Christian school started by the late Oral Roberts, is known for its graduate seminary and nursing and social services. Oklahoma’s largest community college, Tulsa Community College, is found here, as well as the highly specialized Spartan School of Aeronautics, one of the premier aviation and flight schools in the country. The oldest and largest tech school in the Oklahoma Tech Career System, Tulsa Tech, is located here, too. Whatever your field of business, you’ll find qualified new hires here to help grow your business.
IT IS TRAINING STUDENTS
TO DEFEND AMERICA’S
CYBERSPACE.
The University of Tulsa (TU) was recently ranked in the top 100 national universities
in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges 2012.” TU’s Institute for Information Security
(iSec) faculty and staff have produced some of the country’s leading professionals in information security, digital forensics, Internet security, and telecommunications security.
IT IS GROWING IN ITS DIVERSITY.
Oklahoma ranks among thetop in the nationfor percentage increase in the Hispanic population between the 2000 census and 2010 population estimates. The estimated increase is 85 percent. Hispanics account for 9.1 percent of the Tulsa MSA’s population of 957,933 people.
IT IS CONSIDERED AN ACCEPTING
AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY.
An initiative of the Tulsa Regional Chamber, Mosaic’s mission is toleverage the region’s diversity
to create an inclusive community and improve the economic and social climate in the Tulsa region. Chamber leadership has expanded the Chamber’s long-term strategic plan to include a diversity and inclusion objective in every facet of all programs.
IT PUMPED NEARLY $500 MILLION IN
PUBLIC MONEY INTO 1.4 SQUARE MILES
OF DOWNTOWN.
A new arena, new office towers, a renovated convention center, new hotels, new lofts, more parking, street improvements, better way-finding, new street lighting, new parks, new retail, new bars and restaurants, a new ballpark, new art center, new and improving entertainment venues, and more are found in downtown Tulsa. When famed architect César Pelli unveiled his design concept for Tulsa’s 18,000-seat BOK Center,he described a structure “full of movement, speed and life that will speak to the 21st century.” The BOK Center joins famous Pelli-designed structures such as the World Financial Center and Carnegie Hall Tower in New York City, Canary Wharf Tower in London, and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.
IT RENOVATED AND EXPANDED
ITS CONVENTION CENTER.
Tulsans invested more than $50 million into the Cox Business Center. The 200,000-square-foot convention center offers 35 breakout rooms, a9,000-seat arena and Oklahoma’s largest ballroom.
IT MOVED ITS BALLPARK TO THE HEART
OF DOWNTOWN.
The Tulsa Drillers, the city’s AA baseball club, is part ofthe oldest professional sports franchise in the city of Tulsa. Professional baseball began in Tulsa in 1905 and has been played for over 100 years. The city recently moved the team into a downtown ballpark, ONEOK Field, which seats 6,200 per game and brings in 400,000 attendees and $55 million per year.
IT IS DEVELOPING ITS
RIVERFRONT AND
ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS.
Highlights include the recently announced $335 million Margaritaville Casino in addition to the highly popular Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and Osage Casino. The Oklahoma Aquarium, as well as new retail, restaurant and residential developments grace both sides of the Arkansas River. Tulsa’s Oktoberfest is consistently one of the top events held in the region each year. Downtown, $15 million from the Vision2025 package funded the construction of the Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza and the renovation of the adjacent Route 66 bridge.
IT IS ANCHORED BY RIVER PARKS
AND TRAILS THAT EXTEND 50 MILES
AROUND THE CITY.
Tulsa River Parks is an 800-acre city parkthat runs for more than 10 miles along the banks
of the Arkansas River, connecting downtown to south Tulsa with a landscaped trail and picnic areas. Private donors raised $111 million for trail enhancements, including a new $3 million QuikTrip Plaza. A Gathering Place, a new $350 million 90-acre park, will break ground in late 2014 adjacent to the River Parks offerning residents a world-class one-of-kind destination for all to enjoy.
IT IS SEEING ITS BLUE DOME
AND BRADY DISTRICTS EMERGE
AS CENTERS OF ART AND
ENTERTAINMENT.
IT IS BUILDING A BRIGHTER
FUTURE THROUGH THE
TULSA’S FUTURE PROGRAM.
Since 2011 Tulsa’s Future has created 18,800 jobsand added more than$700 million to the region’s payroll. At least19 new businesseshave been created and 196 businesses have expanded.New community development projects have been funded for river development,
infrastructure and school bonds. And the region is actively working to attract talent via ChooseTulsaJobs. com and other workforce initiatives.
Tulsa and Northeast Oklahoma are so many great things,and they all add up to create an ideal place for the location of your next business relocation or expansion. Starting back in the days of the oil boom and continuing today, many businesses have found success herethanks to our educated workforce, low cost of doing business, central location and ease of transportation. You’ll also find it’s a welcoming city with an active community that’s perfect for your employees and their families or visiting business associates. And you’ll discover that when you’re looking for the right mix of business productivity and quality of life, the Tulsa Region is the right place to grow your business.
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C O U N T Y M A P
More than 140 public and private sector investors including 30 regional partners
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AND STATISTICS
RECENT RANKINGS PER CAPITA PERSONAL INCOME
SELECT GEOGRAPHIES 2011 2012 Growth Rate U.S. $42,298 $43,735 3.4% Tulsa MSA $43,450 $45,350 4.4% Tulsa County $48,343 $50,611 4.7% Oklahoma $38,960 $40,620 4.5%
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, www.bea.gov May 2014
ESTIMATED MIX OF EDUCATION ATTAINMENT AS PERCENT OF AGE 25+ POPULATION
Tulsa MSA Oklahoma U.S.
Grade K–8 2.9% 3.7% 4.8%
Grade 9–12 8.4% 9.1% 8.3%
High School Graduate 29.8% 31.8% 28.3%
Some College, No Degree 24.7% 24.5% 21.2%
Associate’s Degree 8.3% 6.9% 7.7%
Bachelor’s Degree 17.5% 15.6% 17.9%
POPULATION GROWTH RATES PERCENTAGE OF CHANGE
2000-2010 2013-2018
Tulsa MSA 9.1% 3.5%
Oklahoma 8.7% 3.5%
U.S. 9.7% 3.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau/Demographics Now June 2014
COST OF LIVING INDEX TULSA MSA AS PERCENT OF U.S. AVERAGE
Tulsa MSA Composite Index 89.1% Grocery 92.7% Housing 65.6% Utilities 98.3% Transportation 97.6% Health Care 97.0% Miscellaneous 98.8%
Source: C2ER First Quarter 2014
• No. 1 city Top 10 Most Budget-Friendly Metros (Apartment Guide 2014) • No. 1 best city for young entrepreneurs in the U.S. (Forbes 2013)
• No. 5 nationally for new and expanded facilities among Tier II cities (Site Selection 2014)
Employment Unemployment Labor Force Unemployment Rate
March 2014 March 2014 Feb. 2014 Jan. 2014 Mar. 2013
Oklahoma 1,734,287 89,610 1,823,897 4.9% 5.0% 5.2% 5.2% Tulsa MSA* 425,750 23,718 449,468 5.3% 5.6% 5.6% 5.5% U.S. 145,742,000 10,486,000 156,227,000 6.7% 6.7% 6.6% 7.5% Arkansas 1,238,845 91,773 1,330,618 6.9% 7.1% 7.3% 7.4% Kansas 1,417,401 73,056 1,490,457 4.9% 4.9% 4.8% 5.5% Louisiana 2,002,546 93,446 2,095,992 4.5% 4.5% 4.9% 6.4% Missouri 2,836,009 204,209 3,040,218 6.7% 6.4% 6.0% 6.6% New Mexico 872,628 65,537 938,165 7.0% 6.7% 6.6% 6.9% Texas 12,246,188 712,214 12,958,402 5.5% 5.7% 5.7% 6.4%
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