Recent Developments & News

OKLAHOMA CITY – Frontier Airlines is returning to Oklahoma City after a two-and-a-half-year absence with daily flights to its Denver headquarters hub.

Airports Director Mark Kranenburg said Tuesday that Frontier has also committed to flights out of Will Rogers World Airport to Orlando, Florida, and San Diego, California. The details of Frontier’s investment in Oklahoma City are still being worked out, he said, but the company appears to be interested in staying at Will Rogers well into 2018.

OKLAHOMA CITY – In the last five years, Hungry Town Concepts LLC has opened two restaurant concepts: The Mule and Anchor Down. The group will bring on a third eatery this fall, The Press, at 1610 N. Gatewood Ave.

Growing from two restaurants to three means the owners – Roger Eleftherakis, John Harris, Joey Morris and Cody Rowan – will have to rely on their staff more. They’ll be focusing their efforts on renovating the 1940s building into a restaurant and opening the eatery.

In the cuddly-cute and sometimes comical world of baby apparel, an Oklahoma City mother saw a need for competition.

Buthion said he’s not done with projects in Stockyard City. He stood at the restaurant’s entrance and gazed across Exchange Avenue, like a cowboy looking for his ranch. He’s already anticipating bustling crowds on the street that houses several legendary Stockyard City businesses.

The mall is hosting monthly activities to help bring in more traffic. Classic cars fill the parking lot the first Saturday of every month, and food trucks offer eats the second Saturday of each month.

The search for a new site for a proposed soccer stadium has resumed and Oklahoma City Energy owner Bob Funk Jr. confirms the Wheeler Park area is emerging as a top candidate among several being considered.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The city could see a growing number of micro-retailers popping up, which developers say is part of a national trend of going small.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The northwest corridor is getting the city’s first Hollie’s Flatiron Grill.

The shopping center at NW 150th Street and N. Pennsylvania Avenue has a free-standing building that faces NW 150th Street. The building was supposed to be home to a new idea from the Hal Smith Restaurant Group.

The company was going to put a neighborhood bar and breakfast restaurant under one roof.

“We had a change of heart of putting those two together,” said Hank Kraft, chief operating officer for the Hal Smith Restaurant Group. “We’re going to split them up and do them at different times.”