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According to recently released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for the Oklahoma City metro remained at 2.9% for the month of October. Oklahoma City has the 19th-lowest unemployment rate for major metros of more than 1 million population. Oklahoma County and the State of Oklahoma had unemployment rates of 3.1% and 3.3%, more»

Construction is slated to begin in 2020 for The Residences at Classen Curve, a five-story, 325-unit multifamily housing development in northwest Oklahoma City. The first units may be occupied by late 2021. Hines, an international real estate firm with its headquarters in Houston, has partnered with Oklahoma City-based Humphreys Capital to develop the more»

Bar K, part dog park, bar, restaurant and event space is set to be the first commercial anchor for the Boathouse District along the Oklahoma River. Pending approval by the Oklahoma City Council, construction is expected to begin this winter with an opening by early 2021. The start of commercial development coincides with efforts to make the growing outdoor more»

The Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust has agreed to provide up to $400,000 in incentives to the company in exchange for the jobs created. “We looked all over the place – Texas, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho,” Bakery Bling CEO Lauren Brooks said at Tuesday’s Economic Development Trust meeting. “I would say the building more»

It was a landslide, among those who voted. Unofficial results show more than 70% of Oklahoma City voters supported MAPS 4, an historic margin of victory for an Oklahoma City sales tax measure. But while the vote was lopsided, voter turnout was low with fewer than 10% of eligible voters casting a vote for the tax. "We’ve never been this united on a more»

Meredith Corporation's Travel + Leisure announced yesterday the 50 Best Places to Travel in 2020, the annual list of the most anticipated places to visit in the year ahead, according to the editors of Travel + Leisure. Now available on TravelandLeisure.com, this year’s global list includes seven destinations across the United States, including more»

A new Homeland grocery store at the corner of NE 36th Street and Lincoln Boulevard could be up and running by spring of 2021, after the Oklahoma City Council voted Tuesday to include the project in the Northeast Renaissance Redevelopment Project Plan. A full-service, 30,000-square-foot Homeland grocery store with a bakery, deli and pharmacy is planned for more»

The annual Holiday Pop-Up Shops, a rotating array of independent retailers, is returning to Midtown on Friday for its seventh season.

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