Oklahoma City

The FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center here in Oklahoma City will be basking in the sunlight and enjoying the benefits of sustainable energy with a new solar panel farm. Early last month, the FAA announced that the Center would soon be the recipient of its largest solar panel project to date. The solar panels – nearly 3,900 of them in all –

A three-day party celebrated the completion of the MAPS 3 Scissortail Park with the opening of the 30-acre Lower Park on September 23. Two years after the upper portion of downtown’s Scissortail Park opened to much fanfare, construction on the lower portion is now complete. Read the entire story on VeloCityOKC.com.

Throughout the last two years, the Oklahoma City metro has consistently bucked the norm when it comes to economic strength and viability when compared to other large cities. While community leaders in those cities lamented over higher-than-normal unemployment rates and lower tax revenue collections, leaders here breathed a sigh of relief as unemployment

The Criminal Justice Advisory Council (CJAC) released its fourth annual report for Fiscal Year 2021 with noteworthy progress in several key areas including policy changes in the OKC Police Department, justice-related MAPS 4 projects beginning to take shape, continued decline in the jail population due to successful diversion programs and voter approval of a

Oklahoma’s aviation and aerospace sector continues to soar with a current statewide workforce of more than 120,000 and an economic impact of $44 billion. The Greater Oklahoma City region alone boasts about 43,000 aviation and aerospace workers, led by Tinker Air Force Base, the state’s largest single-site employer, and the FAA Mike Monroney

The Freedom Center of Oklahoma City, LLC has been selected as the operator of the MAPS 4 Clara Luper Civil Rights Center. The nonprofit, established to educate and empower the community regarding the Civil Rights Movement in Oklahoma, will now operate this $26.8 million project. Read the entire story on VeloCityOKC.com.

City officials approved operator agreements for two of the projects included in MAPS 4 during a recent Oklahoma City Council meeting. Oklahoma County Diversion Hub Inc. was selected as the MAPS 4 Diversion Hub operating partner. Metro Technology Centers and adjoined organizations were selected as the operating partner for the Henrietta B. Foster Center.

Oklahoma City continues to climb lists of top-ranked communities. Bankrate recently ranked the city as the fourth best place to live in the United States. The website examined the country’s 100 largest metropolitan areas to determine which were best fit based on factors like the cost of living, social experiences, and current trends of people moving