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Oklahoma City Council approves purchase of Goodwill headquarters |
City Council members approved the purchase of the Oklahoma City headquarters of Goodwill Industries for $2.3 million Tuesday as part of the Core to Shore redevelopment near downtown. The nonprofit charity will be allowed to continue to
operate out of 410 SW Third St. until new offices are found, but no longer than June 30, 2010, the expected purchase agreement will stipulate.
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Tractor Supply Co. to enter Tulsa market |
Tractor Supply Co. will start construction Tuesday on its first Tulsa-area store. That three-acre shop will represent the first development in the 238-acre South 75 Business Park in Glenpool, according to C. Joseph Watt of the Broken Arrow
engineering firm CJWatt Inc.
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Case pays $16.6 million to enter industrial sector |
Multifamily property giant Case and Associates has entered the industrial market, paying $16.6 million for 10 Tulsa buildings. The 374,436-square-foot deal also represents the Tulsa exit of giant real estate investment trust RREEF. RREEF,
as RREEF America II, sold the Tulsa properties to Case Ventures LLC, another unit owned by Tulsa real estate investor Mike Case.
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Court rules chairman's salary not tax-exempt |
Salary paid to the chairman of the Citizen Potawatomi Tribe does not come under the definition of funds specifically set aside for programming and is therefore subject to federal income taxes, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has
held. Upholding a lower court decision Monday, the federal appellate court said the chairman's salary is not an expenditure made to forward the tribe's progress economically, socially or governmentally.
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DOC asked to analyze cost of closing state prisons |
Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee confirmed Tuesday that he asked the Department of Corrections to provide an analysis on the cost of closing state prisons and sending the inmates to private prisons. Coffee, however, said there is no
plan to shut down any prisons this year. He described it as a data-collecting process and said the DOC selected the prisons to be studied.
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House committee passes common-language bill |
A state House committee Tuesday passed legislation that declares English as the common language of Oklahoma after rejecting efforts to amend the measure with stronger language and turn it into what opponents say is a more divisive
official-language bill.
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