The steel structure for Heartland is going up rapidly and I didn't fully appreciate how much this will transform the downtown skyline. Heartland is the U.S. payments and payroll division for Global Payments and is set to employ about 400 when the new seven-story headquarters...
Wallet Hub In order to help aspiring entrepreneurs — from restaurant owners to high-tech movers and shakers — maximize their chances for long-term prosperity, WalletHub compared the relative startup opportunities that exist in 100 U.S. cities. We did so using 19 key metrics, ranging from five-year...
From Greater Oklahoma City Chamber publications: The traditional landscape of innovation for most of the 20th century was inaccessible – with major companies operating in remote office parks that were isolated from other commercial, housing or retail developments. However, the geography of innovation is returning to...
From Greater Oklahoma City Chamber publications: Oklahoma City is the focus of a new study that will take a close look at its emerging innovation district and offer ways to turn it into a destination center where collaboration and innovation can flourish, those who attended the...
The Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) featured Joyce Burch with the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber discussing the latest news about the innovation district and about recent events involving the city's biosciences and entrepreneurial communities. Listen to the interview. Read the transcript....
The Oklahoman By Scott Meacham For the Oklahoman There's a grassroots trend afoot in entrepreneurship that's really gaining steam. I'm going to call it the Power of Place. That's why the vision of Oklahoma City as an innovation district is so exciting. Read More...
OKLAHOMA CITY (October 14, 2015) – The Brookings Institution and Project for Public Spaces have begun an 18-month study of Oklahoma City’s emerging innovation district, an area encompassing the Oklahoma Health Center and Automobile Alley. This work, which will focus on the district’s economic strengths’...
WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 8, 2015 — Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott today announced the establishment of the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Initiative on Innovation and Placemaking, a collaboration between the Brookings Institution and Project for Public Spaces. The initiative is made possible through a...
BY STEPHEN PRESCOTT, M.D. FOR THE OKLAHOMAN By all appearances, the City of Brotherly Love is open for business — and hopping. Indeed, as Oklahoma City strives to transform the Oklahoma Health Center into a thriving, mixed-use innovation district, we can learn some important lessons from...
By Bruce Katz, Jennifer S. Vey and Julie Wagner The Brookings Institute In the year since we released “The Rise of Innovation Districts: A New Geography of Innovation in America,” Brookings has visited or interacted with dozens of leaders in burgeoning innovation districts in the United States...
