JULY 2004
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OKLAHOMA SPOTLIGHT
Getting There
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| The 150-acre (61-hectare) research complex on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman includes a $100-million investment in the National Weather Center (left) and the Stephenson Research & Technology Center, as well as the One Partners Place office building, scheduled for fall 2004 occupancy. |
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hey're coming by air: The Tulsa aerospace community is seeing
new investment from Boeing, American Airlines and corporate jet service
provider BizJet.
They're coming by land: National Car Rental and Alamo parent company Vanguard is moving its HQ from Fort Lauderdale to Tulsa. The Featherlite plant at the 9,000-acre (3,642-hectare) MidAmerica Industrial Park, just east of Tulsa in Pryor Creek, is back in business after sitting dormant since 2002, now serving the RV marketplace. And Universal Trailer Corp. subsidiary Haulmark Industries will be making cargo trailers in the town of Duncan.
But coming by water?
Well, Tulsa's Port of Catoosa is "the most inland ice-free river port in America." And it's seeing a new 240,000-sq.-ft. (22,296-sq.-m.) plant from Wellman Group's Hawk Corp. -- a maker of friction materials for brakes and clutches -- at the port's 2,000-acre (809-hectare) industrial park. While the chosen site for the 200-worker facility was not one of the park's "shovel-ready" sites, the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority is working in concert with the Tulsa Port of Catoosa Facilities Authority to install some $1.7 million worth of infrastructure, including a rail spur.
"We continue to believe in the importance of premier domestic pr oduction of our products," said Ronald E. Weinberg, Chairman and CEO of Hawk. "After all, the United States is still our largest market and we need to be able to offer our customers rapid logistics support, top quality manufacturing and competitive pricing."
Pursuant to those goals, once the new facility is completed in early 2005 and production is moved from its headquarters state of Ohio, the company expects to realize $2.5 million in annual cost savings when the plant attains full production.
Sure, petroleum still keeps things lubricated in Oklahoma: Witness the work Conoco-Phillips is seeing in Oklahoma City as a result of new defense contracts. But oil-free corporate dollars also continue to flow Oklahoma's way, from Jasco Products in Oklahoma City to new medical parks and new ventures in Edmond. And a host of ballot initiatives, legislative measures and state court decisions continues to make Oklahoma communities the right place to work for corporations
on the move.
provider BizJet.
They're coming by land: National Car Rental and Alamo parent company Vanguard is moving its HQ from Fort Lauderdale to Tulsa. The Featherlite plant at the 9,000-acre (3,642-hectare) MidAmerica Industrial Park, just east of Tulsa in Pryor Creek, is back in business after sitting dormant since 2002, now serving the RV marketplace. And Universal Trailer Corp. subsidiary Haulmark Industries will be making cargo trailers in the town of Duncan.
But coming by water?
Well, Tulsa's Port of Catoosa is "the most inland ice-free river port in America." And it's seeing a new 240,000-sq.-ft. (22,296-sq.-m.) plant from Wellman Group's Hawk Corp. -- a maker of friction materials for brakes and clutches -- at the port's 2,000-acre (809-hectare) industrial park. While the chosen site for the 200-worker facility was not one of the park's "shovel-ready" sites, the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority is working in concert with the Tulsa Port of Catoosa Facilities Authority to install some $1.7 million worth of infrastructure, including a rail spur.
"We continue to believe in the importance of premier domestic pr oduction of our products," said Ronald E. Weinberg, Chairman and CEO of Hawk. "After all, the United States is still our largest market and we need to be able to offer our customers rapid logistics support, top quality manufacturing and competitive pricing."
Pursuant to those goals, once the new facility is completed in early 2005 and production is moved from its headquarters state of Ohio, the company expects to realize $2.5 million in annual cost savings when the plant attains full production.
Sure, petroleum still keeps things lubricated in Oklahoma: Witness the work Conoco-Phillips is seeing in Oklahoma City as a result of new defense contracts. But oil-free corporate dollars also continue to flow Oklahoma's way, from Jasco Products in Oklahoma City to new medical parks and new ventures in Edmond. And a host of ballot initiatives, legislative measures and state court decisions continues to make Oklahoma communities the right place to work for corporations
on the move.