
Empty Offices, Needed Homes: The Conversion Math Facing Downtown Tulsa
With national office vacancy at record highs, Tulsa's pre-war towers are conversion candidates — but plumbing, floor plates, and financing decide which ones move.
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With national office vacancy at record highs, Tulsa's pre-war towers are conversion candidates — but plumbing, floor plates, and financing decide which ones move.

At the head of the McClellan-Kerr waterway, Tulsa's inland port turns a 445-mile river system into a multimodal industrial economy near Catoosa.

A century of dams built Tulsa's flood safety and its river-park recreation — and the next round of river projects now balances both against a livelier climate.

The $465 million riverfront park opened in 2018 on private philanthropy — its legacy now shows up in tourism, adjacent property, and the city's self-image.

A $41 million federal-inspections addition completes the terminal's jump to international commercial service, with Sun Country's nonstop to Cancun starting May 21.

From the BOK Center to Zink Lake, Tulsa's landmark projects run on voter-approved packages — a funding playbook with its own rules, timelines, and watchdogs.

Duplexes, fourplexes, and courtyard buildings are the cheapest housing to rent and the hardest to legally build in most of Tulsa — here is why, and what is changing.

The 2023 reopening of Zink Lake turned a century-old dam into a controllable recreational water feature — and a test case for the Arkansas River's development.

Tax increment financing lets Tulsa freeze a district's tax base and spend the growth on itself — powerful for redevelopment, and frequently contested.

Hotel anchors, housing conversions, and riverfront spillover are reshaping downtown Tulsa — here is how the pipeline is financed and what to watch this year.