Some of the information in this article is not correct. -There are several film festivals in Tulsa and northeastern Oklahoma. None, however, are on a large scale. Perhaps all should join forces for one big one? -There ARE incentives for film in Oklahoma and the state IS OFFICIALLY PROMOTING film in Oklahoma. How do you think "The Killer Inside Me" came to Tulsa and OKC?...Oklahoma Film office and the incentives. Go to www.oklahomafilm.org and click on state incentives for details of the incentives. The website also has information on filming in Oklahoma, including local crew and locations databases. -Tom Green is not a part of the Oklahoma Film Commission. He works for the Metro Chamber. -One of the most difficult part of film making is getting the financing. Governments, especially state and city governments all over the US with today's financial problems, don't provide financing.
Privatizing the PAC is a bad idea. Giving the PAC to SMG is an even worse idea. It will destroy local arts jobs if the Mayor has his way. The PAC was developed to support local arts, which makes Tulsa a more desirable city for the citizens and potential businesses and industries. All the money everyone donates to the arts to make Tulsa a cultural jewel will be wasted if the profit making SMG is handed this job. Sure they will bring in acts...out of town acts...that take their profits out of Tulsa, and that pay non-Tulsans who leave town when the show is over.
What an intelligent article and excellent thinking.
I'm reminded by Joni Mitchell's (and recorded also by Amy Grant, Bob Dylan, Counting Crows and many others) "Big Yellow Taxi". The lyrics say "Take paradise, put up a parking lot". Boy did we do that in Tulsa!
I get depressed every time I drive by a barren asphalt covered parking lot that contributes little in taxes to benefit our great city (but contributes much to increasing the "heat island effect" during our summers). Each parking lot represents what could have been an opportunity to reuse the building that was originally there. It IS time to stop destroying the wonderful old buildings in Tulsa. As Bill notes, even those buildings which we rarely notice still have much to offer.
C'mon, Tulsa leaders and decision makers. Wake up and stop tearing down empty buildings. Give us a downtown we can be proud of.
Bravo to Blake, the Navarros, and the Pearl District. I'm little, over 50 and female but take no offense to the comment as I believe it was only meant to encourage diversity.
The good news is a wonderful new coffee bar with used books is coming to Tulsa's exciting revitalized neighborhood, the Pearl District, just next to downtown. It is innovative thinking and businesses like this that will give our educated and creative young people reasons to stay in Tulsa. You will find me frequenting the Phoenix when it opens!
If Keithline or any other of the opponents of the Pearl District form based code had paid any attention at all to the Pearl District in which they do business, they would have read the articles over the years in Tulsa newspapers, seen the reports in Tulsa TV and radio stations, seen the permanent signs about Pearl District meetings around the neighborhoods and been a part of their neighborhood's planning. Instead, they fight their neighbors' years of work on this plan with ignorance, falsehoods and misinformation.
The Pearl District, with its form based code, is the kind of neighborhood that Tulsa needs more of...to keep our young people and young thinkers. Not everyone wants to live in suburban type neighborhoods. If you want suburbia, move south and leave us alone in the Pearl. We love it here!
This entire Vision 2 is missing PlanITulsa...our approved Comprehensive Plan. I'm all for a Vision 2, IF the tax extension will make Tulsa more livable...IF it will deliver the Comprehensive Plan developed by thousands of citizens. Too many of my friends and acquaintances have left Tulsa out of frustration that this is an old fashioned city, living in the past. Our Comprehensive Plan, PlanITulsa, is a citizen generated Vision of the future. Vision 2 has already been written and is spelled out in our Comprehensive Plan. The Chamber, the County Commissioners and our City Government need to read it, THEN write Vision2 based on it...without incentives.
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Re: Lights! Camera! Where's the Action?
-There are several film festivals in Tulsa and northeastern Oklahoma. None, however, are on a large scale. Perhaps all should join forces for one big one?
-There ARE incentives for film in Oklahoma and the state IS OFFICIALLY PROMOTING film in Oklahoma. How do you think "The Killer Inside Me" came to Tulsa and OKC?...Oklahoma Film office and the incentives. Go to www.oklahomafilm.org and click on state incentives for details of the incentives. The website also has information on filming in Oklahoma, including local crew and locations databases.
-Tom Green is not a part of the Oklahoma Film Commission. He works for the Metro Chamber.
-One of the most difficult part of film making is getting the financing. Governments, especially state and city governments all over the US with today's financial problems, don't provide financing.
Re: Look before you Leap, Mr. Mayor ...
Re: Historic Preservation: A New Perspective
What an intelligent article and excellent thinking.
I'm reminded by Joni Mitchell's (and recorded also by Amy Grant, Bob Dylan, Counting Crows and many others) "Big Yellow Taxi". The lyrics say "Take paradise, put up a parking lot". Boy did we do that in Tulsa!
I get depressed every time I drive by a barren asphalt covered parking lot that contributes little in taxes to benefit our great city (but contributes much to increasing the "heat island effect" during our summers). Each parking lot represents what could have been an opportunity to reuse the building that was originally there. It IS time to stop destroying the wonderful old buildings in Tulsa. As Bill notes, even those buildings which we rarely notice still have much to offer.
C'mon, Tulsa leaders and decision makers. Wake up and stop tearing down empty buildings. Give us a downtown we can be proud of.
Re: Rising from the Ashes
The good news is a wonderful new coffee bar with used books is coming to Tulsa's exciting revitalized neighborhood, the Pearl District, just next to downtown. It is innovative thinking and businesses like this that will give our educated and creative young people reasons to stay in Tulsa. You will find me frequenting the Phoenix when it opens!
Re: Battle of Words and Wills
The Pearl District, with its form based code, is the kind of neighborhood that Tulsa needs more of...to keep our young people and young thinkers. Not everyone wants to live in suburban type neighborhoods. If you want suburbia, move south and leave us alone in the Pearl. We love it here!
A proud Pearl District resident and homeowner
Re: Vision2 Is Myopic
And...why the rush???