4RKids is in the midst of a capital campaign to fund renovations and additions to the existing facility to expand the vocational center, create a resource center, provide a variety of therapy options, and more.  4RKids is an non-profit organization that has provided vocational, education, social and recreational opportunities to children and adults with special needs in northwest Oklahoma since 2003.  The organization serves 154 children and adults with special needs, and 462 family members [...]

Despite a strong market, it's fairly complicated to bring retailers to Enid because of where they want to be located, a city retail consultant says.  "There's usually other development already there. The model has kind of been a redevelopment type situation," Rickey Hayes, of Retail Attractions, says. "You can apply that to the Academy (Sports and Outdoors) deal that just got done. That was on dirt that already had been developed. "Even though the market's strong [...]

There have been negotiations with the city of Enid for a Tax Increment Finance agreement to cover the Oakwood Mall redevelopment funding shortfall.  "It didn't make economic sense to do the deal without some type of help, but because of the fact the new mall would create a lot more property and sales tax, Tax Increment Financing made a lot of sense," said S Squared Development Principal Bill Stone, who is working to redevelop the [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday approved the proposed Plains & Eastern Clean Line transmission project. The Department of Energy said it would partner with the project’s developer, Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners, on the power transmission line to deliver 4,000 megawatts of electricity from yet-to-be-developed wind farms in the Oklahoma Panhandle to a delivery converter station near Memphis, Tennessee, and interconnect to the Tennessee Valley Authority. This will create a market of millions [...]

Enid-Garfield County Metropolitan Area Planning Commission has approved the rezoning of property to be used as a logistics center for wind turbine equipment.  The request for the property, located on the northeast corner of 66th and Chestnut, involves rezoning it from Agriculture District to I-3 Industrial (Heavy) District. During the MAPC's meeting Monday, city of Enid Planning Administrator Chris Bauer said Transportation Partners and Logistics LLC selected the site because of the railroad.  "It's their intent to [...]