MidAmerica Industrial Park adding retail, homes, parks
With its own water and wastewater treatment plants and custom electricity generation from the Grand River Dam Authority, MidAmerica Industrial Park has competitive advantages out the wazoo.
But occasionally, site selectors view those perks as too good to be true.
“Sometimes, we don’t make the first cut because they don’t get it,” said David Stewart, chief administrative officer of MAIP. “They’re skeptical. It looks too easy.”
When searching for new venues, company power brokers also can rely too much on empirical data, part of which shows that MAIP lies outside Tulsa’s MSA (metropolitan statistical area).
“We really fight the traditional method and ways of data collection and interpretation of data,” Stewart said. “It’s a fact. We can’t change it. What we have to do is work around it.”
That work has begun in earnest.
Located between Chouteau and Pryor, MAIP is in the midst of a master plan that addresses infrastructure, housing, quality of life and workforce at the 9,000-acre business park, which delivers at least a $1.4 billion annual economic impact to the region.
Originally posted in Tulsa World
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