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North Tulsa Grocery Store Announced
Mayor Kathy Taylor applauded the efforts of a business
development team, including members of the City's staff and the
local community, who worked to attract a new grocery store to the
former Albertons location at Pine Street and Peoria Avenue. Local
businessman and owner Antonio Perez announced today that Gateway
Market is set to open in mid-January.
"It is so exciting that the work of our team and the persistence
of our North Tulsa Economic Development Initiative, along with Rose
Washington Rentie, District 3 Councilor David Patrick and other
economic development advocates, has allowed us to get this grocery
store opened," Mayor Taylor said.
"I have personally driven prospective operators through north
Tulsa and advised my team it was the top priority. I want to
thank Julie Miner and Mike Bunney of our economicdevelopment team,
as well as Major Paul Williams of the Tulsa Police Dept. for
pushing this forward," Mayor Taylor said.
"It was a personal goal to complete before I left office and I
am glad we were able to accomplish it. With this and the
Shoppes on North Peoria, we have made great economic development
progress in north Tulsa," said Mayor Taylor.
For more than one year, Mayor Taylor and members of her
management team worked with the local community to identify and
initiate discussions with grocery chains to encourage them to
consider the location, which was vacated by Albertsons following
the chain's decision to sell Tulsa locations.
Economic Development Director Mike Bunney said Mayor Taylor's
first priority for the economic development team since his hiring
was a grocery store at the Pine and Peoria site.
"I am very pleased with our progress. Mayor Taylor made it clear
the grocery store was job number one and she has followed up on it
every week since," Bunney said of Taylor's commitment to the
project.
