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Item five is public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions, and awards.

58 presentation by the City Tourism and Economic Development Department for the second quarter of a calendar year 2026.

Travis Stevens.

Good evening, Madam Chair Wimpy, Beta Trustees, City Manager Spurgeon, happy to be here.

Travis Stevens with the Tourism and Economic Development Department.

Honored to be here to give you a quick update on recent activity that's happening within the city and what the TED team's up to.

So as you know, we're charged with growing retail and tourism activity in the city.

Do you have a clicker?

Oh yeah.

I'm going forth all night.

We were here back in March to give an update, and we really focused on the large retail centers and what was going on with those.

So tonight we want to do a quick spotlight on the smaller businesses and the tourism activity.

But I do just want to address some of the things happening at those large power centers.

If you guys have driven by either one of those, Adams Creek, you've you've probably noticed that five below and books a million is open for business.

And if you've driven out by Hackberry Market, you'll notice the Home Depot and TJ Maxx and Hobby Lobby is really taking shape.

So all of those are expected to be open for business prior to Thanksgiving of this year.

So just want to give a quick update on that.

The beautiful TED team.

Oh, thank you very much, whoever did that.

Wanted to just uh bring your attention in the bottom right corner.

That is Lisa Smith, the newest addition to our team.

She's our new administrative assistant and is doing a fantastic job of keeping us organized and in line and on task.

Um so we really appreciate her efforts.

She she joined us back in February.

So wanted to make sure you got uh got to see what she looks like.

And then next slide, I want to just share what a couple macro data points.

This is not really anything you guys don't already know.

Uh this is the growth, uh, population growth over the past several decades.

Uh Kenny Schwab had a fantastic quote uh in the Kobe U class last week, and he said that broken arrow has been growing since the 40s, uh, which is absolutely true.

You can see this.

We just went back to 1980.

Um, you'll notice the I would just point out that the number of people uh that are adding to the population is I would say is relatively consistent over the years.

Uh you just get a larger base, so the percentages are going down.

Um, but just wanted to kind of make sure.

I mean, you guys know this, but it is an impressive graph, so I want to share that.

The next slide, something that's very closely related to the population growth is the housing starts.

Um there's an organization new new orders weekly.

They put this together for all the Tulsa Metro communities, and obviously what stands out is broken arrow in the last three plus years.

Uh we haven't quite doubled Tulsa's housing rate, but it's more than a time and a half, double that at big speed, four times that of a WASO.

Um, why is this important?

It's because retail follows rooftops.

And I use these two graphs, the one before previous to this, um, to show my audience, which is commercial developers, retail chains, retailers, small even small businesses.

This graph was a a real attention grabber at ICSC a few weeks back.

Um, and I saw a lot of eyebrows raised when I present this data in front of them because everybody thinks of Tulsa and you know just the Tulsa region.

A lot of people aren't aware of what's happening in Broken Arrow, and so these graphs really tell that story.

So quickly want to hit on uh some things happening in the Rose District.

Unfortunately, it's not always Rosie in the Rose District, the the ebbs and flows of businesses, small businesses.

So since January 1st, uh we've lost three businesses where the spaces are still sitting empty.

Uh that first picture records studio.

Um that was a solo print solo preneur, one man operation.

Um, sometimes lifestyles changes, things happen, and and so he unfortunately had to stop uh operating.

The middle picture there is the Rose Rock Creamy Creamery.

Another kind of sudden change that it was not due to lack of business, it was a thriving business.

The owner just decided to do something different.

I would have sold the business, but he chose not to, and instead um closed it.