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BOK Center, or Bank of Oklahoma Center, is a 19,199-seat multi-purpose arena and a primary indoor sports and event venue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.The two current permanent tenants are the Tulsa Oilers of the ECHL and the Tulsa Oilers of the Indoor Football League, both teams owned by Andy Scurto.
Vision 2025 was a series of four propositions to increase Tulsa County's sales tax rate by $0.01 in order to fund capital improvements and provide economic development incentives. Two prior proposals, in 1997 and 2000, were rejected by Tulsa County voters.
The similarities to the World Trade Center led executives to joke that the architects just halved the plans for a World Trade Center tower. [5] BOK Tower, Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 2023, viewed from M.L.K. Jr Blvd. BOK Tower, as completed, was the tallest building in Oklahoma and contained 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m 2) of office space. [6]
The center was home to the Central Hockey League Tulsa Oilers ice hockey team and the Tulsa Talons arena football team before the opening of the new BOK Center in 2008. It was a regular stop for Bill Watts ' Mid-South Wrestling and its successor, the Universal Wrestling Federation , until shortly after the UWF was purchased by Jim Crockett ...
However, after Memphis' decision to leave Conference USA for what ultimately became the American Athletic Conference in 2013–14, the league decided to move the tournament to a site near a school remaining in the conference, ultimately selecting the BOK Center in Tulsa. The tournament returned to the Haskins Center in El Paso in 2014.
On June 10, President Donald Trump announced his intent to host a rally for his 2020 re-election campaign at the BOK Center in Tulsa on June 19, in his first public campaign event since the wider activation of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in March 2020. [3] [4] [5]
Tulsa is a hub of art deco and contemporary architecture, and most buildings of Tulsa are in either of these two styles. Prominent buildings include the BOK Tower, the second tallest building in Oklahoma; the futurist Oral Roberts University campus and adjacent Cityplex Towers, a group of towers that includes the third tallest building in Oklahoma; Boston Avenue Methodist Church, an Art Deco ...
Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, US 64 and US 75. [1] The area serves as Tulsa's financial and business district; it is the focus of a large initiative to draw tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the area's historic architecture. [2]