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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
Tulsa needs its own Aubrey McClendon (native of Oklahoma City, former CEO of Chesapeake, and big OK City booster/developer). Are Williams, Apache, and ONEOK at all interested in improving downtown or do these companies pretty much "keep to themselves"?
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Those companies are big donors to various things in Tulsa. But the biggest donor is Kaiser with BOK and the Tulsa Community Foundation (the largest foundation of its type in the US)and the George Kaiser Community Foundation . His donations to Tulsa average more than the entire city budget!
One of the latest things is a huge new park near downtown and next to the river that will be close to 150million dollars (larger than the purportedly largest donation in history to a public park that was recently touted for NYC) and this after he has spent over 50 million dollars on other things at the River Parks. Then of course for downtown there is the new BOK Arena, the new Guthrie Green which is a small but very high quality park in the Brady Arts District and right across from that his support for the Arts and Humanities Councils new AHHA facility and the Woody Guthrie Museum and collection and Philbrook Museum expansion, then there are the Teach For America lofts nearby, and I could go on and on. I don't know where Tulsa would be without his generosity.