{"id":13246,"date":"2013-03-11T10:27:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=13246"},"modified":"2013-03-11T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:27:16","slug":"chesapeakes-mysterious-master-plan-for-campus-expansion-faces-uncertain-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/03\/11\/chesapeakes-mysterious-master-plan-for-campus-expansion-faces-uncertain-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesapeake\u2019s Mysterious Master Plan for Campus Expansion Faces Uncertain Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/chesapeake-energy\/\">Chesapeake Energy<\/a> spent millions on hundreds of Oklahoma City properties.<\/p><p>Homes, land and buildings <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/09\/24\/chesapeake-energys-land-grab-endures-in-oklahoma-city\/\">were purchased<\/a>. Many were razed. Company-owned shopping centers, restaurants, sleek CNG fueling stations, condos, a hotel, and a heliport were discussed. Chesapeake was tight-lipped, and no one \u2014 not the city, public, nor the energy company\u2019s campus neighbors \u2014 ever knew all the details of the company&#8217;s master plan for campus expansion.<\/p><p>The real estate vision was driven by company founder and CEO Aubrey McClendon, <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/unfinished-business-chesapeake-mcclendon-real-estate-developments-incomplete-as-company-leadership-changes\/article\/3764188?custom_click=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsok%2Fbusiness+%28NewsOK.com+RSS+-+business%29\">Steve Lackmeyer and Brianna Bailey report<\/a>. And with McClendon\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/01\/29\/aubrey-mcclendon-to-retire-as-chesapeake-energy-ceo\/\">recent ousting<\/a> and imminent retirement, there is growing concern that the energy giant\u2019s new, budget-minded leaders won\u2019t want to play master planner.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat I&#8217;m curious about,\u201d OKC City Councilman Ed Shadid tells the paper, \u201cis whether the new board would have the same enthusiasm for Oklahoma City real estate that is tangential if not completely unrelated to the oil and gas industry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, Chesapeake Energy spent millions on hundreds of Oklahoma City properties.Homes, land and buildings were purchased. Many were razed. Company-owned shopping centers, restaurants, sleek CNG fueling stations, condos, a hotel, and a heliport were discussed. Chesapeake was tight-lipped, and no one \u2014 not the city, public, nor the energy company\u2019s campus neighbors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[360,275],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13252,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions\/13252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}