{"id":6512,"date":"2012-05-11T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:03:14","slug":"the-seven-key-industries-in-tulsas-future-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/05\/11\/the-seven-key-industries-in-tulsas-future-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Key Industries in Tulsa\u2019s Future Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6513\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christianspenceranderson\/5173397300\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6513\" title=\"seven\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-620x620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-128x128.jpg 128w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven-470x470.jpg 470w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/seven.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Coltera \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Despite national and state-level financial woes, Tulsa has enjoyed an \u201ceconomic resurgence\u201d over the last two years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areadevelopment.com\/Location-Notebook\/April2012\/Tulsa-Oklahoma-economic-developoment-strategy-2828200.shtml\">writes<\/a> Cynthia Kincaid for <em>Area Development<\/em>, a magazine about corporate relocation and site selection.<\/p><p>Unemployment is low, home values and education are steady, and tax collections are up, Kincaid writes. She credits much of the city\u2019s economic success to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.growmetrotulsa.com\/general\/933\/tulsas-future\">Tulsa\u2019s Future<\/a>, a public-private economic plan led by the Tulsa Metro Chamber that\u2019s funded by investors, cities, counties and American Indian tribes.<\/p><p>Business, civic and tribal leaders have identified seven industries that show the greatest potential for growth.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Industries with the greatest growth potential in Tulsa, according to <em>Area Development<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced manufacturing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Aerospace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Energy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Healthcare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Professional services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Transportation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Information security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cInformation security is a new target for us,\u201d Jim Fram the Chamber\u2019s senior vice president of economic development tells the magazine. \u201cThe University of Tulsa has one of the top information security programs in the country, and we found that companies from the Washington, D.C., and Virginia area were coming in and recruiting. So we\u2019ll be doing some marketing in those areas to try to lure some of those companies closer to where the source of their workers happens to be.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite national and state-level financial woes, Tulsa has enjoyed an \u201ceconomic resurgence\u201d over the last two years, writes Cynthia Kincaid for Area Development, a magazine about corporate relocation and site selection.Unemployment is low, home values and education are steady, and tax collections are up, Kincaid writes. She credits much of the city\u2019s economic success to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":6513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,15],"tags":[174,368],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512"}],"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=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6519,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions\/6519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}