(Tulsa, OK) - It's all very hush-hush at the moment, but KRMG News has gotten persistent reports that a prominent local restaurant owner and developer has plans to put a grocery store in the recently developed Detroit Lofts near ONEOK Field at 1st and Detroit in downtown Tulsa.
Developers have been seeking a grocery store for the downtown area for years, seeing it as an obvious, necessary catalyst to maintain the momentum that's already been created with downtown residential projects like the Philtower Lofts and the Mayo Hotel and others.
KRMG News contacted the restaurant owner in question. He could not, at this time, confirm the reports about his supposed plans but neither did he deny them.
Brickhugger LLC, the developer of the Detroit Lofts as well as The Mayo, has said since they opened in the fall of last year that the goal was to have a grocery on the ground floor of the Detroit Lofts. The space was designed with that in mind.
Even without a grocery store, the Detroit Lofts quickly leased all of the 16 available units, but a grocery, if it does go there, would potentially serve the entire downtown area.
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