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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Aviation authorities' grounding of nearly 400 Boeing 737 Max aircraft has had global ramifications. But a large part of the story remains local. At American Airlines' Tech Ops-Tulsa, the carrier's largest maintenance base, workers have for 10 months been babysitting more than $2 billion worth of the 737 Maxes. Two-thirds, or 16, of American's Max 8s are here. The other eight are at a storage facility in Roswell, New Mexico. "A lot of the public perception is that these airplanes have kind of been pushed back into the c...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A group that includes a medical doctor and an organic farmer plans to operate a new grocery store on North Peoria Avenue. Eco Alliance Group LLC recently unveiled its mission and renderings for the store at a town hall meeting held by District 1 City Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper at Rudisill Regional Library. Construction could start by the end of the summer, and the store could open in the first quarter of 2020, Hall-Harper said. "It is huge," Hall-Harper told the Tulsa World before the meeting, which was attended by a...
SAND SPRINGS, Okla. (AP) — Architect Ken Alexander put his faith behind a vision and purchased the historic Sand Springs Powerhouse in 2010. "My fascination, whether it was a sickness from architecture or something else, was that I wanted to save the building," he says. So he went about doing just that. Alexander sank years into framing a restaurant, brewery and event center concept to jazz up the sprawling 31,759-square-foot space built in 1911. "We felt like everything was falling into place. In the end, it just wasn't," Alexander, whose p...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Bama Companies Inc. puts a lot of dough in its dough. The exclusive pie supplier for all 14,000 McDonald's restaurants in the United States, the Tulsa food maker produces more than 2 million pies per day. Bama recently showcased its 50-year-plus partnership with the fast-food mega-chain by inviting local media to view how it manufactures the company's reformulated pastry. Working with McDonald's, Bama has removed artificial colors, preservatives and high fructose syrup from the pies. Officially relaunched in May, they now i...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A new lofty landmark is on its way to Route 66. Mary Beth Babcock, owner of Buck Atom's Cosmic Curios, plans to erect a 20-foot space cowboy outside her gift shop. The store's mascot, "Buck," will be an example of a Muffler Man, one of the large Fiberglas advertising icons that came to symbolize the Mother Road during its heyday. "I've always just loved Route 66, and the roadside attractions are the main things the people get excited about while traveling the route," Babcock told the Tulsa World . The project originated a...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — When Philip Phillips and his wife, Danielle, started their Lone Wolf food truck in 2012, he said one person guided them, veteran restaurateur Jim Bausch of Andolini's Pizzeria. Now, as tenants of Mother Road Market, the couple has the support of an entire cooking community. "We were very fortunate; starting off, it's incredibly difficult," said Philip Phillips, whose start-up Chicken and the Wolf will help introduce spicy Nashville chicken to Tulsa. "So to have a place like this where you have Kitchen 66, an incubator w...
