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OU Foundation requests city cease consideration of University North Park project at July 24 meeting

University North Park entertainment development

The proposed new area for the University North Park entertainment district. Norman City Council members voted at their July 24 meeting to approve the OU Foundation's request to withdraw the vote to send the UNP tax-increment-finance district proposal to a statutory review committee from the council's agenda. Sean Rieger, foundation attorney, confirmed that the foundation was withdrawing their partnership with the city of Norman and did not expect city council to review the UNP proposal any further.

 via Norman City Council

The OU Foundation has withdrawn its partnership with the City of Norman to build an arena on foundation-owned University North Park land.

At tonight’s full-house Norman City Council meeting, Mayor Lynne Miller informed the public that the OU Foundation had requested via email that a notable resolution — item No. 25 — be removed the agenda. The resolution sought to send the UNP project plan to a statutory review committee — a long-awaited step that would have contained strong implications about the project’s future. 

Many within the community were deeply skeptical of the project, and a records request regarding the proposal even lead to a lawsuit by former OU counsel Fred Gipson. 

Though the OU Foundation has said they plan to pursue development of the land, tonight's vote means they will most likely do so without public financing.

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