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Jenks trustees and city council clear way for food hall near Oklahoma Aquarium with shared-parking leases
Summary
Jenks Aquarium Authority trustees and the Jenks City Council approved a planned food-hall development and related shared-parking and architectural agreements for a parcel north of the Oklahoma Aquarium after staff and developers reached lease terms for off-site parking and employee protections.
A shared-parking and economic-development package for a proposed food hall north of the Oklahoma Aquarium advanced Tuesday after trustees of the Jenks Aquarium Authority and the Jenks City Council approved related agreements and a restrictive planned-unit development.
The trustees voted to approve the shared-parking lease and the aquarium-campus architectural agreement on the authority’s consent agenda. The city council later approved the shared-parking economic-development agreement and the related planned-unit development ordinance after staff described the leases and concept plans.
Staff described the project as a food hall with indoor and outdoor dining and accessory entertainment uses that is intended to “draw visitors to the aquarium and support the continued development of the city's riverfront as a dining and entertainment destination,” citing language from an earlier economic-development resolution. Marce, a city staff member who presented the documents to the authority, told trustees the group would need to finalize a lease for parking…
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