Over the last 26 years, Oklahoma City has been on a mission to improve the quality of life for residents and make the capital even more of a place where people want to work and live.
The impetus for this initiative began in the early 1990s, when a major company had plans to move its operations to the city but then backtracked. The reason they gave Ron Norick, OKC mayor at the time: They couldn’t see making their people live in Oklahoma City, recalls David Todd, program manager of the Metropolitan Area Projects (MAPS) office for the city.