Welcome to the team!

Denise Balkas relocated from the Denver metro area to Oklahoma City to become the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Operations. She has held several director level positions in planning, economic development and real estate in high growth and distressed markets in Colorado and New York. Her areas of expertise include large-scale land planning and development, military base closure and redevelopment, oversight of several federal funding programs for housing and economic development revitalization, multimodal transportation planning and nonprofit real estate development. Throughout her career, she has held numerous leadership positions on nonprofit and civic boards including the Executive Committee of ULI Colorado and Co-Chair of its Transit Oriented Development Committee. Denise holds a master's degree from Cornell University in City and Regional Planning.

Current Requests for Proposals

List of Current RFPs by submission date

RFP OCURA - RFP for Redevelopment of the Southeastern Corner of NW Fourth Street and N Shartel Avenue

Due 3/17/2014 at 11 am.

RFP OCURA - RFP for the John F. Kennedy Urban Renewal Project Area

Open until closed by OCURA's Board of Commissioners or Executive Director

From the blog

Oklahoma tribal industrial park designated as foreign trade zone

In the News

The Oklahoman

Oklahoma City seeks to recreate downtown retail corridor on Park Avenue

Oklahoma Gazette

Public help, private growth

Downtown Development is now on Twitter

Follow @dtOKCbuilds for picture updates of downtown development projects.

President's Report

First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2013-2014

About The Alliance

The Alliance was created in 2011 to better serve the economic development needs of Oklahoma City.

With its collaboration with city and private entities, the Alliance acts as a "one-stop-shop" for businesses in need of assistance from the public sector.