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Marketplace
March 11, 2024

For this Black Wall Street business, it’s time to “pass the torch on to another entrepreneur”

When Venita Cooper opened Silhouette Sneakers & Art back in 2019, she was already thinking about what would come next...For Cooper, the time has come. On Monday, she announced that Kellen James, a third-generation Tulsan, would purchase the store.

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CNBC
February 16, 2024

More than 100 years since the Black Wall Street massacre, Tulsa is creating a haven for entrepreneurs

Nestled among rows of colorful shoes lining the walls of Silhouette Sneakers & Art, a framed black-and-white photo reminds owner Venita Cooper of the giants whose shoulders she stands on.

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CNBC
December 28, 2023

3 remote workers on moving from California to Tulsa, Oklahoma: ‘We are like expats in America’

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, Cynthia Rollins had been working remotely as the COO of a software company, based out of San Francisco. With the lockdowns limiting her days to her relatively tiny apartment in the city, she started looking into potential places to move to when she came across Tulsa Remote, a program that has incentivized over 2,500 remote workers from around the country since 2018 with $10,000 of monetary assistance to move to the Oklahoman city.

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New York Post
December 16, 2023

I moved to Tulsa for $10,000

I had just turned down a media job in small-town Missouri when I heard about Tulsa Remote, a grant program that provides $10,000 for mobile workers willing to move to the “Oil Capital of the World” for at least a year.

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