Soft wage, population growth drags on store space in Oklahoma City

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Channel: The Oklahoman · 2018 · News & Politics

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Oklahoma City's retail property market is running but not humming — like an engine with a little bad gas in the tank. But it's unrefined petroleum that has it needing its injectors cleaned: crude oil. Price Edwards & Co. blamed slowed local wage growth, attributable to lost high-paying jobs in the energy sector, and reduced population growth for the uptick in store space vacancy since the first of the year. Richard Mize interviews Jim Parrack of Price Edwards & Co.

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