Verizon's job announcement is a milestone in Tulsa economic recovery [Tulsa World, Okla.]

(Tulsa World (OK) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jan. 19-- The addition of 500 jobs at Verizon is the biggest employment announcement for a new operation in the city since before the Great Recession.

To find something equivalent to Verizon's plan for a finance and accounting hub at the Cherokee Industrial Park, you have to go all the way back to Gannett planning 500 jobs for a customer service center in 2007. The publishing company's facility closed four years later, however.

Other big announcements in the last decade include Capital One Auto Finance with 800 jobs in 2006 and the arrival of customer service centers for DirecTV and EchoStar in 2004, with 1,300 and 1,000 jobs, respectively.

Verizon's decision to establish such a large facility in Tulsa could create momentum for other companies to bring financial jobs here, a local economist said.

"Verizon is a Fortune 500 company. They do their homework before they make a move like this," said Bob Ball, economic research manager for the Tulsa Regional Chamber.

"I'm sure they worked with site consultants and looked at a lot of other cities. The fact that they chose Tulsa could cause other companies to say, 'I want what they have there, too.' " The large chunk of jobs involved in the Verizon plan helps take some of the sting out of recent losses. The telecommunication giant's positions are expected to be relatively high-paying, which would offset the loss of 73 mechanics recently at American Airlines, 70 jobs at Samson Resources and 125 at Petrohawk.

Although New York-based Verizon Communications Inc. already has 900 jobs in Tulsa doing customer service and other tasks, the financial hub is classified by economists as a new facility since it brings in a different type of employment.

The metro area also had a good year in 2012 with expansions at existing businesses, including 700 at Baker Hughes, 600 at ORS Nasco, 455 at Phillips 66 and 400 at West Corp.

Overall, the momentum continues to swing back toward hiring in Tulsa, Ball said.

"In the metro area, we had 429,000 jobs in 2008," the economist noted. "We lost 24,200 in 2009." The last three years have brought growth, however, and Ball predicts Tulsa will return to 2008 employment levels or better by late in the third quarter or early in the fourth quarter.

"We'll probably be one of just a handful of metro areas nationwide to recover all of the jobs lost during the recession," he said. "For the U.S. as a whole, it will take much longer." Tulsa Oklahoma Expanded Industries Company Type of Business Location Sq. Ft. New Jobs 2013 Summit ESP Mfg. Submersible Pumps Tulsa n/a 72 Melton Truck Lines Trucking HQ Tulsa n/a 105 Borets-Weatherford R&D Center Oil Pumps Tulsa 15,000 30 2012 Baker Hughes Oil Field Support Claremore/NE Okla. n/a 700 Airgas Inc. Supplier of Industrial Gasses Tulsa 58,000 130 SageNet Network Managed Services Tulsa n/a 50 Premier Natural Resources Oil & Gas Tulsa n/a 300 Carlisle Mfg. Industrial Brakes Tulsa n/a 42 WPX Energy Exploration & Production Tulsa n/a 200 AG Equipment Global Compressor Packaging Broken Arrow n/a 268 ORS Nasco Wholesale Industrial Tulsa n/a 600 U.S. Highland Motorcycle Engine Mfg. 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Energy Exploration & Development Tulsa n/a 42 Direct Energy Energy Back Office Tulsa n/a 115 Limco Airepair Heat Transfer Mfg. & Repair Tulsa n/a 182 2010 West Corp. Customer Service Tulsa N/A 90 TCIM Services Customer Service Tulsa N/A 250 ResourceOne Commercial Printing Tulsa 369,692 N/A Primary Natural Resources III Natural Gas Production Tulsa N/A 120 CymStar LLC Eng. & Flight Training Technology Broken Arrow N/A 83 Pelco Structural LLC Mfg. Utility Poles Claremore N/A 50 FlightSafety International Mfg. Flight Simulators Broken Arrow 370,000 200 Optimum Services Data Storage Tulsa 23,000 N/A Bearwood Concepts Millwork & Fixture Mfg. Tulsa N/A 125 Road Science Asphalt Mixes/Technology Tulsa N/A 44 Cancer Treatment Ctrs. of America Health Care Tulsa N/A 42 Geophysical Research Company Sensing Technology for Energy Ind. Tulsa N/A 35 M&M Manufacturing Machining & Fabrication Tulsa N/A 32 Parkside Psychiatric Hospital Health Care Tulsa N/A 14 State Farm Insurance Regional Office Tulsa N/A 57 U.S. Cellular Regional Office Tulsa N/A 158 Cimarex Energy Oil & Gas Exploration Tulsa 200,000 N/A LaBarge Inc. Mfg. Printed Circuit Boards Tulsa N/A 100 Spartan Engineering Energy & Utilities Tulsa N/A 200 Enerflow Industries Oilfield Equip. Mfg. Broken Arrow N/A 500 Avery Barron Industries Manufacturer Tulsa N/A 108 Tulsa Cancer Institute Cancer Treatment Tulsa 86,000 100 Baker Hughes Oil Field Support Tulsa Metro N/A 667 2009 Coca Cola Enterprises Business Services Tulsa 29,000 100 Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance services Tulsa 108,000 N/A Willbros Engineering Engineering Tulsa N/A 130 Heath Technology LLC Energy related mfg. Claremore 6,000 175 WorleyParsons Group Petrochemical engineering Tulsa N/A 360 U.S. Cellular Wireless customer service Tulsa N/A 80 Central Tube & Bar Transportation mfg. 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Association Tulsa N/A 43 McJunkin Redman Piping Tulsa N/A 46 L3 Aeromet Aerospace Tulsa N/A 24 Flight Safety Simulators Broken Arrow N/A 60 M&M Manufacturing Machine shop Tulsa 45,000 80 Continental Industries Distribution lines Tulsa N/A 64 Alorica Inc. Back office Tulsa 45,000 300 Walden Machines Aerospace components Tulsa 38,000 12 Questar Corp. Gas production Tulsa N/A 25 Dish Network Customer service Tulsa N/A 200 Precise Machining & Mfg. Aerospace components Tulsa N/A 121 Kirkwood Metals Service Metal fab Tulsa 15,000 120 Arrow Engine Company Small engine manufacturing Tulsa N/A 95 Whirlpool Electric and gas ranges Tulsa N/A 100 Helicomb International Aerospace components Tulsa N/A 90 Helmerich & Payne HQ oil and gas Tulsa 22,000 76 Digital Forensics Professionals Electronic investigations Tulsa N/A 289 D&L Oil Tools Mfg. oilfield equipment Tulsa N/A 99 Anyware Mobile Solutions Software development Tulsa N/A 170 Matrix Service Co. IT and business services Tulsa N/A 86 Asphalt & Fuel Supply Asphalt products Sapulpa N/A 20 Parfab Industries General fabrication shop Inola N/A 350 Access Optics High-precision optics Broken Arrow 18,000 N/A Cust-O-Bend Hot and cold steel forming Sand Springs 70,000 N/A INS Specialties Oil and gas equipment Claremore 14,000 40 River Spirit Casino Gaming and entertainment Tulsa 300,000 650 S&R Compression Gas compressors Tulsa N/A 150 Sulzer Chemtech Metal fab products Sapulpa 100,000 140 AXH Air-Coolers Heat exchangers Claremore 49,000 50 Wood Group Submersible pumps Tulsa N/A 202 Apache Corporation Oil and gas Tulsa N/A 42 North American Petroleum Corp Oil and gas Tulsa N/A 25 2007 Thomas Russell Co. Petroleum processing plants Port of Catoosa 53,000 15 Unit Corp. Oil & Gas drilling Tulsa N/A 167 Pelco Structural Steel utility poles Claremore N/A 50 Hanover Compression Natural gas compressors Broken Arrow N/A 108 Victory Energy Mfg. steam equipment Collinsville N/A 117 American Airlines Maintenance center Tulsa N/A 60 Cust-O-Fab Natural gas components Sand Springs N/A 70 Flowserve Flow Solutions Energy parts supplier Tulsa 56,000 100 Ventaire Mfg. canopies and modular bldgs. Tulsa N/A 85 Blue Bell Creameries Ice cream plant Broken Arrow N/A 50 Continental Wire Cloth Wire cloth for oil industry Jenks 30,000 15 Select Engineering Engineering for oil industry Tulsa N/A 200 Hill Manufacturing Mfg. tree saws Broken Arrow N/A 180 Crosby Group Mfg. products for lifting industry Tulsa N/A 130 Tulsa Power Material handling firm Tulsa N/A 80 LinkAmerica Corporation Trucking Tulsa N/A 167 EDS Data services Tulsa 215,000 N/A Kanbar Properties Real estate management Tulsa N/A 80 Thermal Engineering Heat recovery steam generators Sapulpa N/A 130 Tulsa Winch Winch mfg. Jenks N/A 111 Apsco Mfg. air cylinders Tulsa 2,000 N/A Sinclair Refinery Energy Tulsa N/A 260 Yuba Heat Transfer Heat exchangers Tulsa N/A 222 Tulsa Steel Services Mfg. structural steel Tulsa N/A 405 Norris/Dover Resources Energy products Tulsa N/A 250 Heater Specialists LLC Mfg. parts for refineries Tulsa N/A 150 Fintube Mfg. welding surface tubing Tulsa N/A 200 DP Manufacturing Winch mfg. Tulsa N/A 77 Auto Crane Company Winch mfg. Tulsa N/A 100 Ramsey Winch Co. Winch mfg. Tulsa N/A 125 American Airlines Maintenance base Tulsa N/A 100 Cherokee Casino Gaming resort Tulsa 337,000 500 2006 Abitl Finishing Powder coating Tulsa 12,000 4 AG Equipment Co. Mfg. gas compressors Broken Arrow N/A 201 Atlantis Plastics Stretch film Tulsa N/A 4 Apache Corp. Oil & gas property mgmt. Tulsa 52,000 N/A Cavalry Portfolio Financial services Tulsa N/A 150 Cherokee Casino Casino gaming entertainment Tulsa 20,000 500 Cooler Services Mfg. heat exchangers Tulsa N/A 210 Cust-O-Fab Petrochemical equipment Tulsa N/A 62 Elite Manufacturing Metal fabrication Port of Catoosa N/A 15 Enardo LLC Env. vapor control products Tulsa N/A 73 F&M Bank & Trust Back office Tulsa 6,875 N/A Frankoma Pottery Ceramics mfg. Sapulpa N/A 125 GEA Rainey Corp. Heat exchangers Port of Catoosa N/A 300 Global Manufacturing Machine fabrication Tulsa 25,000 13 Hesselbein Tire Co. Warehouse Tulsa 191,000 N/A HSBC Credit card services Tulsa N/A 115 Linde BOC Nat. gas equipment Tulsa N/A 230 Love Box Corrugated box mfg. Tulsa N/A 30 Melton Truck Lines Flatbed carrier Tulsa N/A 100 Midwest Precision Metal fabricator Tulsa 35,000 N/A Nautilus Inc. Mfg. of fitness products Tulsa 9,000 265 Nordam Group Aerospace Tulsa N/A 360 Paccar Winch Winch mfg. Broken Arrow N/A 29 Penloyd/OFC Mfg. commercial cabinetry Tulsa N/A 100 Ruhrpumpen Inc. Mfg. pumps Tulsa N/A 66 Schwan's Home Service Frozen food distribution ctr. Sapulpa 7,000 15 StoneHenge Partners IT service provider Tulsa N/A 55 TCIM Services Back office Tulsa N/A 200 T.D. Williamson Mfg. pipeline equipment Tulsa N/A 119 Tristar Glass Mfg. safety glass Tulsa N/A 160 Tulsa Steel Services Mfg. structural steel Tulsa 120,000 200 US Cellular Regional HQ Tulsa N/A 798 USPoly Mfg. polyethylene pipe Tulsa N/A 30 Vidoop LLC Technology company Tulsa N/A 525 Walden's Machine Aerospace components mfg. Tulsa N/A 30 Warren CAT Regional Caterpillar Dealer Tulsa 114,000 N/A 2005 Aeromet Aerospace defense work Tulsa N/A 88 Aeroquip Dist. of fluid power products Tulsa 18,000 6 Air Cool Exchangers Mfg. heat exchangers Broken Arrow N/A 60 Ameri-Ti Inc. Stainless steel tubing Catoosa N/A 26 Caseco Mfg. heavy duty truck bodies Claremore N/A 60 Creek Nation Casino Casino Tulsa 34,000 200 Cust-O-Fab Petrochemical equipment Tulsa 56,313 N/A Dollar Thrifty Car Rental Back office Tulsa 30,000 N/A E.E. Sewing Bedspreads and draperies Chelsea 10,000 10 Englobal Engineering design space Tulsa 25,000 150 Fadler's Market Retail Tulsa N/A 12 Financial Mgmt. Services Financial services Tulsa N/A 401 Lender Services Direct Financial services Tulsa N/A 400 McElroy Mfg. Mfg. plastic pipes/fin tubes Tulsa 110,000 100 Merrill Lynch Financial services Tulsa 32,000 20 Metris Co. Financial services Tulsa N/A 322 Midsouth Technologies Mfg. mailing machines Drumright N/A 50 Penloyd/OFC Cabinet mfg. Tulsa N/A 100 QuikTrip Corp. Convenience store chain bakery Tulsa 25,000 35 SemGroup Wholesale petroleum Tulsa N/A 156 St. Francis Children's Hospital Hospital Tulsa 155,000 N/A Taylor Rig Mobile drilling rigs Catoosa N/A 40 Webco Stainless steel tubing Kellyville 110,000 150 Western Technologies Headquarters galv. equipment Tulsa 6,120 N/A Yuba Heat Transfer Condensers for heat exchangers Tulsa N/A 50 2004 Ametek-Prestolite Industrial Motors Wagoner N/A 25 BizJet Aerosapce Tulsa 13,000 200 Bama Cos. Bakery products Tulsa 30,500 N/A Callidus Technologies Low-emission burners Tulsa N/A 260 Cavalry Portfolio Services Financial services Tulsa N/A 200 Cingular Customer service Tulsa N/A 120 Clear-Tone Hearing Aid Labs Headquarters Tulsa 50,000 200 DecisionOne Technical support center Tulsa 75,000 1,191 IBM Business financial services Tulsa N/A 1,000 IC of Oklahoma School bus mfg. Tulsa N/A 100 Magellan Midstream Holdings Oil & gas transportation Tulsa N/A 95 McElroy Manufacturing Pipeline fusion equipment Tulsa 110,000 100 MCI Telecommunications Tulsa N/A 1,600 Nordam Group Aerospace Tulsa N/A 60 Pryer Machine & Tool Aerospace engine components Claremore/Tulsa 50,000 150 SC Piping & Mechanical Fiberglass Wagoner 18,750 20 State Farm Insurance Regional office Tulsa N/A 250 Sustainable Solutions Textiles Wagoner 195,000 250 Taylor Rigs Mobile drilling rigs Tulsa 70,000 15 TPi Billing Solutions Billing company Tulsa N/A 150 United Recovery Systems Financial services Tulsa N/A 200 United Warehouse Warehouse & logistics Tulsa 336,000 N/A Whirlpool Ranges Tulsa N/A 130 Tulsa Oklahoma New Industries Company Type of Business Location Sq. Ft. New Jobs 2013 Verizon Financial Operations Center Tulsa n/a 500 2012 American Tire Distributors Tire Distribution Center Tulsa 127,556 40 Marmon Keystone Tubular Products Dist. Center Tulsa 38,000 10 Clear Edge Filtration Mfg. Equipment for Filtration Systems Tulsa 175,000 180 Garmin International R&D Facility GPS Devices Tulsa n/a 30 Nemaha Oil & Gas Oil & Gas Exploration/Production Tulsa n/a 75 Grand River Dam Authority Engineering & Tech Center Tulsa 42,000 50 Piping Enterprise Co. Welding and Furnace Projects Sand Springs n/a 180 2011 GWACS Defense Inc. Military Sniper Detection Devices Tulsa 20,000 58 Ductmate HVAC Distribution Ctr. Tulsa 61,520 25 Cherokee Nation Gov. Solutions H.Q./Project Mgmt./Staffing Solutions Tulsa N/A 375 Word Industries Fabrication Mfg. Metering Equipment Tulsa 40,000 100 Interworks Inc. Information Technology Tulsa N/A 12 2010 Encore Biodiesel Refinery Port of Catoosa 12 acres 50 Spartan Engineering Energy & Utilities Tulsa N/A 20 Avery Barron Industries Manufacturer Tulsa N/A 10 Lansing Trade Group Commodities Trading Tulsa N/A 18 Octavian Security HQ Security Services Provider Tulsa N/A 22 Carbonyx Machinery Assembly Port of Catoosa 60,000 20 CFS II Debt-Collection Management Tulsa 35,000 200 Borets-Weatherford Headquarters Oilfield Services Tulsa 126,740 125 2009 Bluewater Managed Services Remote IT services Tulsa N/A 10 Primary Natural Resources III Oil & gas exploration Tulsa N/A 100 Liberty National Life Insurance Insurance branch office Tulsa N/A 120 Holly Corp. Petroleum refining Tulsa N/A 385 Campo Alegre Food /dairy products Tulsa N/A 150 Enerflow Industries Oil field equip. mfg. Broken Arrow N/A 40 2008 Laredo Petroleum Oil exploration and dev. Tulsa N/A 175 Worley Parsons Engineering Tulsa 40,000 280 Sooner Packaging Cardboard packaging Tulsa 15,000 80 Hatch Mott MacDonald Petroleum engineers Tulsa N/A 20 Rolled Alloys Metal Service Center Sapulpa N/A 50 Verizon Telecommunications support opp. Tulsa N/A 400 Verizon Wireless Network operations center Tulsa 50,000 20 Everest Sciences Mfg. turbine inlet cooling sys. Tulsa 6,000 30 Covanta WBH Resource recovery facility Tulsa N/A 40 Living Earth Alternative Fuel Biodiesel plant Tulsa N/A 20 2007 Foam Rubber Products Foam rubber Tulsa 30,000 100 Shaw Industries Pipe manufacturing Tulsa 130,000 300 Global Safety Labs Mfg. fire retardant liquids Tulsa N/A 15 ExpressJet Airline services Tulsa N/A 24 Coca Cola Enterprises Business support center Tulsa 60,000 300 Gannett Co. Customer service center Tulsa 30,000 500 DMI Industries Wind towers Tulsa 500,000 450 Middough Consulting Engineering services Tulsa 3,500 32 2006 Alorica, Inc. Technical support ctr. Tulsa N/A 600 Capital One Auto Finance Auto loan servicing Tulsa 90,000 800 Central Tube and Bar Tube and bar fabrication Tulsa 38,000 12 EverGreen Solutions Technology consultant for RE Tulsa N/A 20 Quapaw Data Services Document collection and mgmt. Tulsa N/A 15 Ranger Steel Supply Steel plate dist. center Sand Springs 80,000 2 Schneider National Trucking Tulsa N/A 100 Trak-1 Technology Background screening Tulsa N/A 65 2005 AirWorks Aircraft modification plant Tulsa 80,000 30 Comport Network Services Technology services Tulsa N/A 12 Global Data Systems IT consulting Tulsa N/A 25 Horizontal Oilfield Systems Pump mfg. Tulsa N/A 10 PBM Fab Mfg. school bus windows Tulsa 20,000 50 Pelco Structural Steel utility poles Claremore 192,000 100 Skycam Mfg. aerial camera systems Broken Arrow 50,000 50 2004 Cherokee Casino Entertainment Tulsa 80,000 900 DirecTV Customer service Tulsa 92,000 1,300 EchoStar Dish network facility Tulsa 80,000 1,000 First Wave Inc. Repair aircraft structures Bristow 220,000 100 Franklin Collections Financial services Tulsa N/A 125 FTX Services Business services Tulsa N/A 50 Million Dollar Elm Casino Casino Tulsa 45,000 300 Ramtech Manufacturing Milling & lathe work Tulsa 9,000 N/A Thomas Russell Co. Petroleum processing plants Tulsa N/A 13 Vanguard Car Rental Headquarters Tulsa 175,000 700 Wellman Products Group Transportation components Port of Catoosa 240,000 300 Major job losses in Tulsa area 2012 Hostess baked goods 180 American Airlines aircraft maintenance 73 Samson Resources Co. energy 70 Petrohawk energy 125 2011 Gannett customer service/publishing 500 2010 Zeledyne manufacturing 410 Gerdau Ameristeel steel 80 HSBC Finance Corp. financial 465 Caterpillar logistics services 300 2009 John Zink LLC combustion/vapor control 63 Arrow Trucking transportation 1,400 Oral Roberts University education 53 2008 SemGroup LP energy 200 Trinity Towers wind turbines 130 Nautilus Inc. exercise equipment 148 2007 First Data payment processing 400 Dollar Thrifty car rental 56 Sources: Bob Ball, Tulsa Regional Chamber economist, and Hilary Pittman, Tulsa World researcher John Stancavage 918-581-8314 john.stancavage@tulsaworld.com ___ (c)2013 Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) 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