Officials with the City of Broken Arrow and Tulsa County will cut the ribbon on its new Tourism and Economic Development (TED) Office at 2 p.m., Thursday, May 20. The office is located at 123 N. Main St. and includes an extension of the Tulsa County Court Clerk’s office in the adjacent space.

The City’s TED team has two primary focuses within the City: Business Retention and Expansion and Tourism and Marketing. The TED team works closely with the Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce and the Broken Arrow Economic Development Corporation in order to make Broken Arrow an attractive place for businesses to locate. The Tourism and Marketing Team also promotes Broken Arrow as a destination for special events, sports tournaments and regional travelers, working closely with the Convention and Visitors Bureau and local hoteliers and merchants.

A recent focus has been the promotion of the Rose District Wedding District, an innovative new approach to marketing Broken Arrow’s downtown area to couples and wedding planners. The key to the Wedding District was the inclusion of the Tulsa County Court Clerk to offer marriage licenses locally to save couples a trip to downtown Tulsa.

Since opening, the Tulsa County Court Clerk’s extension office has expanded services to include certified copies of marriage licenses (and divorce decrees dating back to 2007), which is required for the Oklahoma REAL ID program. The Tulsa County Court Clerk’s office will also soon be able to process passport applications and civil filings.