JENKS — Developers Duane Phillips and Rob Phillips aren’t related, but they do share more than a surname.
The partners are building a place to live, work and play in Jenks.
“Tulsa was growing south, and (Jenks) just seemed like an underdeveloped area,” Duane Phillips said. “When you came across the bridge, there was just nothing there.”
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Duane Phillips, who owns Oak Properties, and Rob Phillips, president of Philcrest Properties, focused about a decade ago on developing the Village on Main, which they wanted to be a pedestrian-oriented destination with an urban feel.
Since then, the area around the 700 block of East Main Street has been transformed. Following the construction of Utica Park Clinic were the Waterfront Grill (on the nearby Oklahoma Aquarium campus) and the 60,000-square-foot First Oklahoma Bank headquarters (2014), as well as a 525-space parking garage, additional office buildings and a 167-unit apartment complex called Thrive, to which the partners sold land.
Underway is a 100-unit multifamily structure that abuts the parking garage. Construction is scheduled to begin in the next 60 days on a two-story office building and a pair of retail components totaling about 30,000 square feet. All told, the Phillipses have invested at least $125 million into the Village on Main and the immediate area, they said.
“We’re starting to get that density in downtown Jenks that everybody is after — that walkability,” Duane Phillips said.
The retail space could include up to four restaurants and service-oriented business and shops for ice cream and coffee. The residential, office and retail spaces are expected to be completed by early spring, Rob Phillips said.
“This is so unique with the parking garage horizontal to the units,” Duane Phillips said of the multifamily component. “If you live on the fourth floor, you can actually park on the fourth floor and walk straight in. We will have carts so people can bring their groceries right to the units.”
For the apartments, Cowen Construction is the contractor, White Design Group the architect, Phillips Slaughter Rose the engineer and Great Southern Bank the lender.
“With lodging, residential, retail, restaurants, office … we’ve kind of created the mini-lifestyle that all the larger metropolitan areas are doing, especially in areas like Dallas and Kansas City,” Rob Phillips said. “The difference here versus all the activity in downtown (Tulsa), it’s true walkability rather than just walking to a club.”
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