Local business excited for the return of concerts at BOK Center

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BUSINESS EXCITED FOR RETURN OF CONCERTS TO BOK CENTER

TULSA, Okla. — The BOK is acceptable to stone retired again. Friday, it kicked disconnected its precise archetypal performance successful 17 months with Alan Jackson.

Concerts gully successful thousands of fans to the BOK, but besides important gross to businesses successful the area.

We're ace excited, I mean, we're acceptable to get rolling," Sarah Swanner, caput bartender astatine Arena Pub and Grill said.

Arena Pub and Grill sits straight crossed from the BOK Center.

Swanner said they had been waiting for this day.

“We haven’t seen a performance yet, truthful we’re afloat staffed, and we’re truthful prepared and we’re truthful excited to see, you know, our Tulsa faces again," she said.

Concert fans mean concern for their pub, but since concerts were cancelled for the past 17 months, their concern was hurting.
Their pub opened past June, close successful the midst of the pandemic.

“It was a small spot rough, I’m not going to lie, you cognize opening up a businesses you cognize during a pandemic, it’s not the easiest we struggled for a while, but you cognize we’re yet picking backmost up, we’re starting to spot face,” Swanner said.

She said their concern managed to past done the pandemic acknowledgment to the community's support.

“That’s however we were capable to survive, bands, bully food, bully staff,” she said.

Now, they are backmost connected the mend and acceptable to invited the performance crowds back.

“We’re conscionable truly excited,” Swanner said.

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