Covad expands its broadband services to OKC

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City), Sep 22, 2000

Covad Communications on Thursday said its broadband services are available in Oklahoma City.

The coverage expansion will reach more than 34,000 business and 289,000 households when of the network build-out is complete. Covad's footprint will eventually cover more than 77 percent of the area businesses and 75 percent of area households in Oklahoma City, said Carol Karney, Covad's president and general manager South/Central region.

Covad, based in Santa Clara, Calif., offers two products: TeleSpeed service, targeted to businesses; and TeleSurfer, appropriate for households.

Covad services are available in 99 of the top Metropolitan Statistical Areas. By the end of 2000, Covad services are expected to be available in 165 MSAs, including MSAs that will be added as a result of the acquisition of BlueStar Communications. At that time, Covad's network will reach more than 45 percent of all U.S. homes and 50 percent of all U.S. businesses.

Applewoods reopens

Applewoods has reopened at its new location at 2747 W. Memorial Road. The move was necessitated by the loss of the restaurant's lease at its former location at 4301 SW Third St., according to Applewoods owner Dick Stubbs.

The new site, which opened Monday, is a 7,000-square-foot building and the former home of Maxwell's Restaurant near Quail Springs Mall.

The restaurant's reopening came only 21 days after its SW Third St. location closed.

Stubbs said the business will begin operating during both lunch and evening hours within 10 days.

Applewoods had been located at 4301 SW Third since 1982. Stubbs and his wife, Tina, originally owned that building, but sold it to Paramount Industries in 1985. When Paramount's management changed hands this year, Stubbs found himself unable to reach a lease agreement with the new owners, and the hunt for a new location began.

The Stubbs founded Applewoods in 1978.

InfraGard chapter formed

The Oklahoma Chapter of InfraGard has been formed, Richard A. Marquise, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Oklahoma, said Thursday.

InfraGard is a cooperative network of private corporations, academic institutions, government services and law enforcement agencies formed to share information about protecting the critical information infrastructure from physical and cyber attacks, he said.

Critical infrastructures are systems essential to the minimum operations of the economy and government. The eight infrastructure systems are electric power, oil and gas production, telecommunications, banking and finance, water systems, emergency services, government operations and transportation.

InfraGard is a national program managed by the National Infrastructure Protection Center at the FBI headquarters in Washington. Chapters are being formed throughout the country.

Attendance was more than 100 at the initial meeting of the Oklahoma chapter on Wednesday in Oklahoma City. More information on the chapter is available by calling the Oklahoma City FBI office at 290-7770.

Cala plans to franchise

A 100-room, all-suite hotel spa that Cala Corp. plans to build adjacent to the recently acquired Il Picciolo Golf Club in Italy will serve as a prototype for a new hotel/resort franchise program for Cala Resorts, Joseph Cala, chairman and CEO, said Thursday.

Cala met in San Francisco Wednesday with officials of Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo and Economic Research Associates. The new hotel/spa will be designed by George Berean, principal of Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo with assistance from spa designer Arthur Firmes, whose company was recently acquired by Cala Corp.

Economic Research Associates will conduct feasibility studies on each proposed Cala Resort location.

Cala has moved its headquarters to San Francisco from Oklahoma City.

ABLE issues licenses

The Licensing Division of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission has issued six licenses for mixed beverage establishments, according to the Oklahoma Liquor Report published by the Journal Record Publishing Co.

Licenses were issued to Nasser S. Mazroei for the First Lucy Restaurant, 1313 SE 44th St., Oklahoma City; Plainview Steakhouse Inc. for the Plainview Steakhouse Inc., 13 miles northwest of Freedom, Freedom; Kenneth H. Copeland for KC's Lounge, 2701 S. 4th, Chickasha; Shannondoah Inc. for Shannondoah, 2 miles east of Perkins on Highway 33, Perkins; Ram-Z LLC for Schlotzsky's Deli, 3348 S. Peoria, Tulsa; and Hideaway Restaurant Inc. for The Hideaway, 230 S. Knoblock, Stillwater.

Four intents to apply for licenses have been published.

An intent to apply for a package store license was published by Mitchell G. Haynes for Long Branch Liquors, the junction of Highways 271 and 44, Clayton.

An intent to apply for a change of address was published by Carey F. Morrison for C.J.'s Liquor Store, from Rt. 1, Box 9000, to 500 8th St., Elgin.

Intents to apply for mixed beverage licenses were published M. Lucille May for The Edgewater Inn, 410 Park Drive, Bernice, and Haddar Slassi for the Belle Starr Grille, Highway 69 and Texanna Rd., Eufaula.