That is not correct. Urban Neighbors was formed via guidance by Neighborhood Alliance. NA is the agency by which the City of OKC organizes neighborhood associations and their prospective boundaries. The boundaries which are 13th street (North), Oklahoma River (South), I-235 (East), Classen Blvd (West).

When the UN was being formed, significant debate ensued as to whether the association would be more resident oriented, business or both. It was settled that it would be run in typical democratic fashion representing residents and their interests with non-voting business memberships available to enable businesses to reach out to the residential community.

One of the debates about this orientation centered around avoiding duplicating/competing with MRC’s good works already underway for it’s business members.

MRC is a business oriented neighborhood development organization. Both non-profit organizations have been awarded multi-thousand dollar grants from the City of OKC to do neighborhood improvement projects.

While often the UN monthly socials gain the most public attention, I would argue that the organization has had a solid history of community outreach and involvement through neighborhood projects and positive influence via significant volunteer efforts.

Perhaps the MRC board, Heritage Hills, and Mesta Park could work more closely with UN board in the future for further positive development of our inner-city community as a whole.