Editing Pryor Creek, Oklahoma (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Google Mayes County P0004991a.jpg|thumb|Google Data Center, outside Pryor Creek]]
[[File:MidAmerica Industrial Park Airport.jpeg|thumb|right|Mid-America Industrial Airport near Pryor Creek]]

[[MidAmerica Industrial Park]] is located about {{convert|4|mi|0}} south of Pryor.<ref name="Small-town Pryor">{{cite web |url= http://tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070407_1_A1_hNews42637 |title= Small-town Pryor getting some big hits |publisher= Tulsa World: tulsaworld.com |access-date= 2011-09-14 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://archive.today/20070811123505/http://tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070407_1_A1_hNews42637 |archive-date= 2007-08-11 }}</ref> It houses more than 80 companies, including Fortune 500 leaders such as [[Google]], [[DuPont]] and Nordam.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chouteauchamber.com/industrial-park| title= MidAmerica Industrial Park| publisher= Chouteau Chamber of Commerce | access-date=March 26, 2020}}</ref> The facility includes its own airfield, the [[MidAmerica Industrial Park Airport]], featuring a {{convert|5000|ft|adj=on}} runway refurbished in 2016.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://maip.com/news/article/airport-at-midamerica-industrial-park-to-receive-upgrades-and-improvements| title= Airport at MidAmerica Industrial Park to receive upgrades and improvements| publisher= Cydney Baron, MAIP, January 18, 2016 | access-date=March 26, 2020}}</ref>

In May 2007 [[Google]] announced its plans to build a large Internet [[data center]] at the Mid-America Industrial Park. The $600 million facility is now open and employs around 400 people. It is currently Google's second largest data center in the world.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/a/pryorschools.org/pryorschools-org/google-press-release?ibgc=1&d=pryorstudent.com|title=Google Press Release - Pryor Public Schools|website=sites.google.com|access-date=2018-03-07}}</ref> Google shut the worksite down in 2008 because of the status of the United States economy and work on its overseas projects and affairs,<ref>[http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/May/02/google_confirms_600m_oklahoma_project.html  Google Confirms $600 mil Project]</ref> then restarted the project in October 2010 and opened at the end of September 2011.<ref>Kyle Arnold, [http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=52&articleid=20101022_52_A1_ULNSho329871&archive=yes  Google reboots data site in Pryor], ''[[Tulsa World]]'', October 22, 2010.</ref><ref>Robert Evatt, [http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=52&articleid=20110930_52_A1_CUTLIN381403 Google plugs in data center in Pryor], ''[[Tulsa World]]'', September 30, 2011</ref>

In February 2018, Google announced a $600 million expansion to their data center in Pryor. The investment was to build a new four-story data center, which brought Pryor to be Google's second largest data center in their operations. This brings their total investment in the Pryor community to $2.5 billion.<ref name=":0" />

On June 17, 2021, electric vehicle manufacturer Canoo announced plans to build its first electric vehicle factory in a 400-acre site in the MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/canoo-to-build-its-first-electric-vehicle-factory-in-oklahoma/|title=Canoo to build its first electric vehicle factory in Oklahoma|date=June 17, 2021 }}</ref>

According to the ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', manufacturing employs about 40 percent of the city's workforce. It is the seventh largest manufacturing center in the state. The main industries that it serves are: machinery, metals, electronics and transportation equipment.<ref name="tillypedia"/>