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How a 100-Year-Old Warehouse in OKC Became a Home for Local Businesses 🏙️⛵️
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What happens when you turn a forgotten 100-year-old warehouse into a home for local businesses, creativity and community? You get Sailor & the Dock.

Meet Hamid Pezeshkian, founder of Sailor & The Dock - one of Oklahoma City’s most unique small business concepts and the state’s first certified creative/retail business incubator.

After working in real estate, Hamid returned home to Oklahoma City with a vision: transform under-utilized spaces into places that genuinely serve the community. That vision became Sailor & The Dock, a 14,000-square-foot collective built inside a reimagined 1920s warehouse in Downtown OKC’s West Village OKC District on Film Row.

Today, the space brings together local entrepreneurs and creatives (known as “Sailors”) under one roof. Inside, you’ll find everything from Puerto Rican cuisine and coffee drinks to boutique shopping, plants, crystals, beauty services, bikes, cocktails, and even aerial and pole fitness classes. At the center of it all is the The Dock Bar, a real sailboat transformed into a gathering space for seasonal cocktails, wellness mocktails, local beer, and wine.

But Sailor & The Dock is about more than shopping and nightlife. Built around four core values (sustainability, creativity, community, and wellness) the project was designed with repurposed materials throughout the space, including recycled wine bottle walls and reclaimed industrial elements. The project was also recognized by the Urban Land Institute as one of the top sustainability-impact developments in Oklahoma.

Watch to hear Hamid’s story, learn how this concept came together, and see how a reimagined warehouse became an example of what local community can look like.

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Credits:
Filmed & Produced by Ben Ehrlich Creative
Music: “Moonlight” by Night Jeans
Special thanks to Oklahoma's Credit Union