When fast-food chicken restaurant chain Chick-fil-A began looking for a location in Claremore, company officials asked the city for a nondisclosure agreement.
“We don’t shout it from the rooftops that, hey, ‘Developer Smith is wanting to put in a chicken restaurant at this spot,’ because developer Smith doesn’t want his competitors to know where he’s looking at property and what markets he’s in,” Claremore City Manager John Feary said.
Feary said such nondisclosure agreements, known as NDAs, are common in economic development…