In an interview Thursday, Mayo said, “When the City Council made that decision, we took that as the incentive to make the change.”

Robert Fleischman, owner of Chrysalis Salon and Spa and president of the Tulsa Arts District Business Association, said the association had no input into Mayo’s decision to change the theater’s name.

“We respect all businesses and the decisions they make,” he said. “I would guess that Peter decided this was what was best for him.”

The name change will mean that, of all the locations within in the city of Tulsa once named for Brady, only Brady Heights, the north Tulsa neighborhood that has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980, will retain the name.

Changing the name to the Tulsa Theater will also allow Mayo to reuse a piece of the theater’s own history — the giant stylized “Tulsa,” made of stainless steel, that adorned the venue’s facade from 1952 to 1979, when it was known as the Tulsa Municipal Theater.

The Brady Theater opened in 1914 as the Tulsa Convention Hall. In 1952, the building was renovated, with additions to the front and rear of the original structure, and was renamed Tulsa Municipal Theater.