2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:00:40 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] North Tulsa [Oklahoma] Brownfields Areawide Redevelopment Plan
 
City Reports Brownfield Progress 

By KWGS NEWS (Tulsa Public Radio, OK)
September 8, 2017

In the five years since completion of the North Tulsa Brownfields Areawide Redevelopment Plan, nearly $120 million has been committed to cleanup and redevelopment at five of the top nine sites shortlisted in the plan. These include Evans Fintube at 150 N. Lansing Ave., the former Morton Hospital at 603 E. Pine St., the Storey Wrecker site at 10 N. Elwood Ave., and two sites at the future Peoria-Mohawk Business Park at 1400 and 1828 E. 36th St. North. One of the remaining undeveloped sites, 2103 N. MLK Blvd., was later determined not to be a brownfield. The remaining sites in the top nine include 1047 E. Apache St., Apache Circle – 533 E. Apache St., and 3519 N. Hartford Ave.

The redevelopment plan covered the area roughly between I-244 and 36th Street North, from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Peoria Avenue, reaching slightly into downtown to include Storey Wrecker. The City of Tulsa met with a neighborhood advisory committee and other community members, working together to identify vacant, underutilized sites with environmental barriers to redevelopment and taking a proactive approach to converting these sites to economic engines for the community.

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For the entire article, see
http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/city-reports-brownfield-progress

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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