City asks for community input on north Tulsa development

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TULSA, Okla. — The metropolis of Tulsa is asking for assemblage input connected a maestro program for the improvement of the Kirkpatrick Heights/Greenwood areas successful northbound Tulsa.

Developers held a assemblage gathering Thursday evening astatine the Greenwood Cultural Center. Those creating the maestro program for this improvement accidental it’s important to perceive the community’s imaginativeness and priorities for this area.

The metropolis of Tulsa, the Tulsa Authority for Economic Opportunity, and the Tulsa Development Authority are moving to make 3 antithetic sections of onshore successful the Kirkpatrick Heights/Greenwood areas. It’s 56 acres successful total.

The largest tract is westbound of OSU-Tulsa and northbound of I-244. The 2nd is the onshore adjacent to Vernon AME Church. And the 3rd is the onshore conscionable northbound of that 2nd site, adjacent Pine Street.

As developers enactment connected the maestro plan, an important portion of the task is getting input from the community.

“There’s tons of distrust and fearfulness that this is the last frontier of gentrification," said Ashley Philippsen. "People fearfulness erasure. So, it’s important that we person a process that is not superficial.”

Philippsen is simply a subordinate of the 11-person enactment committee guiding the improvement process. She said they person an thought to crook the onshore into a mixed-use improvement and make much affordable housing.

“There’s besides a telephone to amended the nationalist realm and nationalist space," Philippsen said. "We privation aggregate ways for folks to entree this. So, however is it walkable? How is it comfy and vibrant? And however does it reflector the affluent past of the space?”

The past of Greenwood is playing an important portion successful the development.

“Because of the sheer determination and the history, from the precise beginning, again, we privation to bring backmost the bequest of Black Wall Street," said Rodrigo Rojas, lawman main of unit for the metropolis of Tulsa. "We privation assemblage ownership.”

Over the adjacent 12 months, developers anticipation to perceive from anyone connected to the onshore truthful they tin make a abstraction specifically for those who volition beryllium utilizing it.

“If you are successful this country of the survey plan, if you person humanities ties to North Tulsa, we privation you there," Rojas said. "This is an accidental to beryllium determination from the beginning. To assistance us, assistance this enactment committee make this vision.”

There’s different assemblage gathering connected Saturday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. astatine the 36th Street North Event Center.

You tin larn much and springiness input online here.

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