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Improving transportation accessibility to the Evans-Fintube site in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Project Summary
Community: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Technical Assistance: Site Design
Former Use: Steel Mill
Future Use: Residential/Mixed Use
Since the 1920s, the North Tulsa community has been
plagued by declining populations, deteriorating
infrastructure and limited services. As part of the 2012
North Tulsa Brownfields Area-Wide Plan, the city
evaluated six key brownfield sites for potential
redevelopment. The largest was the Evans-Fintube site, a
former steel manufacturing facility.
The city of Tulsa engaged with interested developers to
renovate the former steel mill into a vibrant destination
consisting of mixed residential, retail, office and
recreational uses. In 2020, the site will become the new
home for USA-BMX and its national training center.
The Community's Challenge
A major hurdle to successful redevelopment is the lack of
pedestrian and vehicular accessibility to the Evans-
Fintube site. There is no direct access to Evans-Fintube
from the two freeways that border the site, rendering the
property difficult to market. The city needed assistance
developing a transportation plan to support the envisioned
redevelopment.
EPA's Land Revitalization Technical Assistance
To address the lack of accessibility, U.S. EPA's Land
Revitalization Program provided contractor technical
assistance to create a plan of proposed multimodal
transportation improvements. EPA compiled traffic data,
trail transit data, pedestrian bicycle plans, and conceptual
reuse plans among other data to produce an effective
transportation strategy. The plan evaluates several key
transportation recommendations for the former Evans-
Fintube site, along with a discussion regarding priorities,
feasibility, potential limiting conditions and next steps.
These proposed changes, in conjunction with ongoing
environmental remediation at the site, will not only open a
critical stretch of land for redevelopment, but also improve
public health and welcome new businesses to the area.
With the technical assistance, the city of Tulsa will be able
to overcome transportation accessibility obstacles and
make the renovation of the Evans-Fintube site more
feasible.
Archer Street improvements connecting the Evans-Fintube site to
accessible roads.
For more information, contact Denise Williams, EPA
Region 6 Brownfields Program, at
williams.denise@epa.gov.
s>EPA
United States	Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
Environmental Protection
Agency	EPA Pub # 560-F-19-005-L

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