The City of Tulsa holds the second of three public meetings tonight as it comes up with a plan to make the Arena District a bigger, better part of the city.
Goals include promoting redevelopment and growth, forming better ties between the 30-block area and the rest of downtown, and giving the Arena District a strong brand.
The meeting is from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Tulsa Community College Metro Campus Thomas McKeon Center for Creativity, 910 S. Boston Ave.
"Hopefully, we can kind of build off some of the excitement, the community involvement from the May meeting and carry this through. We have a couple more months, and we should be wrapping the planning effort for this project up," said City Planner James McHendry.
McHendry said they’re trying to come up with a roadmap to improving the area around the BOK Center and Cox Business Center, and not just for Tulsans.
"The Arena District or Arena Area is some visitors’ only exposure to the city. And so, we’d really like to find a way to tell a story. Hopefully, we’ll be doing that through some dynamic public art, landmarks and some placemaking efforts," McHendry said.
The plan won’t sit on a city hall shelf when it’s done.
"A part of the plan will be an implementation strategy. How do we achieve this vision? That’s something we’re still working on, for sure," McHendry said.
The Arena District master plan is a Vision Tulsa–funded project.
