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TYPros Focus Annual Redevelopment Event on Area North of IDL

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Tulsa’s Young Professionals look to bridge the gap with this year’s community redevelopment event known as Street Cred.

TYPros will focus on Main Street North of the Inner Dispersal Loop. Executive Director Maggie Hoey said the highway presents a barrier between north Tulsa and a more prosperous downtown.

"It certainly is a physical barrier, but it also creates cultural differences in our community, racial disparities, socioeconomic differences, health disparities," Hoey said.

Street Cred participants will look at ways to better connect that area to a thriving downtown.

"You see a very thriving arts, entertainment, business district on the south side, and you pass under that underpass and there's nothing north of that," Hoey said. "So, what we're looking to do with this event is extend that business district north of the highway. That could be a mixed-use district, too. There could be housing. There could be retail. There could be restaurants. There could be public parks."

Street Cred: Bridging the GAP is a free event Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Matt Trotter joined KWGS as a reporter in 2013. Before coming to Public Radio Tulsa, he was the investigative producer at KJRH. His freelance work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and on MSNBC and CNN.