Redfork Depot proposed at Tulsa’s Route 66 Village

A West Tulsa group has submitted a Vision 2025 proposal for a Redfork Depot facility at the Route 66 Village site.

The estimated $3.84 million project would be paid for by Vision 2025 sales-tax funds. Here are artist’s renderings of the depot, shown next to the existing Frisco 4500 Meteor steam engine and Red Fork Centennial Oil Derrick. The 5,000-square-foot building is designed to somewhat look like the neighborhood’s original Frisco railroad depot.

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The group wants to use the facility for meeting rooms, support offices and bathrooms and an art gallery. A video of the presentation to the city council may be seen here.

The Route 66 Village faces several sizable hurdles before getting the money. To date, about $2.3 billion worth of proposals have been submitted, according to the Tulsa World, and city councilors haven’t even pitched their projects yet. So there’s a lot of competition.

The council eventually will whittle down the list and send the sales-tax renewal to voters in April. Whether the next edition of Vision 2025 passes remains uncertain. The first Vision 2025, which included Route 66 improvements, passed in 2003 but required a lot of lobbying and horse-trading. Other citywide tax proposals failed before Vision 2025 was approved, so its passage is not guaranteed.

(Images from Route 66 Village’s PowerPoint proposal at a Tulsa City Council meeting)

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