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.
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)