Erasing A Reputation

Journal Record:

As people talk about Tulsa they boast about the area around Peoria Avenue with its million-dollar mansions and affluent shopping area.

But they won’t tell you what lies just a few miles north on the very same street.

Drive north on Peoria and it’s like going into a time warp.

There you find vacant retail space and run-down buildings giving a feel of a downtrodden environment. Near E. 46th Street North and N. Cincinnati Avenue are low-income houses and gang violence, even a convenience store named The Hood.

Welcome to north Tulsa.

“We know it’s a significant quadrant of our city that is historically challenged and underserved,” said Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor. “It is lacking in basic retail services.”

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Photo: Rip Stell.