Councilors vote to rename Brady Street for famous Civil War photographer
By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer on Aug 15, 2013, at 6:29 PM Updated on 8/16/13 at 12:48 PM
Tulsa City Council
Mayor Dewey Bartlett and former Mayor Kathy Taylor have eight weeks to make their cases before voters go to the polls Nov. 12.
Michigan-based Horizon Group Properties and Charlotte, N.C.-based Collett & Associates, the developer of the Tulsa Hills shopping center, seek to build a large outlet mall on a 64.8-acre parcel at 129th East Avenue and Interstate 44, officials said.
City councilors on Thursday night voted to rename Brady Street after Civil War photographer Mathew Brady and give the street the honorary name of Reconciliation Way.
Councilors approved by a 7-1 vote with Chairman David Patrick voting no and Councilor Arianna Moore absent.
The honorary name "Reconciliation Way" will apply only to the portion of Brady Street within the Inner Dispersal Loop, but the entire street will be named for Mathew Brady.
The street, to be renamed M.B. Brady Street, is currently named after Wyatt “Tate” Brady, a city founder and one-time Ku Klux Klan member.
Many of the estimated 100 people in attendance Thursday stood and applauded when Councilor Jack Henderson objected to letting Mayor Dewey Bartlett speak. Patrick overruled him, and Bartlett stood to say he supported the proposal.
Councilors last week postponed a vote on changing the street name to Burlington Street to allow Councilor Phil Lakin to return from vacation.
Under the latest proposal, the city would donate the money it would have cost to rename the street to the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Center to be used for educational programs.
John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, 415 N. Detroit Ave., honors historian and Oklahoma native John Hope Franklin, who died in 2009, a few months after attending the park’s groundbreaking.
Councilor Jack Henderson proposed renaming Brady Street to Burlington Street after council staff discovered a 1907 city ordinance listing “Burlington Street” as the original name only to have it scratched out and “Brady” written in its place.
Tulsa City Council
Mayor Dewey Bartlett and former Mayor Kathy Taylor have eight weeks to make their cases before voters go to the polls Nov. 12.
Michigan-based Horizon Group Properties and Charlotte, N.C.-based Collett & Associates, the developer of the Tulsa Hills shopping center, seek to build a large outlet mall on a 64.8-acre parcel at 129th East Avenue and Interstate 44, officials said.
