Tulsa World: Glenpool City Hall construction starts

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Glenpool City Hall construction starts
The city has many other capital improvements under way.

Celestino Ocampo of Riggs Construction of Phoenix, Ariz., builds forms for a stairway that is being erected for the new Glenpool Municipal Complex and Conference Center on Monday. Susan Hylton / Tulsa World

By SUSAN HYLTON World Staff Writer
Published: 11/28/2009 2:21 AM
Last Modified: 11/28/2009 3:57 AM

GLENPOOL — An elevator shaft and a stairway have emerged from a muddy pad site as the first signs that Glenpool's new City Hall is under way.

The digging of a four-acre pond and the beginnings of a wall that will stabilize a prominent facade hint that leaders want the structure to be something special.

The site is situated within Southwest Crossroads, a development anchored by a Walmart SuperCenter, 121st Street and U.S. 75, which has been credited with breathing life into the city's sales-tax coffers.

Glenpool Community Development Director Lynn Burrow said that the pond will serve aesthetic as well as flood-control purposes.

"We are funding about $1.5 million of improvements just on the pond," he said.

Limestone boulders will be brought in to enhance the banks of the pond, which will have fountains and a floating dock. The pond will be the backdrop to an amphitheater with block seating.

"We're kind of excited about it," Burrow said. "It will be flanked by a Holiday Inn Express on the north and a Fairfield Inn on the south."

The hotels will be finished around the same time as the city building.

It will be called the Glenpool Municipal Complex and Conference Center, and it is scheduled to be done by December 2010.

Burrow said the steel is on site and will be erected in the next 10 days.

Key Construction is supervising the construction.

The development, which includes a bank and clinic, is filling out with more restaurants. Papa John's is expected to open at the end of next week, and Golden China should open before Christmas.

Other capital improvements are in progress or recently completed in other parts of Glenpool as well.

A $1.5 million street rehabilitation and drainage improvement project starts after the first of the year. Burrow said officials have put together a list of 24 major projects that might have to be trimmed to 18.

"We tried to pick projects all around the city. In an older city like Glenpool we have lots of areas where we could spend more than that," Burrow said.

Burrow said officials are trying to take advantage of construction costs, which are lower right now because of less work and more competition.

Other projects have been completed, are under way or are planned:

141st Street between U.S. 75 and Elwood has been resealed and striped.

Construction will start next year to add a turn lane to 141st Street between Elwood and Peoria avenues. The 4 to Fix the County project will include a jogging path on the north side of the street.

The replacement of 1,150 street and traffic control signs, in order to be brought up to the state standard for reflectivity, has begun throughout the city with 850 signs replaced in the first phase. Burrow said the city spent $44,000 for materials and the installation is being done by public works employees.

The City Council approved a $146,500 contract for a 3,000-square-foot splash pad in Black Gold Park to open in time for summer.

Susan Hylton 581-8381
susan.hylton@tulsaworld.com By SUSAN HYLTON World Staff Writer

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	Report Comment PjjP11, GLENPOOL (11/28/2009 9:13:37 AM) Why wasn't my comment posted?
	Report Comment PjjP11, GLENPOOL (11/28/2009 9:20:50 AM) This is a great opportunity for Glenpool, however the intersection at 126th and 75 MUST be closed for the safety of the public. North bound traffic could be exited at 121st with the erection of a simple sign. While this will cause some inconvenience, if one life is saved it will be worth it. After the work at 111th and 75 is completed cars and TRUCKS will just continue to pick up speed as they approach 126th and even impact the lights at 141st, which these trucks still run through on a daily basis. The town and the state must reach some agreement, and I know one has been on the drawing board, but have heard that the town is holding things up. The next person to die out there is their fault. This is unacceptable as well as sinful. I would not want to carry that burden for a lifetime. Do You?
	Report Comment tulsa_builder, Broken Arrow (11/28/2009 9:53:01 AM) WOW, Glenpool went to Phoenix Arizona to get a contractor to work on the project. Guess no one in Oklahoma is up to building a City Hall???
	Report Comment tulsahills, (11/28/2009 10:17:43 AM) yeah, that intersection by that wal mart is brutal.
	Report Comment Berries, (11/30/2009 1:53:05 PM) PjjP11--The intersection does need to be fixed in some form, but it is not the city that is holding anything up. ODOT is the one that needs to do something about it. Maybe you should contact them about getting it taken care of. The more people who call and complain to them the better. tulsa_builder--There was an open bid for the project, if you had bid on it and your work was worth anything, maybe you would've had a shot at it. As it is, you didn't bid, so get over it. Maybe if you dig around enough you'll find something to really complain about, or maybe you'll just find yourself in a hole of your own making.

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