Phase one of seven for Phoenix at 36 North, featuring a 5,000 square feet complex with 100 mixed-income units, and 3,000 square feet of retail space, is now move-in ready in north Tulsa.

The Tulsa Housing Authority led the $210 million project backed by a $50 million investment Housing and Urban Development and donors to transform the former Comanche Park Apartments area.

For Duewan Triplett, a former Comanche resident with four children, the new development represents hope for his community.

"The children is going to be safe, and we don't have to worry too much about everything that we used to have to worry about, with the drugs and the gangs and everything," Triplett said.

Triplett said living at the Comanche Park Apartments carried a stigma that he hopes the new development will hel

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