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Planning Study Proposes Medians, Streetscape and Events to Revive Meridian Corridor
Summary
A city planning study and placemaking assessment for the Meridian Corridor recommends incremental streetscape projects, expanded medians, event activation and a potential business improvement district to support economic revitalization and future transit‑oriented redevelopment.
City planning staff and consultants presented a Meridian Corridor placemaking assessment that lays out short‑, medium‑ and long‑term steps to improve aesthetics, safety and economic activity along South Meridian from the airport area toward downtown.
Mark Zitzow of Johnson & Associates told the council the corridor is one of Oklahoma City’s early suburban commercial strips that has lost many of its historic restaurants and local businesses and now faces aesthetic decline, overhead utilities and investment pressure from competing corridors. “One of the the biggest challenges to…
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