| Downtown Bartlesville includes a broad array of established land uses and also significant market potential for infill development activity. The ConocoPhillips presence, together with smaller related corporate facilities, has contributed to renewed economic vigor for the region and the downtown in particular (owing in large part to increased oil and gas prices). Although newer competitive retail and residential activity has shifted to the east side of Bartlesville, primarily along the U.S. Highway 75 corridor, downtown still enjoys advantages of cultural, architectural and institutional infrastructure that make it a desirable location for high value redevelopment activity. Bartlesville’s legacy as a global corporate headquarters has endowed it with disproportionately strong arts and community facilities and left the heart of downtown with excellent “bones” on which to rebuild.
In June of 2008, Parks & Gardens , along with the Leland Consulting Group, was retained by the City of Bartlesville, Oklahoma and the Bartlesville Redevelopment Trust Authority to prepare an implementation plan for two TIFF districts in Downtown Bartlesville. As project manager for the effort, Heather Noyes worked closely with City Staff and the Trust Authority to development a work plan that used the 2004 Downtown Master Plan as a spring board for the implementation strategies.
Physical, Transportation, and Economic Profiles were developed early in the process to provide base data for subsequent tasks. Parks & Gardens prepared a series of 3-dimensional diagrams that delineated the scale and massing of potential future buildout for several blocks in downtown under existing zoning regulations. This exercise allowed local decision makers to understand the impact of existing development standards in and adjacent to the historic district.
Because the original master plan effort included a series of public meetings, the consultant team recommended that implementation process should include follow-up opportunities that allowed prior participants to identify barriers to investment and the successes and failures of implementation efforts to-date. The consultant team conducted three days of stakeholder interview and focus groups with downtown property owners, downtown business owners, downtown employees, historic preservationists and city residents to explore issues and comment on current development and markets.
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Existing Conditions Diagram
3D models illustrating the permissible building envelope
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