The vision for the 36N project is to transform the identified portion of the 36th Street North corridor into a mixed-use, mixed-income community while ensuring a strict one-for-one replacement of all Comanche Park residents, a Tulsa Housing Authority (THA) property, with the goal of highlighting, enhancing and improving economic and cultural diversity of this area of Tulsa.
Kicking off in October 2018, THA initiated the Envision Comanche journey – a comprehensive resident-led, community-supporting planning process with priority placed on minimizing the disruption to residents’ lives. Over the course of more than a year, residents, stakeholders, community partners and civic and nonprofit organizations came together through over 30 planning meetings, four design charrettes, four community engagement events and multiple survey opportunities to establish a new vision for Comanche Park. THA brought a group of Envision Comanche partners, including residents, to Dallas, Texas to visit sites that cast a vision for elements of what 36N could be. There are several aspects of the communities visited that are now a part of the 36N plan.
The name for the community – 36N (pronounced 36 North) – was developed and chosen by residents and community partners. Residents also wanted to see each phase have a unique name. Phase I of the project is named The Phoenix @ 36N.
View an executive summary of the Envision Comanche master plan here. The final plan in its totality can be viewed here.
THA and the City of Tulsa applied for Tulsa’s second Choice Neighborhoods Implementation grant (the first being at River West) in 2022 and were awarded a $50 million CNI grant in 2023. Marcia Fudge, then Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, chose to visit Tulsa for the grant announcement, solidifying the importance and potential impact of the project.
A groundbreaking event was held in June 2024, kicking off construction of The Phoenix @ 36N at the corner of 36th Street North & Peoria (across the street from the former Comanche Park Apartments).
The Phoenix @ 36N is slated to be complete in late summer 2025.