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Age Studios, and Ben & Jerry’s. But despite the damage, many of the businesses are open, continuing the serve customers.Saturday night, Colette Morton marched at the Delmar Loop. The next morning, she and her family cleaned up the mess. Armed with brooms and paint brushes, dozens of volunteers helped clean up and repair the businesses. Colette Morton helps clean up at The Loop. “There's a beautiful quote from Mother Theresa. What you can spend years building, others can destroy overnight. But, build anyway,” said volunteer Matthew DeVoll.DeVoll and his wife Aimee live near The Loop. After volunteering, they planned to bring family down to spend money in the area.Jessica Bueler, owner of HSB Tobacconist, says even after insurance, the damage will cost her thousands. She’ll pay a deductible and overtime for her employees.“Targeting small businesses and family owned businesses like ours is not the way to get the message out, to break our windows,” Bueler said.But, she was heartened to see strangers come to her door, to create art and beauty after an ugly act. A worker cleans up broken glass from a window smashed during a protest of the acquittal of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley on September 16, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo: Scott Olson, 2017 Getty Images)The protest started early Saturday evening and remained peaceful before dispersing around 9 p.m. About an hour later a small group of separate individuals gathered at Delmar Boulevard and Leland Avenue, throwing rocks, bricks, water bottles filled with paint thinner, gasoline, and balloons filled with a red liquid similar to what was used the previous night in the Central West End. Some officers sustained minor injuries, but no officers or civilians were seriously injured. Police arrest a demonstrat... (KSDK)
These include Evans Fintube at 150 N. Lansing Ave.; the former Morton Hospital at 603 E. Pine St.; the Storey Wrecker site at 10 N. Elwood Ave.; and two sites at the future Peoria-Mohawk Business Park at 1400 and 1828 E. 36th St. North. One of the remaining undeveloped sites, 2103 N. MLK Blvd., was later determined not to be a brownfield. The remaining sites in the top nine include 1047 E. Apache St., Apache Circle – 533 E. Apache St., and 3519 N. Hartford Ave.The redevelopment plan covered the area roughly between I-244 and 36th Street North, from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Peoria Avenue, reaching slightly into Downtown to include Storey Wrecker. The City of Tulsa met with a neighborhood advisory committee and other community members, working together to identify vacant, underutilized sites with environmental barriers to redevelopment and converting these sites to economic engines.The City-of-Tulsa-owned Evans-Fintube site, located in the Historic Greenwood District, has been chosen as the preferred site for USA BMX’s national arena and headquarters. Tulsa taxpayers voted for a sales tax increase in 2016 that included $15 million for design and construction of the f... (Tulsa Beacon)