Neighborhood Displacement
Under the original Environmental Impact Statement, residents of two neighborhoods were to be displaced by construction of the new Crosstown Expressway. Construction resulted in the demolition of 165 properties in the Walnut Grove and Riverside neighborhoods. The realignment will now directly result in reconstruction of 590 acres (2.4 km2) in Phase I and an additional 785 acres (3.18 km2) in Phase II, for a total of 1,375 acres (5.56 km2) in the core of Oklahoma City.
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