A cleanup was performed by the responsible party under DEQ authority as part of the Federated Metals Zinc Smelter cleanup that occurred from 1993 to 2003. After the Federated Metals Zinc Smelter cleanup, The City of Sand Springs then came through the Brownfields Program to obtain a Certificate of No Further Action Necessary. The property may be used for commercial purposes. Under the authority of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, 15 underground storage tanks were removed from the ground and 3 different LUST cases were cleaned up or mitigated according to OCC requirements. This took place from 2006 - 2013. The site is immediately east of the Cimarron Center Redevelopment, winner of the 2004 Phoenix Award for EPA Region 6. The City of Sand Springs wishes to follow up on this success by razing the site, considered blighted, and attracting retail development. This is one of the projects in the Vision 2025 Program, for which the voters of Tulsa County approved funding in 2003 from a special sales tax. Redevelopment has occurred on this property, including a CVS pharmacy, Starbucks, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Schlotzsky's, Aldi, El Maguey Mexican Restaurant, Warren Urgent Care Clinic, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, TTCU Federal Credit Union, Colton's Steakhouse, Holiday Inn Express, Centennial Baptist Church, multiple parking lots, and stormwater retention ponds. Additional redevelopment is expected in the future. The McDonald's and IHOP are not included in the brownfields ceritifcate, and therefore are considered adjacent properties and are not included in the redevelopment numbers here.
Former Use: Area A lies in the SE/4 SW/4 Section 11, T 19N R11W, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, and its portion of the Sand Springs Keystone Corridor Redevelopment Area east of Wilson Avenue and Main Street, north of Morrow Road and South of US64 in Sand Springs Oklahoma. It is a neighborhood compromising some 25.7 acres, divided among 26 commercial properties, 18 owner-occupied residential tracts, 50 not-owner-occupied tracts, and 58 vacant, residential-zoned tracts. The site was accumulated from Indian allotments from 1903 through 1911. It was subdivided as the South Side Addition to Sand Springs into blocks of 25-foot by 125-foot residential lots in 1911, for employees and various industries being developed. It also used to contain at least four service stations, of which one remains, several hotels, a lumber yard, several stores and churches, and the Booker T. Washington School, subsequently converted to a kindergarten. In addition to kindergarten, the west side currently contains a fast-food restaurant, an automobile parts franchisee, a liquor store and equipment rental store, several repair establishments and 4 churches. Approximately 10 years ago, the neighborhood was the focus of the cleanup of lead- and cadmium-contaminated soil from the residential yards by Federated Metals, who allegedly provided slag and broken retorts left over from zinc smelting operations, to the residents for use as fill. Past ownership is being documented.