City officials are drawing up plans to spend more taxpayer money – perhaps another $100,000,000.00 on Downtown projects.

They are crafting a plan to submit to the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission that potentially spend tens of millions of dollars around the BOK Arena – an area that stretches from Boulder Avenue, 11th Street and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad.

The publicly funded project includes tearing down the Page Belcher Federal Building and replacing it with a park. It could mean taking down the Municipal Courts building and building a 600-room hotel and revamping the downtown bus station on Denver Avenue. Some projects may also have additional private funding.

The plan has 10 ways to spend taxpayer money and includes landscaping around the civic center and reconstruction of the Plaza of the Americas.

The City of Tulsa has already spent $500,000.00 on just the plan for the projects.

City officials have not announced plans for similar publicly funded developments in South Tulsa, East Tulsa or West Tulsa.