Sand Springs pours new entrance to Sheffield Plaza commercial development

Sand Springs’s newest commercial development officially has an entrance as of Friday. City of Sand Springs construction crews poured concrete on the new Huskey Boulevard entrance to the 18-acre Sheffield Plaza Friday morning. A stoplight was also installed last week, but has not been activated yet.

The development is located just a block south of the Highway 412 and Highway 97 intersection, in the most heavily trafficked area of the 20,000 person town. The area was occupied by the Sheffield Steel Mill for decades before being acquired by OmniTRAX.

OmniTRAX initially planned on building their own commercial development, but decided to sell the land to the City of Sand Springs in December of 2017. City Council officially settled on the name Sheffield Plaza in their regular October meeting, and named the Highway 97 entry road “Huskey Boulevard” in honor of the City’s only police officer to die in the line of duty.

The City’s primary target for the development is a large hardware/lumber store like Home Depot or Lowes, but hey remain open to other interested parties, as well.

In other news:

On the southeast corner of Morrow Road and Highway 97, the City of Sand Springs is constructing a decorative wall to shield the public from viewing the City Water Plant. The project was approved by the public in a 2017 General Obligation Bond Election. The facility is currently hidden behind a semi-transparent chain-link and barbed wire fence.

In the nearby River West development, ground was recently broken on a new Tulsa Teachers Credit Union branch. The 2,700 sq. ft. facility will open in 2020.