Construction will soon begin on a new headquarters for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, providing a modern facility for troopers covering Tulsa, Rogers, Creek, and Okmulgee counties.
The $5 million facility will be built on land near the Creek Turnpike in Riverside, donated by the Turnpike Authority. It will replace the current headquarters near I-44 and East 21st Street, which has been in use since 1989 and was originally a repurposed radio station.
“That building, like I said, has been there since 1989, and it was a repurposed radio station. So it didn’t really fit what we needed at the time, but we made it work, and we’ve done so for 36 years,” an OHP representative said…