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Legacy Plaza Welcomes New Tenants: Family & Children's Services, OSU Center for Health Sciences

The former Dollar Thrifty Plaza is full up on tenants.

Family & Children’s Services and OSU Center for Health Sciences will occupy 13 floors of the west tower at Legacy Plaza, the social services–centered redevelopment on 31st Street east of Yale Avenue led by the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation.

Executive Director Bill Major said they join east tower tenants Mental Health Association Oklahoma, CAP Tulsa, LIFE Senior Services and Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits, and Assistance League of Tulsa, which occupies a three-story building on the site.

"Our goal was to take a facility that had the potential in midtown to deteriorate and not have ownership, to really create ownership by a multitude of nonprofits that can all be on one campus and working together in collaboration," Major said.

Family & Children’s Services will take up eight of 14 floors in the west tower. CEO Gail Lapidus said it’s a chance to bring more services currently spread across several locations under one roof.

"One of the first things that we’re going to do is moving all the children’s programs into that facility. And then also, one of the things we didn’t plan at first, but we’re going to move our agency headquarters there," Lapidus said.

Lapidus said they'll also be able to expand hotline-based mental health program Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services and partnerships with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and first responders.

Family & Children’s Services is Oklahoma’s largest outpatient community behavioral health provider in the state.

OSU Center for Health Sciences Senior Vice President Johnny Stephens said they’ll create a central hub for addiction medicine and mental health at Legacy Plaza.

"In the five floors that the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation are going to donate to OSU, we’re going to place our Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; the Center for Wellness and Recovery, focused on pain and addiction; our Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity; Project ECHO; and our telemedicine services," Stephens said.

The organizations' west tower spaces are gifts from the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation.

Matt Trotter joined KWGS as a reporter in 2013. Before coming to Public Radio Tulsa, he was the investigative producer at KJRH. His freelance work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and on MSNBC and CNN.