New life is expected to be poured into a long dormant City of Clinton asset, as the old fire station on Gary Boulvevard has been approved for a Route 66 Revitalization Grant Program grant.
Chase Horn, public information coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, confirmed the City of Clinton had been awarded the grant Thursday “contingent upon the next deposit from OMES (Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services).”
The City was awarded $656,928 for the “Firehouse 66” project as designed by architect Andrew Stone. The project description states: “Firehouse 66 is the adaptive reuse of Clinton’s historic WPA era firehouse, located along the original and current alignment of Route 66, into a year round visitor center, gallery, and community space that anchors historic downtown Clinton, and serves as complementary anchor opposite the (Oklahoma) Route 66 Museum on the west side of town.”