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GREENWOOD Dist.–A year after Franchell Abdalla’s company was awarded the opportunity to construct phase one of a multimillion-dollar redevelopment project at Greenwood’s long-neglected Evans-Fintube site, PartnerTulsa announced on Thursday it had ended negotiations with the Black developer for the Greenwood project.
For the past year, the project has stalled as Franchell Abdalla’s Be Good Development company sought a redevelopment agreement from the city in order to gain necessary funding to begin construction.

Awarded in May 2022, the project seeks to transform the dilapidated Oklahoma Historic Iron Works building into a…