While construction on the New Orleans Square project in Broken Arrow started roughly four months ago, the project is expected to be completed sometime in March 2023. 

The last four months have seen a lot of road work at the West New Orleans Street and South Elm Place intersection. Steve Yoder, Broken Arrow's business retention and expansion coordinator, said that he anticipates most of the road work to be completed by around mid-to-late December.

"They may even be a little bit ahead of schedule actually, but December, late December is when the actual left turns will open up again," Yoder said.

Yoder also said the goal of this project is to make this area more pedestrian-friendly while also revitalizing business in the area.

"It’s actually a road diet," Yoder said. "It’s actually reducing the lanes so that people will kind of slow down and see what’s out here; try to revitalize the area, revitalize more businesses coming out this way and also to create more walkability between the quadrants."

Broken Arrow is currently in phase three of this five-phase project. The first four phases consist of working on each individual quadrant of the intersection while phase five will consist of street landscaping.

In March, Broken Arrow will put the New Orleans Square logo in the middle of the intersection. That portion of the project is only expected to take roughly a week to complete.