Labor & Growth
Prime location for business/habitat development snubbed for lottery funds
LINCOLN — For more than 20 years, new business prospects have come and gone to redevelop a former fertilizer plant site at the confluence of the Platte and Missouri Rivers, south of Bellevue. Toyota was among those that looked at locating on the old PCS Nitrogen site before picking another state for a new automobile […]
State funds could help build $80 million national defense ‘innovation hub’
The State of Nebraska might pitch in for proposed $80 million innovation and research hub that would strengthen national defense and house hundreds of professionals earning six-figure salaries.
Sens. Flood, Groene say whoa to letting casino developments use TIF subsidy
LINCOLN — State Sen. Mike Flood took aim Tuesday at allowing incoming Nebraska casinos to tap public tax-increment financing as a way to defray development costs. The Norfolk lawmaker said he wouldn’t object to an already-approved plan for a $220 million casino at Omaha’s Horsemen’s Park. But going forward, he said, using the subsidy to […]
Colorado buyer seeks TIF to help spiff up Omaha’s former Scoular site
OMAHA — A Colorado group wants to buy the former headquarters of one of Nebraska’s oldest companies — but first is asking the City of Omaha for a public subsidy to help revamp the place. The Denver-based Kentro Group intends to buy and rehabilitate the nearly 90,000-square-foot downtown Omaha complex that the international Scoular grain […]
$27 million apartments may rise on old eyesore hotel site at 39th and Dodge
OMAHA — After 15 years of sitting vacant, the midtown Omaha land that once housed the eyesore Travel Inn hotel is poised to be revived with a $27 million apartment building called The View on 39th. Under a plan by Omaha developer Woodsonia, the acre of ground northwest of 39th and Dodge Streets would become […]
$450 million recovery plan seen as unprecedented opportunity to help revitalize North Omaha
LINCOLN — Osie Combs Jr. is ready and willing. The chief executive of Pacific Engineering envisions his company expanding on a swath of land near Eppley Airfield that’s eyed for business development under the North Omaha 2022 Recovery Plan. Mark Norman of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce said after searching for more than 10 […]
Omaha explores new 72nd and Dodge library branch
Omahans might see a new and different library facility rise southwest of the busy 72nd and Dodge Streets intersection. That public library, which is not a done deal, is separate from the City of Omaha’s ongoing and controversial process to relocate the downtown W. Dale Clark Library to 1401 Jones St. Mutual of Omaha said […]
Ricketts says no to second round of rental assistance for Nebraska
Nebraskans behind on their rent might miss out on a $120 million pot of money Congress set aside to help them. Gov. Pete Ricketts said Thursday that Nebraska will not apply for a second round of federal emergency rental aid. “The federal government has said that you no longer need any impact of COVID to […]
Lawmakers object to TIF use for Omaha streetcar
OMAHA — A Nebraska senator who championed the law that gave “extremely blighted” neighborhoods a better shot at economic development says it is being “abused” for the proposed Omaha streetcar project. Sen. Justin Wayne of Omaha said he intended the 2020 change to tax-increment financing legislation to benefit the poorest areas of the state. The […]
Omaha aims for revamped urban core with streetcar, new downtown Mutual HQ
Editor’s note: This story has been updated. OMAHA — A long-discussed streetcar, free to ride and running three miles from 10th Street to midtown, was the key to Mutual of Omaha’s decision to build a skyscraper on the property that houses the city’s main library. The Nebraska Examiner broke the news of both new projects […]
UNMC sparks long-term shifts on corridor
OMAHA — A $44 million housing and retail campus appears to be next in the lineup of projects fast and furiously changing a midtown Omaha corridor anchored by the expanding University of Nebraska Medical Center. Nearly 200 market-rate apartments and row houses, a restaurant and a bank would rise on about five acres northwest of […]
Mutual of Omaha HQ headed for downtown Omaha library site
Mutual of Omaha — a corporate icon that’s been planted in midtown Omaha for decades — is poised to build a new headquarters where the city’s downtown public library stands, according to sources familiar with the project. The relocation of the Fortune 500 company, now based at 33rd and Dodge Streets, answers part of the […]