OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Builders of a wide-ranging undertaking on the location of the previous Civic Auditorium in downtown Omaha say the plans will “essentially change the downtown residing setting.”
They are saying it can embody a grocery retailer, health heart, retail storefronts, and “each inexpensive and market-rate housing.”
A grocery retailer particularly is one thing downtown residents say they’re lacking within the space.
“Our newest model goals to assist with a number of of the lacking parts of Omaha’s downtown revitalization plan and can actively contribute to constructing a powerful city core,” mentioned growth agency White Lotus Group CEO Arun Agarwal in a press launch. “Distinct signage and spectacular structure will make southward pictures of downtown iconic, and embody the expansion and innovation our city core is experiencing.”
The identify is “Civic Sq.,” a nod to the previous Civic Auditorium, which known as the location residence for six a long time after it opened in 1954. Through the years, it hosted concert events and was residence to Creighton basketball, UNO hockey, in addition to a brief NBA stint with the Kansas Metropolis-Omaha Kings.
The imaginative and prescient is the event might be bordered by seventeenth and nineteenth Streets and Capitol and Chicago Streets. 18th Avenue is about to be added between Capitol and Chicago Streets.
View from the southeast nook
Retail view
Health heart
Grocery retailer
Night time time perspective
Parking storage
