These deposit amounts will have no refund associated with them. A massive $300 million revitalization project is currently underway, encompassing three riverfront parks: Gene Leahy Mall, Heartland of America Park, and Lewis & Clark Landing, which will be collectively referred to as The RiverFront. Gene Leahy Mall will reopen in 2022 with Lewis & Clark Landing and Heartland of America Park to follow in 2023. . OMAHA The signs are plentiful: newly framed houses around town, freshly bulldozed land, tower cranes dotting the skyline. Not since 2005 had Omaha city leaders okayed that much ground to be platted, the report noted. The City will use Lease-Purchase bonds to cover these costs, which will not require a tax increase. Riverfront Revitalization Project - Omaha (Download table as a PDF. Ranking among the most giant of those projects, in terms of square footage, were the Douglas County justice center office tower and youth center, a few schools and the Amazon warehouse. For perspective, Omahas annual average during the previous decade was 159 acres. We've updated our look. Hawthorne Apartments, 78 units, 17665 Welch Plaza. City of Omaha is working on making Farnam Street safer through the Blackstone District. Special Contractor's Information Meeting held on May 12 at the Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC) on the University of Nebraska Omaha campus. The nearby WOWT Channel 6 studios will be moving into the building and their current location will be torn down. Mutuals construction project, in addition, is tied to the citys proposed streetcar system in a way that calls for five extra years on a 15-year TIF term. Additionally, every tree will be replaced within The RiverFront one-for-one, standing at least 15 to 20 feet tall at the time of planting. Location: Omaha, NE. $28 million project to take 'hip' Omaha housing district to new heights Urban Indian health coalition to move and be replaced downtown by new market-rate units By: Cindy Gonzalez - April 4, 2022 3:13 pm The Howard apartments, 2323 Howard St., will expand the Flats on Howard neighborhood in downtown Omaha.