Little Italy Riverfront Development

[Coyote]

The Omaha City Planning Department is asking the City Council to consider 85 acres in Little Italy to be designated Substandard and Blighted to allow the use of Tax Increment Financing to assist in development.

If they could find the right people with some vision this area could turn into gem!

[DTO Luv]

Interesting. I remember hearing about a group called Riverfront Properties LLP owning that land next to the River.

[Brad]

According to wowt channel 6 news at 6, this are is now blighted.

Here is the area D'Shawn was talking about

I was checking out some property in the "Little Italy" area and I stumbled across this. While its probably nothing it has HUGE potential.

All the land is owned by Riverview Properties LLC. Can you Imagine the potential here. You have a huge tract the overlooks the river.

A lot if the buildings here are in the process of being torn down

[redfield]

This area has to potential to add a ton of relatively affordable housing within an very walkable distance to the Old Market and downtown. As funny or bad as the "substandard and blighted" tag sounds, it really is a huge part of helping significant redevelopment happen in an area, and this area has tons of potential.

Between little Italy to the south, and the North Downtown area to the North, and the areas from 20th to the interstate to the west, we have to room to add a huge amount of population to the areas immediately surrounding the downtown core. Added to significant population growth in the downtown area itself, imagine the type of retail we will be able to attract to downtown Omaha 5 or 10 years from now. Imagine how fun the Old Market will be with that many people living within walking and/or streetcar-ing distance.

[Coyote]

Mr. Redfield. Do you know what these areas will be zoned?

[Brad]

Mr. Redfield. Do you know what these areas will be zoned?

That is an action taken further down the line, at the time or platting or a request to the city for rezoning.

Hope the HI or "Heavy Industry" goes away!

[Coyote]

I would hope that there would be MUs here and there. Man - if they could make this area another TND that would be so cool.

[Brad]

Not What Any of Us Were Expecting!

Railcar Depot Worries Neighbors

http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/5228816.html

Condo developers are breathing new life into one of Omaha's older neighborhoods.

Now property owners are shocked to learn about another new neighbor they didn't expect.

Old Market South homeowners proudly give a windshield tour of developments that will bring new families to the neighborhood.

They knew nothing about another new neighbor: a railcar loading and unloading depot where semi trucks will come and go on streets in front of new townhomes.

Watch the video, it dosen't sound like Angie's is going anywhere.

Ryan McGill who just bought Angies at 10th and Pacific sees both sides of the street on the truck route controversy.

The new loading and unloading depot is at the site of the old Quaker Oats property so it's already zoned heavy industrial.

The new owner has explained his plan to Omaha public works officials.

City engineers tell Six On Your Side they approve of the truck route running from Pierce to Sixth Street then north to Pacific where semis can take 10th or 13th Streets to the interstate.

Neighbors say they will continue to oppose that as an unsafe mix of trucks and residential development.

[icejammer]

Caveat emptor....