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$43 Million Capriana Project Adds A Twist To Nebraska’s Affordable Housing Crunch

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/16/2023 - 5:00am

Construction crews prepare the 15-acre site in the Elkhorn area for the mixed-income Capriana neighborhood, which will switch things up: the affordable component will be the single-family homeownership options and the apartments will be market rate rentals.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — In a rather rare housing twist, a mixed-income neighborhood developing on Omaha’s western edge will offer single-family houses as the more affordable option and apartments as the market-rate component.

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A New Solar Model Is Bringing Bigger Savings To Renters In Minneapolis

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/16/2023 - 3:00am

A Twin Cities solar co-op and affordable housing group are piloting a new approach to helping renters benefit from solar.

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Another Park Proposed For Downtown Omaha Is Seen As A Selling Point For Growing Builder’s District

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/02/2023 - 4:00am

OMAHA — In the works for downtown Omaha is another park, a privately owned but publicly accessible entertainment space expected to help lure residents to the developing Builder’s District that’s anchored by Kiewit Corp.

The Square, as it is referred to in city documents, would cover about 1.4 acres southeast of 17th and Cuming Streets.

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South Omaha Raises A Collective Voice To Say The Area Is Ready For $100 Million In ARPA Funds

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/02/2023 - 3:00am

A South Omaha parking lot would be transformed into a community gathering place with a stage and performance area, playground and more under a plan to be financed with a proposed grant from the Nebraska Economic Recovery Act of 2022. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — South Omaha leaders gathered Monday for the second time in a week to shout out a message to state officials that they are ready to put roughly $100 million in pandemic recovery funds to use in their community.

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New Home Prices Continue Their Ascent In Omaha Metro, And A New Study Offers Peek At Why

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 02/23/2023 - 5:00am

Rows at Coventry, under construction near 207th and Q Streets in Douglas County, will offer hard-to-find price point in new construction market. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — The average sale price of a newly built home in the Omaha area has hit the half-million-dollar mark, and a local nonprofit group is ramping up efforts to stem construction costs that have helped to drive record prices.

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City Planners Are Questioning The Point Of Parking Garages

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 02/16/2023 - 5:00am

For the past century, the public and private sector appear to have agreed on one thing: the more parking, the better.

As a result, cities were built up in ways that devoted valuable space to storing cars, did little to accommodate people who don’t own cars and forced developers to build expensive parking structures that increased the cost of living.

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Federal Agency Rejects Developer’s Report That Massive Grain Elevator Won’t Harm Black Heritage Sites

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 02/16/2023 - 4:00am

For the second time in six months, a federal agency reprimanded a Louisiana developer for its failure to offer an adequate assessment of the harm that its proposed $400 million agricultural development would cause to neighboring Black communities and historic sites.

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Shift Of Environmental Trust Funds And Construction Of New Prisons Panned

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 02/16/2023 - 3:00am

LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen should drop his raid on the Nebraska Environmental Trust and should reconsider policies that appear to require not one, but two, new state prisons, a legislative panel was told Monday.

Pillen’s proposed state budget would divert $14 million over the next two years from the Environmental Trust, which is funded by State Lottery proceeds, to a state water resources fund.

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Fossil Fuel Drilling Threatens Air And Wildlife In National Parks, Advocacy Group Finds

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 02/16/2023 - 2:00am

WASHINGTON — A “massive” methane cloud forming over Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico.

Noxious air pollution fouling Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

Herds of mule deer and pronghorn at risk of decimation at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

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Spotlight To Shine, In Nebraska And Nationally, On What Critics Call ‘Home Equity Theft’

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 02/09/2023 - 5:00am

LINCOLN — Their nightmare had been years in the making, but Joyful and Todd Stoves said they had no idea until a man knocked on their door in December with an order to leave the home they’d lived in over 20 years.

What the couple quickly learned: They had missed a property tax payment on their mortgage-free house in 2017, the year they were consumed with a family death.

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Real Estate News

$43 Million Capriana Project Adds A Twist To Nebraska’s Affordable Housing Crunch

A New Solar Model Is Bringing Bigger Savings To Renters In Minneapolis

Another Park Proposed For Downtown Omaha Is Seen As A Selling Point For Growing Builder’s District

South Omaha Raises A Collective Voice To Say The Area Is Ready For $100 Million In ARPA Funds

New Home Prices Continue Their Ascent In Omaha Metro, And A New Study Offers Peek At Why

City Planners Are Questioning The Point Of Parking Garages

Federal Agency Rejects Developer’s Report That Massive Grain Elevator Won’t Harm Black Heritage Sites

Shift Of Environmental Trust Funds And Construction Of New Prisons Panned

Fossil Fuel Drilling Threatens Air And Wildlife In National Parks, Advocacy Group Finds

Spotlight To Shine, In Nebraska And Nationally, On What Critics Call ‘Home Equity Theft’

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