OMAHA — After months of legal wrangling with city officials, a planned $323 million campus of housing, retail and entertainment venues appears back on track at the former home of Omaha’s storied Civic Auditorium.
The roughly eight acres of prime downtown real estate had been cleared for development a decade ago, and ideas had come and gone before the city officially sold the land in 2023 to Civic Corner LLC, owned by private developer White Lotus Group.
The six-phase mixed-use project stalled somewhat in September 2025 after Omaha city officials issued a notice of default and tried to reclaim the property, saying that construction had not progressed according to terms. The developer disagreed and took the matter to court this past January.
Though the city initially filed counterclaims, it retreated from those efforts with a judge’s stamp of approval in August…