Omaha port authority shakes loose part of interest funds it said state withheld

The Omaha Inland Port Authority met Thursday and received an update on the business park project. (Cindy Gonzalez/Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — The Omaha Inland Port Authority likely will get $2.3 million of the $11 million it expected from state coffers to boost its plans for housing and entrepreneurial programs, officials said Thursday.

The port authority, formed to spur and oversee economic development in a disenfranchised area of northeast Omaha, has been pressing state officials to release $11 million in state interest funds the port authority believed it was due under a previously passed state law…

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