OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – The Omaha City Council will hear plans Tuesday about redeveloping a historic Nebraska apartment complex.
The developer is asking the city for more than $4 million in tax increment financing to help finance the more than $54 million project that will bring affordable housing to the city.
The current Ernie Chambers Court, first known as the Strehlow Terrace Apartments, was built in the early 1900s and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The plan calls for redeveloping the apartment complex in phases, rehabbing the current 70 units and adding another 130 units of mixed-income housing to the area while preserving the historic complex…