Two build-to-rent neighborhoods are changing the way people live in west Omaha while helping alleviate the metro area’s chronic housing shortage.
Aerie Blue Sage, located at 204th & Blue Sage Parkway west of Elkhorn South High School, is partly completed and already home to hundreds of residents. Aerie Heartwood Preserve is under construction southwest of 144th & Pacific Street with first units available by this September.
Build-to-rent developments are relatively new to Omaha. Instead of a traditional apartment complex, these neighborhoods offer a variety of housing options such as single-family homes, apartment villas, townhomes and cottages. These rental communities offer the privacy associated with single-family houses with the flexibility and maintenance-free lifestyle of traditional apartment living…