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A small apartment complex on the southwest corner of 61st & Arbor Street will be demolished to make way for an apartment building as part of the Southside Terrace redevelopment project. While that project is primarily located in South Omaha around 30th & R Street, this complex is considered to be replacement housing. The project site consists of 1.5 acres with two multi-family buildings. Those will be razed for a 55-unit apartment building, a 55-stall, surface parking lot, and a community playground. Apartments will consist of 23 one-bedroom units, 20 two-bedroom units and 12 three-bedroom units. – Isaiah Ang

Construction has gone vertical on the Black Elk building at 138th & Highway 370 in Papillion adjacent to Amazon’s regional distribution center. The 25,000 sq. ft. flex building will have two dock doors, 4 drive doors and 24-foot ceilings, according to Todd Schneidewind and Bryan Hartmann of NAI NP Dodge, who have the building listed for lease. Ground breaking took place in August, and the building started going vertical last week. It should be fully enclosed by the end of this month and ready for tenant build-out in January. The building can be divided into two bays or leased in its entirety by one occupant.

Crews installed the final steel beam for Eppley Airfield’s future central pavilion. It’s part of the billion-dollar terminal expansion and modernization project at the busiest airport in Nebraska or Iowa. The central pavilion will be a big, open area in the middle of the new terminal. It will house the TSA checkpoint and a food court/shopping area.

The new terminal will have nearly double the square footage as the old one and will feature centralized security, more restaurants/shops and international arrivals capability. The terminal expansion will increase building space by 72 percent from 375,000 sq. ft. to approximately 646,000 sq. ft.

Eppley served more than 5.2 million passengers in 2024. Seven airlines provide approximately 70 departures per day to 34 nonstop destinations from Omaha.

Photo credit: Omaha Airport Authority

Construction is progressing on The Nook Apartments near 8th & Pine Street in Little Italy. This new multi-family development will take up much of the vacant land left over from the defunct Grace University. The project will have 250 market-rate apartments and townhomes in a total of 10 new buildings.

Construction is underway on the southwest corner of 72nd & Farnam Street, a block south of Omaha’s future flagship library. That’s where a $44 million, 5-story, mixed-use building is rising. Two elevator towers are in place as well as much of the first-floor concrete walls. Developed by Lockwood Development, the building will have 176 apartment units plus ground-level retail space that will host a Williamsburg Pizza restaurant and a Jimmy John’s sub-sandwich shop. Once Jimmy John’s opens in the new building, the existing, free-standing Jimmy John’s building will be demolished.

Construction has started in northwest Omaha on the 106-acre Marlin Petermann Recreation Area also known as Damsite WP1. The site is northwest of 180th & West Maple Road and west of Elkhorn North High School. The Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District is responsible for the rec area, which will include a 20-acre lake, a 2-mile bike trail loop and both traditional and accessible canoe/launching facilities. The lake will be stocked with game fish.

Photo by Brad Williams

Site grading work is underway on the Antler View West subdivision, a mixed-use development southwest of 192nd & West Maple Road. Twenty acres in the middle of the development are reserved for medium-density multi-family development. The eastern and northern edges of the development will be lined with 12 commercial lots. The accompanying aerial photo is taken from the southwest looking toward the northeast.

Photo by Brad Williams

Construction is progressing on the future Walter Apartments, a 5-level, 58-unit apartment building at 50th & Leavenworth Street. The site was the long-time home of a laundromat and dry cleaner. The Walter will have 44 indoor parking stalls on the first level, which is mostly subterranean. The building will have 46 one-bedroom and 12 two-bedroom market-rate apartment units.

Photo by Brad Williams