Blue Sky Development News Today

The panel will also review the amended redevelopment contract for District 177s second phase. The agenda indicates no action will be taken on District 177.

North Platte, Neb. officials are considering tax incentives for apartment buildings near downtown.

Council members also finally adopted a sharp increase in “games of skill” occupation taxes and agreed to seek bids to upgrade Cody Park’s tennis courts for both tennis and pickleball.

The multistage Village Park Flats development won nearly $9.7 million in tax increment financing on a 5-1 vote and passage of its plat and a rezoning ordinance on 6-0 votes.

The City Council will convene its first regular July meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, a day later than usual due to Independence Day, in the City Hall council chamber.

North Platte Planning Commission members recommended City Council backing of three housing initiatives that would bite into into a 2018 estimate of the city’s shortage of housing stock.

Community Redevelopment Authority members Thursday endorsed tax increment financing for Village Park Flats and wrapped up a TIF contract to complete the Victory Village apartment complex to its west.

The nine-member panel voted to recommend tax increment financing for the 128-lot Village Park Flats on West A Street, annex a 10.35-acre north-side lot and make 260 east-side acres TIF-eligible.

Community Redevelopment Authority members Thursday will finalize the TIF contract to help grow Victory Village from 80 to 200 units and review the newly proposed Village Park Flats subdivision.