The following message from Mayor Jim Suttle appears in the City’s Capital Improvement Plan for 2010-2015:
The 2010-2015 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) provides the guidance for our city’s future. As our city continues to grow we must look to strengthen our neighborhoods, parks and libraries. We must also ensure that Omaha continues to improve public safety, foster economic development and maintain its infrastructure.
As part of the CIP, our citizens will see the continued rehabilitation of the Hummel Park and the Hummel Day Camp Building, Levi Carter, and Lynch Parks. The Abrahams Library will also continue undergoing renovation. We will benefit from major road projects across the city including Fort Street from 123rd to 132nd, West Center from 150th Street to Highway 275 and the redesign of the 42nd & Q Street intersection. The 72nd & Blondo pedestrian bridge, the Stockyards bridge and the Farnam Street Bridge over I-480 will all be refurbished. New projects added to the CIP this year include streetscape improvement projects at 63rd & Blondo that will provide a new and notable entrance to Benson.
This plan carries Omaha into the future. In the process the plan heightens the beauty of our neighborhoods, increases public safety and improves our quality of life. Omaha continues to gain national recognition as the place to live, work and raise a family. It is important that we take the right and necessary steps so that our City will become even more the city of the 21st Century.
The City’s full Capital Improvement Plan is available on the Planning Department’s website. View it here.
