Omaha port authority makes key hires, moves toward $90M state-funded business park project

OMAHA — The publicly funded Omaha Inland Port Authority has taken new strides — including hiring three more top managers and greenlighting the purchase of long-awaited business park property — to help attain its goal of creating jobs and economic prosperity in one of Nebraska’s poorest areas.

Authorized by a 2021 state law, the port authority essentially launched in mid-2024 when the Omaha City Council confirmed its nine-member governing board. The entity is empowered with economic development tools, including the ability to issue revenue bonds for construction in a district spanning roughly 3,000-acres of northeast Omaha near Eppley Airfield.

In recent weeks, the board and Garry Clark, who was installed last summer  as OIPA’s inaugural executive director, assembled the economic development team to guide an initial $120 million investment into the district by the state.

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