The city hopes a research grant will bolster efforts to get national historic recognition for the only woman homebuilder in Lincoln in the 1930s and 1940s.
In the decade since Pinnacle Bank Arena opened, development in the West Haymarket exceeded project backers expectations and created a spark for all of downtown.
Painted clay pipes are the city s newest pieces of public art; and changes to Haymarket plans make it possible for the city to use tax-increment financing for additional public improvements.
A second Marriott Hotel at Ninth and R streets in the Haymarket — this one for extended stay visitors — would use $3 million in tax increment financing.