City Council members will consider whether to declare the site of a northwest North Platte townhome development “substandard and blighted” and a block near the downtown Federal Building “extremely blighted.”
City Council members Tuesday granted both TIF and extremely blighted status to North Platte s remaining undeveloped land between Philip Avenue, Newberry Access, the South Platte River and U.S. Highway 83.
Two people were killed and four injured in a three-vehicle crash east of North Platte, while a North Platte man died later in a separate one-vehicle wreck near Gothenburg.
Years of study, design, possible legal disputes and especially government red tape likely would face of a roughly 30-mile-long, four-lane highway loop to serve new and future Lincoln County industries.