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A group of Omaha’s civic leaders has drawn up plans for an estimated $125 million mixed-use development on the 8-acre lot across from the CenturyLink Center, in the heart of north downtown.

And those leaders seem to have resolved one major obstacle to the long-imagined development: parking.

A committee led by Ken Stinson, one of Omaha’s business heavy hitters, spent nearly a year studying the site and coming up with plans and solutions.

This week they sent their final report to the city and the entity that operates the CenturyLink Center. It proposes that the site bounded by 10th, 12th, Mike Fahey and Cass Streets be developed into an area with restaurants, stores, apartments, open space and even possibly another hotel.

The committee’s plan includes a new garage and other replacement parking for the 850 stalls that currently exist on the site, which is known as Lot B.

“It’s going to be the place to be,” said Diane Duren, chairwoman of the board of the Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority, which operates the CenturyLink Center and TD Ameritrade Park. “And I think this will really help the whole downtown development.”