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HDR Inc. is seeking $20.9 million in tax-increment financing to help pay for the $152 million headquarters the firm proposes to build in downtown Omaha.

HDR would use some of the tax-increment financing to buy the headquarters site from Omaha Performing Arts for $3 million, according to documents on file with the Omaha Planning Department. The land at 11th and Dodge Streets is occupied by a parking lot.

City planners and the Mayor’s Office back the request. The City Planning Board voted last week to recommend that the City Council approve it. The council is expected to consider the request in about six to eight weeks.

The sale of the Omaha Performing Arts land to HDR is contingent on the City of Omaha’s purchase of other property for the nonprofit arts group.

Mayor Jean Stothert proposes that the city buy three century-old buildings at 11th and Douglas Streets, next to the Holland Center, and give the land to Omaha Performing Arts.

A public hearing on the $11 million purchase is scheduled for Tuesday’s City Council meeting.