Othello Meadows is the manager of Seventy Five North.
Goal is to revitalize Pleasant View homes projects. This property is adjacent to Prospect Hill cemetery in north Omaha and the Charles Drew Center.
HUD cleared a large 40 acre site and was looking for an urban redevelopment project when they partnered with Seventy Five North.
Seventy Five North is designed to be a mix use development. Homes, apartments, townhomes that will serve families with children that will attend Howard Kennedy elementary. The children population is a high free lunch program population and 26% are refugee students, 14% are handicapped.
In 2011, Seventy Five North partnered with Purpose Built out of Atlanta. They purchased the land in 2014. In April 2015 got OPS to change the learning plan in Howard Kennedy. Includes a hands on learning curriculum and other learning initiates.
Purpose Built plan includes mixed development housing. Cradle-to -College plan. Community Wellness.
First apartments are scheduled to open in March. Followed by town homes and inter-generational row houses. There will be an incubator with offices, learning classrooms for adult and children, and a fish waste green house garden managed by Whispering Roots.
Thanks Othello for the information presented to our Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha.