OMAHA- Outbursts of frustration and anger punctuated a community meeting aimed at clarifying parts of a proposed airport area business park funded by $90 million in state funds. At the end of the two-hour meeting, however, key questions from the 75 or so people there remained anything but clear. That is: Will eminent domain be in play?

“I can’t answer that,” said Michael Maroney, executive director of the Omaha Economic Development Corp., which is leading a coalition that has been awarded the state contract to create a shovel-ready site for the business park. Omaha-based Burlington Capital and the Greater Omaha Chamber are partners in the project, and each had a representative at the meeting.

Monday’s meeting, held at the Metropolitan Community College Fort Omaha campus, was the first to include most of the major players involved in the proposed airport business park. The project, to be completed in phases, is to start on about 160 acres north of Carter Lake and west of Eppley Airfield.

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