GRETNA- State lawmakers hoped to inspire transformational development in areas like Nebraska Crossing with a 2023 law that resulted in a sales tax cut there and in other designated “good life” districts. Now two years later, that project in Gretna appears in limbo and the state is out more than $2 million in sales tax dollars as lawmakers face a projected budget shortfall.

That money went uncollected thanks to the evolving state law and a stalemate between developer Rod Yates and the City of Gretna. Yates, who owns Nebraska Crossing and backed the 2023 law, received one of the first good life designations in the state. Now, he hopes to spur a law change that would let him bypass Gretna and work with the state instead.

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