OMAHA- Omaha’s Inland Port Authority board on Thursday approved the release of nearly $7.4 million in state funds to help a development team assess if a long-sought $90 million business park project near Nebraska’s largest airport is viable.

The action breaks a logjam on a grant announced a year ago by Gov. Jim Pillen. The funds at the time were awarded to a team led by the Omaha Economic Development Corporation for creating a shovel-ready site intended to be a major industrial and job hub for North Omaha.

Funding, however, has been held up by the Inland Port Authority, which governs a 300-acre site where the business park would rise. Some members of the nine-person port board believed the OEDC-led group hadn’t provided the board enough financial and other details for its plan that targets a 160-acre site west of Omaha’s Eppley Airfield and north of Carter Lake.

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