Jason Thiellen (left) of E&A Consulting Group, and Blair City Administrator Phil Green were among those pushing for a new law that allows zones inside a city's boundary where property owners essentially tax themselves to fund infrastructure and public improvements. On Monday, they talked about the program at the 40-acre site of the future Bear Creek subdivision in Blair, the first Nebraska town to establish a CID.
BLAIR — For about three years, Jason Thiellen of E&A Consulting Group watched client after client turn down the prospect of developing a housing subdivision on a tract of land near the Walmart in this town of about 8,000 people.
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Jason Thiellen (left) of E&A Consulting Group, and Blair City Administrator Phil Green were among those pushing for a new law that allows zones inside a city's boundary where property owners essentially tax themselves to fund infrastructure and public improvements. On Monday, they talked about the program at the 40-acre site of the future Bear Creek subdivision in Blair, the first Nebraska town to establish a CID.