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City gets stimulus funds for arena environmental work

Lincoln is getting nearly $300,000 in federal stimulus funds for environmental work related to the proposed West Haymarket arena.

Deena Winter: Initial design thoughts on arena

Two city committees will be looking over the arena and associated development designs as Lincoln moves closer to a spring vote on whether to build the arena.

L. Kent Wolgamott: Even with arena, Pershing could still be useful

Pershing Center has been taking its shots of late. But I'm here to defend the old arena.

With its proscenium stage, Pershing has classic, now little-seen-in-arenas presentation for performances, and it almost always sounds good. So it's not a bad venue for medium-sized shows, like last Friday's Zac Brown Band concert that drew more than 4,000 people.

Editorial: Vision in Lincoln

For too long, Lincoln has had the reputation of a community mired in status-quo thinking. Red tape too often slowed or even stopped worthwhile ideas. Deep-pocketed civic donors are hard to find. And tensions have separated Lincoln interests that focus on the city's downtown from those that look to develop the urban fringes.

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