Plan for commercial development on Superior OK'd

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By the Lincoln Journal Star

The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission on Wednesday recommended approval of a plan that could bring more development to Superior Street east of 33rd Street.

Commissioners voted unanimously in favor of annexing about 63 acres that runs east and north from 35th and Superior and  changing the zoning on that land — and another 10 acres — from residential to highway commercial.

The land, east of Schworer Volkswagen and the Landmark Corporate Center and west of Boosalis Park, was described by the Planning Department as being the last piece of privately owned land between Superior Street and Fletcher Avenue and 33rd and 44th that is not in the city limits.

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More than half the land — 48 acres — is in the Salt Creek floodway and cannot be developed. The remaining 25 or so acres is proposed to be developed into 10 lots with a mix of retail and business uses.

The highway commercial zoning designation allows a wide range of uses, from warehouses to restaurants.

Bob Rokeby, one of the landowners, said he is trying to recruit tenants. He hopes to attract retail-oriented businesses to the lots that front Superior while developing the rest of the site into “something nicer than industrial,” perhaps an office park.