Mutual of Omaha HQ headed for downtown Omaha library site

Mutual of Omaha — a corporate icon that’s been planted in midtown Omaha for decades — is poised to build a new headquarters where the city’s downtown public library stands, according to sources familiar with the project.

The relocation of the Fortune 500 company, now based at 33rd and Dodge Streets, answers part of the mystery that for months, even years, has surrounded the future of the W. Dale Clark Library at 15th and Douglas Streets.

Conversation about the fate of the library, now nearly a half-century old, has increased with the ongoing $400 million renovation of downtown parks, with many taxpayers objecting to demolishing the structure.

In addition to the relocation of Mutual, which has about 4,000 Omaha-area employees, Mayor Jean Stothert’s administration and business leaders on Wednesday are expected to announce a streetcar system that would run from downtown to the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

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