OMAHA — Once one of the world’s largest potato chip factories, an Omaha plant that most recently was used to store truck tires has found its creative self.

The old Kitty Clover building, as locals know it, has undergone a multimillion dollar renovation on its 3.5-acre site south of downtown. And a chunk of the 85,000-square-foot facility has been transformed into a co-working hub for artists.

Instead of 16,000 bags of chips daily, the building built in 1952 and rebranded as “Clover24” — a nod to its history and the main corridor on which it sits — is, at least for now, producing original thread paintings, pottery and other crafty products.

Boings, Bowls, Little People

Among the first 18 creative tenants is Diane Mattern, who kiddingly calls herself a “weird welder” whose work is seen r

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