The Omaha Inland Port Authority met Thursday and received an update on the business park project. (Cindy Gonzalez/Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — The Omaha Inland Port Authority likely will get $2.3 million of the $11 million it expected from state coffers to boost its plans for housing and entrepreneurial programs, officials said Thursday.

The port authority, formed to spur and oversee economic development in a disenfranchised area of northeast Omaha, has been pressing state officials to release $11 million in state interest funds the port authority believed it was due under a previously passed state law.

Representatives of the port authority met Wednesday with new State Treasurer Joey Spellerberg. His predecessor, Tom Briese, had held up release of the funds, saying that a release at that

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