A proposed new downtown Omaha sports stadium would be owned by the City of Omaha and leased by Union Omaha soccer club as a home base for its professional men's soccer team, a new women's soccer team and other community events. A mixed-use campus with a projected investment of up to $400 million also is envisioned. (Courtesy of Union Omaha)

OMAHA — Union Omaha soccer and the City of Omaha are planning to build a 6,500-seat sports stadium to anchor a new 20-acre mixed-use entertainment and housing district in the downtown of Nebraska’s biggest city.

The campus — proposed to rise on a largely unused area north of Cuming Street, near where the College World Series is played — comes after an earlier downtown site fell through for the state’s first and only professional soccer club.

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