(AP) — The Omaha City Council has deferred a plan by outgoing Mayor Jim Suttle to have a large real estate firm help in redeveloping the Omaha Civic Auditorium site.

The City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to delay voting on the plan for a couple of months. That plan would pay the CB Richard Ellis/Mega commercial real estate firm $300,000 to help create a vision for the site, as well as select a company to build a development.

The selected developer for the site would pay either $1.5 million or 1.5 percent of the project’s total cost to CB Richard Ellis/Mega. In turn, the real estate firm would refund half the city’s $300,000 payment.

The downtown, 9,300-seat auditorium is set to shut down in summer 2014.