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This will be a good amount of Class A office space removed from DT. Always thought this was a decent building and looks to be in good condition. I also didn’t realize it was nearly empty. Wonder how many more apartments downtown can support ?. I mean the current goal is to get 30k people living in ...

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As usual, Nebraska Examiner has the best tidbits about this news If given the green light, Gold said the project is likely just the start of more apartment building that UNMC hopes to be involved with to attract and make life easier for students, researchers and staff at the rapidly expanding medica...

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https://www.investorsomaha.com/newsletter/noddle-companies-acquires-land-from-childrens-nebraska-for-mixed-use-project-at-west-village-pointe/ I stumbled across this article, is there any other information on this? I'm curious what they'd do with that land if there's intentions for a project and if...

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I used to use that ramp all the time on my way from 80 East to Pacific Street. For at least 10 years they have had “Temporary” barrels blocking anyone from using that small stretch of pavement. I could resort to an earthy colloquialism to indicate that the State Department of Transportation should,...

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Where is the convention center going to be?

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The difference between OKC and NYC is that the Texas urban megaregions are still exploding in population while NYC is still not back from the pandemic. OKC could very well end up exploding in population like Austin did. Of course it might not, maybe OKC is too far removed from the boom in Texas. NY...

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So recent news out of NYC gives me even more pause. A brand new luxury supertall residential building in Brooklyn is being foreclosed on because it hasn’t sold enough units

https://www.curbed.com/article/9-dekalb ... stern.html

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Cancer is about to write a book about how it would kill OJ, if it did it.

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*laughs nervously* what the |expletive|

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10 acres for a soon to be announced user sounds like it'll probably just be a big box of some sort

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skinzfan23 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:31 am Great shot. Really shows the diversity and different generations of buildings.

Yeah, the southern exposures of downtown are my favorite for seeing the density of older buildings downtown still has.

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"Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8" - Elon Musk This should put production in early 2026. I would expect to see wide release by 2028, just in time to get a ride to the streetcar. Nebraska already has laws on the books and the current technology does 99.7% of the driving. * 8 is a Chinese numbe...

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nebugeater wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:29 pm
almighty_tuna wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:48 am I've signed up for RAGBRAI this year, my first. Should be an interesting experience.
Isn't this summer's route the largest cumulative elevation climb they have ever had?

16,000 feet from what I’ve seen. Mt. Kilimanjaro equivalent

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Louie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:08 pm I thought he was gone...

His maker had to freshen up some of his code I'm sure.

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Ah yeah, here. Condos now make up only around 5% of multifamily housing construction.

https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/housin ... her%20risk.

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Yes, condo construction is still nowhere near where it was nationwide pre recession. As I recall there are a couple regulations that make it unattractive along with a lack of incentives that single family homes receive

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I agree that governments should generally avoid spending huge amounts of money on stadiums, especially ones owned by multi billion dollar franchises. It’s been found many times that people will consistently spend the same amount of money on entertainment, whether there’s a pro sports team in their c...

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It’s about 375,000 sqft, so I imagine they could get about 350 apartments out of that, give or take

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Mike McDonnell has announced he’s switching parties to become a Republican

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Quite an interesting rumor! It would definitely be a nice shot in the arm for a stronger residential presence on the northern side of Downtown

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almighty_tuna wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:57 am That would be a fantastic episode of Grow Omaha. A development debate.

I'd rather see more of a forum than a debate. Allow candidates to present their ideas to the public and be asked direct questions without needing to take shots at each other as a central component haha.

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I’d be interested in something like a GrowOmaha candidate forum honestly. I imagine we could get a lot of questions asked there

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Does something like this give new life to a North KC stadium? Or are the Royals just not gonna move?

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Interesting note: Omaha has received $300,000 as part of federal funding for planning for TOD. In particular, it's to plan for TOD around the 19th street extension of the streetcar. 3 miles would be enough to get a line to Ames https://www.wowt.com/2024/04/02/city-omaha-receiving-300k-grant-transit-...

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Louie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:11 am
How close are they to those limits on the west end of the county?

According to the Urban Core Plan, the City Planning Office estimates prime land will start to run out as early as 2040

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If that were true, the City of Omaha would not be an aggressive annexing entity. I think that's an entirely different thing. If Omaha Doesn't annex what it can, it could lose the option to do so later. Probably the absolute best example is St Louis. Where St Louis City is like 250,000 people, is th...

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Athomsfere wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:22 pm
almighty_tuna wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:01 pm
Athomsfere wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:08 am To be fair though:

I don't get it... Meme from a show / movie?

It’s from Letterkenny.

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If the core was remotely close to being full, sure I can maybe buy that argument. But we are nowhere close to that. It would seem to be more prudent to expand the traditional core (from the City of Omaha’s point of view), then, rather than paying for a bridge so that Broadway sees some additional a...

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I really love CB's notion of a multimodal bridge across the mo for bikes/pedestrians as an extension of the 1st Ave trail and an accompanying streetcar line. The opportunity for dense, car-independent development a quick train ride from downtown is huge. What I haven't seen so far is a real outward...

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This is pie in the sky stuff. You’re going to tell me that my hometown will double because of the land of one golf course and a small stretch of blocks along one street?! Get out of here. I’d like to see these projections they’re using. Not with that Suburban Tulsa attitude! :;): But on a serious n...

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This is pie in the sky stuff. You’re going to tell me that my hometown will double because of the land of one golf course and a small stretch of blocks along one street?! Get out of here. I’d like to see these projections they’re using. Not with that Suburban Tulsa attitude! :;): But on a serious n...

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https://i.postimg.cc/TpG68t1q/1986eppley1.jpg Oh wow! Nice find. I never knew the airport looked like that back in the day, so decided to go into DOGIS to peruse. https://i.postimg.cc/jWgbyvyx/image.png 1962 https://i.postimg.cc/grr0tL0t/image.png 1973 https://i.postimg.cc/z3TQr03y/image.png 1982 h...

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https://councilbluffsia.new.swagit.com/videos/300697?ts=226 Here's Brandon's Part II of his streetcar extension. He talks about how the Sugarhouse, KC, and Charlotte streetcars brought significant population and development growth. I thought some interesting things that were brought up that Sugarho...

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John Ewing is in the race. Probably about as strong of a candidate that Democrats could produce for this cycle.

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jjjjhskr wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:39 pm
Morgantown, WV has a Personal Rapis Transit line that goes 8.3 miles. Possibly an option from Eppley to downtown?

One of my favorite obscure transit systems, but they’re just not built and I doubt Omaha would do one.

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Also this will be the 2025 Mayoral election, not 2024.

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I'd say it's mildly surprising after all of the stuff she went through early in this term, but good for her. As I said before, even as a pretty firm progressive, I'd vote for her if I lived in Omaha.

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Previous news pieces note that the entrance to Lot A will need to be relocated due to the Streetcar Maintenance Facility, so maybe it’s just that. It would be surprising to see work like this starting without any other announcement

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10ish floors! That’s quite something

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