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by MrPoloShirt
Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:53 pm
Forum: Rumors
Topic: DTO Walmart
Replies: 51
Views: 10901

Walmart won't be coming to DTO.   There's not enough convenient and free parking for their customers.  Could you imagine all those stray Walmart grocery carts rolling all around downtown?   If you think Walmart is going to build a store downtown and flip the cost for a parking garage or ten levels ...
by MrPoloShirt
Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:22 am
Forum: Rumors
Topic: DTO Walmart
Replies: 51
Views: 10901

for the record, I will personally go to any city-council meeting, march in any parade, protest wherever i have to to keep Wal-Mart out of downtown. It would be the worst possible thing to ever be built down there in my opinion. I think your response is more of a blind hatred for a retailer than a c...
by MrPoloShirt
Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:18 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Million Dollar Homes in Omaha
Replies: 20
Views: 6320

I thought we had a thread for that really big house in Linden Estates on Hamilton that was having trouble being sold after the owners got divorced a couple years ago, but I couldn't find it. Well its on the market again. $3.9 million: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/14243-Hamilton-...
by MrPoloShirt
Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:16 am
Forum: Projects Never Built
Topic: WallStreet Tower Omaha
Replies: 2388
Views: 319062

The best part of the story - "The developer owns the property free and clear and now can sell it as it sees fit. The city's development agreement with Townsend lacked any provision reverting ownership back to the city if the development didn't happen." This is one of the hugest failures i...
by MrPoloShirt
Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:27 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: Witherspoon Mansion - Sold
Replies: 57
Views: 19188

Article in OMaha.com about the new houses.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20111008/N ... ut-ruffles
by MrPoloShirt
Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:54 pm
Forum: eOmahaForums Bar and Grill
Topic: MLB Dodgers
Replies: 47
Views: 7165

Why would you even compare St. Louis and the Royals?  The Cardinals are arguably the 2nd most storied franchise in baseball in a metro area the size of KC and Omaha's population.  Nearly every MLB team looks bad compared to the Cardinals.  And Kauffman doesn't feel like a AAA stadium after the reno...
by MrPoloShirt
Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:35 pm
Forum: eOmahaForums Bar and Grill
Topic: MLB Dodgers
Replies: 47
Views: 7165

Very little to do with attendance. It's television viewers and the sales of any sort of copyrighted materials including jerseys or anything displaying the team logos. That said, Omaha can look to KC as to why they will never be a major league city, KC can barely support the teams they have. KC can ...
by MrPoloShirt
Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:24 am
Forum: eOmahaForums Bar and Grill
Topic: MLB Dodgers
Replies: 47
Views: 7165

The best chance of a pro team coming to Omaha is a toss up between the NBA and NFL. The NFL teams are easy to support, you only need to sell out maybe 10 games a year and then that's that.  But having the Cheifs so close would be a roadblock for Omaha. As far as an NBA, it's hard to keep attendance...
by MrPoloShirt
Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:28 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: Longhorn Steakhouse (Oak View Mall)
Replies: 26
Views: 6145

Huh. OK I can live with that. I like Longhorn better than Lone Star. :) Try Pink Poodle or Farmer Brown's and you'll never go back to the chain places! Or Gorats, Piccolos, Venice Inn, the Drover, Jericos, Brother Sebastians.... Chains suck.   I've been to every single restaurant mentioned and I wi...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:48 pm
Forum: Rumors
Topic: Macy's to possibly expand into Omaha..
Replies: 151
Views: 31715

Not every Macy's is the same.  Some of the Macy's I've been in make Dillard's look upscale.  Of course, not every Dillard's is the same either.   I recall one particular store in the Chicago area that was converted from Marshall Fields into Macy's, which afterward looked no different than the Younk...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:46 pm
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

What you fail to understand is that not everyone else in this city shares your shopping habits.  Furthermore, P&N carry many "destination" brands, which very few other stores in Omaha do.  By your logic, people will shop at any store close to them just to browse when they're bored, no...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:44 pm
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

Re: Post & Nickel

Big E wrote: Why do people on the internet just play stupid when they are wrong or want to argue?
Resorting to going OT and annoying the other poster.

Admission of defeat, I like it.
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:42 pm
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

Re: Post and Nickel Omaha closing

guest1 wrote:Read today that the Post and Nickel Omaha store is closing after 30 years on 132nd and Center.
Weird harold is two days late.  I reported it last night on here.
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:07 am
Forum: Rumors
Topic: Macy's to possibly expand into Omaha..
Replies: 151
Views: 31715

Macy's=Dillard's You obviously have never been to a Macy's.  Dillard's a pathetic in terms of selection.  Macy's gives a "big city" selection and carries more brands and higher end tiers of those brands than what could be found at Yonkers or Dillards, something Omaha needs because our d...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:47 am
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: The Highline (Northern Natural Gas Building)
Replies: 197
Views: 46957

Deciding to look at the 8th largest building in town and then not picking it because it's downtown when you know that's where it is in the first place sounds stupid to me. Then again I'm not part of the process but when considering an office site how is it not about location, location, location? Oh...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:44 am
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: The Highline (Northern Natural Gas Building)
Replies: 197
Views: 46957

Bosco55David wrote: Do you know why they did not want to be downtown?
The owners, all the top officers, and 90% of the employees live out west, from what I'm told was the reason.

There is really no reason to be downtown for most companies.  It's inconvenient.
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:33 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

I still fail to see how selling $200 pairs of jeans downtown is a good business strategy. Maybe I'm wrong. Here is the eomahaforum's business plan. Sell products that cater to high end clients, most of which live on the western side of the city, and put the store on the most eastern side of the cit...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:29 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

Re: Post & Nickel

Yeah Post and Nickel would never work in a downtown setting.  Its not like their Lincoln store has been located downtown for decades or anything. How on Earth does downtown Lincoln have anything to do with downtown Omaha? Omaha is nearly 4 times the size of Lincoln, so Lincoln is a much more "...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:26 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

I know when I think of contemporary wealth the stretch of Center between 120th and 144th springs immediately to mind.  Nothing quite says haute couture like Hooters and Nobbies. Why do people on the internet just play stupid when they are wrong or want to argue? They are not "in the 120th and ...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:23 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

Perhaps the majority of "People from Dundee, Midtown, North O, or South O" may not be buying $200 cashmere from P&N, but they may be buying $200 diesel jeans and the like.  You know the kind of clothing so many feel they have to go to KC for.  Incidentally, I wonder who is buying $100...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:22 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

I'm on Post and Nickle's email list and they just announced they are closing down.  Everything in the store is being sold, all clothes and all the fixtures.
by MrPoloShirt
Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:12 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

Re: Post & Nickel

It makes plenty of sense, turns it into a city wide store instead of a predominately west O shop.   P&N would have a far brighter future in North Downtown than they do at their current location. People from Dundee, Midtown, North O, or South O are not going to be buying $200 cashmere from P&...
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:30 pm
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: CVS replacing Post & Nickel
Replies: 41
Views: 6404

Re: Post & Nickel

Not that I have any endearment to CVS, but if this project went through I hope Post & Nickel remains in another location.  I've thought for sometime downtown or midtown would be a better location for the store.  Midtown Crossings obviously(if there's any space left) or my fantasy would be in No...
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:28 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: The Highline (Northern Natural Gas Building)
Replies: 197
Views: 46957

Why look at a building Downtown if you don't want to be Downtown? That seems like it would be a big factor. Companies always consider all the possibilities, but after discussion, after having looked at all the possibilities, they decided they did not want to be downtown. People don't just say "...
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:25 pm
Forum: Business
Topic: Publicly traded companies based in Omaha.
Replies: 14
Views: 5240

iamjacobm wrote:West Corp. and InfoUSA also I think.
Neither of those are publicly traded anymore.
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:59 pm
Forum: Business
Topic: Publicly traded companies based in Omaha.
Replies: 14
Views: 5240

nebugeater wrote:How about Ameritrade?
It's on my list.  They're officially known as "TD Ameritrade."
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:08 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: The Highline (Northern Natural Gas Building)
Replies: 197
Views: 46957

I won't say where I work, but my company looked at this building and I'm told they considered leasing the entire thing, but they backed out because they did not want to be downtown I guess.
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:00 pm
Forum: Business
Topic: Publicly traded companies based in Omaha.
Replies: 14
Views: 5240

Publicly traded companies based in Omaha.

Can anyone name the publicly trade companies based here in Omaha (or in the Omaha metro)? Here are the ones I can gather. Ballantyne Strong, Inc (AMEX: BTN ) Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A, NYSE: BRK.B) ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) First National of Nebraska (Pinksheet:  FINN) Gordmans Stores, ...
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:41 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Aksarben Village
Replies: 2392
Views: 440351

I was very happy (and surprised) to see the new student apartments on UNO's South Campus near AV. The design is pretty good, and they are definitely urban in feel and orientation - making the suburban style dorms of Scott Village look pretty goofy. That's one thing I'll agree with you.  They could ...
by MrPoloShirt
Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:28 pm
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: The Crossroads (72 & Dodge)
Replies: 1990
Views: 338414

60s retro is way cool! Crossroads doesn't really have that "googie" look to it, though, although I'm sure it's of that era. The 1960s was a disease in terms of architecture, 99% of the population agrees with this.  Looking at the retro photo of  Crossroads makes me sick to my stomach. A...
by MrPoloShirt
Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:02 am
Forum: Rumors
Topic: Downtown Library
Replies: 38
Views: 6527

I agree with joeglow.  The downtown library is a great idea, but the homeless ruined it. I'm not putting them down, I understand their situations, but they should not be hanging out in the library.  I really don't know what to say about their situations.  Most don't want to work, most are addicts...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:03 pm
Forum: Photography and Videos
Topic: Above Omaha 2010
Replies: 13
Views: 3217

S33 wrote:What is 25? Eagle Run?

Oh, and, you are out of your f'ing mind getting into that helicopter. Sheesh... Great pictures, though.
S 143 Ave Cir in Linden Estates.

That house actually went into foreclosure a year or two ago and was sold to another person.
by MrPoloShirt
Fri May 28, 2010 3:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oh the economy, it's so terrible!
Replies: 14
Views: 2441

Oh the economy, it's so terrible!

Does anyone else get tired of the uninformed complaining about the "economy"? Yes nationally the economy is in a slump but for the most part the recession has missed the midwest and I get tired of people saying how "terrible" it is because they saw how bad the economy was on the ...
by MrPoloShirt
Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:50 am
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: Budget: Omaha Golf Courses
Replies: 59
Views: 10510

MrPoloShirt, while I agree with some of what you have said, I can't say how thankful I am that you are not in a position of public authority. You don't seem to care about anybody but yourself. Incorrect.  I of all people am defending the average citizen.  People like many in this thread only care...
by MrPoloShirt
Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:58 am
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: Budget: Omaha Golf Courses
Replies: 59
Views: 10510

I always love it when internet trolls call me left wing. When they call me ultra-left wing it's even more precious. Proof that I must be doing something right. You can be a fiscal conservative and still believe that certain services are best provided by the government. Libraries and public parks ar...
by MrPoloShirt
Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:58 pm
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: Budget: Omaha Golf Courses
Replies: 59
Views: 10510

Also, if you've never used a library or public park, you've led an absolutely dreadful life. I'm sorry. And I've used parks, but the city does not have to provide them.  Homeowners associations can provide them.  And in the inner city, public charities, which often build parks, and schools, which...
by MrPoloShirt
Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:00 pm
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: Budget: Omaha Golf Courses
Replies: 59
Views: 10510

Yeah, who needs public parks, swimming pools, libraries, or ice rinks...  :roll:  :roll: I don't, I don't use any of those services.  Why should I have to pay for them? Why should I be able to extort my neighbor into paying for something I want? Why don't we build a city race track?  What about c...
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:39 am
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: Budget: Omaha Golf Courses
Replies: 59
Views: 10510

Solution:  Sell Westwood, Applewood, and Benson.

Problem solved.

It's not the government's job to provide entertainment for people.
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:33 am
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: New Veterans Hospital
Replies: 117
Views: 17756

To put this in perspective, didn't FNBO tower cost half as much as this?  Wow.
by MrPoloShirt
Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:31 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Crossroads Mall Discussion
Replies: 447
Views: 58231

I think the ONLY way you can get his mall successful again is if projects like Midtown and Aksarben thrive and others pop up.  People like to cite the money near Crossroads as reason enough.  The simple fact is that MUCH of that is old money and they are not known for throwing their money away on o...