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omahastylee459 wrote:i would like to see all the trash picked up around the slides

It's difficult to remove people, and for the record, it is politically incorrect to call them trash.

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It would be nice if Bluestone adopted another area of North Downtown to develop rowhomes. Let's get the excitement going down there. I seem to remember that there was some dense housing along 17th south of Cuming proposed in the North Downtown plan. It may have been shown as townhomes or rowhomes, n...

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In my opinion, a tunnel under this marginal building would be about as intelligent as subtracting the on-street parking from 16th Street. Why do so much work to save a building like this? I would love to see the building just get torn down. The people of Omaha are not ready for "subways." ...

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Have you heard if there has been any progress for getting some guidelines in place for the district?

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Sounds pretty sweet. I would love to see some pictures of Nebraska's next running back posing for the heisman in front of the DT Omaha skyline. I went to the Huskers opening game in Lincoln. It seemed like the only time that the fans were getting into the game and actually standing up were when the ...

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Very exciting. I can't wait to pound some beers in North Downtown!

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Zephyr- Who is funding your feasibility study? It's good to hear that somebody in this city is being proactive enough to fund this. It would be an important step in showing the progression of Omaha. Too show the nation that even a small city, like Omaha in the Midwest, is thinking of ways to improve...

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The exciting part is that the new development lifts the crowds of people up off the street into new skywalks. Parallel to the street and along the fronts of all the new buildings, these skywalks are essentially elevated sidewalks, but by separating the pedestrian from the automobile, an entirely ne...

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JHuston,
those are great! Thanks for posting them. I hope that this goes through as shown in the drawings. This would give Midtown an excellent entry feature.

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http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=608&u_sid=1474330 "The medical center's expansion plans also could fit with what the Destination Midtown people envision for revitalizing the area." I know that I have asked several times, but does anyone have a plan of this? I would love to see what...

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Awesome photos Streets! Thanks for the tour. Quebec looks like a nice European experience without the extremely long flights to Europe.
I love how dense and pedestrian friendly it is. You don't find street widths that narrow in the US, outside of some of the major eastern US cities (i.e. Boston).

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I actually wrote the following: "this building would become the number 1 target for terrorists." I didn't say that the US would be the number 1 target, I know we already are. The reason that we are is because Americans are arrogant assholes who think that we can do everything better than o...

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That thing is fugly. Personally, I would prefer a scaled down building that actually looked cool and gave some style to the skyline than this corkscrew. Chicago should be more concerned about getting a building that fits in with the rest of the downtown area, than searching for the tallest possible ...

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http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1636&u_sid=1466750 Things are progressing south of Center Street. This is looking good for the future Aksarben Village. Too bad Noddle had to build his Shoppes of Aksarben next to it in such a suburban way. I hope this becomes an extremely dense village, and ...

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The frozen version is pretty good....for frozen pizza. As for California Street, I have a freind who was recently robbed and beated to a pulp walking home from his downtown job to his residence on California Street. I doubt it was on CPK's radar. I would love to see one of these show up in North Do...

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Omaha does not have the density for a rail transit system. And won't for a long, long time! It would be nice to have a streetcar but it would mostly be a tourist type draw and would need to be subsidized. It is not due to poor government leadership but grounded in the reality that Omaha could not s...

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And, hiner, don't talk to us about getting the people of Omaha to get out of their cars and use transit. It takes city leadership to facilitate this change. It would be one thing if Omaha had an amazing transit system, and still low ridership. But it's quite another when people don't ride transit b...

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Did anyone hear the infamous segment when he let an uncensored 'F bomb' loose on the air by accident? Apparently not the happy go lucky fellow he plays himself off as. Holy F'n shat! I cuss like a sailor at times, but that doesn't mean that I am not "happy go lucky". Dave Webber seems to ...

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This experience is part of American culture. I know if I ever have kids I am not going drop a shit-ton of money on tickets and concessions so they can play on a jungle gym. That cheats them out of an experience they will someday cherish. If I want an entertainment center, I will go to family fun ce...

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Hopefully the city can get some design guidelines in place before developers continue to start doing things there. I couldn't agree with you more. The city or some public/private organization really needs to step up to the plate on this. Without the guidelines set, Joe Blow (or Money) could decide ...

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Who cares about the no 6pm news cast. Who wants to watch basically the same newscast 30 min apart. I've never understood that. We're like the only market that does such a thing. I think we are also the only market to show the weather 8 times in a half hour. Today it will be hot, and we could tell y...

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And, it's sets the stage for whatever gets built on the remaining land fronting Cuming Street, widely discussed as a site for a grocery store/apartment/condo building. What did the North Downtown document have at that corner? I think that I remember seeing a grocery store label on the plan. This wo...

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mchine73 wrote:Now if we could only work of getting some worthwhile development east of 72nd street.

You are not seriously calling this development "worthwhile" are you? This development is nothing more than a glorified strip mall with a theater.

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Harpoon wrote:$120,000 would get you a decent house in the Midtown area. Not "new", but they used to make houses to last back then.

Good point Harpoon. You could get a kick-ass home in Midtown for $120,000. And, you wouldn't have to live in the "newly constructed projects."

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I would love to see all future suburban development in/around Omaha "guided" (ie, incentives) towards this type of development. If there's ever going to be a real mass transit system, it will have to come out of, through and near these types of neighborhoods. -Big E I hope that you were s...

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Take away UNL and it wouldn't be what it is. But it's not like it's a DT like Omaha or KC. It's more like a huge version of a small towns main street. Yes it's active but it's not on the scale that ours is. 1. KC's downtown sucks, it may look cool in a postcard, but the activity fails in comparison...

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North Downtown runs from 10th to 17th street, so why is the main street 16th street. 13th and 14th would work much better. One runs eastbound, and one runs westbound, making it easily accessable to the rest of the downtown areas. The placement of the Doubletree is typical of 1960's-early 70's urban...

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Zephyr wrote:Aaron, I have a feeling you will miss a lot of big announcements while you're away.

You either have some excellent insight or you got some information from a good source.

Too bad for Streets though. On the other hand, Europe or Omaha, I know which I would choose.

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Does anybody have any idea who the Planning Director for Omaha will be? We need somebody to step in and pick up on the momentum that Omaha has had for the past few years.

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He should have gone to Ohio. He would have started right away with Frankie running the show.

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Brad wrote:Ak vision: Be a destination again

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1636&u_sid=1419305

Bisson said the Aksarben Village plan mimics pre-World War II neighborhoods that grew up near college campuses.

What is the deal with this Bisson guy, he's everywhere.

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Can you engineer a better freeway system? Do you know how many metros would kill to have the type of network Houston has? From an engineers stand point it has it all… That's saying a lot? If it were up to the engineers in this country, every road would look like an interstate and every interstate w...

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StreetsOfOmaha wrote:I don't see fishing as a good thing to have in a city park. Rednecks can stay in the country for that. Why give them a reason to come into the city? ;)

I agree with that Streets. I feel the same way about public smoking too!

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They are two completely separate places that will work together but not on the same night. Why not on the same night? Of course they will "work" on the same night. They'll both always "work" simultaneously. Just wanted to clarify what I wrote. What I meant to say is, the same pe...

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I don't think that a ped link is necessary for North Downtown to do well. It is going to function well on its own without a pedestrian link to the Old Market. They are two completely separate places that will work together but not on the same night. It's going to be nice to have a second option to g...

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It's true DLR has done some decent stadiums/ venues, but to me it would be a no brainer to go with HOK Sport. They are the leader in stadium/ venue design in the world. Not to mention that they have experience with urban ballparks (and they are out of Kansas City, only 3 hours away). Last time I che...

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Every aspect of Upper Market needs to be as aesthetically pleasing as possible, including the name. Right, because places like Lower Downtown (LoDo, Denver) and The Country Club Plaza (KC) were named so well "to be aesthetically pleasing". You hear these names now and it aesthetically ple...

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Is DLR working on the new DT stadium? I would think that they would go with a good architecture firm who has experience with urban ballparks, like HOK Sport in Kansas City.

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Why does it matter what it is called anyway? North Downtown, NorDo, Upper Market, who cares as long as it is cool and they serve beer. We should all be worried about the content rather than a name. BTW Streets, how could I get an internship with HDR? It seems like it is the place to go in the area f...

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Long time reader, but this is my first post, so bear with me. This is a very exciting project. I love the idea of the entertainment district with the baseball stadium, etc. It seems like a great alternative place for Omaha. Not to criticize Streets, but the photos look like they were taken in late f...

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