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by Hyok Kim
Mon Sep 02, 2013 7:20 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

Last week, on weekday nights after 10pm (I know because I left Scooter's at OM after they closed at 10pm), I went by Pickleman's to give them a try and saw that only 1 person was working, with no customers inside and there was a 'closed' sign at the door. You missed a key part of my OP.  I said Lin...
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:26 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: jLofts (13th & Jackson)
Replies: 477
Views: 38580

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Exactly.  Walking is not the devil.  It's a good thing.  It would solve all your Old Market parking dilemmas if you just move down there.  Then you won't have to park :) .
Hey, for once we agree!
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:24 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: jLofts (13th & Jackson)
Replies: 477
Views: 38580

Absolutely, Greg.  That's the one dissapointing thing about this project.  And I do mean ONE! How did you think they were going to convert the existing building into a high rise?    Did you think about the existing structure being able to withstand additional high rise that would be placed upon?
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:54 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: jLofts (13th & Jackson)
Replies: 477
Views: 38580

Absolutely, Greg.  That's the one dissapointing thing about this project.  And I do mean ONE! How did you think they were going to convert the existing building into a high rise?    Did you think about the existing structure being able to withstand additional high rise that would be placed upon?
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:44 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

The Lincoln Pickleman's location is open till at least 2 A.M. every day of the week.  I wonder if they would be able to afford to stay open till midnight at least in this building.  Downtown could use another late dinning option. Are you sure about that?    I think they close a lot sooner than that...
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:08 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

The Lincoln Pickleman's location is open till at least 2 A.M. every day of the week.  I wonder if they would be able to afford to stay open till midnight at least in this building.  Downtown could use another late dinning option. Are you sure about that?    I think they close a lot sooner than th...
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:06 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

Big E wrote:That's nuts.  We walked through the Paxton a year prior to its rehab and I think Barker might actually be in better shape.
Barker was in better shape.
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:04 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

OmahaJaysCU wrote:This reminds me of when they started cleaning the Paxton a few years ago, amazing how great it looked once it was done.
I know.  If they can clean up the Paxton manor, then Barker building is nothing.   I used to work at Paxton manor for about 3 months way back when.  It was scary.
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:04 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

OmahaJaysCU wrote:This reminds me of when they started cleaning the Paxton a few years ago, amazing how great it looked once it was done.
I know.  If they can clean up the Paxton manor, then Barker building is nothing.   I used to work at Paxton manor for about 3 months way back when.  It was scary.
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:54 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

They MIGHT be able to have operating expenses in the black in year one, if that's what is meant by breaking even. Perhaps they might be even be able to squeeze in some tax breaks from the city of Omaha?  This, as is any project like this, is a multi-year (if not decade) payoff project for the devel...
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:44 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

Yeahhh...please share...I remember the upper floors were mostly/all offices, but at least one 15th Street bay was a [cool] men's clothing store with lots of wood paneling and casework.  Also, the Lobby(s...at least on the 15th Street side) were fairly impressive, with lots of brass and marble? terr...
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:41 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

iamjacobm wrote: :clap:

I sucks that they let it get this bad, but this is ideal for apartments.  Wont be long before 15th is really hopping.
Yes, I agree with you about this building ideal for apartments.   We already enough sandwich shops in downtown area.
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:36 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Barker Building (15th and Farnam)
Replies: 227
Views: 50699

iamjacobm wrote:
I'll take some flack from certain members for this one, but I also wonder when we will start seeing the chains move in.

Chipotle, 5 Guys, Panera ect.  All would be welcome additions IMO.
Hope springs eternal.
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:04 pm
Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
Topic: Beansmith Coffee Roaster (La Vista)
Replies: 6
Views: 1000

Re: Beansmith Coffee Roaster (La Vista)

La Vista espresso bar lets enthusiasts tour, taste and learn Wineries and breweries offer tastings and tours. Now coffee lovers in Omaha can enjoy a similar experience at Beansmith Coffee Roaster in La Vista, where earlier this month, the business opened the Lobby, a simple espresso bar with a twis...
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 4:56 pm
Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
Topic: Favorite Restaurant
Replies: 35
Views: 3487

Vivace (skip the pasta, just go for pizza, desert, and the ambience/service)
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 4:45 pm
Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
Topic: Favorite Restaurant
Replies: 35
Views: 3487

I agree, lots of different situations.  I also am having a hard time narrowing it down for sure... If I had to pick one, I would say right now, AUG 2013, it would be the 801 Chophouse in the Paxton.  That place is amazing. However there are a lot if GREAT options that could fill out the top 3. No 1...
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 4:43 pm
Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
Topic: Favorite Restaurant
Replies: 35
Views: 3487

Vivace in the OM, Okinawa in 'Mordor,' Mai Thai in Aksarben. In no particular order. I also like La Buvette but I don't know if that classifies as a restaurant. Vivace, yes.   I don't like La Buvette, not the food, but the service.   The snootest wait staff I've ever met in my life.   They actually...
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 4:31 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Old Market Tenant news
Replies: 156
Views: 38095

RNcyanide wrote:
I'm still not taking their closing very well... :despond:
I can't say since I never had dined there.   I do know a manager at Scooter's at OM (about a couple of 2 to 3 years ago) took a job as a waiter at French Cafe.   He was  very excited.   He did say the food was expensive.
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 4:22 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Alec12321 wrote:I did my best to try to steer back on topic! :D It just obviously didn't work very well...
Too many trolls.
by Hyok Kim
Sun Sep 01, 2013 4:21 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Small brushes with nuance and different strokes and shades and depth. Add in color and sight lines, and movement. The most beautiful paintings are the ones that do not share all of their secrets to the unobservant. So you do not deny the essential truth of what I had said what is holding Omaha back?
by Hyok Kim
Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:56 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

  You suck at quoting Why the heck are you talking about the Middle East and Korea?  Go home you are drunk. This is the kind of attitude Omaha needs to change.   Too many people here cannot take some constructive criticism.   Instead, they want to stay, 'Positive'.  Kinda like some guys farting ...
by Hyok Kim
Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:37 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Those are some big brushes your painting with. Yes, I am, but do you deny the essential truth of what I am painting with?      After all, I lived here from 89 to 98, and from 99 to this day.   I lived in South O for about a year.  The rest of time in Down Town.    I worked for a living, sometimes h...
by Hyok Kim
Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:25 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

I encounter people from all around the country where I work.  If there is one thing I can tell you is that there are nice and laid back people, mean people, rich people, poor people, and crazy people EVERYWHERE. ...and you believe people in the middle east think and behave exactly like us here?  I ...
by Hyok Kim
Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:06 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Problem is the bottleneck of finding parking spaces. They just located a new multi level Target in downtown Portland.  They also have Macy's, Nordstroms, a cinema multiplex, Tiffany's, and many other mid and high level retailers.  Unfortunately downtown Omaha will never in anyone's lifetime develop...
by Hyok Kim
Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:45 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Weird... Can't say I've ever seen anyone eating there. Maybe I just don't pay enough attention. Hey, you missed me.    I used to go there for their Mapo Tofu, one of the best (at the time in Omaha, now probably the worst Mapo Tofu in Omaha) when they had a real chef. But their lunch time isn't too ...
by Hyok Kim
Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:38 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

I believe Panda House is still open. Their food quality has gone downhill big time after they got rid of their Chinese kitchen staff, the real trained chefs, and the owner started posing as a chef, with the help from his minimum wage, and disposable slaves.  Ironically enough, I believe there used ...
by Hyok Kim
Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:33 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Off topic a bit, but I remember reading about Walgreens or CVS being interested in opening a location downtown. When did you hear about it and from whom? Walgreens used to have a location on Parkfair, and was the last holdout and an anchor store.     Btw.  I doubt it.   I wouldn't locate in dow...
by Hyok Kim
Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:20 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Those are some big brushes your painting with. Yes, I am, but do you deny the essential truth of what I am painting with?      After all, I lived here from 89 to 98, and from 99 to this day.   I lived in South O for about a year.  The rest of time in Down Town.    I worked for a living, some...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:53 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Would be an interesting study to find out what has always made Omaha more of a family oriented city than a city that aggressively values urban living? I don't know about 'This Family oriented city' thing.     Wasn't Omaha known as 'The babe Capital of the Mid-West' once?   With brothels in downt...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:55 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Trouble is, Portland has had everything right from the 70's. They have maintained strong pro-urban policies, developed a good transit system long before highways, and did it all well. Oh!  There were a number of naysayers in between, but of course, most of them deny it or demur now.   Like they say...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:49 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

iamjacobm wrote:
I completely agree that it is a mistake, trouble is Omaha doesn't have anywhere near the amount of people that value urbanity and pedestrian friendly areas that Portland does.
Must be the water?
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:44 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Retail is coming back to urban areas and it is dying in the suburbs (because that whole arrangement is unsustainable and doesn't have a future). These "resourceful and creative" developers will be looking for a new strategy, or, rather, a "back-to-the-basics of human existence" ...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:34 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

One major difference between the two mentioned and Omaha's. Those two had established department stores when they converted the area to a mall.  Omaha's is going to need a courageous or ambitious(probably both) national anchor to come in and give other retail a reason to join in on the fun. It's no...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:09 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

I think these are both bad ideas. Say what you want about the buses but I don't think that moving them away from the core of DT is the best idea. Is there some sort of plan for the buses beyond moving them to essentially the middle of nowhere north of 480? I don't see this helping anything transpor...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:59 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

here's a few bullet points from the latest DID meeting... HDR presentation : -Move buses off 16th St. to location just north of 480(as seen in downtown master plan) -parallel parking, no diagonal I think these are both bad ideas. Say what you want about the buses but I don't think that moving them ...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:56 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

thenewguy wrote:It feels like the city of Omaha is a huge fan of doing studies...and then nothing after that.
You hit the nail right on the head.
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:51 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

although i think it'd be incredibly difficult/expensive to run a street through the lobby (like the convention center in KC), i think it'd be cool no less.  Why didn't they think of that in the first place? It was built like that to segregate black people from North Omaha and keep them out of downt...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:36 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

I now wonder how diagonal parking on 16th Street will increase accessability. I call that 'band aid' solution. Unless there is a 90-minute limit strictly enforced those spots will be filled for three hours minimum with the vehicles of folks in the audience of whatever event is at the Orpheum (River...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:32 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

Those we spoke with downtown says you'll also find guns, drugs and violence. What sort of idiotic statement is that?  Like guns and drugs and violence stay east of 30th St?  Sounds rather like the city's largest shopping mall on a Tuesday afternoon before Christmas a few years back. Well, let's giv...
by Hyok Kim
Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:24 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: 16th Street Master Plan
Replies: 438
Views: 80150

And it has obviously never occurred in the course of capitalism that a company acting in its own best interests missed an opportunity. Yes, it is true.  So do you think a company should not act in its own best interest just because sometimes acting in its own best interest misses an opportunity? I...

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