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- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: The Crossroads (72 & Dodge)
- Replies: 1995
- Views: 362800
Re: The Crossroads (72 & Dodge)
Looks like Block A and C are not listed in the renderings, but already looks better! Block E (center square) is about what I expected. 1-1.5 story of retail with park-oriented square in the middle. I made the reference to Celebration Pointe in Gainesville, FL previously. It reminds me a lot of this...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: The Crossroads (72 & Dodge)
- Replies: 1995
- Views: 362800
Re: The Crossroads (72 & Dodge)
This just got more exciting for sure. Taking out the huge office components was a smart choice. Also good to see an SLC developer enter the market given how good urban developments have been going over there. Ok, having read it more in-depth, it's nice to see a reduction in parking expected in the p...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: 10th and Harney Revelopment
- Replies: 102
- Views: 12422
Re: 10th and Harney Revelopment
A pharmacy/drug store would absolutely be a huge get, even if it’s not flashy.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Downtown Omaha Master Plan
- Replies: 521
- Views: 75804
Re: Downtown Omaha Master Plan
What then? Bus culture? Train culture? :lol: Okay, all joking aside, cars aren't going anywhere anytime soon. The fact is we do need those roads like it or not. Ah yes let’s just not plan for the future at all. I think we could put a freeway right through the Old Market, that’s really gonna attract...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Downtown Omaha Master Plan
- Replies: 521
- Views: 75804
Re: Downtown Omaha Master Plan
What then? Bus culture? Train culture? :lol: Okay, all joking aside, cars aren't going anywhere anytime soon. The fact is we do need those roads like it or not. Ah yes let’s just not plan for the future at all. I think we could put a freeway right through the Old Market, that’s really gonna attract...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Pedestrian Tunnels and Overpasses
- Replies: 39
- Views: 965
Re: Pedestrian Tunnels and Overpasses
I would sooner see Dodge narrowed than a multiple hundred million $, at least, tunnel built for a few blocks.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Lego Store (Nebraska Crossing)
- Replies: 141
- Views: 18555
Re: Lego store coming to Omaha?
Given the major stuff you share months in advance, yeah you’ve earned this opinionOmahaJaysCU wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:01 pm I could care less about this Lego store but GTFO with this “I know stuff you don’t but can’t share” type posts.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: FRA Announces New Amtrak Routes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 926
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: FRA Announces New Amtrak Routes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 926
FRA Announces New Amtrak Routes
The Federal Railroad Administration has officially announced new proposed routes for Amtrak. Omaha would gain a route running from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls, Omaha, down to KC, and then to Phoenix. Des Moines would also get service for the first time in decades, with a route running from Minneapoli...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Nebraska Crossing Village District
- Replies: 346
- Views: 53471
Re: Nebraska Crossing Village District
I'm gonna say something perhaps a bit surprising; if the area getting an NHL team is dependent on a new arena, I don't want it anywhere in the urban core. I think downtown is already super saturated with event spaces, especially with the addition of the new Union Omaha stadium. Yeah it would be grea...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Homeless at Dale Clark
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2664
Re: Homeless at Dale Clark
If you go to YouTube and look up soft white underbelly, you'll see real quick homeless people are that way because they can't get a job or don't want a job, addicted to drugs, or have mental problems. Those don't seem like things you can fix. It's a losing battle, there will always be homeless peop...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Nebraska Crossing Village District
- Replies: 346
- Views: 53471
Re: Nebraska Crossing Village District
They said on Grow Omaha that the NHL wants to have their arenas around entertainment districts. What is the benefit to the NHL, would they get some of the revenue? In general I can imagine having a district around your stadium is better for attendance overall than just a series of parking lots. It'...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Nebraska Crossing Village District
- Replies: 346
- Views: 53471
Re: Nebraska Crossing Village District
It’s wild to see Nebraska Crossing fail to get a LEGO store to whatever the heck the last week has been
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: eOmahaForums Bar and Grill
- Topic: NHL-USAVB-NEX Banter
- Replies: 27
- Views: 993
Re: NHL-USAVB-NEX Banter
Yeah the Knight Owl name is very weird given Union Omaha, and even other teams in Omaha’s history like the Nighthawks and Aksarben Knights
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: The Duo (222 S 15 ST) formerly Central Park Plaza
- Replies: 297
- Views: 87090
Re: Central Park Plaza (222 S 15 ST)
I feel like it’s been a minute since they’ve had a big project so that sounds about rightOmahaJaysCU wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:24 pm Heard new style is buying the towers. Pretty obvious what their intent is/will be.
Great fit!
Re: Fiserv
No Datacenters are not how you measure a city as a tech hub. But when you are talking to a tech company, who deal with credit card payments, creates actual credit card processing machines, has a data center in Omaha, plus the many other tech industries Omaha has, like the central data lines coming ...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Nebraska Crossing Village District
- Replies: 346
- Views: 53471
Re: Nebraska Crossing Village District
At this point all we're missing is a full blown theme park announcement and we're set.stormchaser wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:38 am I can’t imagine there has been a crazier stretch of new development announcements here than the last couple of months?
Exciting times, that’s for sure.
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Nebraska Crossing Village District
- Replies: 346
- Views: 53471
Re: Nebraska Crossing Village District
trenton from Grow Omaha was on KFAB this morning. He was talking about this project. He mentioned Drew Brees was a partner in this development. He also said a Margaritaville Hotel was part of these plans. I feel a little confident now that they have Good Life funding. Interesting. I do see a Margar...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Nebraska Crossing Village District
- Replies: 346
- Views: 53471
Re: Nebraska Crossing Village District
Well, this development keeps getting weirder in a good way?
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: The Duo (222 S 15 ST) formerly Central Park Plaza
- Replies: 297
- Views: 87090
Re: Central Park Plaza (222 S 15 ST)
what do you guys predict will happen with this building? I know before MoO was announced they planned on remodeling but it seems since then everyone’s fleeing the building. A shame since I like the building but it won’t be a focal point anymore for sure at least from the photogenic park perspective...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Elsewhere
- Topic: New White Sox Stadium in The 78 - Chicago
- Replies: 7
- Views: 701
New White Sox Stadium in The 78 - Chicago
This proposal is pretty big; moving the White Sox from 35th street to The 78, a big master planned development in the South Loop along the river, and then redeveloping 35th into a soccer stadium and housing. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/2/7/24065603/new-white-sox-ballpark-south-loop-r...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Nebraska Crossing Village District
- Replies: 346
- Views: 53471
Re: Nebraska Crossing Village District
British H&M, basically. A nice getalmighty_tuna wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:37 am For those like myself, unfamiliar with Primark, the internet describes them as, "Discount fashion chain offering clothes and accessories for all ages, plus homewares."
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: Rumors
- Topic: Major Tech Company Coming?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2914
Re: Major Tech Company Coming?
Omaha has Google data centers but I’d never really say that Google has a substantial employment in the city. Like yay, we host a bunch of servers that employ 20 people. Data centers felt cool for a while until we learned they basically just meant a big warehouse in the boonies
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Bellevue Waterpark (Highway 34 and 75)
- Replies: 98
- Views: 4782
Re: Bellevue Waterpark (Highway 34 and 75)
They might be modelling it after Epic Waters, but it's actually going to look like this: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_8380.jpg To be honest, I think the Omaha area is long overdue for something like this and I wouldn't care if it looked like that on the outside but I ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: Nebraska and Iowa
- Topic: Nebraska Tourism
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2199
Re: Nebraska Tourism
I didn't think it was a good ad campaign from the beginning. Glad to see they dropped it Despite criticisms of the slogan, it at least did not hurt tourism or people's perception of Nebraska. I know the proponent is attributing the positive results on the slogan, but it was really just part of a re...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Bellevue Waterpark (Highway 34 and 75)
- Replies: 98
- Views: 4782
Re: Bellevue Waterpark (Highway 34 and 75)
I did some research and also looked up the prices the park in TX is charging and its a little high. A regular day was $44 for an adult, but they offer several special promotion days. On Mondays for instance the first person was $20 and a second is only $10. Then on Thursdays you can get 6 people in...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:47 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Bellevue Waterpark (Highway 34 and 75)
- Replies: 98
- Views: 4782
Re: NC3 Project - Bellevue (Highway 34 and 75)
https://i0.wp.com/www.uslivinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/F8F1078D-AE72-45BF-8796-39071B735876.jpeg?fit=2436%2C1624&ssl=1 I am now seeing that the thumbnail in the KETV video is indeed just the Epic Waters park in Dallas, not a rendering of the expected park. Also it’s kinda bullshit th...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Bellevue Waterpark (Highway 34 and 75)
- Replies: 98
- Views: 4782
Re: NC3 Project - Bellevue (Highway 34 and 75)
Tbh at this point I’m expecting Bellevue to announce a 2,000 ft tower tomorrow
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Elsewhere
- Topic: OKC 2nd Tallest Skyscraper in the USA
- Replies: 76
- Views: 5613
Re: OKC 2nd Tallest Skyscraper in the USA
I will go ahead and say it. OKC has already had too much destruction with the bombing in the 90's. They do not need to build another target that could be a focal point at some point in time for the wrong reasons. to be fair, they shouldn't have built the Freedom tower in NYC either then. That being...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
- Replies: 488
- Views: 217059
Re: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
Back on the soccer train. They still have some work to be done in the legislature for funding, right? I do like what I heard at the press conference. Following a pattern to what has worked in KC with also having a women's team (this stadium like the one getting built for the KC Current is right on ...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Heartwood Preserve (144th Dodge/Pacific)
- Replies: 895
- Views: 356929
Re: Heartwood Preserve (144th Dodge/Pacific)
I thought Boys Town gave up the Heartwood Preserve landHskrFanMike wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:44 am Reportedly per a Facebook group, Charleston's opened without a liquor license at their new location. There are issues because the new location is in the Village of Boys Town, which is dry.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Lincoln Development
- Topic: Journal Star Printing Facility Sale
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3482
Re: Journal Star Printing Facility Sale
Have there been any renderings released on this? Not that I have seen. Bummer. I did find this, so we have an idea of the design elements to expect: https://www.druryhotels.com/coming-soon Yeah I have been looking at their newer hotels as well. If I had to guess we’ll see something similar to the C...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
- Replies: 488
- Views: 217059
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Heartwood Preserve (144th Dodge/Pacific)
- Replies: 895
- Views: 356929
Re: Heartwood Preserve (144th Dodge/Pacific)
Social clubs like this are big in a lot of citiesOverlookedFarm wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:33 am looks like a country club without the golf pool and tennis is going in:
https://apiary.club
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
- Replies: 488
- Views: 217059
Re: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
As a supplement to my point, have a little Jan Gehl urban design text that's pretty easy to read
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/33c2mrv4 ... 7tphh&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/33c2mrv4 ... 7tphh&dl=0
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
- Replies: 488
- Views: 217059
Re: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
I showed my kids the renderings and told them about where it'd be and stuff, and they were excited. They said "it's right by the luminarium and that big playground!" I think this is a lot better spot than some folks are giving it credit for. I mean, honestly, when it's nice out, we go dow...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: eOmahaForums Bar and Grill
- Topic: Fast Food Talk Thread
- Replies: 966
- Views: 656073
Re: Fast Food Talk Thread
Regular inflation, post pandemic inflation, supply chain issues, starting fast food wages at $15/hr. Take your pick. I also feel some companies have used this period of high inflation as an excuse to jack prices. They were going to raise prices anyway as a result of inflation, but some evil genius ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: eOmahaForums Bar and Grill
- Topic: Fast Food Talk Thread
- Replies: 966
- Views: 656073
Re: Fast Food Talk Thread (Raising Cane's)
I think Raising Cane's entire menu is just a delivery system for Cane's Sauce. It's frowned upon to just get a large beverage cup, fill it with Cane's Sauce, and just drink it. However, shoveling that same amount of Cane's Sauce into your mouth using Chicken Fingers as scoops is entirely acceptable...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
- Replies: 3540
- Views: 473162
Re: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
Reading through a 2008 Best Practices in Transportation study done by the NYC DOT to envision transportation in 2030, and they mention Omaha in a list of cities that had recently proposed modern streetcars. Woof.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Elsewhere
- Topic: St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport $110 million expansion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 401