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Seth

I've heard rumors that they are looking at about 1000 garage parking spaces, and 300,000SF of office. There are plans for on-site fitness, etc, so I don't know if the 300,000 number includes that or not.

Seth

I guess that's the world of liability sensitivity we live in these days.

Seth

Brad wrote:...I also have a liability policy in case my camera gear did any damage to the property I am photographing.

I'm chuckling a little trying to picture an instance where a camera could cause enough damage to submit a claim.

Seth

Great photos!

Seth

Really starting to look good!

Seth

This surprised me. The med center also is looking at developing the old Omaha Steel Casting site at 46th and Farnam with housing, restaurants, stores and a hotel. http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/it-s-time-to-end-farnam-street-s-confusing-dangerous/article_32d76eb5-d3b8-5049-a4f2-0cd9b69e38ca.html H...

Seth

This city loves it's studies. I would assume the companies hired would be entirely responsible for all this. You can't make a bid without knowing what the work will entail. Well, you can, but the price goes up with the risk (unknowns). A wise owner will have complete enough preliminary studies/repo...

Seth

That is a great photo.

It's great to see how popular Jazz on the Green has been at MTC. MTC really hasn't let up on promotion for this and other events. It's a good example of a really well-managed effort.

Seth

The empty lot on the NW corner of 30th and Pacific will be home to the Sycamore Apartments. They will consist of two buildings, the southern one 12 units, the northern 10 units, built by SL Jensen Construction. I really hope the design fits the neighborhood, really hope.... This is just around the ...

Seth

This definitely signals steady momentum for redevelopment of this stretch. Now that a lot of the old apartments south of here are being redeveloped, I'd wager this area starts feeling a lot cleaner pretty quick. Also, unless someone can produce news articles or police reports for two armed robberies...

Seth

HR Paperstacks wrote:Is most of the building two floors shorter than the high part to the right?

The Research tower is nominally 10 floors, and the Clinical wing is nominally 8 floors, but there are stair core roofs above both, and the clinical side of the building has some additional levels for access to the Helideck.

Seth

Soil drilling/sampling in progress at Lot B Hm, that's interesting... Are things progressing faster than we think? I have seen the city provide an environmental report and soil testing results among other things in some of the other RFPs that that have released. Could be in the process of that. Doi...

Seth

Creighton bought that building (727 Florence Blvd) from Bucks Inc. in 2002, and is listed as ex educational. If that's the building I think it is, some of the Creighton art faculty use it for studio space. When I took an art class we visited it once or twice. Well, they haven't demolished it yet. I...

Seth

I wonder how people are going to feel about the corten siding that is up now. It is definitely unique for the city. After a year or so, it will corrode to a consistent color. Proper design with weathering steel includes detailing drainage to manage water and prevent staining. An example is the Dale...

Seth

Yeah, they've got what looks like most of the podium above the underground parking done. The project seems to be kind of start-and-stop, so I'm guessing some smaller contractors are using it as filler work among ones with more urgent schedules (the rain hasn't been nice for I'm still interested in t...

Seth

I was noticing tonight, all the precast, they must have some sort of parking structure included in the building? If not, this building is going to different than all the other hotels they have thrown up lately. In some parts of the country, precast is popular for multistory residential construction...

Seth

I saw the mural while driving by yesterday. I really dig the effort towards murals here in Omaha (e.g. on Leavenworth). They really bring character and an attractive element to what would otherwise be some rather drab areas. I think they'll become landmarks as time goes on.

Seth

This really does look like a perfect fit for the neighborhood.

The most efficient and attractive urban design has more dense development on the major streets, blending into single-family and other less dense development in the blocks away from it. This is a good example of how that can be done.

Seth

It's a large undertaking, but it sure doesn't seem like the city is in much of a hurry to get the site ready for new development. Especially since the civic has already been closed for 1 year! Recent history would suggest demolition is not the bottleneck to building new high-rise projects downtown...

Seth

True. In the event of a national emergency, railroads would be one of the first assets to be commandeered by the government. I wonder what kind of contractual agreements the government was working on with the railroads when they were trying to field nuclear ICBMs on rail garrisons during the cold war?

Seth

What is new office construction today ? Would it make economic sense for a company to make this their corporate campus ? Example move California PayPal headquarters to Omaha. Except the type of construction used for indoor malls does not age particularly well, and requires regular costly maintenanc...

Seth

HR Paperstacks wrote:Just got home and saw that people are making really good use of the shuttles at MTC

That's how my wife and I did it. The line for the buses at MTC was incredibly long, but we got there on time, and the wait to get back afterwards wasn't too bad either.

Seth

100K SF in office as well? Could take them out of the running more needed space downtown maybe. My guess is that would replace their current "catastrophe" space that they have on lease. If memory serves me correctly, is somewhere up by 72nd and 680 now. Basically duplicate offices for ess...

Seth

That's a pretty good chunk of new properties to get started on. They are continuing to acquire new properties, so it appears they're planning on continuing their focus on this area. It's good to see continued reinvestment in an area with so much potential.

Seth

The new apartments and parking garage look like a good fit to the neighborhood. If you tried to keep every neighbor happy next to every project, you'd rarely build anything.

Seth

Nice pics!

Seth

It's strange how shopping malls all seem to die or need complete revamping eventually. They definitely are very fragile ecosystems. I think the image suffers a lot more than a more traditional street-fronted commercial area, since closed stores are much more of an eyesore, and give off he "run...

Seth

I hope Ingredient stays, or is replaced by something with a similar concept. It's always been a nice, decently-affordable but still classy enough place to have lunch or a casual dinner with friends.

Seth

They will probably mimic their space in the Old Market with parking in front, but I really think a large outdoor seating area would be a lot better. Especially if they plan on paving the grass behind the building to add some parking spaces. I agree. The only part I don't like about T&W in Old M...

Seth

iamjacobm wrote:The Down Under is moving east on Leavenworth to the space formerly occupied by The Side Door Lounge.

What happened to the Side Door? Whenever I was there, it seemed busy, and the real estate sign said "property only", which implied they weren't trying to sell the business with it.

Seth

Trips wrote:How is Crossroads at 56% full if the numbers do not include stores larger than 10,000 ft? What is still in there beside the big box stores? I could not find a website for them.

No kidding. I didn't realize there were that many stores selling knock-off purses.

Seth

I was driving east on Dodge at 5:30 and it was stop and go there, the radio cut to a traffic report and they said West Dodge was backed up to 156th. That is a LONG ways to be stop and go traffic. I never am west of Saddle Creek during rush hour so I guess I am just ignorant about how much traffic h...

Seth

My office has plans to move from the current location 1 mile from my house (super-convenient bike ride) to a location 10 miles away. Although I still plan to cycle some of the time, I can't count on doing it year round, so I'm planning on doing some driving. I was surprised to find that METRO actual...

Seth

This area sure continues to thrive.

Seth

GetUrban wrote:If you want to see people who can handle it and make the best of winter, go to Minneapolis/St. Paul in December-February. It doesn't slow them down at all. The winters are even colder and longer up there, than Omaha.

Yup, and they have one of the highest rates of bicycle commuting there too.

Seth

The big corner facade with the address numbers seems to be a popular trend in architecture these days.

Seth

maybe if they close that site there will be renewed interest to close the street and have field club buy the land so they can make their course how it used to be. I'm not a golfer, and know even less about the business of running a course, but it seems doubtful that it would make financial sense to...

Seth

Any guesses as to how much longer they'll need the the tall crane? It will be up until at least the curtain wall is complete, and there's rooftop equipment (ventilation fans, etc) that will need to be installed as well. It's safe to assume both cranes will be up until the end of this year. As for f...

Seth

Unicam passes 6 cent gas tax increase, Ricketts vetos it. Well I'm sure when our first bridge collapses Ricketts will divert the blame from him vetoing this and onto something else. I get that people don't want to pay more for a gallon of gas, but are roads and bridges are in terrible condition and...

Seth

With the huge mess of construction in CB it is great now to be able for Omahans to use the Kennedy Freeway south to the new Missouri River bridge on the south side of Bellevue. It saved us almost 10 minutes returning from Kansas City, not to mention a ton less aggravation. We left KC about 1:30 and...

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