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How about sitting on a giant lightning rod when you see this in the distance (from the Capitol District construction cam today at 4:30)

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Do they have concrete ping pong paddles to go with the table?

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Two thoughts:

1. If the weather is good this week they may have the first level of apartments framed in by the end of the week.

2. The hotel is going to be a much more impressive edifice than the Hilton Motel across the Interstate.

Thanks for the photo update. I really appreciate them.

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The more and more we talk about the Heartland of America Park, ConAgra campus and Ozarko area as one comprehensive project the more I realize the freeway bridge must go. Well even if they took out the freeway, there would still have to be a bridge between DTO and CB. Tunnel! Start going underground...

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Looking good! (Is it me? Or does anybody else feel like construction all over Omaha seems to more in "slow motion" or something? Downtown, those buildings seem to be rising slower than I expected. Out in West Omaha, it just seems like bulldozers are taking forever to building subdivisions...

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HDZ posted lots of photos of the new Africa exhibit on their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OmahaZoo/ So did KETV: KETV granted look at new African Grasslands Exhibit If you watch the Facebook post by their weather guy the Zoo CEO, Dennis Pate, mentions that they will be installing a large ...

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I think they would have gotten more work on the apartment side done today if they didn't have to unload so many trucks full of prefabricated wall units

This thing is going to fly up fast!

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HDZ posted lots of photos of the new Africa exhibit on their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OmahaZoo/

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Hope someone can get pictures this weekend. Looks like the steel is about done on the ballroom area, forms going up for 4th floor on the hotel, and lots happening on the apartments. If you zoom in on Coyote's pics you can see the layout lines on the floor of the apartments base.

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The apartment project has some verticality going on today. Light steel columns going up on the north end. In regards to MTO's question... yes you can pour concrete in the rain. Unless it is a torrential downpour the amount of water in a light rainfall would not affect the strength of the concrete, e...

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Food trucks are opportunistic. They go to where the people are. Unfortunately, the area of Lewis and Clark Landing is where the people aren't. I agree that this needs some sort of anchor tenant to draw people here. The children's museum seems the only choice. Saddly, with the restrictions to breakin...

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Lots of deliveries today on both sides of the project. Hotel received more steel for the ballroom area, and the apartment side received several truckloads of pre made framing components. The crew spent the last few rainy days doing layout so the apartments should start going verticle soon.

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HDZ will be moving the prairie dogs to Lee Simmons Wildlife Safarie Park. This will open up the area where the new polar bear exhibit and Asian Highlands are slated to go. http://www.omahazoofoundation.org/event ... -pastures/

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Tenth Street and Bob Gibson open again. Here is the link to the HDZ announcement http://omahazoo.com/about/zoo-news/details.aspx?ID=294

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As much as I dislike the SOB, at least it is an occupied building that is being used, and not a surface parking lot. I would rather see a surface parking lot developed. What strikes me most from GetUrban's photo is the amount of empty space in the Conagra campus, not only surface parking lots, but a...

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I had no idea they had that property. I wonder if someone donated that plot to them. The deed transfer states it was a sale transaction as recreational property. Grace also has the two lots on Fifth Street numbered 2712 and 2716. Purchased from Riverview Sports Association. I guess these are for in...

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I wonder what Grace had planned for this parcel at Riverview Blvd and Bancroft? Purchased in 2011.

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The library would be shocking to me. Would they really be able to close, get the place empty(there is a lot more than just books there), get the place demoed and build their building in 2.5 years? On a separate note. I absolutely want the library building to survive. I realize I am in the minority ...

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Garrett wrote:
Taco wrote:The church coming into the "Tri-Faith" initiative has announced their design.

http://countrysideucc.org/relocation/building-design/
Wow. Very modern. Nice how it'll match the Jewish Temple.

Very nice. Who is the architect for this project?

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I wonder what happens to the name of Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium (some of my friends in Denver still refer to it as Invesco Field). I guess that is the danger when teams and cities Qwest to sell naming rights for facilities.

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Steel arrived today for the ballroom for the hotel. They are already putting up the columns. The open web joists are on site and visible from the construction camera. Looks like they installed the first one this morning. At the rapid pace they are moving, I am thinking that the hotel might be visib...

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So does this mean their not going to build downtown at all? I do not think this letter intimates an HDR preference of one place over another, it appears just to be a sort of reconciliation between HDR and OPAS. It does admit that parking was the major factor in not building on the OPAS site, but it...

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Steel arrived today for the ballroom for the hotel. They are already putting up the columns. The open web joists are on site and visible from the construction camera.

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I would be OK with a 9 story building fronting the GLM in the Holland green space. If they could move the Specht, et al. a block east to the east side of the Pinnacle Bank parking lot I think it would really help that block. I love the Pinnacle Bank building, but I hate that it stands between two su...

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Gee, they could always build a nice suburban style campus in the old Conagra space

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The lands in green are under ownership of the City of Omaha, or the Omaha Zoo Foundation (formerly Omaha Zoological Society).

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Great pictures as always Brad. I like that you got some from the back side of the new exhibits. Those are really sharp images taken from a moving train. I am surprised that you didn't get any aerials that you are so good at. What... you couldn't "lower" your standards by going on Skyfari. ...

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I know that the lions are supposed to move to the African Grasslands exhibit, but I was wondering if they are still going to use the cat complex, or will that be torn out and replaced with a better exhibit? Originally the other cats were going to move to the Andean Foothills , but someone posted sa...

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Huge get for the Ralston Arena. Looks like a good fit also... Agreed. And I'll have to get out to a game or 2 and see how this looks and feels.. As it relates to whether this will fall on its face (or not), I'll quote our good friend (and now deceased) Han Solo: "I've got a bad feeling about t...

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Cal Kirshen - KMTV sports and weather in the early 70's http://www.kmtv.com/news/local-news/kmt ... oplay=true

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RNcyanide wrote:Are there 2 blue whales, or did one blue whale have his spine mangled?

Although the whales are blue in color they are humpback whales. One is breaching and the tail is one that is diving. No brokeback whales here.

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Our downtown is becoming a novelty anymore and I'm beginning to loath AV thankfully it's almost full. Agreed. If they won't go downtown, I'd prefer to see them go to Mid-Town Crossing, rather than Ak Village. Ak doesn't need any more office density, imo. I hate thinking about all of the potential t...

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It's time to start moving on from oil. Then we won't have these issues anymore. Henry Ford designed the first car to run on hemp - it's time to move towards something like that. This vehicle is only legal in Colorado and Washington, or by doctors prescription in certain other states incuding Califo...

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Of course one would have to think that a lot of the staff live in Mike Brady-esc houses in west O, and they don't want to give up their "short" commutes and free parking. It would be interesting to do a GIS analysis of where employees live and find the centroid to locate the HRD HQ. You w...

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Maybe someone with a construction background can answer this question: Why do they remove all the shoring jacks on lower floors only to replace them later? They are doing it with this project and I also noticed this on the Hyatt Place. I think part of it is to remove the form that the concrete was ...

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So my jokes were truth? They are that dumb? Really? 100 years of being in business as an architecture and engineering firm and your own headquarters gets scrapped by cost overruns and poor scheduling? Is that not just a business tactic? Here's the sort of confidence I'd want in an architecture firm...

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We have two simultaneous discussions going on here and in Rumors... Soon we will have three with one going on in Suburban Omaha Development. On the public relations end this fiasco is a major FAIL

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My prediction - Rosemary's Baby! Would be ironic if they build their HQ on Leo Daly's home site. This move really makes HDR look incompetent. The planning firm couldn't even handle their own world headquarters.

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iamjacobm wrote:Elephants go on display tomorrow! I am sure the crowds will be massive.

Stay far far away on Sunday... partly sunny with a high near 71! I-80 will be backed up to Gretna!

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I just talked with one of the track coaches at UNO. I didn't know they used Burke's facilities since they lost their outdoor location. He said that the 300 m indoor palindrome was tied into the baseball and softball phase of the Chili Green development. Because of the success of Baxter he believes ...

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