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So where's the quad going to be? It's not a university unless there a quad to check out chicks. They can always close 15th street and build the quad in the ROW. Add a building along Cuming to complete the quad and there you go! Looks like someone forgot to get the tree for the topping out. Probably...

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Anyone remember what its building was before Billy Frogg's? I thought someone mentioned it in this thread, but I can't find it now? But I still think it was a Coco's Wasn't the Bombay Bicycle Club in this area long ago? May have been a Perkins after that. Seems like there was also a Steak and Ale f...

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Rosemary's Baby LLC address is for the law firm of Fraser Stryker at 500 Energy Plaza. They do a lot of real estate work, and is the firm that was used to acquire most of the private parcels around the Henry Doorly Zoo. Here is the page from the Nebraska Secretary of States Office. https://www.nebra...

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Tons more steel arrived on site today for the west tower. Next week should see visible vertical progress! On the east side it looks like most of the backfill around the foundation is complete, and the hill they were taking the backfill from is gone so better views of the west tower construction. I b...

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WOW! This will be cool addition to the OM. The project takes some unremarkable brick facades and creates a transition from the heart of the Old Market as you head south toward the Rows SoMa. This looks like a great project. Hopefully the City of Omaha will rebuild the brick streets in that area to t...

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It appears that the hotel will have a concrete skeleton, but the west building(s) will use steel. I was thinking the same but in the second pic you can see all the rebar on the southwest portion of the building. Maybe only the northwest section is steel and they will use concrete on the southwest p...

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747 off from Wichita at 3:25 CST. I wonder how many frequent flyer miles one gets from Swaziland to Omaha?

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Flight with elephants just took off from Fort Worth Alliance Airport en route to Wichita. About a 45 minute flight. Wonder if they had to pay extra for their trunks. It was a Jumbo Jet or "Dumbo" jet ???? More importantly: Did they serve peanuts as a snack on the flight? Here is the link ...

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Flight with elephants just took off from Fort Worth Alliance Airport en route to Wichita. About a 45 minute flight.

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I remember that old canvas news stand. My dad worked downtown and one day he took me to work and we walked past that news stand on the way to his office. I thought that was the coolest job in the world at that time. I also remember going with my grandmother to the flagship Brandies store downtown in...

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This is your on the scene reporter here live at Omaha's Eppley Airfield. Latest report is that no "Eppley International" signage has been sighted so far. Expect a follow-up report Saturday unless your reporter gets delayed. :) I hope they never change the name of Eppley Airfield! I have f...

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OK, I know this is not the big news of the day for the Zoo (which took me totally by surprise like the Spanish Inquisition), but on the construction front the Building Permit for the Education Building has been issued. The Master Plan had spec'ed this structure out at 25,000 square feet, but the per...

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This building has an elevator (at least an elevator shaft from construction photos). The type and amount of elevators will depend on building height. The more floors you have the more elevators you will need as folks are less likely to use stairs to access their floor. Hydraulic elevators are genera...

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Any update on the elephants Here is what I could find on the case. On February 6, 2016, Friends of Animals v. Ashe et. al. was filed with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The Case Number is 1-16-cv-00216. The defendants are Daniel M. Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and...

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Building Permit review almost complete for the Education Building.

Any guesses as to how long after the African Grasslands exhibit and Alaskan Adventure are completed until they announce the Asian Highlands exhibit starts construction?

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Steel going up on the west end!!! Plus, a lattice crane boom visible on The Yard site a few blocks back.

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Also, is it wise to have alcohol consumption during the Airing of Grievances at Festivus???

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Does anyone know why Davenport Street becomes "Festival Road" between 10th ad 11th streets?

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Pouring the first floor at Shamrock right now!

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My general feeling of this halftime show was a major train wreck. I guess that is the risk you take when you try to be all things to all people. I am surprised that they didn't tie in Super Bowl 50 with the 50th anniversary of Up With People :;): Looking at the Wiki page on Super Bowl halftime shows...

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Predicting snow storm paths and amount of accumulated snow is still an evolving science. Most of the forecast models still don't do this very well. I was at a conference several years ago with NOAA meteorologists. This was in a city that had indian casinos and one of the meteorologists had save up h...

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It is too bad they tore out the heliport deck to put in Von Maur. Amazon could have used that to launch delivery drones

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Bob Elliot at 92. Bob of comedy team Bob and Ray... Also the father of Chris Elliot.

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Stan Freberg. Creator of great satire and commercials and the musical Omaha! https://t.co/U313IhzSPF

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Isn't that the Brady Bunch house?? Yeah. That was the running joke in "The Brady Bunch Movie" back in the 90s. In the original show it was made clear that Mike Brady, an architect by trade, designed the house that the newly-mixed family lived in. Of course, the house had like eleventy-fou...

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S33 wrote:
Hawkeye wrote:

Haha!

Isn't that the Brady Bunch house??

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Doesn't it seem odd that Omaha has 2 stations whose call letters are K_TV? KMTV and KETV. Why is that? Not sure what is odd about that. It is more odd that Omaha has WOWT, since "W" call signs are mostly reserved for stations east of the Mississippi. "K" is for west of Miss. riv...

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Lewis and Clark Jr. High in the upper left, the Omaha Playhose upper center, the big grain elevator where NFM warehouse is (Mrs. B was still downtown), and "little boxes made of ticky tacky". Also, there was a drive in movie theater in the flats below Sears. My folks took us to a couple of...

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I wish they could have built I-480 in a tunnel under the Missouri River. Like they did from into Manhattan Island. The skyline would look much more impressive without the Interstate bridge. Maybe in 50 years or so...

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With the Capitol District and HDR it really creates an impressive wall of buildings from the Tom Hanafan River's Edge Park viewpoint.

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I was in Denver last fall and in the LODO area there was a lot of construction with tower cranes. Four cranes had different color lights that ran the length of the horizontal booms. This would be cool to do in Omaha, especially for the College World Series and the swim trials. 1-25-2016 6-14-21 PM.j...

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Well, that explains why, when I counted the floors, I came up with 13 or 14. Even if the roof has a deck on it it does not count as a floor.

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The FONSI (Finding of No Significant Impact) was issued this morning by the US Fish and Wildlife Service for the importation of elephants from Africa to zoos in Dallas, Kansas and Omaha. Now the Federal hurdles are over with. We shall see if lawsuits are brought by outside organizations.

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So... I am wondering if Pacific Life put in some money for the Alaska Adventure project??

Although from the zoo's rendering the whale is jumping the wrong direction:

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I guess that depends on ones viewpoint though

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Digging laws put the responsibility on those doing the digging, for the most part. http://www.ne1call.com/ne-law-enforcement/nebraska-statutes/ Time will tell who is to blame and the exact cause, but you have to question the wisdom of doing directional boring under the sidewalk/street in such a con...

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Revised cost prompts Omaha zoo to drop Andean Foothills from master plan The decision to delay the project happened months ago, Pate said, but the zoo just recently removed the project from the master plan on its website. Utility costs, which rose to $9 million, were the deciding factor. But we alr...

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Living in Texas right now where redrawing districts to optimize seats of the party in power is an art! After living in Illinois, Florida, New Mexico, and now Texas, I miss the relative sanity of Nebraska politics.

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I'm in Texas. Still have family and friends in the area.

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It should not be too difficult to move the building. I have seen much taller and thinner structures moved. I was really hoping that they would move everything half a block east and fill the surface parking lots next to the Pinnacle Bank building. I love that building, but it looks so lonely there al...

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I love seeing the streetcar in the photo!

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Not sure how many classrooms the new education building will have, or what the projected student population will be. With a STEM emphasis, natural sciences, I would expect to see many lab classrooms. Also, much of the education will continue to occur out on the zoo grounds and animal care facilitie...

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