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Athomsfere

Nothing special or interesting here. Just another inexpensive soulless box built on top of a parking garage. And with the sliver of a setback granted, the building will overwhelm the parcel and the corner. Density is good. Degenerate design is not. Wasn’t the topic of developing air space above par...

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It seems to be everywhere, and took off during Covid. It was pretty bad here in St. Louis during Covid. It's gotten better as things have gone back to normal, but you still see people do it on occasion. I just know during Covid I saw it spike here in Omaha. And since then I have seen it all over to...

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It seems to be everywhere, and took off during Covid.

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Natural Landscape I just pre-ordered year 3. Longtime eomahaforums member the1wags has a photo in the year 2 book and will have one in the year 3 book coming out early 2024. https://naturallandscapeawards.com/product-category/fine-art-photography-books/ Amazing and REAL landscape photography in the...

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ricko wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 1:13 pm I’m always looking for some good reads. What are your favorite books—-fiction or non-fiction.

Anything Steven Pinker tend to be among my favorites.

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I can't express enough the physical pain that WOT has caused me.

And, I'm sure I'll regret this: But with a single data point Steve Jobs also went the juicing route to "cure" his pancreatic cancer. Obviously that worked it.

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As long as the new proposal is to build more housing units (e.g. denser development), then I'm all for it. The scary gentrification happens in places like San Francisco, where tech brought in tons of new residents, but the city doesn't allow any more housing to be built. Increased demand with no in...

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I give this a 5% chance of happening as depicted. Agreed. At some point building a supertall in OKC just makes zero sense. Land can't be that expensive when half of downtown is surface parking lots. Unless the developer is trying to build an American Dubai: Flashy highrises next to absolute squalor...

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I've seen this float around a few times elsewhere now. OKC's newest idea that makes zero sense given their utter lack of any sort of density:

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/20 ... 958934007/

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I wouldn’t say that the urban/suburban line should be based on city limits. Omaha has a lot of suburban area within its city limits. heck, even NYC does. And on a metropolitan scale, LA is the densest city in the country. Here’s a couple videos on ways to unpack density. https://youtu.be/y3XoUBzfXp...

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I wouldn’t say that the urban/suburban line should be based on city limits. Omaha has a lot of suburban area within its city limits. heck, even NYC does. And on a metropolitan scale, LA is the densest city in the country. If I had to explain urban vs suburban to a 5 year old. I would simply say Urb...

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Where is DSM getting the boost from? My guess would be a mix of a) A very mature financial sector b) a slow but important growth in tech. I think Omaha has the much better tech scene, and while our economy is fairly diverse we don't really have a second area of that strength that I can think of... ...

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Speaking of killing it- Another GDP tidbit- Douglas County (which of course, contains Omaha) was #1 in the nation for GDP growth for large US counties with a population 500,000 or larger over the last year at 9.2%!.. That is incredibly impressive.. Yet another sign of excellent business and growth ...

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Where is DSM getting the boost from? My guess would be a mix of a) A very mature financial sector b) a slow but important growth in tech. I think Omaha has the much better tech scene, and while our economy is fairly diverse we don't really have a second area of that strength that I can think of...

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I would believe that MoO wants to get out of developing all of this themselves with their move to Downtown.

But I'd actually prefer multiple developers here. It should maximize the odds of at least one of the lots getting something more interesting than 5 over 1.

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Thank you for sharing. It’s a very interesting read (for statistic geeks like me, anyway). I note that Omaha is responsible for almost exactly half the GDP of Metro KC, despite metro KC being significantly more than twice the size of Omaha’s metro. I also noted with interest that metro Des Moines i...

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Its certainly sad that all the Turner Park East developments haven't even sort of started yet,

Between the streetcar, and possibly interest drops this is hopefully not far from being filled in more.

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Louie wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:36 am For our own reference, would you be able to place each of those definitions in the Omaha metro?

Sure.

We don't have Supraurban.

I'd call most of Omaha Infraurban, with small sprinkles of Interburban like Blackstone.

West of 72nd I'd call on average Extraurban.

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On development concepts: I want to start using new terms for built environments. Mostly to disambiguate the terms. I thought a few people might like these, and some will hate it. But still, it's a slowish day so let's have some fun? I've been working these in my head for a few months now. The first ...

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Louie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 9:30 pm
There’s a few, but personally, it’s just ugly as |expletive|.

I like it just fine. The ugliest building in downtown Omaha in my opinion is the Woodman. Even then, I'd be in no rush to tear down anything when we still can't even fill a handful of lots.

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Vitruvius wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:26 pm It's time to demolish the former Hilton hotel. It's 50 years old now. Time to go.

The Doubletree?

Please no. At least not until we manage to fill in some of the missing infill already downtown.

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Here's a history lesson about that corner... https://myomahaobsession.com/2017/01/01/the-case-of-the-curious-cricket-room-and-burgess-nash-company/ Move all the City/County offices there, or use some of it for the space needs ignored for the juvenile justice center... Then implode that Titanic of a...

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Nothing special or interesting here. Just another inexpensive soulless box built on top of a parking garage. And with the sliver of a setback granted, the building will overwhelm the parcel and the corner. Density is good. Degenerate design is not. Wasn’t the topic of developing air space above par...

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nebport5 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 6:44 pm Is this project still alive?

I have no updates or insider knowledge.

But it seems impossible to say in 2023. Everything seems to have slowed down or paused.

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I'll mix up mine this year: The three parking lots and the parking lot connected to the CHI clinic in "Downtown" Dundee replaced with 3 or 4 story mixed use buildings: Retail on the ground and condos above. A ~10 story announcement on at least one of the empty lots near MTC. An announceme...

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I'll mix up mine this year: The three parking lots and the parking lot connected to the CHI clinic in "Downtown" Dundee replaced with 3 or 4 story mixed use buildings: Retail on the ground and condos above. A ~10 story announcement on at least one of the empty lots near MTC. An announcemen...

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bigredmed1 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:06 am Noticed the no parking restrictions. What will keep a neighborhood from decaying into a mess of parked cars with the added units? I would feel better seeing a requirement for off street parking for the unit being required.

We build better transit. Problem solved.

Next question?

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….have a unicameral legislature. It’s also the only triple land-locked state. I believe it’s also the only state to have a presidential candidate who won the state’s primary as a write-in candidate (Robert Kennedy in 1968). I’m not sure if you’re only asking to respond to your question about the tw...

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Much of that is probably a pipe dream for much of our lifetime. The streetcar isn't meaningful public transportation for the bulk of the city and we are decades away from something larger that people will actually use. 95% of Omaha isn't utilizing ORBIT and won't no matter how it's packaged. Agreed...

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The great thing about not being MLS is that it's relatively cheap, so you don't need to be committed to the team to catch a game. IMO. For me, I'd catch games regularly if I could take the ORBT/ bus there. Werner Park on the other hand is so poorly placed I won't go there (based on my time in Omaha...

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The great thing about not being MLS is that it's relatively cheap, so you don't need to be committed to the team to catch a game. IMO. For me, I'd catch games regularly if I could take the ORBT/ bus there. Werner Park on the other hand is so poorly placed I won't go there (based on my time in Omaha ...

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Reviewing the pre meeting agenda from the daily record. There is one little thing that stood out to me for next week's meeting: Approval of the ACI-Area of Civic Importance Overlay District, Northeast of Riverfront Drive and Gallup Drive This is the large grassy field by Gallup Campus that I have m...

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I saw updates on this thread and became super excited we had a leak / plan ...

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Wonder if NFM would move out to something like this. That's what I've been wondering. Every time I go to look at Legends on google maps to see the vibes they're aiming for it's hard not to notice the massive NFM there. Freeing up their campus would give so much space for new development on 72nd/Dod...

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Very cool.

I especially love the 1990 through today for Japan.

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thenewguy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:12 am we are starting with 4 or 5, street cars, right?

6 with 4 running

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Thanks for adding Ita! A lot of data in here, but I felt like the comments were the most interesting. There was definitely a few topics that dominated the want list. Protected bike lanes, better transit options, and mixed bag for/against roundabouts. There was one comment that really stood out for ...

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S.O.Boy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:07 pm The Dodge street closures wouldn't be as bad as it is, if the city had any coordinating skill. Dodge is 6 lanes and Cass is 4 lanes normally, but both are down to 2 each.

I'd love to see these lane counts as permanent personally. BRING ON THE TRANSIT AND BIKES!

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There was also mention of possible expansions to North O, which they're seeking a $300k federal grant to study, possibly followed by an airport extensions. IMO, they should not be spending money on an expansion study when they don't have the primary route built yet. I have said before a streetcar i...

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Below compared: 30 miles radius from Downtown OKC and on the right Ashland with a 30 mile radius https://i.postimg.cc/4mBvxfMf/30miles-Radius.png that blows my mind. It really puts into perspective how dense Omaha actually is, even with the amount of sprawl we have Yeah. Two fun ways to look at it ...

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