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Cermak wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 5:58 pm This has been one of the slowest projects I can recall, it did have a Pandemic to deal with, I'm sure that complicated things. Hopefully once it finally opens it will be successful and worth the wait.

60-90 days.

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AI bot, clearly.

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Central Park Mall: Origin of Omaha's modern-day Gene Leahy Mall https://youtu.be/jkEaOkNh_gY In 1981, construction began on the Central Park Mall in downtown Omaha. It was the precursor to what's become the Gene Leahy Mall, now stretching down to The RiverFront. A total of $5 million was used to tr...

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±1 acre site south of Poppleton between Park Ave and 29th (the street immediately west of 480). Got the re-zoning notice today. Going from R8 high density residential to mixed use commercial / residential with what appears to be two two-story MF and one four story MF and commercial. Not a lot of det...

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I know some on the toxic Reddit Omaha page were being critical several months back about how the Mutual Tower will block light and cast a “horrible” shadow across the GLM. So people were upset there was going to be shade in the park at the hottest time of day during the hottest times of the year? #...

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The greatest restaurant review ever written:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dini ... quare.html

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bldgengineer2015 wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 11:33 am Interesting enough the rehabilitation/renovation of this building was about to start as they had just received their construction permit.

Five bucks says they just received their insurance policy, too.

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I havent lived more than a few blocks away from very active train tracks (freight, not commuter) in over 20 years. Add a police and fire staton on top of that, plus a very popular and loud nightclub across the street for the last 15. Only noise that ever bothers me is my downstairs neighbor's dog. S...

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Whatever. Still gonna get my groceries online. ;)

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Louie wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 1:25 pmI'd be very curious to hear what the average age is of a subscriber. Certainly over 60, if not 70.

At this point their subscriber base is limited to basically anyone that doesn't know how to clear their browser cookies.

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Do people, other than boomers that can't internet, actually care if the physical paper goes away, assuming the coverage and content remains the same value for the online addition? For the life of me I can't wrap my head around wanting to get a paper once daily vs being able to get updates and breaki...

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It's boggled my mind for years why the city refuses to have actual sidewalks on this block. I can see not having sidewalks since the docks on either side of 14th are prob grandfathered in in some manner from their previous use. Or if conversion was done before sidewalks were a thing, I guess. But i...

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PotatoeEatsFish wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 9:49 pm They might as well throw in the Jeddah Tower in the next article

Shame that was destroyed in a mining disaster.

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If you don't understand TIF, start watching at the 54:25 mark. What if I dont understand TIF but simultaneously DON'T want to understand TIF, because then I might realize all my blustering was ill-informed all this time and if I'm wrong about that I could also be wrong about other things...? Did yo...

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the biggest reasons for moving out was job related (new job, higher pay, better opportunities) and for moving into the state was housing (cost, availability, type attainable). Are you sure it wasn't property taxes and transgenders in sports? Because it was probably property taxes and transgenders i...

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the biggest reasons for moving out was job related (new job, higher pay, better opportunities) and for moving into the state was housing (cost, availability, type attainable). Are you sure it wasn't property taxes and transgenders in sports? Because it was probably property taxes and transgenders i...

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Athomsfere wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 8:08 amApparently the far-right for example has found out about 15 minute cities and are weaponizing the term to be some globalist-Marxist plot.

Yeah, "15 minute cities" are the Agenda 21 du jour for the wingnuts.

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54% were Biden voters. 33% were Trump voters. On the surface this surprised me. There were a lot of Biden voters out there in 2020 that were clearly more anti-Trump than pro-Biden or even moderately democrat. That's evidenced by the wide gap all over the country between Trump in 2020 and a generic R...

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MetcalfeHarrison wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 3:48 pmFrom the article, over half of the people polled were over 55.

56% to be precise. And 71% were 45 or older.

Also, I love this one:

Q10 In the 2020 presidential election, which candidate did you support?
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7.0% Do not remember

The |expletive|?

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Surveys like this from entities like this are abject bull |expletive|. Their call list is predetermined so they get the result the entity hiring them wants. "We surveyed 500 gun owning evangelical Christians from counties that went 80% or more for Trump twice and it turns out they overwhelmingl...

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nebugeater wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:46 pmYou're replying in this way to a post that was made well before Rush passed away.

I was replying to a recent reply and didn't realize what that reply was to was four years old. My bad on that one.

I stand by the rest of it, though.

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Okay, let's look into plate specific math here. (I can't believe I'm typing this. I should've just said you were right and moved on) There are 10 choices for each digit giving 10 x 10 x 10 = 1000 possible three digit numbers. There are 26 letters in the alphabet so there are 26 x 26 x 26 = 17576 po...

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lisanstan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 6:27 am Regarding front plates. It costs $50 to not have a front plate. They give you a sticker that goes inside your windshield on the drivers side. yadaa

You also have to go to the DMV every year in person to renew. Can't do it online.

Worth it.

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The pedestrian mall concept doesn’t often work well in the US unless it’s in a very high density area or near a large college campus. Both of your examples are near large college campuses. It also helps when it’s more than 2 blocks long, isn’t 45% parking garages, and doesn’t have a hotel planted i...

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Brad wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 9:21 amNot quite sure an Astrophysicist is needed to explain Big E's video... LOL

Asstro.

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Coyote wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 7:21 pmwaxing

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Uranus

This video explains everything

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Hang on... isn't Limbaugh dead? Is there some Greatest Hits for Racist Boomers channel I'm not aware of?

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TitosBuritoBarn wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:07 pm Don't forget a model of the adjacent streetcar line.

That really is more of a Shelbyville idea...

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And stable.

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Didn't even need to look it up to know that.

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Doesn't matter at all, it could have 100,000 signatures and have the same impact. Usually suspects opposed to all public goods even when it won't cost them a penny. Heard it might be good for "them" and I decided I hate it. Absolutely guaranteed the people that signed that petition are 10...

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It's an industry that didn't pivot in time to save itself. The "industry" is dominated by outlets like Fox News that is about to lose a series of billion dollar civil trials after their owner testified under oath they intentionally lied about election conspiracies to appease their dipsh!t...

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Wow what a story, every single person complaining about noise and traffic disruptions….get over it. If you want to see the city succeed it needs to happen. Going to hopefully happen for a lot longer too with the streetcar construction and all the development it may bring For those keeping score at ...

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Build it big enough and fire up UNO 1-AA football.

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At least there’s no essential-for-life-as-we-know-it truck traffic on 14th and Jones.

Fwiw that intersection and 13th and jones need at LEAST a yellow flashing light of some kind, if not a straight four way stop. Trying to cross 13th at jones can be a nightmare.

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Windows in. Sign up. Jones street between 14th and 15th open for car traffic again. Library demolition/MoO debate aside, it can not be overstated what a major, major improvement this is for the long derelict corner. Can't wait for the first person to get run over trying to cross 3 lanes of 14th stre...

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omahaviolin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:37 pm For residents in the downtown area, are there any options for outdoor pools once the weather warms up?

Both the Kimpton Cottonwood aka Blackstone hotel and the big downtown Marriott have outdoor pools, for a fee.

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The only thing that matters to the Big Four leagues (NBA, NHL, NFL, and MLB) when it comes to expansion or team location is TV money. Period, full stop. (OK, maybe which taxpayers they can sucker into bulding them a stadium, too, but TV is king.) They all have federal anti-trust exemptions which all...

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