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Athomsfere wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:22 pm
almighty_tuna wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:01 pm
Athomsfere wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:08 am To be fair though:

I don't get it... Meme from a show / movie?

It’s from Letterkenny.

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If the core was remotely close to being full, sure I can maybe buy that argument. But we are nowhere close to that. It would seem to be more prudent to expand the traditional core (from the City of Omaha’s point of view), then, rather than paying for a bridge so that Broadway sees some additional a...

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I really love CB's notion of a multimodal bridge across the mo for bikes/pedestrians as an extension of the 1st Ave trail and an accompanying streetcar line. The opportunity for dense, car-independent development a quick train ride from downtown is huge. What I haven't seen so far is a real outward...

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This is pie in the sky stuff. You’re going to tell me that my hometown will double because of the land of one golf course and a small stretch of blocks along one street?! Get out of here. I’d like to see these projections they’re using. Not with that Suburban Tulsa attitude! :;): But on a serious n...

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This is pie in the sky stuff. You’re going to tell me that my hometown will double because of the land of one golf course and a small stretch of blocks along one street?! Get out of here. I’d like to see these projections they’re using. Not with that Suburban Tulsa attitude! :;): But on a serious n...

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https://i.postimg.cc/TpG68t1q/1986eppley1.jpg Oh wow! Nice find. I never knew the airport looked like that back in the day, so decided to go into DOGIS to peruse. https://i.postimg.cc/jWgbyvyx/image.png 1962 https://i.postimg.cc/grr0tL0t/image.png 1973 https://i.postimg.cc/z3TQr03y/image.png 1982 h...

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https://councilbluffsia.new.swagit.com/videos/300697?ts=226 Here's Brandon's Part II of his streetcar extension. He talks about how the Sugarhouse, KC, and Charlotte streetcars brought significant population and development growth. I thought some interesting things that were brought up that Sugarho...

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John Ewing is in the race. Probably about as strong of a candidate that Democrats could produce for this cycle.

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jjjjhskr wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:39 pm
Morgantown, WV has a Personal Rapis Transit line that goes 8.3 miles. Possibly an option from Eppley to downtown?

One of my favorite obscure transit systems, but they’re just not built and I doubt Omaha would do one.

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Also this will be the 2025 Mayoral election, not 2024.

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I'd say it's mildly surprising after all of the stuff she went through early in this term, but good for her. As I said before, even as a pretty firm progressive, I'd vote for her if I lived in Omaha.

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Previous news pieces note that the entrance to Lot A will need to be relocated due to the Streetcar Maintenance Facility, so maybe it’s just that. It would be surprising to see work like this starting without any other announcement

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10ish floors! That’s quite something

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zippy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:34 am Did the audio version for 3/16 get published? It's not appearing in my downloads!?!?

Never showed up for me in my podcast app, I just watched the uncut version on YouTube

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The % threshold is flawed. And has been for a number of years imo. I mean, it’s their sandbox, their term to describe something, and their rules. If it doesn't the tell the story we want it to means very little IMO. LOL. I don’t lose any sleep over it.. Believe me.. But you brought it up a couple p...

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Looks like we have some early candidates

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ita wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:43 pm What properties, streets, neighborhood would you all suggest?

And they’ve also got to be in sets. So for example, Dundee, Blackstone, and Benson could all form one set

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Neat!

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What they’re looking for is commuting patterns though. Hard numbers. There aren’t agendas to that. According to the 2020 5 year ACS data I’ve found, only about 3,000 people from Douglas county commute to Lancaster county for work, a bit higher than the 2015 numbers of around 2,300. To hit a CSA thre...

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CSAs are based on commuting patterns. If the numbers aren’t there, they aren’t there, no agenda to it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I think that the new fire and police headquarters could go here plus the state bldg. Open up the state bldg to development. Funny, I’ve been thinking the exact same thing! Then it should be more plausible for out of town developers to build a really tall mixed use building like the mayor wants on t...

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Omahayngin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:10 pm is that real or satire

That’s a rendering of the Marriott that was going to be where the Hilton is. It was Daub’s proposal, changed when Fahey came to office

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Greg S wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:55 pm
CBJason wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:27 pm I’ve looked into the one they’re building in Arizona. It seemed to only have a few rides/attractions. This one seems to have a lot more going into it.
The KC Star is reporting it will cost $487 million to build.

That's not even one tenth of a Nebraska Crossing Village, how nice could it be?

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Really whatever goes up on the site, I hope it has good urban design like shown in the image above. It needs to invite people to use it as a walking connection between CHI and Schwab. As I''ve said before, I think the Capitol District struggles in part because it doesn't invite people in well, parti...

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Mayor Stothert also mentioned on Grow Omaha that the Med Center was working with HDR to look at what the streetcar through the campus will look like, and that it will likely go to Saddle Creek.

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On Grow Omaha, mayor Stothert mentioned NuStyle said that they’ve been holding onto the surface parking lot west of Wells Fargo on Farnam (she said 19th but I think she meant 20th) and that they were originally looking at building a 4 story apartment building but were now looking at a 8 to 10 story ...

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Also the Examiner article had a new rendering

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Yeah and with the renderings? I really hope it isn't only of that size. For five billion dollars and the goal for a huge entertainment district, it doesn't seem promising at all. I mean seriously - $5 billion. Aren't we talking just a mountain of money? Like enough to probably build a Universal Stu...

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I’ll have what he’s having

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I'd be okay if they wanted to extend it to the airport by way of 16th street and Carter Lake. Streetcars aren't much of a transportation solution. They're good in the intimate streetscape level, but if you need to cover distance quickly, a streetcar ain't it. That's why I hope they aren't really co...

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Lot C would be a good site for the bulk of a parking garage and some ground level retail

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Some stuff is getting moved to the Freedom Center but it sounded like the content folks are heading to the 120 & Blondo spot https://omaha.com/news/local/old-boxes-new-space-same-mission-at-the-omaha-world-herald-plus-doughnuts/article_93b12d00-e15c-11ee-8346-87b9a4a30f60.html#tracking-source=h...

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Who AND when?

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That’s rather surprising given how relatively dense Omaha is. Do you have a link with methodology?

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You're telling me this forum isn't about Omaha, Texas?

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Metro population estimates are in!: Metro | 2023 pop | % growth over '22: Omaha, 983,969, 0.78% Lincoln 344,387 0.68% Grand Island 76,479 0.21% Des Moines. 737,164, 1.08% Quad Cities 379,441 0.00% Cedar Rapids 275,668 0.01% Iowa City 180,088 0.35% Sioux City 144,402 0.46% Ames 125,156 0.26% Kansas ...

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Sort of surprised by the level of skepticism or cynicism if these are the right words. I don't always express my views here because I feel like I am often the cynic. My view on this one, for whatever it's not worth, is that this is a very important development. It is one of the grains of sand neede...

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Adding 7,000 is good to see after two years of about 3,500 in growth. Hopefully the slow post pandemic growth is finally ebbing.

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https://i.postimg.cc/LJNmm1xz/IMG-7173.jpg So everything we know so far about The Duo 700+ apartments mixed between 1,2, and 3 bedrooms with rents for one bedrooms quoted as starting at $975 up to $1600 50% of the units will be marked as affordable for “workforce housing” which they stated as being...

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GrowUpFrances wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:44 am Were any renderings shared? Or will be building basically look the same?

There was a rendering showing some changes to the top to accommodate rooftop amenities, as well as a connecting tower in the back

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