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Athomsfere

I guess I'm glad someone likes this place. We went, and were very, very underwelmed. Quality wise: No complaints. Giant chunks of chicken, seemed fresh and cooked fresh. Felt homemade with the breading slightly sliding off the chicken. No complaints there. Crinkle cut fries instead of good fries. P...

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Idk what Atmosphere was hoping for, but it sounds like if you’re seeking super hot (I wasn’t) then maybe you’ll be left disappointed. I wasn't really expecting super hot. I've eaten enough American "spicy" food to know 99% of the time it's like a 5/10 to me. Or it's scotch bonnets wrapped...

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I dunno, it seems ok? Maybe a little eccentric with the wall coverings and floor but looks nice overall. Then again, I don't think my wife would share in my desire to live downtown, so I'm in no position to seriously critique anything :) I'd say it's OK. But for the work I'd expect out of it, maybe...

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This is awesome.

I got to try their pizza last summer, and was really impressed. It's sort of weird, but in a great way (honey on Pizza?!)

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I guess I'm glad someone likes this place. We went, and were very, very underwelmed. Quality wise: No complaints. Giant chunks of chicken, seemed fresh and cooked fresh. Felt homemade with the breading slightly sliding off the chicken. No complaints there. Crinkle cut fries instead of good fries. Pu...

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To my memory, jLofts on 13th and Jackson remains the last new for-sale condos completed in downtown Omaha. Was that 2007? I feel like this reflects the culture/market of Omaha far more than the regulatory environment. Omaha just doesn’t seem like a Condo town, it may become one someday , but not ye...

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To my memory, jLofts on 13th and Jackson remains the last new for-sale condos completed in downtown Omaha. Was that 2007? I feel like this reflects the culture/market of Omaha far more than the regulatory environment. Omaha just doesn’t seem like a Condo town, it may become one someday , but not ye...

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i wanted to read what was written so that i could catch up- I started 11 days ago and just now finished. And i still have no clue what i am supposed to get out of all of this. A college drop out and a psychiatrist know the cure for all diseases while real medical doctors are trying to kill everyone...

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Dusty wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:09 pm Noticed there were some downtown requests to change to Central Business District. Is there a current map showing the boundaries of this district?

https://www.dogis.org/Html5Viewer/?viewer=dogis

Use the zoning layer, and either zoom in, wait, or zoom in and wait.

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#3, don't we already pay an arm and a leg when buying vehicles? No, no we do not. If actually affording street maintenance and not offsetting usage is a goal at least. Is this supposed to incentivize people taking more public transport? Yes, riding transit is in every way better for the health of o...

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3. Increase property taxes on vehicles, especially by weight. I would not link property taxes and vehicles together. If you want to charge a higher registration fee or wheel tax on heavy vehicles, then fine. Here in Florida, they offer a homestead exemption. They stress to you big time to make sure...

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So hear me out ... You legalize marijuana and use the tax revenue from that to lower property taxes, BUT, only for properties where the owner lives on the actual land. Then fund public (only) schools and public transportation with the remaining marijuana tax revenue. I have always said people who p...

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1. Lower property taxes 2. Increase progressive income taxes 3. Increase property taxes on vehicles, especially by weight. 4. Increase property taxes in land-inefficient uses: Vacant lots, parking lots, larger lots with detached SFH. 5. Increase the gas tax Seems like a good start to me. Probably a...

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Ha! I was trying to have it make images of Omaha the other day myself. I tried to create an Omaha with severe congestion problems and it gave me what looked like Charlotte instead. It didn't do great when I tried to do St. Louis either. It decided the Arch is narrower and shorter than it is in real...

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But apparently, they also distribute to a coffee spot near us that we already walk to occasionally. So here's to hoping they have them when we go, and they are fresh and as good as everyone says. I am intrigued! Which coffee shop? Dundee Double Shot. I think I read in the same search that Blue Line...

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Just for fun, I've been playing with Dall-E for a few months. I decided to try and get some fun Omaha pictures. Dall-E just can't get Omaha right. It does OK with our inferior southern neighbor city, KC though. Omaha with a HSR platform. https://i.postimg.cc/68JQJH7G/DALL-E-2024-01-12-09-11-12-An-ph...

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I have been going to Bagel Bin for years and still love it. We were oddly just talking about bagels, and the wife wanted good bagels. I'm of the opinion there is no such thing. Just tolerable, and bad bagels. Anyway... Bruggers or whatever came up, but we prefer local. We found out about Bagel Bin,...

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We certainly felt the effects when we were looking. There seemed to be exactly three price brackets: ~500k, ~800k, and 2 million +. And that includes townhomes. Even then, the pickins were slim. A couple unfinished units at MTC, a few units sold before construction even started... Omaha really needs...

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I don't know if anyone caught this in the Grow Omaha show a couple weeks ago with Heath Mello, but he identified the Old Mill area as the next area he would like to see become the next hot redevelopment area. I am interpreting what he said as it was not super clear, but it sounded like he had a con...

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All this leaves me pretty conflicted.

Their design is like a 6/10 for what I want there. And I'm honestly not sure if what they have proposed so far is that much better than an empty lot that could be better split and utilized by multiple developers.

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1. Lower property taxes 2. Increase progressive income taxes 3. Increase property taxes on vehicles, especially by weight. 4. Increase property taxes in land-inefficient uses: Vacant lots, parking lots, larger lots with detached SFH. 5. Increase the gas tax Seems like a good start to me. Probably a ...

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haha. there have been a few users over the years that I'm sure made it into several people's 'foes' list Someone once explicitly told me I had haha Really? You? I can't imagine you were in the wrong there. Also, I imagine that reads as sarcasm. Its honestly not. I was always love your input.

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Nothing new announced.

Also, seeing this thread come alive again made me excited. I was hoping for an update.

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I just want to say the number of homicides probably isn't correlated with police presence or non-presence. It's an eb and flow. However, maybe I'm playing devils advocate in this new society, but police LARGELY are not the problem. Yeah I get it, nobody likes the police. Nobody wants to deal with e...

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Renovator2559 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:40 am I think the deserved raises for the Omaha police are also motivating.
Funding, rather than defund the police is working...

Fundamental misunderstanding of that entire movement helps no one.

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Some more fun on these notes: Omaha has a higher GDP per capita by a bit. If you used that for the metros, Omaha would need about 1.95 million in the metro to equal KC's GDP, or about 88% of the KC metros current population. Not bad. DSM is about 112% the size of Wichita, but has close to 140% the ...

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State Troopers are about the only ones that will bother to pull you over for it. Just stay away from the I-80 Q street off ramp, they like to set up checkpoints there. I always assumed it was a secondary offense: You can't get pulled over for that alone. But they will watch you like a hawk to find ...

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Dusty wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:45 am Out of curiosity, has there been any mention of the official name of the library? Will it remain as Do Space or Omaha Central Library?"
Or would they name it after someone like....Charlie Munger Media Center?

Not that I have seen.

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I would give it some more time. Once the library and Crossroads are built, other lots will become hot commodities like Petco. You can still have the town square vibe. This will involve taking a few lanes away to give to transit. Taking a lane away to create a wide pedestrian island/boulevard down t...

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I'm curious, with the previous conversation about streetscapes for Blackstone and road changes, is it still going to continue with this project? https://www.blackstonedistrict.com/streetscape-project Don't know much about it so wanted to know a little more. It was sort of done with the bollards ins...

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Louie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:54 am "Bold and courageous" Lol.

Yep, looks like just a way to move the cost to the poorest and saving the most money for the people with all the assets. Yay, Pillen.

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State Troopers are about the only ones that will bother to pull you over for it. Just stay away from the I-80 Q street off ramp, they like to set up checkpoints there. I always assumed it was a secondary offense: You can't get pulled over for that alone. But they will watch you like a hawk to find ...

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I am seeing the OKC arena (Soccer) making more rounds. Not sure how much is moving forward?

It looks like they are hoping to even get MLS. I sure wish we could get there first.

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Agree on both points. It feels like the city let Heritage do about whatever they want here. Heritage being city planners and all. However, It's hard to argue with the private money and the fact that the library design looks great- just not here. Overall, I think there's too many cooks in the 72nd &...

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It's far too easy to not do it because it's "too expensive", or inconveniences cars too much, or "we aren't ABCD where that would make sense". True. The car traffic on that intersection is really high and getting city leaders to prioritize actual pedestrian activity there would ...

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This entire intersection needs work / to go. But it won't happen. Petco looks very out of place with all the new stuff going up (in theory for some of it), but so does Cane's, Panda Express, Taco Bell, Fuddruckers, Chipotle, Scooters, Noodle & Co., Target and it's frontage... And then that huge...

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I get a kick out of the people that take their front plate off and put it in the corner of the windshield, which stands out even more and still results in a citation for improper display. IME no one cares or gets any trouble from it. The problem with putting the plate in your window is when you get...

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This entire intersection needs work / to go. But it won't happen. Petco looks very out of place with all the new stuff going up (in theory for some of it), but so does Cane's, Panda Express, Taco Bell, Fuddruckers, Chipotle, Scooters, Noodle & Co., Target and it's frontage... And then that huge ...

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Also, if the vehicle was ever issued two plates, you can’t go down to a single plate. A buddy of mine ran into this issue. I have yet to even see what the sticker looks like. I get a kick out of the people that take their front plate off and put it in the corner of the windshield, which stands out ...

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There is something about being in downtown KC though, other than walking through Bricktown the downtown feels just so sad. Was that supposed to be OKC? Lincoln is 23%, but it doesn't feel like more parking lots than Omaha. Wichita is 35%, and that tracks. Downtown Wichita feels like it might as wel...

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