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Louie

Is our “traditional winter weather” over and done with for the season, 1 month early? Actually almost 2 months early as practically every day since the last week of January has been much warmer than historical averages. It's certainly looking more and more like it. Very mild weather all through the...

Louie

Athomsfere wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:09 pm
2. It increases sprawl: Something we should be fighting at every turn.

This is a huge part of what worries me. Sprawl is inherently bad, economically and environmentally. And this would accelerate it like nothing we've seen in the metro before.

Louie

This did get approved. Decent amount of dirt work done this past week.

Louie

OmahaJaysCU wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:24 pm Heard new style is buying the towers. Pretty obvious what their intent is/will be.

Great fit!

That is great news. Injecting 4-500 new residents to downtown in an iconic part of the skyline.

Louie

No Datacenters are not how you measure a city as a tech hub. But when you are talking to a tech company, who deal with credit card payments, creates actual credit card processing machines, has a data center in Omaha, plus the many other tech industries Omaha has, like the central data lines coming ...

Louie

Odds are, any new arena for an NHL team would be heavily subsidized by taxpayers. I'm not a fan of that.

Louie

He was definitely murdered.

Louie

Okay, great news, it wasn't a terroristic attack. It has recently been identified as "stemming from a dispute between several people". That doesn't change anything for those who got shot, but this wasn't a "mass shooting" in the typical sense. Crazy that there is a "typical...

Louie

skinzfan23 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:25 am
thenewguy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:24 am they would replace them ahead of the reconstruction? Is that odd?
I'm thinking those are pretty portable, so in that regard probably doesn't matter when they are added.

Yeah these would easily be reincorporated after the rebuild.

Louie

This article identifies Rod Yates, owner and operator of Nebraska Crossing, as the interested party. https://omaha.com/news/local/business/nebraska-crossing-owner-john-cook-says-usa-volleyball-considering-move-to-gretna/article_bfc76288-cb90-11ee-8476-ef8525952fb9.html#tracking-source=home-top-stor...

Louie

nativeomahan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:36 pm
NEDodger wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:23 am This was probably before 2000, but I remember Gallagher's in there.
That was such a wonderful, gorgeous place.

I was too young but my parents loved Gallaghers.

Louie

Shooting at the Chiefs Parade, 1 dead, at least 15 injured: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/kansas-city-chiefs-parade-shooting-02-14-24/index.html I actually saw it unfold as I had it on in the background. At this point, I wanna say it's a dam shame we can't have anything nice, but as of right now...

Louie

Shooting at the Chiefs Parade, 1 dead, at least 15 injured: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/kansas ... index.html

Louie

Omaha mayor excuses staff from meetings with Councilwoman Juanita Johnson, citing hostile behavior https://www.wowt.com/2024/02/13/omaha-mayor-excuses-staff-council-meetings-citing-escalation-councilwoman-juanita-johnson/ OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The last few Omaha City Council meetings have been odd, ...

Louie

Smaller market, indeed. Lincoln/Omaha is a good 700K+ smaller than the smallest current NHL market. Is that Winnipeg? I would have thought we were much closer. How does that compare with OKC and the NBA? My bad, I was looking at US franchises only. Vegas is the smallest one, next largest is Columbu...

Louie

Does anyone have any insight into what is going on at Metro? In December 2022, they had 130 revenue hours not operated. In December 2023, they had 1268(!) revenue hours not operated. The data shows 83% of the non-operated hours was due to no driver. If you look at the data from the January board me...

Louie

You never know what could happen. I remember some 10 years ago when everybody was droning on and on about Rodgers being the next GOAT, coming off their Super Bowl win, I think two MVP seasons if not consecutive then within three seasons... and how many Superbowls had he won since? 0. How many did h...

Louie

ESPN has Nebraska as a 10 seed as of today.

Louie

ESPN bracketology has Creighton as a 5 seed today.

Louie

Noticed there is a new bar that opened in the last couple of months or so on the west end of the Blackstone Corner building - Lazy Leopard (no doubt named after the Lazy Leopard Lounge of years past).

Louie

This is pretty funny:

Louie

What can the foot traffic really be like in Millwork Commons? Theres quite a bit during the week with employees at the Ashton and Mastercraft alone. Currently, with all the construction going on, there are all those workers, plus nearby existing companies like Drake Williams Steel. Not necessarily ...

Louie

Lol, this had to have been from the mid 90s with the arena in a harbor.

Louie

What are these people doing for jobs until they can find a place to use their talent? I'm serious--are they driving Doordash in Boulder/San Jose/Austin/Boston/Fairfax waiting for a job to open up? You spent ~six years in college to get knowledge--use it, even if it's Omaha! That's exactly what a lo...

Louie

I also hear from sources that currently there are 12,000 new building valuations in the docket but haven't been approved, so there's plenty of building excitement brewing. Can you clarify what you mean here? Are you talking about valuations of existing property? Why would that be reason of exciteme...

Louie

April election for a tax extension for Chiefs and Royals I expect the Chiefs to become much more vocal on this after the Super Bowl. Everyone thinks this is being driven by the Royals but the Chiefs have been in the discussions with them since day one. Reading between the lines they want the Truman...

Louie

That area hasn't seen anything new in awhile.

Louie

From the agenda for tomorrow's Board of Regents meeting: Approval to purchase the property at 4207, 4219, 4223, and 4227 Leavenworth. Those are all houses on the south side. No notes on whether they are going to tear them down or keep them as rentals. Approval to purchase the property at 4516, 4520...

Louie

Definitely feels more like early March than early February.

Louie

Getting another quick shot of rain this afternoon.

Louie

From the agenda for tomorrow's Board of Regents meeting: Approval to purchase the property at 4207, 4219, 4223, and 4227 Leavenworth. Those are all houses on the south side. No notes on whether they are going to tear them down or keep them as rentals. Approval to purchase the property at 4516, 4520...

Louie

I wouldn't hold my breathe on the rail lines being re-routed. One thing to keep in mind is if C.B. is able to green light the streetcar extension the a new bridge would likely go somewhere in this area. One rendering showed a new bridge just south of 480. That would likely mean the existing pedestr...

Louie

From the agenda for tomorrow's Board of Regents meeting: Approval to purchase the property at 4207, 4219, 4223, and 4227 Leavenworth. Those are all houses on the south side. No notes on whether they are going to tear them down or keep them as rentals. Approval to purchase the property at 4516, 4520...

Louie

From the agenda for tomorrow's Board of Regents meeting: Approval to purchase the property at 4207, 4219, 4223, and 4227 Leavenworth. Those are all houses on the south side. No notes on whether they are going to tear them down or keep them as rentals. Approval to purchase the property at 4516, 4520...

Louie

Garrett wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:28 am
almighty_tuna wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:37 am For those like myself, unfamiliar with Primark, the internet describes them as, "Discount fashion chain offering clothes and accessories for all ages, plus homewares."
British H&M, basically. A nice get

*Irish

Louie

For anyone who hasn't been down recently, the core is definitely beginning to rise noticeably.

Louie

It would nice to see all that area around the train bridge, including the post office redeveloped. It would also be nice to see that bridge replaced with added clearance below to become a gateway to downtown. Something really cool looking. better yet, tunnel underneath 13th. Raising a lot of that w...

Louie

Even more active construction for Millwork Commons, this area is getting filled out quick!

Louie

It would nice to see all that area around the train bridge, including the post office redeveloped. It would also be nice to see that bridge replaced with added clearance below to become a gateway to downtown. Something really cool looking. better yet, tunnel underneath 13th. Raising a lot of that w...

Louie

Bad look

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