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Athomsfere

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.

Athomsfere

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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can't wait. For people that don't live in the area, it's hard to access the blackstone district due to parking woes. It will be easier once the streetcar is finished, but in the mean time, this will help out a lot I usually park nearer to UNMC now that I don't live in the area, and just huff it the...

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I’m never going to complain about the parking lots in downtown Omaha after seeing OKC’s downtown Salt Lake City's is worse. They have multiple super block surface parking lots. You are indeed correct it seems. Parking is 29% of SLC’s downtown vs 28% of OKC’s downtown. Omaha’s is 21%. https://parkin...

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From a year ago. Take a look. I get the feeling that if anything happens it isn't going to be at the current location. NFM Flood Plain Ryan Blumkin is on the Sept 22nd 2022 Grow Omaha show and basically shoots down the Gretna rumors. https://eomahaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=357279#p357279 He goes o...

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A new relocated NFM. Who am I kidding? Ain't gonna happen. I'd prefer this stay too, just expand. I can't think of a better location at least. Suburban enough for the style to make sense, not so suburban I'd never make it out there. Isn't expansion almost a non-option unless they tear down and go u...

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NovakOmaha wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:46 pm A new relocated NFM. Who am I kidding? Ain't gonna happen.

I'd prefer this stay too, just expand. I can't think of a better location at least. Suburban enough for the style to make sense, not so suburban I'd never make it out there.

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For me getting more housing options is more important than aesthetics right now. Omaha is really missing that middle housing option. You can buy a single family house with a sprawling yard or rent an apartment. There is very little in the middle. This is why I mentioned changing laws for setbacks, ...

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Greg S wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 1:14 pm Here's mine:

Progress on Big Lake west of Grenta is shown.

Greg

I'm gonna guess our "progress" we want there is different. I'd love to see progress as well, but progress towards the idea being officially scrapped.

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I'm with Brad. I have my gripes with 5 over 1 construction. But I'm glad we are getting them. I couple of things even I have to keep in mind sometimes though: 1. Taste changes. We might not love them today, but how we feel about them now has very little to do with how we might see them in 80 years. ...

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What metrics make DSM a more attractive location for nice retailers and restaurants like this? Not that we really lose out on that much, as our local offerings are very strong as well. Hard to say - perhaps the NEX guys were on the list and they ended up pissing LEGO in some way so they walked. I w...

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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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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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