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Anybody heard anything about this moving forward? With the success of Slate and The Wire, this would seem to be a pretty safe bet for a profitable re-development as an apartment building.

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The system only cost $100 million to build? With 20% of that covered by a federal grant? That should be very doable for Omaha. Isn't that exactly how much the elevated expressway cost? I like their idea of paying for part of it by having an area sales tax within the areas where the streetcar runs. G...

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Why would someone want to [currently] open a restaurant or a non-niche store in the Holland Greenspace area? You would get virtually zero evening traffic except on performance nights at Holland. This will all change though once the Capitol District + HDR's ground-level retail parking garage are buil...

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I'd still much rather have that than the Hilton though...

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Hopefully this isn't veering off-topic too far, but I think that as urban enthusiasts we put all of the focus on historic preservation, which is important, but you don't hear many people putting pressure on developers to make quality, sturdy buildings out of quality materials with great craftsmanshi...

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I'm disappointed the buildings will be lost but not really because of any potential to re-activate the urban fabric in that corridor, because that's just not happening anytime soon along Douglas St What? There is very little pedestrian activity on Douglas St. after 5 PM, unless there is an event at...

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I'm disappointed the buildings will be lost but not really because of any potential to re-activate the urban fabric in that corridor, because that's just not happening anytime soon along Douglas St. The blocks between 13th and 14th street need to be re-developed to let there be a continuous flow of ...

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A good place for them could be the southeast corner of 10th & Capitol. Originally Shamrock was going to build something there, but it doesn't look like that panned out, so the city probably owns that land again...? At the very least I don't see why they couldn't save the facade of the Specht bui...

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iamjacobm wrote:Stothert supporting extending the wheel tax to outside the city limits? Surprising move.

And it is Franklin Thompson who brought it up again I believe. I guess it's not just "urban hipster elitist marxist left-wingers" that propose and/or support taxes such as this after all.

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I know they helped pay for the study, but is there coordination on how to actually pay for building the streetcar itself? That's obviously the biggest hurdle. It's one thing to pay for a study you know will likely end up showing results that will benefit you, it's another to actually commit such and...

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I think any type of Streetcar or fixed-rail transit system is going to be a complete non-starter until there is some coordinated effort between businesses (Mutual of Omaha, UNMC, FNB would probably be the main ones) and private donors to show that they are willing to give some money toward the proje...

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That is not a good enough use of that land to do anything toward obtaining those buildings against the owners' wishes. Those entire two blocks around the GLM would be inactivated except on performance days. There would basically be just about 0 going on around the GLM on most days. The "Capitol...

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That's a pretty thin tower if those are the actual dimensions.

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I like the Landmark Center, but yeah it sucks that the entire northern part of it along GLM is basically a concrete slab.

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I don't see why they wouldn't design it to be at least 321 feet to be able to place it at third-tallest in Omaha. But then again, UP could have easily made their building third-tallest instead of fourth and they didn't. I guess we shall see on Wednesday.

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There was a proposal to expand Dodge into six lanes on this stretch? When? How would that have even been possible without demolishing a bunch of buildings?

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Not that it would convince me that it is good to demolish the buildings, but it would be nice to see some sort of rendering/proposal for what they are wanting to build on that space. Also, no matter what happens, I really do think the facade of the Specht Building will be able to be saved and transf...

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One upside to it being two separate structures instead of one structure taking up the entire city block is that one day far into the future, there is the possibility that the parking garage structure could be demolished and re-developed into another office tower, or residential, etc.

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This project is great! Love it!!

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Does anyone have any ideas/estimates on how many office workers FNB has in buildings other than its main tower? A tall tower on the southeast corner of 16th & Dodge that included office space as well as residential would be perfect for improving the skyline, as well as a perfect location for add...

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I like the look of this building, it gives off more of a quality construction vibe than a lot of the urban area apartments around Omaha that have gone up in recent years.

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Hmm, I wonder if MECA considers a 5 or 6 story building as tall enough to "interfere with the signs" at the CenturyLink and TD Ameritrade Park.

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Well there have always been rumors of FNB eventually building a second tower, so I'm hoping they eventually build a second 30-40 story tower of their own. But I think it makes a ton of sense for a residential + office tower combination to happen. The lower floors obviously would be the office portio...

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I'd be a little worried if this was only happening in Omaha, but it is certainly a pretty clear development trend to also re-vitalize neighborhoods close to the core (and the downtowns also) instead of solely building out suburbs in just about every major city in the country, so I think it's more ju...

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This quote is from the Holland Greenspace thread, but I'm replying to it here so as to not take the Holland Greenspace thread off-topic: If the surface lot at 11th and Douglas is too critical to the Holland. Perhaps Lanoha and HDR can make a deal and build a 50 story residential/office tower on the ...

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I think what works about commuter train systems, subways, light rail systems is that the stations and the routes don't (can't) change. I know if I can get to Station A near me by whatever means, that I can go to Station B near my destination. Perhaps I have to worry about how to get to Station A or...

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Omaha needs to build permanent transit points in the suburban areas. These Transit points should have parking for park and ride commuters, every possible pedestrian and biking access from these points to nearby neighborhoods and businesses. People need to know that there is a permanent place where ...

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Well to me, a lot of it has to do with what is replacing what you're taking down. For example, I thought the Medical Arts Building was fantastic and I sure do wish we still had it. But what replaced it was certainly "worth it". There are very few buildings that I would consider absolutely ...

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I wonder how much money it would cost to build a new 3 story brick building and then move the facade from the Specht building to the new brick building.

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skinzfan23 wrote:Is that 33-story building on top of the 32 story office building Northwestern Mutual was already building in Milwaukee?

Yes. Their office building is already under construction.

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This situation sounds very familiar to a bank we have right here in Omaha. http://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Northwestern-Mutual-residential-Mason-and-Van-Buren-looking-northwest.jpg http://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/gallery/juneau-town/northwestern-mutual-residential-above-loo...

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Um... the existing parking garage to the north is closer to the Holland than the HDR surface lot they are using now.

And of course, there's plenty of room to build some sort of parking garage on the existing greenspace without touching the buildings.

It just doesn't make any sense.

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Our airport is in just about the most ideal distance from our downtown that you could hope for. Not so close that it inhibits our skyscrapers (all two of them.....

), but certainly still very close compared to other cities. So that helps a lot, hotel wise.

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Somewhere around 13th & Pacific would be good. The powerlines in that area could be a block though. I guess someone eventually doing an aerial photo from that angle would be the only good option. I've always thought that this angle makes Omaha's downtown look the most dense/urban. Riding into do...

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I wonder what the Central Park Towers building would look like with that covering taken off. Obviously the cornice is long gone.

Same with the Cosmos building. What is underneath that covering?!

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Does anyone have some recent photos of the Omaha skyline looking from the south? That seems to be the angle that we don't really see as much in photos, but has always been one of my favorite angles for the skyline.

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Realistically, there just simply is no financially feasible way to make our riverfront "great". There just isn't. The train track runs right on the edge. The Lewis & Clark portion is on contaminated soil. There is an elevated interstate cutting through the middle. But it's the truth. I...

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Exactly. My point is that if there was other retail around that corridor, it would make more sense for those buildings to be able to be redeveloped, and the owners would be more willing to go that route, one would assume. I mean goodness gracious, we lost 7 or 8 whole city blocks full of buildings j...

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What the Holland didn't spur, what the mall didn't spur, what could have made the mall area special and really could have made downtown explode....was anything other than office and parking space. No retail, no restaurants, no housing, etc. Nothing to make the area surrounding the mall 24 hour or e...

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