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MTO wrote:This city loves it's studies. I would assume the companies hired would be entirely responsible for all this.

Easier to get a kickback from a "study" then a competitively built construction project.

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It is a money loser as a individual building but can be of huge benefit to the city image and branding. Think of what the St. Louis Arch does for St. Louis or the Sky Needle does for Seattle. An Iconic structure will pay for itself across all the benefits it brings the city.

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The Holland fought so hard to tear down all those historic buildings and have done nothing with the lot. They even blew up Frankie Payne's building for leading the resistance. I would rather they tear down the Holland than those historic buildings.

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When the Midlands Mall opened next door destroying blocks and blocks of what was the heart of downtown CB and driving all of the shoppers inside. Beno's had to move into the Mall or be destroyed. I am surprised it lasted until 1987, that was when Mall of the Bluffs opened and Midlands Mall closed. N...

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The block to the south of The Red Box with The Chamber building and the parking garage is far worse than the Red Box and would be much cheaper to demolish for a new project.

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Someone should start a petition to lobby the mayor to encourage the building to be demolished and redeveloped. Even though the AT&T building is 100x uglier, I'd rather see the Red Box be torn down and re-developed first. But yeah, the AT&T building needs to come down at some point. It's one...

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I don't think Micro apartments are meant to be low end. I think the idea is giving up square footage for high end finishes in a building with lot of amenities in a very desirable location. I am not sure this is checking all those boxes but I am sure a small number of these will sell quickly. I don't...

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I guess the redevolpment of this site is underway. This story is a year old. http://www.omaha.com/money/s-compound-served-troops-first-next-up-are-events-offices/article_7c9f5de5-1d8d-5b34-9348-d6da28e75e66.html?mode=story http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/omaha.com/content/tncms/assets/v3...

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The Eastend of Council Bluffs around that Mall and the area to the South of Mall of the Bluffs is not poor. The immediate Mall area housing stock is a little old but is working class at the worst. The newer areas to the south of the mall are comparable to most West Omaha starter neighborhoods with p...

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A new OPS High School is great. That is 100 teaching jobs at the high school and 500 new higher paying administrator jobs at OPS headquarters. Time for higher property taxes, it's for the kids.

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Does he really live there? I thought it was just a PR prop. I have always imagined some kind of Bond villain underground facility under that house. However it might not be that secure, he was in the underground facility at Offutt during the 9/11 attack. (look it up) I only seem to be able to find t...

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That is a ton of land for 1.5 Million. You could build apartment buildings in 3/4 of the parking lot and not even touch the mall. Keep a small portion of the mall open for retail, the residents and employees of businesses in the mall will increase traffic. Create a startup incubator and rent out spa...

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HskrFanMike wrote:Or better yet... temporary parking while lot B is being developed with a parking garage.

Can't tell if your joking?

I imagine 3/4 of Lot B can stay open while a large parking garage is built on one of the blocks as phase 1 of the redevelopment.

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This is such liberal fake compassion bullsh*t. If Warren Buffett actually gave a f*ck about the people of North Omaha he would have a couple of the companies he owns move manufacturing plants back from China to North Omaha. Then he would train people in North Omaha for the jobs including training an...

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Does he really live there? I thought it was just a PR prop.

I have always imagined some kind of Bond villain underground facility under that house. However it might not be that secure, he was in the underground facility at Offutt during the 9/11 attack. (look it up)

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Found a couple old pictures of it. The building is in the center of the picture with the street car in front of it. 1930s http://www.thehistoricalsociety.org/images/1930sWBwyEofPearl.jpg Again in the Center of the picture from the other direction. 1960s http://www.thehistoricalsociety.org/images/WBw...

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The Ogden Hotel used to be on the 100 Block of Broadway to the west of where the new building is being built. It was 112 years old and on the National Registry of Historic Places when it was torn down in the early 1980s. https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8209/8167767013_ae22896fc1_o.jpg The First Ogden...

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Iowa City Pedestrian Mall This is what the Iowa City Ped Mall looks like from above. This kind of density on Lot B might be above best case scenario but it shows what could be possible on that much land. The situation is certainly different as Downtown Iowa City is already very dense and touches di...

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I was talking about Cubby's in The Old Market Grocery Store not just a Gas Station. However you need regular services even in a urban area.

The 1400 ft building was a joke but I am happy to spark a little discussion. I wonder what kind of proposals they will actually get.

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iamjacobm wrote:
Linkin5 wrote:^Not sure Omaha could handle the current world's tallest residential building
If we can't build a 1000 footer then lets get that gas station.

It's been a grass lot with an abandoned trailer home in it for the last 6 years so the gas station is a step in the right direction.

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Something along the lines of Cubby's gas station / mini grocery wouldn't be a bad fit for that location.

How nice would a tall thin residential tower be in that spot or a super-tall thin residential tower.

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I understand the location, but the last thing this should be is an entertainment district. We've got another one starting up on the Shamrock site and the Old Market is just about 8 blocks south. These things easily start cannibalizing each other and you end up with 50% vacancy in all the developmen...

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It shouldn't sound like any other district in any other city. There never seems to be any desire in Omaha to do anything original.

I guarantee it ends up something like "MECA's Northe Downtowne Rivere Plazae and Shoppes open June 10th to June 28th"

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http://i.imgur.com/MuRNhrH.jpg This picture is a little misleading on the size. There is a couple strip malls on the west side facing the Westroads you just can't see them because of the trees. This location is fantastic. You could put a really high end condo complex at that site and leave the tree...

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The thing would be that if one of the four blocks was a parking garage (with ground level retail). You could exit the garage right at the central intersection of the four blocks. Then everything would be close. Whatever is put here needs lots of residential units. You can't have Midtown, The Old Mar...

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It would only take one large parking garage to more than replace all of the parking in lot B. If you rebuilt the street grid but left the streets as pedestrian only it would create a really unique public space. Ground level restaurants and bars with patios opening up on to the pedestrian walkway wo...

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It would only take one large parking garage to more than replace all of the parking in lot B. If you rebuilt the street grid but left the streets as pedestrian only it would create a really unique public space. Ground level restaurants and bars with patios opening up on to the pedestrian walkway wou...

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I wish they had kept the Red

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The have all the old buildings downtown because the downtown area has been a shithole for so long. Glad they didn't tear everything down and now there is a chance for repurposing all those old buildings. There is a definite Pennsylvania/Ohio rustbelt feel to that part of Iowa and extending into Illi...

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It would be nice if they'd build something like Des Moines' EMC Insurance building, with a 'crown', or maybe like Nashville's 'batman' building... but I'm not going to hold my breath. I'm sure HDR will come up with something nice, whether it's a 300 footer or not, no big deal. These are terrible bu...

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99% chance that Children's and Methodist take some if not all of the space.

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It would be nice if they'd build something like Des Moines' EMC Insurance building, with a 'crown', or maybe like Nashville's 'batman' building... but I'm not going to hold my breath. I'm sure HDR will come up with something nice, whether it's a 300 footer or not, no big deal. This is the kind of c...

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MTO has earned the right to go off the rails once in a while. What makes this place interesting is he isn't even the craziest person on here, more middle of the pack crazy.

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Awesome. I can't wait to see the design. I hope they do something radical, Omaha needs a signature building.

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I doubt there will be an announcement. I thought FDR switched to individual and small group layoffs since they used to get so much bad press from large layoffs multiple times a year.

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A massive City owned parking garage similar in size to the UP parking garage next door but with ground level retail and a 10 story HDR headquarters on top.

Parking could be shared between HDR, Holland, and public spaces for Shamrock, and MECA events at the CenturyLink Center and Ameritrade Park.

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I think that works for a few years but it's difficult to keep something like that going. Greg I mean how does one keep any entertainment district going? Make it entertaining, make it distinctive. To me in this space I think it gets stale fairly quickly. Remember the suggestion was to put this in on...

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It is kind of amazing that as Council Bluffs grew so far to the East and South East in the last 50 years that another Catholic Church was never built.

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Omababe wrote:
Joe_Sovereign wrote:I ate at that Sbarro the day Mall of the Bluffs opened in 1985
I've eaten at the original Sbarro before it was a chain! (touche')

You win.

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Traffic Flow around this area is terrible with just the High School and the No Frills. Perhaps they will do some work to improve things. Speeds on 204th are going to have to drop a ton if this development continues. Traffic on 204th is moving 50mph to 70mph in front of this development all the time....

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