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by GRANDPASMUCKER
Fri Feb 24, 2017 8:02 pm
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: The Crossroads (72 & Dodge)
Replies: 1990
Views: 338396

Re: Crossroads - Redevelopment Plan

This project has a BRT component that is integral to the future of the city's future trasnportation aspirations and I have a feeling Yates is holding that over their heads to drag this bullshít out. The city needs to grow some balls and tell Yates to suck an egg, if each individual component has to...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:55 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: New Image Dentistry (NEC 72nd & Grover)
Replies: 22
Views: 5708

Re: ANDERSON BP

It would not be the first time Buckys bought out a competitor and then just left the empty lot sitting there.
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:52 pm
Forum: Business
Topic: Fresh Thyme
Replies: 79
Views: 11315

Re: Fresh Thyme

The new store on 132nd & Center opened a couple of days ago so I went there for the first time tonight. I never had been there before so I was kind of surprised by what I saw. I mean if you are into paying top dollar price for a bunch of brands you never heard of before then this is the place fo...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Fri Feb 24, 2017 2:07 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Creighton Basketball 2016-2017
Replies: 541
Views: 28361

Re: Creighton Basketball 2016-2017

I'm just curious as to how a guy with a torn ACL can sexually assault someone? Kick him in the knee? We'll see how this plays out though. He is going to come back from Philly with a lawyer in tow and bond out. Will a behind the scenes negotiation then pay the girl 50,000 to recant and go away? Mayb...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:29 pm
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: Lumberyard District (Downtown Millard)
Replies: 394
Views: 64595

Re: Lumberyard District (Downtown Millard)

-I know its early to judge the apartments as they're not finished, but they look kind of awful. Instead of a true mixed use development, it looks like a standard multi-story apartment complex tucked behind a strip mall. I don't understand why they didn't do apartments over shops, and more of a comm...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Crime in Omaha
Replies: 443
Views: 62178

Re: Crime in Omaha

Coyote wrote:Rummel.
First thing the guys at Roncalli told me when I got there was that all the guys that went to Creighton Prep were gay. I always stuck up for the Prep guys and said that some of them were my friends and they were good guys and there was no way they all were gay. :;):
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Crime in Omaha
Replies: 443
Views: 62178

Re: Crime in Omaha

I've seen and heard lots of bad things about North Omaha, how there's so much crime in that part of town. Are they true or just exaggerated? Heed those warnings well or pay the price, and you better believe me you will not like the price you have to pay for disregarding those warnings. I grew up in...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Mon Feb 20, 2017 4:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Crime in Omaha
Replies: 443
Views: 62178

Re: Crime in Omaha

I've seen and heard lots of bad things about North Omaha, how there's so much crime in that part of town. Are they true or just exaggerated? Heed those warnings well or pay the price, and you better believe me you will not like the price you have to pay for disregarding those warnings. I grew up in...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Mon Feb 20, 2017 8:09 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
Replies: 3468
Views: 437836

Re: Official: Omaha Streetcar Discussion

Phew, good thing that the timing is finally just right now for a streetcar line. I mean, just in time for an electio-....oh. wait. :roll: You are correct sir. What a crock Mayor Stothert is laying down now. First they make restaurant patrons pay for the bogus unused baseball stadium telling them th...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Mon Feb 20, 2017 8:01 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: Lumberyard District (Downtown Millard)
Replies: 394
Views: 64595

Re: Lumberyard District (Downtown Millard)

The Dunkin Donuts opened up around mid November and I have been in there several times about 6:30 AM and I was always the only customer they had. So far hardly anybody in Millard is going there at all. That strip center is going to be a tough place for a business to make a go of it I guarantee it. ...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:46 am
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Midtown Crossing
Replies: 2172
Views: 357123

Re: Midtown Crossing

Why do you think the theater is going to leave? . This is a rumor that has been circulating for a while now. The theater is struggling. The sources that have been right on every other closing so far this year give the theater roughly 12 months left give or take. In the paper a week or so back it sa...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:24 pm
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: Meta (Facebook) Data Center (Hwy 50 & Capehart)
Replies: 133
Views: 23703

Re: Facebook Data Center

I don't see facebook dying any time soon, with or without your participation. People said McDonalds was a fad. For sure, Facebook is still a hot item. I agree. I just mean that... Just like Facebook came along and "stole the show" from Myspace, making it dwindle, so something else could c...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:24 pm
Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
Topic: Lady GAGA
Replies: 8
Views: 1136

Re: Lady GAGA

Within 10 minutes it was sold out! Some of these same posters were the same ones telling us all that Trump had no chance! :roll: Come on people how are we supposed to hold a good conversation if you are going to be so out of touch with the real world? I'm willing to double down here. Many of those ...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Tue Feb 14, 2017 1:09 pm
Forum: News and Events
Topic: Rough stretch for Creighton
Replies: 11
Views: 2130

Re: Rough stretch for Creighton

That male student who cut a female student with a knife irks me to no end when he pulls the "Drugs made me do it card." Attacking that woman with a knife was a cowardly disgusting thing to do and then blaming it on booze and drugs is even more cowardly. What a weasel.
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Tue Feb 14, 2017 1:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ELEVATIONS of US CITIES
Replies: 22
Views: 2978

Re: ELEVATIONS of US CITIES

The North Omaha Airport is at 1320'. That's the highest I've found in Douglas County so far. There are several locations over 1300'. On the DOGIS website you can turn-on the 2' contour interval layer and see what all of the elevations are. The DC landfill in NW Douglas county might have a chance to...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:57 pm
Forum: Nebraska and Iowa
Topic: 2017 Bald Eagle Thread
Replies: 18
Views: 2596

Re: 2017 Bald Eagle Thread

I went to Council Bluffs for lunch Monday and cruised through Lake Manawa on the way home. There were about 10 eagles hanging out just south of the boat docks in front of those houses just waiting for the gulls or geese or fish hanging around on the edge of the ice sheet to make one little mistake!
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:49 pm
Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
Topic: Lady GAGA
Replies: 8
Views: 1136

Re: Lady GAGA

Within 10 minutes it was sold out! Some of these same posters were the same ones telling us all that Trump had no chance! :roll: Come on people how are we supposed to hold a good conversation if you are going to be so out of touch with the real world? I'm willing to double down here. Many of those ...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:44 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
Replies: 3468
Views: 437836

Re: Official: Omaha Streetcar Discussion

When it comes to riding a bus, I don't want to ride with the people with droopy pants that look like they're going to mug me. I don't want to sit next to the guy that smells like he crapped his pants or the guy that smells like an ashtray. I don't want to worry about getting lice or bed bugs from s...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:28 am
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: The Crossroads (72 & Dodge)
Replies: 1990
Views: 338396

Re: Crossroads - Redevelopment Plan

I agree that they need to steer away from inserting too much retail. If some retail put there, I feel it would be neat having some new stores/restaurants/joints in town that haven't been here before. I'm just hoping for some urban density right there, some neat urban blocks that people can live in,...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:54 pm
Forum: Business
Topic: Sears
Replies: 112
Views: 13156

Re: Sears

There's an article in the business section of today's W-H about Payless potentially closing 1000 stores and filing for bankruptcy.. From the W-H piece: "Payless Inc. is in talks with its lenders over a restructuring plan that includes closing about 1,000 stores as it wrestles with an unsustain...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Thu Feb 09, 2017 3:58 pm
Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
Topic: Lady GAGA
Replies: 8
Views: 1136

Lady GAGA

I don't scalp tickets or like Lady GAGA but it seems to me like this concert would be a ticket scalpers dream. By the time that concert gets here in August I bet her little monsters would be ready to pay 3 or 4 times what those tickets face value are.
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Thu Feb 09, 2017 3:48 pm
Forum: Business
Topic: Sears
Replies: 112
Views: 13156

Re: Sears

I'm really enjoying the great and thoughtful dialog/discussion in this thread.. Bringing this back to Sears in general, since it's been suggested the entire big box chain may not survive the calendar year, any predictions on the potential imminent demise of Sears?.. Let's go month/year on the predi...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Wed Feb 08, 2017 3:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What does Omaha need? (Tourism)
Replies: 51
Views: 4296

Re: What does Omaha need? (Tourism)

Come on ........If you are going to waste your time googling up links to 3 year old dead court cases, why not take the time to see how the case turned out. Unless the outcome of that case does not support your opinion so you are purposely leaving it out. I think thats what they call nowadays Altern...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:05 pm
Forum: Business
Topic: Sears
Replies: 112
Views: 13156

Re: Westroads Development

The Algorithm I suspect that the management used to decide which K-Mart in Omaha to keep open was a simple one that had nothing to do with the amount of sales. I bet the farm the reason they kept the one open on 50th & L was because the rent was much cheaper then 132nd & Maple or 144th Stony...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Tue Feb 07, 2017 3:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What does Omaha need? (Tourism)
Replies: 51
Views: 4296

Re: What does Omaha need? (Tourism)

Come on ........If you are going to waste your time googling up links to 3 year old dead court cases, why not take the time to see how the case turned out. Unless the outcome of that case does not support your opinion so you are purposely leaving it out. I think thats what they call nowadays Alterna...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:15 pm
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: Omaha Public Schools
Replies: 84
Views: 10476

Re: Omaha Public Schools

When the Mayor and the Public Schools are openly conspiring to subvert the government its illegal. :no:
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What does Omaha need? (Tourism)
Replies: 51
Views: 4296

Re: What does Omaha need? (Tourism)

Have any of you been to Pioneer Village in Minden? I've read lots of news articles about it and have read the reviews on lots of travel sites. There are so many positive comments about the place. Many people comment that it is one of the best history museums that they've ever been to and many comme...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sun Feb 05, 2017 1:07 pm
Forum: Urban Omaha Development
Topic: Midtown 2050
Replies: 112
Views: 10950

Re: Destination Midtown

If the city puts up the majority of the money for the streetcar and provides TIF for building this area out when the main lobbyists, Mutual, UNMC, and Kiewit stand to make millions in development this will be an especially galling example of corporate welfare. These developers should be putting sub...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sun Feb 05, 2017 9:42 am
Forum: News and Events
Topic: Grow Omaha Show discussion
Replies: 922
Views: 183841

Re: Grow Omaha Show discussion

Jeff Beals actually referenced eOmahaForums.com on Grow Omaha this morning. A first. What did he say about us? Did he mention our mild |expletive| talking? He did not mention some of our poster's pestiferous rhetoric, but that may just be the reason they are reticent of referencing this forum. He m...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sun Feb 05, 2017 9:30 am
Forum: News and Events
Topic: Grow Omaha Show discussion
Replies: 922
Views: 183841

Re: Grow Omaha Show discussion

So I keep seeing a late model black Bentley Continental (I think it's a Continental) in Dundee. While driving west on Underwood this morning (I had to get out to Le Petit Paris for some apricot croissants) I saw it parked across from the KFAB building. The car had a custom license plate that indica...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sat Feb 04, 2017 8:20 pm
Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
Topic: Lumberyard District (Downtown Millard)
Replies: 394
Views: 64595

Re: Lumberyard District (Downtown Millard)

The Dunkin Donuts opened up around mid November and I have been in there several times about 6:30 AM and I was always the only customer they had. So far hardly anybody in Millard is going there at all. That strip center is going to be a tough place for a business to make a go of it I guarantee it.
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sat Feb 04, 2017 8:14 pm
Forum: Business
Topic: Sears
Replies: 112
Views: 13156

Re: Westroads Development

Since Crossroads is scheduled to be demolished, I can't help but wonder what will happen to Sears. Will they move to Westroads? I was just watching a couple of YouTube videos were visitors were riding up and down the elevator in Sears. The 2nd floor was/is completely sealed off. But the 1st floor a...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sat Feb 04, 2017 8:05 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: 2016 U.S. Swim Trials
Replies: 114
Views: 10935

Re: 2016 U.S. Swim Trials

2016 attendance: 197,892 So...when do we begin to debate this number with anecdotal evidence of "how it looked on TV" and "This number was based on tickets sold, not butts in the seats" and how the fact that we didn't eclipse 200k that this is the beginning of the end? Lets keep...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Fri Feb 03, 2017 8:35 am
Forum: Business
Topic: West Corp. Business News
Replies: 24
Views: 3995

Re: West Corp. Business News

In all fairness. CONAgra was a mess and what can you do if West Corp. is antiquated technology? You'd hope some of the West infrastructure remains in Omaha. That is why I prefaced my comment. The reality is that the reaction here would be to blame a D Mayor if this happened under their watch is all...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sat Jan 28, 2017 4:15 pm
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: 2017 Omaha Mayoral Election
Replies: 328
Views: 67332

Re: 2017 Omaha Mayoral Election

Yes, we are in dire need of that wall. Especially with that negative immigration we've been having with Mexico. :roll: Grandpa - you are in the minority with your unjustified hate. No one truly wants that pointless wall. People who truly want in will get around it anyways just like they do now (a w...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:28 pm
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: 2017 Omaha Mayoral Election
Replies: 328
Views: 67332

Re: 2017 Omaha Mayoral Election

Amazing how enforcing border security is seen as "racist". Curious if you bleeding hearts make the same accusations of Canada and Australia? Sneak into Japan and think they're going to keep ya? Even Mexico has more stringent enforcement of their southern border than we do of ours. Darn ra...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Sat Jan 28, 2017 1:33 am
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: 2017 Omaha Mayoral Election
Replies: 328
Views: 67332

Re: 2017 Omaha Mayoral Election

I could not believe my eyes when I saw Mayor Stothert claiming in todays paper that Omaha is not a Sanctuary City. The internet says Omaha is a sanctuary city. My eyes tell me this is a sanctuary city. If Mayor Stothert thinks we are going to sit back and watch her subvert Trump shes going to lose ...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:40 pm
Forum: News and Events
Topic: 14,000 show up for Omaha Women's March
Replies: 43
Views: 3722

Re: 14,000 show up for Omaha Women's March

Couple of questions Dave.........


Do I have to go to North O to befriend those 5 black Omahan's or could I just use a couple of black people from out here in Millard :roll:
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:27 pm
Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
Topic: 2017 Omaha Mayoral Election
Replies: 328
Views: 67332

Re: 2017 Omaha Mayoral Election

I could not believe my eyes when I saw Mayor Stothert claiming in todays paper that Omaha is not a Sanctuary City. The internet says Omaha is a sanctuary city. My eyes tell me this is a sanctuary city. If Mayor Stothert thinks we are going to sit back and watch her subvert Trump shes going to lose t...
by GRANDPASMUCKER
Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: RIP [Insert Dead Celebrity here] :(
Replies: 1231
Views: 184630

Re: RIP [Insert Dead Celebrity here] :(

The mountain lion they caught out at 114th & Dodge a few years back named "Omaha" died at the Zoo.