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- Sat Feb 03, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: Lincoln Development
- Topic: Journal Star Printing Facility Sale
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3502
Re: Journal Star Printing Facility Sale
These new hotel projects are a big shot in the arm for downtown Lincoln, and the city in general. No doubt they will help boost restaurants and other businesses in the Haymarket district.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: 1402 Howard
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11374
Re: 1402 Howard
It was a horrible fit for the Old Market area. Let’s hope someone with more sense purchases the property, as it looks like it would have good potential as a rooftop restaurant.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Nebraska and Iowa
- Topic: 2024 Weather Thread
- Replies: 495
- Views: 23364
Re: 2024 Weather Thread
NWS in Valley reported no frost in the ground as of the last day of January. My yard is mushy. The last little pile of snow disappeared on Groundhog Day. How appropriate. The month of January ended up being considerably colder than average in Omaha (and probably everywhere in the U.S. east of the Ro...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Sand Point (655 N. 114 St)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2962
Re: Sand Point (655 N. 114 St)
We dined there last weekend. The place was packed and we fortunately had reservations. Our general impressions were positive. The staff was friendly. The owner stopped by to chat a bit. The clam chowder was absolutely delicious. I don’t want to think about the nutrition profile. 😂 My salmon and riso...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: 2024 Ground Hogs Day!!!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1466
Re: 2024 Ground Hogs Day!!!
The announcement from Pennsylvania has been made. No shadow seen, so an early spring is foreseen.
If the past week is any indication it is almost spring now.
If the past week is any indication it is almost spring now.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Jim's Rib Haven (38th & Ames)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1842
Re: Jim's Rib Haven (38th & Ames)
Great news for any BBQ lover in town.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Heartwood Preserve (144th Dodge/Pacific)
- Replies: 895
- Views: 382599
Re: Heartwood Preserve (144th Dodge/Pacific)
What are the odds that this neighborhood gets fully developed before Crossroads? Or before the Grand Canyon gets a foot deeper?
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Mandan Park Improvments
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1717
Re: Mandan Park Improvments
Not sure if you mean the greenspace, gardens and building at Mt. Vernon, but Mandan is connected to Mt. Vernon via the bike trails. I’ve ridden through there several times to ride the bike trails and the park is in decent shape. Yes I was. When first started practicing around there say 9-10 yrs ago...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: 60th & Pacific - South East Corner
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3580
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Millwork Commons
- Replies: 255
- Views: 50069
Re: Millwork Commons
This is great! I was mainly hoping for the extension to Cuming St. Much more inviting to pull people across the street! https://i.postimg.cc/9rcb0pzb/11th-Izard.jpg This street extension would only add to the momentum for including a bus line north from the Old Market, up 10th Street and into the N...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
- Replies: 518
- Views: 241784
Re: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
I haven’t been to St. Louis in close to 20 years. Back then it was a fun weekend getaway, but after about 3 days you saw pretty much everything you wanted to see. It has some obvious similarities to Omaha (a downtown riverfront) but is a much older and larger metro area, with deeper problems and als...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
- Replies: 518
- Views: 241784
Re: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
I guess I’m prone to making analogies. I’m old enough to have seen the general downtown riverfront area go from an industrial lead smelter and scrap metal facility, with a general “odd” smell permeating the entire area, to the original Lewis and Clark Landing, to what we have now and the announced p...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Cinco de Mayo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 519
Re: Cinco de Mayo
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Cinco de Mayo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 519
Re: Cinco de Mayo
I’ve said it before. I’ll say it one more time. No one I know celebrates New Years Day on January 6 or July 4 on July 10. Why would we celebrate May 5 on May 10-12? For those who care, Cinco de Mayo is basically celebrated in the Mexican state of Puebla, but not in the other 31 Mexican states (count...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
- Replies: 518
- Views: 241784
Re: Downtown Soccer Stadium (Abbott Drive)
I’m excited for this wonderful new addition to the downtown/riverfront/Omaha sports and entertainment scene. And I say that as someone who almost certainly will never use this facility or visit the adjoining restaurants and bars. This (as well as the recently announced upgrade at Tranquility Park an...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: The Omaha World Herald
- Replies: 912
- Views: 288685
Re: The Omaha World Herald
Perhaps by next year they will all be working from home?
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Eppley Airfield
- Replies: 3584
- Views: 2055012
Re: Omaha Eppley Airfield
It's interesting about the Eppley project. In my own opinion this is a game changer Omaha hasn't seen since the convention center/arena project. I know Mutual's building & the streetcar are big but Eppley is, as I say, a game changer. I don't even think it's about the money. And I think that's ...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: eOmahaForums Bar and Grill
- Topic: Omaha Bagel Shops
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1356
Re: Omaha Bagel Shops
Bagels aren’t a health food, any more than donuts are. But I like them on occasion, mostly for what you can add to them to make a sandwich. I like mixing things up at breakfast (my favorite meal of the day), and while I may only eat 2 or 3 bagels in an average month I do appreciate the variety most ...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: eOmahaForums Bar and Grill
- Topic: Fast Food Talk Thread
- Replies: 966
- Views: 732618
Re: Fast Food Talk Thread (Runza)
Regarding beans in chili, I have several family/friends who don’t like them in their chili either. I personally don’t mind it either way- with or without beans.. I don't mind pinto beans in reasonable amounts (my preference is for none at all), but kidney beans are a definite show-stopper. They jus...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Marylebone (3710 Leavenworth)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4398
Re: Marylebone (3710 Leavenworth)
If that’s the name I wonder if the owners considered what a divisive name that would be to call a bar and grill?
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Block 16 (1611 Farnam Street)
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12140
Re: Block 16 (1611 Farnam Street)
Okay. But don’t restaurant owners all realize that business falls off a cliff after New Year’s revelers have put away their horns and gone home? Add to the normal slowdown that happens everywhere in January the record and near record cold weather that is underway right now, and all the warnings to s...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: 37 West Farnam - 9 Story Building in Blackstone (SWC 37th & Farnam)
- Replies: 178
- Views: 41088
Re: 37 West Farnam - 9 Story Building in Blackstone (SWC 37th & Farnam)
From the looks of the last photo it seems like they have topped out. The elevator shaft? No, the building. I see no indication that an additional floor is under construction. Projects I am familiar with (and I only need look out my bedroom window to see one) have rebar and vertical concrete pillars...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Old Market Gardens (727 South 13th Street)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1402
Re: Old Market Gardens (727 South 13th Street)
Anything that will add green space and beauty to the Old Market District is a big plus. I hope this comes to fruition.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Eppley Airfield
- Replies: 3584
- Views: 2055012
Re: Omaha Eppley Airfield
Southwest and United were the two big winners for December.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Nebraska and Iowa
- Topic: 2024 Weather Thread
- Replies: 495
- Views: 23364
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Council Bluffs Development
- Topic: Mt. Crescent
- Replies: 78
- Views: 17186
Re: Mt. Crescent
Apparently too much of a good thing.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Omaha Local News Channels
- Replies: 1844
- Views: 658235
Re: Omaha Local News Channels
I’ve been a weather nerd since grade school. I should have gone to school to be a meteorologist, but I think the math would have done me in. Anyway, even I, the weather junkie, get sooo sick and tired of all the storm hype I see on TV. It’s of course worse during tornado season, as the constant scre...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: 37 West Farnam - 9 Story Building in Blackstone (SWC 37th & Farnam)
- Replies: 178
- Views: 41088
Re: 37 West Farnam - 9 Story Building in Blackstone (SWC 37th & Farnam)
From the looks of the last photo it seems like they have topped out.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: Nebraska and Iowa
- Topic: 2024 Weather Thread
- Replies: 495
- Views: 23364
Re: 2024 Weather Thread
Also, around Noon into early this afternoon is when we should see the 2"+ per hour snowfall rates so things are probably going to go down hill here shortly... One of the joys of spending most of winter in a land where snow is encountered as often as Martian soil and ice is reserved for beverag...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Nebraska and Iowa
- Topic: 2024 Weather Thread
- Replies: 495
- Views: 23364
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Eppley Airfield
- Replies: 3584
- Views: 2055012
Re: Omaha Eppley Airfield
I’m guessing a significant flaw in the statistics. FLL is also completely AWOL, as is Cancun and Cabo.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: T.G.I. Fridays - Omaha
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12956
Re: T.G.I. Fridays - Omaha
Yes i also enjoyed Granite City. We would often do their very popular Sunday brunch. Always a line for that. Or we would do dinner after a twilight movie at the mall.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Eppley Airfield
- Replies: 3584
- Views: 2055012
Re: Omaha Eppley Airfield
2023 Q2 PDEW Phoenix 339 Denver 291 Los Angeles 289 Chicago 284 Washington D.C. 253 Las Vegas 251 Dallas/Ft. Worth 246 New York City 210 Atlanta 182 San Francisco 158 Seattle 156 Houston 146 Tampa 136 Miami 100 Charlotte 91 Minneapolis 89 Boston 88 San Diego 88 Nashville 82 Salt Lake City 76 St. Lo...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Energy Plaza (16th & Harney)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4886
Re: Energy Plaza (16th & Harney)
As long as the State Office Building (appropriately referred to by just about everyone as “the SOB”) has existed it’s been derided. And appropriately so. But to remove it a suitable replacement would have to be built, or a suitable building remodeled. And the replacement would have to be on multiple...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Taco Bueno (NO Metro Locations)
- Replies: 74
- Views: 14977
Re: Taco Bueno (NO Metro Locations)
That condiment tray looks fire It’s typical of just about every Mexican restaurant to offer something similar. Sometimes they also give you several free tostadas to go with. This one has marinated red onion and carrot, pico, chilled sliced radish and cucumber in the center, one mild salsa and one “...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Taco Bueno (NO Metro Locations)
- Replies: 74
- Views: 14977
Re: Taco Bueno
I got no horse in this race. Never heard of Taco Bueno. Never eaten at Taco John’s or Taco Bell. Abelardo’s and Lina’s and D’Leon’s are all pretty good for having semi authentic Mexican food. Prices have sure shot up the past few years though. Burritos that went for about $4 pre Covid at Abelardo’s ...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: T.G.I. Fridays - Omaha
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12956
Re: T.G.I. Fridays - Omaha
A good friend of our family used to work real estate, and I remember when she told us that her company helped bring TGIFridays into the Omaha market. I think that was probably in the early or mid 1990s. It was a “big” thing back then as Omaha was one of the few larger markets that lacked the chain. ...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:26 am
- Forum: Nebraska and Iowa
- Topic: 2023 Weather Thread
- Replies: 1364
- Views: 360766
Re: 2023 Weather Thread
Here’s hoping we go two in a row on not breaking zero in 2024.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Sinful Burgers (14612 W Center Rd)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7853
Re: Sinful Burgers (14612 W Center Rd)
How does a restaurant screw up French fries? It’s sort of like screwing up a grilled cheese sandwich or apple sauce. YOu certainly can screw up fries. I can DEFINITELY screw up fries But, you aren’t a restaurant. McDonalds has been making and selling French Fries since before most of you were born....
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:15 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Chicken N Pickle (120th & Fort St)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 803
Re: Chicken N Pickle (120th & Fort St)
I remember when racquetball was all the rage, back in the 1990s. In the 1980s it was tennis. Now it’s pickle ball. What will take pickleball’s place in the 2030s? Anyone’s guess.