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Erik

Devastating news. This will only encourage more non-downtown growth.

Erik

This is devastating news. This was our only chance for a highrise in downtown Omaha.

Erik

20 year max, 85% buildout projected with 8 years.

Hopes to start grading in the spring. Much fewer loopholes and delay potential given the SID with no TIF or tax break agreements.

Erik

The vision is to create a special downtown for west Omaha. In my opinion, it is at the expense of our existing urban core. I think that the following quote on ketv.com is significant. It’s all a part of pulling off biggest project of his career -- quite literally, a new downtown in west Omaha. &quo...

Erik

I just think that it doesn't help to strengthen the urban core east of 72nd St. At least it is not being developed on the outer fringes and adding to an already established part of town. True. However, the core east of 72nd isn't going to weaken or stagnate either. People and businesses that want t...

Erik

I love the concept but I fear that it will take away from other development (Crossroads and downtown Omaha) I'm not worried about Crossroads. We can't sit back and let strip mall developers take in the surburban growth while we wait for Yates and the city to agree on some terms. Both can work in th...

Erik

What an exciting development for this city. Did anyone ever envision something like this west of 72nd, let alone on 144th to 150th? I mean, look at these major development districts across this city. Having these mutliple, large urban 'core' areas makes the city a more healthy, viable place. This bo...

Erik

Big E wrote:Yup. See you again in 3.5 years or so.

Why?

You still in Omaha?

Erik

Big E wrote:
Coyote wrote:Has to be a bourbon post.
100% sober. 10,000% told ya so.

And you know I'm a scotch guy.

No way! Is it really you? The Big E?

Erik

Brutal cold april and may, brutal hot in july? Average highs in april is 65, may is 75 and july is 85. In the summer Omaha's average heat index is relatively average in the US. We average 5 -10 less degrees than Dallas in april and may. So by all accounts, dallas is near brutal cold in april an may ...

Erik

I believe that is the site of the data center with no name.

Edit: on further review, the Datacenter is 370 and 144th.

Erik

Brad wrote:
NovakOmaha wrote:Look I admire Ansel Adams more than most anyone but Brad, you're quite possibly the most talented photographer I've ever known. Period. Best. Ever.
Wow, I don't even know what to say! Thanks!

I agree with Novak. I think you underestimate your very impressive work.

Erik

So a discussion I just had with someone from Austin got me thinking about our current progress as well as our future in regards to downtown livibility and walkability. He said that Omaha is much more convenient and walkable than Austin. He was very impressed with the city. I was very surprised by th...

Erik

What I love about Omaha is the love of college sports which the NCAA fully recognizes and takes advantage of it when they can. There are a few sports which could work well with Omaha's love for college sports. Hockey and Soccer. The others would take too much luster from Omaha's current, but very im...

Erik

So weird how parking is the key factor of halting major projects. Did Noddle take a page out of the HDR-OPA debacle?

Erik

For the record, I have no problem with critical and thoughtful debate. However, I am troubled that some in this HDR discussion were so quick to literally tell those who were in favor of HDR's original downtown proposal that the supporters of that proposal were not intelligent enough to understand t...

Erik

I like the fact that HDR is further expanding the significance of an emerging core. Honestly, AV/Crossroads is the new midtown.

Erik

Is GRANDPASMUCKER actually Chris Baker? Very similar communication style and talking points. Hmmmmmm....

Erik

What a waste. This building would make for a great state pen and I am being serious. Has anyone walked inside? This city has no developers with any kind of vision.

Erik

MTO wrote:Yeah, hope HDR enjoys their beautiful sprawling suburban campus and hope you enjoy that iron facade.

Ill make sure this happens. My facebook protesting is no match for any corporate giant.

Erik

I have the solution!!- HDR building their corporate HQ!s on this site... Oh never mind.. :;): ... Ciao..LiO...Peace It's impossible. Only one downtown location could work for HDRs replica of the OWH building. I promise, however, to save the storz building by flexing my ever-powerful facebooking pro...

Erik

It's already hard enough to get companies to relocate downtown now you obstructionists just added another thing for any prospective business to worry about. If they cried over that tiny store front what else will they cry about.... I am happy that i have more power than hdr. I am feeling rather spi...

Erik

And who created all that bad publicity, publicity that created those constraints, constraints that derailed the whole thing. It's not complicated regardless how you try to spin it. It's quite clear where you stand on preservation. That said, HDR and OPA are playing hardball. They are acting like |e...

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Omaha has been all over the national news today about that girls noggin getting crowned on that Kings Crown ride down at Stinko de Mayo in South Omaha. I used to know a guy who had been a carnie who told a good story. The carnival was in some little town up in Nebraska and the double ferris wheel w...

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HDR didnt pull out because the buildings weren't going to be razed. They pulled out becaus OPAS got greedy. Second. A 14 story building isnt a once in a two decade opportunity. Look back at the last two decades and see all the construction that has gone on. Shoot, we have a 14 and 12 story being bui...

Erik

Not sure why it is concluded that the Applied Underwriters Boys Town property is out. The articles have clearly stated that the preliminary plans include room for TWO corporate campuses. One is presumably AU but the other could be HDR. The shame of this fiasco is that the urbanistas cost Downtown O...

Erik

To me it seems the greatest warming has occurred between October and christmas, then from February through april. So much so that we are persistently warmer than davenport and Chicago by 5-20+ degrees. Omaha use to get the same amount of snow as des moines on average. Now, we only get 26 inches to t...

Erik

Well.. You're never too old to be taught a lesson.. What I've learned from this fiasco, is that I will not believe in another mid to high rise development project proposed for downtown Omaha until I see actual tower cranes and steel at the location.. This assumes, of course, DT Omaha actually gets ...

Erik

Of course one would have to think that a lot of the staff live in Mike Brady-esc houses in west O, and they don't want to give up their "short" commutes and free parking. It would be interesting to do a GIS analysis of where employees live and find the centroid to locate the HRD HQ. You w...

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I think that a lot of the "widespread opposition" to the original project was internet fueled, kind of like KONY 2012. Now that HDR is going to relocate elsewhere, people can go back to forgetting that the three buildings even existed. It's an average 12 (14) story building. The structure...

Erik

Awesome, those old buildings that no one really cared about prior to all of this are safe. 99.9% of us still don't care about those 3 old buildings. :shock: Wrong. There was a big public outcry. Seeminly everyone I knew was against tearing them down. Besides, I was only happy about this downtown mo...

Erik

I know it is always a really bad thing to lose a proposal for a downtown headquarters to a suburban campus.. However, something about their timeline and ordering of events make me say blah to this... Sorry if you disagree. But I am not really bothered by this as much I should be. HDR didn't get to d...

Erik

913,000 and 950,000. The usual underestimate by the US census for the metro numbers.

Erik

So is this organic growth or are they seeing the rural-urban migration like we are? So 70% of our rural areas are hispanic, asian and african American? Quite a diverse state then Come again? He wanted to know if, like Omaha, the migration to Sioux Falls is due to the rural to urban migration. I was...

Erik

Louie wrote:So is this organic growth or are they seeing the rural-urban migration like we are?

So 70% of our rural areas are hispanic, asian and african American? Quite a diverse state then

Erik

S33 wrote:
RNcyanide wrote:Also, according to the news release on their website, HDR said the 16 floor count includes basement and roof, if that changes anything...
They counted their roof as a floor, and they call themselves architects?

Lol

Erik

FINALLY....another building downtown with an utterly flat, unremarkable rooftop design, replete with lots of right angles. Whew! For a minute there, Ol' Hawkeye was worried one of the premier commercial architectural design firms in the world would go and do something unique and never-before-seen i...

Erik

I have been taking a break for a while. I needed to. Ive been too negative recently, so Ive been taking long vacations from these forums so I could re-energize. Besides, I sounded like a real [expletive] and looking back on the messages from the last few months is a bit embarrassing. So it's also a ...

Erik

Coyote wrote:i see his boot prints up there all the time...

Some of the other prints are mine. I walk each floor of that garage 4 times a day as part of my daily walks. I walk from 16000-40000 steps throughout the day.

Erik

Erik, I'm sorry for picking at you. My pride of this city, which in the grand scheme of the cosmos, really isn't anything significant, got the better of my judgment and I said some things that I probably could have kept to myself. I'm fine with people complaining about things that suck on this foru...

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