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CapitalGuy

cdub...are they going to tear down the little retail building where Cricket is for this?

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Time to face facts - the new stadium will be a shitty venue for minor league baseball for the same reason that Rosenshat was/is. It is too damn big. I am not an attendance figures junky but I can't imagine that even the most successful AAA franchise would consistently fill more than 60% of the seats...

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Perot Systems to build new office with room for 150 new jobs and 200 more at a later time The Texas-based information technology company announced Tuesday that it plans to build a 150,000-square-foot building on about 21 acres at the Technology Park to house 750 of its Lincoln employees who are now...

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That's awesome, Des Moines has all the good things going for it, and I forsee this city being the next regional big city along with KC and Minneapolis..
Go Des Moines!! Â Good for Omaha as it will have another destination city nearby! Â

Intervention by the Omaha Spirit Squad in 3......2........1

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Whoa Nelly!!! Those are some staggering numbers Stargazer. Is that drive time or commute via any mode of transportation. If it is the latter, I'd have to recommend Big E consider conceding.

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The cost of living is not high. Â The cost of owning a whole bunch of unnecessary |expletive| one thinks one can't possibly live without is very high. Umm, no. The cost of living is that high. I'd be willing to be that the unnecessary |expletive| probably costs that same in NY as anywhere else. It ...

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You can get from Harlem to downtown in 15 minutes during rush hour. Â Good luck doing that from Elkhorn to downtown. Â The only traffic you'll find in NYC is if you're stupid enough to drive a car.

I believe that - if you live near a mass transit line. That is where the rent control comes in.

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Rent control, crime, traffic, and pollution .... heaven on earth I'd say .... to each their own I guess Â 8)

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If they get moved to LaVista, I bet they'll just change the name to the Nebraska Royals.

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There is also a Jonesy's Taco House in CB.

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A ballbark could help the urban vibrancy of LaVista and Southport more specifically. Everything won't be in the suburbs. The College World Series ballpark will still be downtown. The pedestrian bridge will still be downtown as well. Lots of other things will still be downtown. Having a stadium for t...

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I think a stadium in Sarpy would be cool. It would be closer for fans and would give that area of the metro more entertainment options. Especially, if they could get something going like what they described in Lexington. Maybe the Lancers will move into Sarpy too. The Southport area could really bec...

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I have learned over the years to not simply broad brush my opinions of a city without really taking the time to learn and explore the area with some thoughtful thoroughness..Which based on your comments Golden Eagle, you have yet to accomplish.. You must have turned over this new leaf fairly recent...

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First pedophiliac priests and now weeds. When will we ever learn that the suburban way of life is sucking life out of us?

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So what the heck is your point Big E? That suburbs cause gangs? That white flight can't escape the ills of the inner city? It sure seems to me that more than any thing, you really have gotten some jollies out of this unfortunate incident. At least, you have won a battle in your own personal war agai...

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I'd be curious to hear how the new baseball stadium caused the Minnesota bridge collapse or made our 80 year old sewers deteriorate. Â Frankly, aside from the pedestrian bridge and baseball stadium, I'm not aware of any civil projects around here that AREN'T road or infrastructure related. Well, ac...

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Trends and statistics back me up. $4 gas and rising, a slumping housing market, vanishing middle class, depressed stock market, mortgage "crisis", mayors all over the country telling Congress that cities can't afford their infrastructure, violent and property crimes venturing out of thei...

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Big E, have you noticed one key difference between violence in Millard and North O? I have. In Millard, people work with police to arrest a suspected perpetrator. In North O, people don't want to be the snitch, so justice is exercised through retribution. Big difference and why if I lived in Millard...

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So the suburbs will be the new ghettos? Pretty sure this argument was made by a certain someone in an extremely contentious argument over mass transit in the West Dodge Road widening thread in the transportation forum. Unfortunately, I got shouted down by yourself, your boy Wags, and snarky E. Can'...

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Assurity Life becomes first to move to Antelope Valley Assurity Life Insurance Co. confirmed Tuesday what has been rumored for months: The company will build a new headquarters near 19th and Q streets in the Antelope Valley redevelopment area. The seven-acre site is north of Q Street, east of 19th ...

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Believe what you want to believe I guess. It doesn't bother me any.

Hey, the proof is in the pudding. Facts are better than belief.

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Some of us happen to be in the right place at the right time. I heard a vague rumor about Midtown Crossing 2 years before it was built, shared it here and it happened. I also heard about the Wallstreet Tower a year before it was even a blip on the news as a rumor. Things of the size we're talking t...

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Something like that.

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Cattle

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The record so reflects that Big E prefers to destroy the environment and fund terrorists on a long term basis and pat himself on the back in the course of doing so.

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Hey look... Â building your entire infrastructure around gas guzzling vehicles might not be a wise long term plan - both for auto manufacturers and cities. Â Who would have thunk that? May the record reflect that the poster of this comment commutes over 50 miles a day in a car which uses gasoline a...

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Oh |expletive|, CP Jay is right. Nebraska never has won an NCAA tourney game. Hopefully, the city hasn't paid too much for consultants and designers for this arena. We can't be spending money on a team that has never won an NCAA tourney game. I just hope we don't play any games at 8 or 9 at this new...

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I disagree E, conceivably NU could go 5-1 in the rest of the conference season and not win the regular season championship. If that happened, and we had a strong showing in the tourney, I don't see how we could not be a Top 8 seed.

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I get the impression from your posts that you have no recollection of college basketball prior to about 1998. Prior to that time it was NU who was selling out half of their schedule and Creighton who was struggling to put 2,000 fans in the seats let alone average 6-8,000 per year. Second, Nebraska d...

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That post is such |expletive| flame bait. But I'll take the bait. First off, in the 1990's (not too long ago) Nebraska basketball was selling out every conference game and averaging in the Top 25 in the nation in attendance. Secondly, if Nebraska was putting on a bad product towards the end of the y...

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Just so my earlier post is clear, I don't believe Creighton will get students to baseball games, because most schools don't. Creighton's difficulty attracting students to the Qwest shows that bringing them to a baseball game will be pretty difficult. That is why they need to offer more than baseball...

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Interest in students won't happen at Creighton. They can't even get them to go to the Qwest for basketball games for FREE. They certainly won't get them for baseball. What they need is a new stadium that offers peripheral entertainment options that will bring spectators to the games that are not stu...

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I've added nothing to the argument but pointing out the obvious constraints. I like how ConAgra held us at gunpoint. As best I can recall, they were going to either build DT or out in NW Omaha in the Cunningham Lake area I believe. So they would have stayed in the Omaha area regardless, correct? The...

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I wouldn't either, but I am also trying to figure out what the criteria are for historic buildings. I just hope PacLife's new HQ isn't built over an old port-a-potty. Big E might just run you down on his bike as he is riding to Patrick's to pick up some fixins' for his all day observance on the site...

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I guess if we just wish it, it will happen. Why the heck didn't you tell me this before I spent a bunch of money on grad school. All along you had the answers! Market forces are real simple. You finally acknowledged the best part of it all. It really wasn't Conagra's choice to tear down JC it was ac...

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Capital Guy... are you Harper's great grandson?

LOL!!!! Â :lol:

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Oh, what the heck, it has been a long time since I have jumped in one of these. Yes, but nothing a little investment and creativity wouldn't have fixed. Â Again, look at the buildings I mentioned above. Â They are perfect examples of what could have been. Â It's not like those 100-yr-old monsters we...

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Adam, can you blow up your picture I can barely see it. Â

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Streets, my good friend, no it is not. We are talking 14-16 thousand. Devaney holds around 14 when it is sold out. This is not too big.

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They have a Division I BCS Conference Men's Basketball Tenant and they are probably interested in seeing NCAA regional games return to Lincoln. The facility is not too big.

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