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I know you've seen these before. Sometimes they seem to leave and then they come back. Other times they stay away forever. I first joined the Chamber board back in the 90's. I joined because I thought the board was a place for business people to share ideas and get help with business problems. I had...

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bigredmed wrote:For that, I could go across the street and eat a real meal at JCMandarin and still have money left over.

I'm glad that JCMandarin is still open. We used to eat there all the time. Food was outstanding and the staff was great.

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Well it's a WISH list... 1) Southwest announces flights to Boston, Los Angeles, Orlando, BWI and Tampa and other airlines as well. 2) The Civic site and Lanoha start real construction 3) A mixed use announcement on Rick's Boatyard 4) REAL progress on North Downtown, not more suburban looking junk 6)...

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They just going to trash the fireplace? I mean, it's bizarre....but still. Who wouldn't want a fireplace with a witch on a broom? Also, are they going to take the statue of the guy humping the dolphin to the dump too? The main thing I saw that was an aha moment was the basketball hoop in the garage....

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It's interesting to think about it after moving away. Things I think are unique to Omaha or on the don't miss list: 1) The Zoo 2) Boys Town 3) The Old Market 4) SAC Museum 5) Durham Museum 6) Fontenelle Forest 7) Lo Sole Mio 8) BG Tasty Foods 9) M's Pub 10) College World Series 11) Nebraska Furnitur...

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Spirit Bank and Ralston Arena have one thing in common, they did not have professional management companies. Spririt Bank was managed by a bank and they know they should not be in the arena management business. Ralston Arena is basically managed by the mayor and the city wants to be in the arena bu...

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Which is why the casinos in CB couldn't get any closer to Nebraska. I'm amazed that there was never one built in Carter Lake. Pat Loontjer's head would explode (and then we could get on with the business of establishing a casino in Omaha). Did anyone else wonder what Pat does in the off season? (Th...

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Deeeeetroit!

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The arguments against legalizing gambling are the dumbest things I've ever heard. Just look at the license plates in the casino parking lots! Quite a bit of revenue flowing across the river! I completely agree with your premis but let's account for the population discrepancy. There are about 900,00...

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Wow. I remember when Oak View 24 opened. Shortly after the 20 screen one opened on Maple. The oak view one was amazing. We went to a benefit grand opening & it blew everything in Omaha away. Times sure change

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East of 16th was pretty industrial. Plus, after the riots of the 60s the area was pretty rough. The Doubletree (which I believe was initially a Hilton) was built and/or financed by Brandeis in whole or in part, and they were looking at making the area from the Hilton to the Orpheum a semi self conta...

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I just remembered something about Oakview. When Oakview was announced there was another mall announced at the same time. It was to be where Paypal is. Lots of talk about two huge malls planned for about the same time...could Omaha support so many malls, what stores would they get, would there be new...

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Someone wrote an interesting comment in the comment section of one of the articles: It was originally slated to be residential, the streets were already poured, but no houses built. Then, it all got torn out, and the mall was built. Is this true? I had no idea about this, probably because I was you...

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There were other renderings that looked better...like daytime.

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Stay classy, OPA. Way to go after out-of-the-box thinking. They have a covered drive thru so the blue hairs can exit in comfort without having to interact with the unwashed masses and that isn't good enough. You really can't blame gottchalk. Coming from the local monopoly fishwrap he's used to getti...

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The funny thing is....(not necessarily this exact block) but the whole downtown used to look like that with shops and housing all connected on the same blocks. It is amazing how backwards everything worked for the last few decades. I understand that people didn't want to live in downtowns at the ti...

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Most likely, the future of the buildings will come down to whether the owners decide to sell. The Landmark designation on the Specht building can be rescinded by the Landmark Heritage Preservation Commission and/or overruled by the City Council. I don't see OPAS having any legitimate grounds for em...

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Before all the development the view to and from the airport was pretty depressing. Visitors got that view. Sometimes I'd take the north freeway just to have newcomers see something other than the asarco plant and the gas storage farm. On some days you also got a wiff of a pretty foul smell, just for...

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What the Holland didn't spur, what the mall didn't spur, what could have made the mall area special and really could have made downtown explode....was anything other than office and parking space. No retail, no restaurants, no housing, etc. Nothing to make the area surrounding the mall 24 hour or ev...

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Google World Theater Omaha & take a look at what gave way to OmahaPark One. Google Rialto Theater Omaha & see what gave way to what is now the headquarters for the owh. You could have a whole discussion about old Omaha theaters. I know one screen theaters aren't really feasible these days, e...

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Seeing as this topic has come up in a few recent posts, I'm wondering if anyone knows all of the historic buildings in Omaha that are hiding underneath cladding or paint? The ones I know of: - Central Park Towers (1511 Farnam) - Grain Exchange Building/AIM Building (1905 Harney) - Building on SW Co...

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Surprised they're not bulldozing it for condos, they do that in every other corner of the city. It's on the Asarco location. They capped the soil & you can't breach the cap. It's full of lead. As for a restaurant succeeding it would have to be something amazing. Hard Rock maybe but I doubt it.

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I asked because they are owned by the same company.

Around here the exception is the location that isn't co branded.

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Are the ones in Omaha combined with Baskin Robbins?

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Lame excuses. Illinois & Chicago offered incentives yet Conagra asked nothing from Nebraska or Omaha. Boss lives in Chicago so company moves to Chicago. If the next boss lives in Ogalala the company moves there? (Not that there is anything wrong with Ogalala) Strategic needs my behind. Attract a...

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There was a story when Enron was about to move thousands of jobs to Houston. Mayor Mike Boyle flew down to Houston to meet with Ken Lay. At the time Ken Lay was heading up Enron and was, I think, renting a place in Omaha but had a house in Houston. Mayor Boyle asked what it would take to keep Enron ...

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I would imagine that there is a truck on the way to the Illinois offices, full of cash, from the state of Illinois. Name a state that wouldn't love a corporate relocation, a highly visible corporate relocation and for now a fortune 500 company. I'm thinking tax abatement, low or no corporate tax, no...

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Take a look at the locations area of Ikea's web site. There are a number of IKEA Ways, IKEA Drives, IKEA Courts, etc. Have ANY of you EVER been driving and your wife says "Oooooh. Look dear, that's IKEA Way! Let's turn here and shop! What is that giant blue and yellow building? Where's the IKEA...

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I still don't understand why there hasn't been much development in the immediate vicinity of the Iowa Events Center. Omaha has North Downtown, KC has KCLive, Lincoln has the Haymarket but Des Moines doesn't really have an Arena district.

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I always found it interesting that there aren't more hotels near the airport. It may be that it's so close to downtown but Lincoln and Des Moines both seem to have more hotels near their airports and they serve way less travelers than OMA. In addition, those hotels that are near the airport are budg...

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How many rooms does downtown have?

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If Con Agra stayed in Omaha out West and we keep Jobbers Canyon, in retrospect that seems like a win - win. However the Con Agra development and Heartland of America Park was a huge boost to Downtown redevelopment. Also all of the Con Agra workers and guest downtown certainly have added to the succ...

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For those who were here a few years ago....

It's going to be very European and have a lake for gondolas, a monorail, a Nordstroms, blah, blah, blah

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I have heard it from a reliable source... One of the reasons Ralston has managed to keep the hand shake agreement with Omaha on staying its own municipality is because they like to keep their debt too high for Omaha to consider annexing a profitable venture. When their debt became too reasonable th...

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I had no idea UP had their corporate HQ in any other place than Omaha, and historically speaking, that move was recent too!! Yeah. They started here and left for a short time. I waz very happy to take back what was taken. Still. We've never taken a company that started elsewhere and are 0fer in tha...

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But why was it such a struggle to keep them from leaving to Knoxville? Im sure its a nice, smaller community and everything. But why does it feel like Omaha is the ugliest kid on the block so often? It wasn't so much a struggle. At the time there were operations in Knoxville that were part of a sub...

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I always thought that building would have made a wonderful hotel

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MTO wrote:Once upon a time, that was the plan.

Actually the opposite. It was going to be deeper.

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While Enron leaving sucked, it would only be a little over a decade before we realized how big of a bullet we dodged with that one. We would have lost all of those jobs regardless... Was not Enron bought out by greedy Houston bastards, and maybe if they actually stayed a midwest company, this histo...

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