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Let’s get an urban vs suburban thread in, for old time’s sake

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The singular motivation of YouTubers is to get clicks. Not details, not nuance, clicks. Sometimes their content is great, but be skeptical over most creators. If you don’t even know the capital of the state you’re talking about, this clearly isn’t something you actually care about. It screams conten...

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An impressively lazy story, thanks KETV

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To me, this is all smoke and mirrors, which is basically what he did with the Crossroads project before he bailed. If this follows what I seem to see as a Rod Yates playbook, he's going to promise the moon, mainly to drum up excitement and buzz to hopefully get someone, anyone, to give him as much ...

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That’s quite the rendering there. Not exactly sure what I’m looking at, especially the cluster of the buildings in the middle, but some interesting concepts. Good to see that the West Farm Grain silos have made an appearance at a new site :P Also interesting to think Gretna may end up with the 3rd ...

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Apparently, this is one of two Good Life Districts approved by the State so far. I thought that 20% of revenue needs to come from out of state customers since it's located in a large county? This does not seem like that kind of development, but I also haven't seen what their plans are on the retail...

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That’s quite the rendering there. Not exactly sure what I’m looking at, especially the cluster of the buildings in the middle, but some interesting concepts. Good to see that the West Farm Grain silos have made an appearance at a new site :P Also interesting to think Gretna may end up with the 3rd b...

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Dusty wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:27 am Out of curiosity, when was the last downtown master plan done? How often do they get revised?

The last one was 2009, and then before that was 1973. They’re basically as often as the city or some other agency wants to make them.

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Looks like Block A and C are not listed in the renderings, but already looks better! Block E (center square) is about what I expected. 1-1.5 story of retail with park-oriented square in the middle. I made the reference to Celebration Pointe in Gainesville, FL previously. It reminds me a lot of this...

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This just got more exciting for sure. Taking out the huge office components was a smart choice. Also good to see an SLC developer enter the market given how good urban developments have been going over there. Ok, having read it more in-depth, it's nice to see a reduction in parking expected in the p...

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A pharmacy/drug store would absolutely be a huge get, even if it’s not flashy.

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What then? Bus culture? Train culture? :lol: Okay, all joking aside, cars aren't going anywhere anytime soon. The fact is we do need those roads like it or not. Ah yes let’s just not plan for the future at all. I think we could put a freeway right through the Old Market, that’s really gonna attract...

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What then? Bus culture? Train culture? :lol: Okay, all joking aside, cars aren't going anywhere anytime soon. The fact is we do need those roads like it or not. Ah yes let’s just not plan for the future at all. I think we could put a freeway right through the Old Market, that’s really gonna attract...

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I would sooner see Dodge narrowed than a multiple hundred million $, at least, tunnel built for a few blocks.

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OmahaJaysCU wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:01 pm I could care less about this Lego store but GTFO with this “I know stuff you don’t but can’t share” type posts.

Given the major stuff you share months in advance, yeah you’ve earned this opinion

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NEDodger wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:46 am Does Rapid City have/would be getting a station? I could see a Mount Rushmore/Black Hills destination.

Yep! If you go into the presentation they do a more detailed breakdown of each of the routes, including other possible alignments.

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The Federal Railroad Administration has officially announced new proposed routes for Amtrak. Omaha would gain a route running from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls, Omaha, down to KC, and then to Phoenix. Des Moines would also get service for the first time in decades, with a route running from Minneapoli...

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I'm gonna say something perhaps a bit surprising; if the area getting an NHL team is dependent on a new arena, I don't want it anywhere in the urban core. I think downtown is already super saturated with event spaces, especially with the addition of the new Union Omaha stadium. Yeah it would be grea...

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If you go to YouTube and look up soft white underbelly, you'll see real quick homeless people are that way because they can't get a job or don't want a job, addicted to drugs, or have mental problems. Those don't seem like things you can fix. It's a losing battle, there will always be homeless peop...

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They said on Grow Omaha that the NHL wants to have their arenas around entertainment districts. What is the benefit to the NHL, would they get some of the revenue? In general I can imagine having a district around your stadium is better for attendance overall than just a series of parking lots. It'...

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It’s wild to see Nebraska Crossing fail to get a LEGO store to whatever the heck the last week has been

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Yeah the Knight Owl name is very weird given Union Omaha, and even other teams in Omaha’s history like the Nighthawks and Aksarben Knights

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OmahaJaysCU wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:24 pm Heard new style is buying the towers. Pretty obvious what their intent is/will be.

Great fit!

I feel like it’s been a minute since they’ve had a big project so that sounds about right

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No Datacenters are not how you measure a city as a tech hub. But when you are talking to a tech company, who deal with credit card payments, creates actual credit card processing machines, has a data center in Omaha, plus the many other tech industries Omaha has, like the central data lines coming ...

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stormchaser wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:38 am I can’t imagine there has been a crazier stretch of new development announcements here than the last couple of months?

Exciting times, that’s for sure.

At this point all we're missing is a full blown theme park announcement and we're set.

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trenton from Grow Omaha was on KFAB this morning. He was talking about this project. He mentioned Drew Brees was a partner in this development. He also said a Margaritaville Hotel was part of these plans. I feel a little confident now that they have Good Life funding. Interesting. I do see a Margar...

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Well, this development keeps getting weirder in a good way?

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what do you guys predict will happen with this building? I know before MoO was announced they planned on remodeling but it seems since then everyone’s fleeing the building. A shame since I like the building but it won’t be a focal point anymore for sure at least from the photogenic park perspective...

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This proposal is pretty big; moving the White Sox from 35th street to The 78, a big master planned development in the South Loop along the river, and then redeveloping 35th into a soccer stadium and housing. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/2/7/24065603/new-white-sox-ballpark-south-loop-r...

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almighty_tuna wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:37 am For those like myself, unfamiliar with Primark, the internet describes them as, "Discount fashion chain offering clothes and accessories for all ages, plus homewares."

British H&M, basically. A nice get

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Omaha has Google data centers but I’d never really say that Google has a substantial employment in the city. Like yay, we host a bunch of servers that employ 20 people. Data centers felt cool for a while until we learned they basically just meant a big warehouse in the boonies

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They might be modelling it after Epic Waters, but it's actually going to look like this: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_8380.jpg To be honest, I think the Omaha area is long overdue for something like this and I wouldn't care if it looked like that on the outside but I ...

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I didn't think it was a good ad campaign from the beginning. Glad to see they dropped it Despite criticisms of the slogan, it at least did not hurt tourism or people's perception of Nebraska. I know the proponent is attributing the positive results on the slogan, but it was really just part of a re...

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I did some research and also looked up the prices the park in TX is charging and its a little high. A regular day was $44 for an adult, but they offer several special promotion days. On Mondays for instance the first person was $20 and a second is only $10. Then on Thursdays you can get 6 people in...

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https://i0.wp.com/www.uslivinglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/F8F1078D-AE72-45BF-8796-39071B735876.jpeg?fit=2436%2C1624&ssl=1 I am now seeing that the thumbnail in the KETV video is indeed just the Epic Waters park in Dallas, not a rendering of the expected park. Also it’s kinda bullshit th...

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Tbh at this point I’m expecting Bellevue to announce a 2,000 ft tower tomorrow

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I will go ahead and say it. OKC has already had too much destruction with the bombing in the 90's. They do not need to build another target that could be a focal point at some point in time for the wrong reasons. to be fair, they shouldn't have built the Freedom tower in NYC either then. That being...

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Back on the soccer train. They still have some work to be done in the legislature for funding, right? I do like what I heard at the press conference. Following a pattern to what has worked in KC with also having a women's team (this stadium like the one getting built for the KC Current is right on ...

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HskrFanMike wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:44 am Reportedly per a Facebook group, Charleston's opened without a liquor license at their new location. There are issues because the new location is in the Village of Boys Town, which is dry.

I thought Boys Town gave up the Heartwood Preserve land

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Have there been any renderings released on this? Not that I have seen. Bummer. I did find this, so we have an idea of the design elements to expect: https://www.druryhotels.com/coming-soon Yeah I have been looking at their newer hotels as well. If I had to guess we’ll see something similar to the C...

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