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skinzfan23 wrote:

choke wrote:

EricHaley wrote:Looks like they are about to put up another (orange) tower crane

Is this for the parking garage?

Could be but I wouldn't think they would need a tower crane to assemble a parking garage, plus it appears that the crane is on the southeast corner of the property, directly west of the hotel.

Spatial77 wrote:

skinzfan23 wrote:

choke wrote:

EricHaley wrote:Looks like they are about to put up another (orange) tower crane

Is this for the parking garage?

Could be but I wouldn't think they would need a tower crane to assemble a parking garage, plus it appears that the crane is on the southeast corner of the property, directly west of the hotel.

Not a tower crane. The new crane is a heavy lift mobile with a lattice jib. I think this is a Liebherr machine. They are using a Manitowoc 777 crawler lattice crane on the garage which they put together last week. They have been using it on precast that they started delivering today.

MTO wrote:And here I thought we'd have rower cranes DTO for a few more years straight. Now it'll be quite a while before we see the next one.

NovakOmaha wrote:I just wish that someone would bust loose with a 25 story condo or apartment tower on one of the vacant or parking lots on Capitol.

MadMartin8 wrote:

NovakOmaha wrote:I just wish that someone would bust loose with a 25 story condo or apartment tower on one of the vacant or parking lots on Capitol.

Not enough demand for that high of a strictly apartment/condo tower in the area. We would need another major employer downtown, and we missed probably our last shot on that.

Besides, I'd rather have a tower slightly more west than in this immediate area.

MadMartin8 wrote:

NovakOmaha wrote:I just wish that someone would bust loose with a 25 story condo or apartment tower on one of the vacant or parking lots on Capitol.

Not enough demand for that high of a strictly apartment/condo tower in the area. We would need another major employer downtown, and we missed probably our last shot on that.

Besides, I'd rather have a tower slightly more west than in this immediate area.

MTO wrote:

MadMartin8 wrote:

NovakOmaha wrote:I just wish that someone would bust loose with a 25 story condo or apartment tower on one of the vacant or parking lots on Capitol.

Not enough demand for that high of a strictly apartment/condo tower in the area. We would need another major employer downtown, and we missed probably our last shot on that.

Besides, I'd rather have a tower slightly more west than in this immediate area.

Yeah you'd have to go to a bigger market like Des Moines.

Parking garage: An eight-level, 505-stall structure connects to the district by two skywalks. Half the stalls will be public and the rest private.

skinzfan23 wrote:From the World Herald article the other day:

Parking garage: An eight-level, 505-stall structure connects to the district by two skywalks. Half the stalls will be public and the rest private.

I didn't know the garage was going to be that tall...thought it was only going to be 4 stories. Any idea if the parking garage is going under 480 or next to it?

skinzfan23 wrote:From the World Herald article the other day:

Parking garage: An eight-level, 505-stall structure connects to the district by two skywalks. Half the stalls will be public and the rest private.

I didn't know the garage was going to be that tall...thought it was only going to be 4 stories. Any idea if the parking garage is going under 480 or next to it?

skinzfan23 wrote:From the World Herald article the other day:

Parking garage: An eight-level, 505-stall structure connects to the district by two skywalks. Half the stalls will be public and the rest private.

I didn't know the garage was going to be that tall...thought it was only going to be 4 stories. Any idea if the parking garage is going under 480 or next to it?

Omaha City Council Agenda wrote:Ordinance to amend Chapter 15 of the Omaha Municipal Code providing for the designation of Entertainment Districts in which commons areas may be used for the sale of alcohol on the premises by retail, craft brewery, and micro distillery licensees which obtain a Commons Area Permit; establishing definitions; providing for the administration, requirements, application, limitation, and renewals of such designations and permits; and related matters; and, to provide the effective date hereof.

thenewguy wrote:Are precast parking sturctures the most common? I guess i dont recall seeing that method used recently...but i dont make it over to Omaha as often.

swgiust wrote:Any idea on the start of the retail and mixed use buildings?

Spatial77 wrote:

swgiust wrote:Any idea on the start of the retail and mixed use buildings?

Now! The Building Permit for CAPITOL DISTRICT RETAIL - RETAIL SHELL was issued 9/6/2016
The Commercial Plumbing permit was issued on the same date and they did a partial inspection top out on 12/02. Piling augers arrived today so it will be awhile until anything above ground is visible.

Brad wrote:Garage is growing fast, now up to 7 floors!

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skinzfan23 wrote:You can now see the edge of the parking garage on the webcam.

Edit: Actually I see it isn't the garage but you can see they are installing glass on the points of the hotel on the south west side.

Omaha Cowboy wrote:

skinzfan23 wrote:You can now see the edge of the parking garage on the webcam.

Edit: Actually I see it isn't the garage but you can see they are installing glass on the points of the hotel on the south west side.

I drove around the entire development late Monday morning. It's looking great ...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

jjjjhskr wrote:

Omaha Cowboy wrote:

skinzfan23 wrote:You can now see the edge of the parking garage on the webcam.

Edit: Actually I see it isn't the garage but you can see they are installing glass on the points of the hotel on the south west side.

I drove around the entire development late Monday morning. It's looking great ...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

I had a friend who lived here from 2004-2008 who now lives in San Francisco visit for New Years. She said what's going on in Omaha is really impressive!

Fort Calhoun wrote:I volunteer at the Durham. During the fall we had two "Mystery Tour" groups (the groups that sign up for tours without knowing where they are going) from Albuquerque. When I spoke to people from these groups they were very impressed with downtown Omaha. They liked how the city has preserved historical buildings and has built new buildings in the downtown core. Most of the people had never been to Omaha before and many said they would like to return.