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Catherine33 wrote:I think that the civic site will partially be used to relocate the Downtown library. The city really wants a new library and I know that many developers really covet the site of the existing library. I do not think either location will lay dormant. I do not thing a high rise at the civic location is being looked at anymore. The existing library site is the most coveted space in downtown Omaha and one of the reasons the mayor wants to free up that spot. Whether Kiewit or Mutual or whoever, they all love that site because you are front and center for every picture/video of Omaha that goes out to the world. If that site becomes available you should expect big things to take place at that location.

Omaha Cowboy wrote:

Catherine33 wrote:I think that the civic site will partially be used to relocate the Downtown library. The city really wants a new library and I know that many developers really covet the site of the existing library. I do not think either location will lay dormant. I do not thing a high rise at the civic location is being looked at anymore. The existing library site is the most coveted space in downtown Omaha and one of the reasons the mayor wants to free up that spot. Whether Kiewit or Mutual or whoever, they all love that site because you are front and center for every picture/video of Omaha that goes out to the world. If that site becomes available you should expect big things to take place at that location.

I'm with Catherine on this one...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

almighty_tuna wrote:

Omaha Cowboy wrote:

Catherine33 wrote:I think that the civic site will partially be used to relocate the Downtown library. The city really wants a new library and I know that many developers really covet the site of the existing library. I do not think either location will lay dormant. I do not thing a high rise at the civic location is being looked at anymore. The existing library site is the most coveted space in downtown Omaha and one of the reasons the mayor wants to free up that spot. Whether Kiewit or Mutual or whoever, they all love that site because you are front and center for every picture/video of Omaha that goes out to the world. If that site becomes available you should expect big things to take place at that location.

I'm with Catherine on this one...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

x3. My $.02, library goes here, rest of block becomes mixed use. current library site=signature development.

yellowcolumbia wrote:Exterior is gone, just a bit of the structure left.

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Omaha_corn_burner wrote:How do they get the work done so fast? Do they just have guys up there with torches and plasma cutters chopping up the beams, which are then immediately loaded onto trailers to be hauled away? That was a pretty big pile of steel last week.

nebugeater wrote:Probably because it looks like there were able to just pick it up and shake it upside down!

Omaha_corn_burner wrote:

nebugeater wrote:Probably because it looks like there were able to just pick it up and shake it upside down!

You cannot add administrators and moderators to your foes list.

Darn.

thenewguy wrote:From channel 6...

"In its place a development company will launch a $300 million project that will include a large tower, office space, retail space, and a civic component like a library."

Omaha_corn_burner wrote:How do they get the work done so fast? Do they just have guys up there with torches and plasma cutters chopping up the beams, which are then immediately loaded onto trailers to be hauled away? That was a pretty big pile of steel last week.

choke wrote:The Cap District just added a whole lot of apartments downtown. Office space is aplenty. I'd be prepared to watch the weeds grow on this one. I'm sure the city will be tossin' and turnin' over it. You know Stothert wants the library moved there badly, for which I don't blame her. You'd be a darn fool to pass up having your HQ at the head of Central Park Mall and your company name beaming on every Omaha "Holiday Lights" postcard, refrigerator magnet, etc.

yellowcolumbia wrote:

Omaha_corn_burner wrote:How do they get the work done so fast? Do they just have guys up there with torches and plasma cutters chopping up the beams, which are then immediately loaded onto trailers to be hauled away? That was a pretty big pile of steel last week.

The 4-5 guys in their excavators move their machines really really well. One was basically pulling everything down and passing the steel to guy behind him. He would either just pull the trusses apart at the connections, or use a set of massive jaws to cut through the steel. The others have been piling all the debris and loading up trucks. Very little torch work other than when they pulled the equipment out like the boilers.

MadJack wrote:In addition to the downtown library, I'm hearing that both the Omaha Children's Museum and Downtown YMCA are thinking about moving to the new Civic Auditorium/Tetrad site. That could be a real jump start for that development. Also, Catherine is right -- there is serious interest in putting a corporate headquarters building on the current site of the downtown library. If that happens, the Nebraska State Office building may be demolished in order to build a parking garage supporting the new office building.

nativeomahan wrote:

MadJack wrote:In addition to the downtown library, I'm hearing that both the Omaha Children's Museum and Downtown YMCA are thinking about moving to the new Civic Auditorium/Tetrad site. That could be a real jump start for that development. Also, Catherine is right -- there is serious interest in putting a corporate headquarters building on the current site of the downtown library. If that happens, the Nebraska State Office building may be demolished in order to build a parking garage supporting the new office building.

Well, not saying that would be a bad idea, but you would have to build a new State Office Building first, before the existing building could be removed. Maybe where HDR was going to go? Or the Wall Street block?

bmt wrote:Why would the state office need their own new building? Their building now is 2 or 3 stories? And they used to share it with kiewit. Wouldn't it be more practical to just move to some currently available office space?

nativeomahan wrote:

MadJack wrote:In addition to the downtown library, I'm hearing that both the Omaha Children's Museum and Downtown YMCA are thinking about moving to the new Civic Auditorium/Tetrad site. That could be a real jump start for that development. Also, Catherine is right -- there is serious interest in putting a corporate headquarters building on the current site of the downtown library. If that happens, the Nebraska State Office building may be demolished in order to build a parking garage supporting the new office building.

Well, not saying that would be a bad idea, but you would have to build a new State Office Building first, before the existing building could be removed. Maybe where HDR was going to go? Or the Wall Street block?

MadJack wrote:

nativeomahan wrote:

MadJack wrote:In addition to the downtown library, I'm hearing that both the Omaha Children's Museum and Downtown YMCA are thinking about moving to the new Civic Auditorium/Tetrad site. That could be a real jump start for that development. Also, Catherine is right -- there is serious interest in putting a corporate headquarters building on the current site of the downtown library. If that happens, the Nebraska State Office building may be demolished in order to build a parking garage supporting the new office building.

Well, not saying that would be a bad idea, but you would have to build a new State Office Building first, before the existing building could be removed. Maybe where HDR was going to go? Or the Wall Street block?

If it happens, the state of Nebraska would most likely not construct a new building; they would simply lease space in existing downtown buildings.

Imissomaha wrote:Glad for the progress, but it's kind of sad to see the Civic gone. I remember my first circus in 1961 , Harlem Globe Trotters, Omaha KC Kings basketball and on an on. Oh well.

Imissomaha wrote:Glad for the progress, but it's kind of sad to see the Civic gone. I remember my first circus in 1961 , Harlem Globe Trotters, Omaha KC Kings basketball and on an on. Oh well.

daveoma wrote:I really hope the state office building moves there so it can be bulldozed and replaced with something else.

Catherine33 wrote:Kiewit Tower at current library site.