Downtown moving forward from the loss of ConAgra and HDR

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Downtown moving forward from the loss of ConAgra and HDR

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From the Sunday W-H:

"Business and real estate leaders say emerging is a downtown workforce that more closely resembles the young professionals also drawn to the increasing number of trendy downtown loft apartments and condos surrounded by entertainment venues such as the baseball stadium and CenturyLink Center.

The more established corporate workforce — and downtown overall — was further jolted by ConAgra’s corporate headquarters move to Chicago. Soon after, HDR announced it would not, after all, build its global office tower for more than 900 local employees at 11th and Dodge Streets.

Before that, Pacific Life Insurance relocated its 350 downtown workers to central Omaha’s Aksarben Village.

Some real estate leaders describe recent setbacks as a pause or a period of recharge not necessarily cause for gloom and doom."...

The W-H story link:

http://www.omaha.com/money/after-big-lo ... 9ddb9.html

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Re: Downtown moving forward from the loss of ConAgra and HDR

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Brad and Mark need to open up a multinational photography company downtown and eat up a bunch of that vacancy!
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