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Lillian Bean wrote:http://www.omaha.com/money/charlie-grah ... 94f4a.html

In store for midtown Omaha’s 42nd and Leavenworth Streets: a major makeover.

The shift would wipe out an art deco-style auto shop that’s been a fixture on the intersection’s northwest corner for five decades. A replacement is to rise on a diagonal corner.

That opens the way for the University of Nebraska Medical Center to create a “grand” southern entrance to its expanding campus, most likely a green space with some identifying flair.

hatwate wrote:At a meeting with a neighborhood assn. last night a UNMC representative said the area around Saddle Creek Rd west of UNMC will be redeveloped into taxable mixed-use buildings. This would include the Omaha Steel property and would be a development similar to Midtown Crossing. Saddle Creek Road won't be changed but they hope to solve the flooding issues at Dodge and Saddle Creek. A private developer will be sought.

Joseph Morton / World-Herald Bureau wrote:The University of Nebraska Medical Center announced Friday that it has been awarded $19.8 million in federal funds to develop a new training, simulation and quarantine center.

“This is both a tremendous opportunity and responsibility, and I know our medical center will rise to the challenge,” UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey Gold said Friday in a press release.

The new training center will have its own floor in UNMC’s already-planned $102 million Global Center for Advanced Interprofessional Learning — a 183,742-square-foot facility that will be at the southeast corner of 42nd and Emile Streets. Construction on the overall facility is set to begin soon and be completed by September 2018.

Christopher Burbach - World-Herald staff writer wrote:Huston said UNMC officials had planned to use the site for parking but plans changed. He said the new building would be one story tall and about 35,000 square feet.

choke wrote:Here we go. The proposals are coming in to develop the land west of Saddle Creek. Two local, Tetrad and Noddle; and one from Denver.

RNcyanide wrote:

choke wrote:Here we go. The proposals are coming in to develop the land west of Saddle Creek. Two local, Tetrad and Noddle; and one from Denver.

Where can we go to see these proposals? Or are they publicly available yet?

iamjacobm wrote:The outpatient building opened this week.

Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center partnering with hospital in China

a 550-room hotel near the Nebraska Medical Center

iamjacobm wrote:http://www.omaha.com/money/omaha-area-s ... d0068.html

a 550-room hotel near the Nebraska Medical Center

That is much larger than previous mentions isn't it?

iamjacobm wrote:http://www.omaha.com/money/omaha-area-s ... d0068.html

a 550-room hotel near the Nebraska Medical Center

That is much larger than previous mentions isn't it?

skinzfan23 wrote:The Hilton Omaha is 600 rooms.

When the 42nd and Dodge site was dropped, the Med Center people said they still want a hotel [sic] of that size near the medical complex but didn't have a location yet. So there isn't a place selected, just the expressed need for such a hotel.
Steve Jordon
The World-Herald

choke wrote:

skinzfan23 wrote:The Hilton Omaha is 600 rooms.

I guess I didn't realize the Hilton was 600 rooms. Anyhow, I asked the journalist of the article about the 550 rooms and he wrote:

When the 42nd and Dodge site was dropped, the Med Center people said they still want a hotel [sic] of that size near the medical complex but didn't have a location yet. So there isn't a place selected, just the expressed need for such a hotel.
Steve Jordon
The World-Herald

Coyote wrote:I forgot to mention that in my conversation with Dr Debehnke the other day I asked about the J.P.Lord and Munroe-Meyer Institute. JP Lord has been relocated and the Munroe-Meyer is so out of date, so he mentioned a 550 room building which I have been trying to remember what he then said. I asked about the old Midtown bank building and that still is a no go, I asked about buying the land from Don & Millie's and he said they have not considered that as a viable option....

So the next 550 room Hotel for Nebraska Medicine looks like a replacement for the Munroe-Meyer lot.

MadJack wrote:There is a good chance the hotel, which will be a full-service Marriott, will be built at what most would consider a surprising location. The Med Center and Tetrad are seriously interested in carving the hotel into the side of a hill immediately northwest of the new Cancer Center. It would go right up to Saddlecreek Road. The Med Center wants the Marriott to be connected via skywalk to the cancer center. When I first heard this from my source (an executive at the Med Center), I was somewhat skeptical about the feasibility, but after walking the site, I actually think it would work just fine.

iamjacobm wrote:http://www.omaha.com/money/omaha-area-s ... d0068.html

a 550-room hotel near the Nebraska Medical Center

That is much larger than previous mentions isn't it?

choke wrote:

MadJack wrote:There is a good chance the hotel, which will be a full-service Marriott, will be built at what most would consider a surprising location. The Med Center and Tetrad are seriously interested in carving the hotel into the side of a hill immediately northwest of the new Cancer Center. It would go right up to Saddlecreek Road. The Med Center wants the Marriott to be connected via skywalk to the cancer center. When I first heard this from my source (an executive at the Med Center), I was somewhat skeptical about the feasibility, but after walking the site, I actually think it would work just fine.

So, is this still a possibility?

MadJack wrote:

choke wrote:

MadJack wrote:There is a good chance the hotel, which will be a full-service Marriott, will be built at what most would consider a surprising location. The Med Center and Tetrad are seriously interested in carving the hotel into the side of a hill immediately northwest of the new Cancer Center. It would go right up to Saddlecreek Road. The Med Center wants the Marriott to be connected via skywalk to the cancer center. When I first heard this from my source (an executive at the Med Center), I was somewhat skeptical about the feasibility, but after walking the site, I actually think it would work just fine.

So, is this still a possibility?

I believe it's still in the running although I first heard of this option a few months ago. The source was one of UNMC's vice chancellors. That person did say other sites were under consideration but that a lot of key people wanted this site because of the incredible proximity to the new cancer center. The big concern with this site is that it is incredibly tight on space and they would have to deal with a dramatic grade change.

Julie Anderson / World-Herald staff writer wrote:Nebraska Medicine announced plans Wednesday to begin an expansion in January of the Nebraska Medical Center’s emergency department.
The expansion is intended to accommodate an anticipated increase in patient volume, officials said. The current emergency department, which opened in late 2005, was built to handle about 60,000 patients a year. The department is expected to surpass that number by the end of 2016, and an analysis projects it can expect an additional 4,000 to 10,000 annual patient visits in the future. The expansion will provide space to allow staff to manage an additional 10,000 patients a year.

MTO wrote:Does anyone have a list of the metro's trauma centers and what level each one is and what the levels even mean?