UNO Campus Update

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:26 am

I was in the Aksarben Village/South Campus area last week and noticed all the construction of the new student apartments, "Scott Court" or whatever they're called. They look wonderful! They are much more "urban" in style and orientation, in stark contrast to the suburban, placeless Scott Village across the street. I was very pleased!!!

Also, Along Pine Street east of the Keystone Trail all the way to where it turns into 64th Street, the roadway has been narrowed from four lanes of traffic to just TWO with bicycle sharrow markings in both directions!

Post by **Brad** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:21 am

Scott Court - Maverick Village

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iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:25 am

Nice shots!

These ended up looking really good. Â They add an awesome presence to the area, also that covered bike rack is a nice touch.

mcarch · Post by **mcarch** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:24 pm

Much better than the ones across the street!

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 7:19 pm

I was checking out UNO's web page and found this: Community Engagement Center

http://www.unomaha.edu/facilities/archi ... nt/CEC.php

Anyone heard anything more on the details of this building (is it still scheduled for construction starting in Oct 2011)

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 7:30 pm

Nice find! Â That will look so much better than the parking lot does from Dodge street.

chaoman45 · Post by **chaoman45** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:37 am

Great less parking. Still, at least it looks cool. Iunno though, is it really possible to do that in 3-4 months?

Post by **Coyote** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:02 am

chaoman45 wrote:Great less parking. Still, at least it looks cool. Iunno though, is it really possible to do that in 3-4 months?

On the page before that it says the completion date is set for December 2012 not January.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 10:20 am

This was in the paper earlier this summer, but I haven't seen or heard anything else about it. This would be great infill on campus if it gets built!

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:16 am

According to a World Herald article this morning....UNO is still fundraising for this effort and hopes to start construction in the next few years.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20111006/N ... 0-in-8-yrs[/b]

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:06 am

Interesting article about the future of UNO athletic facilities.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120120/N ... -of-dreams

Post by **Brad** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:37 am

Looks good. Â Interesting location for the Practice Hockey Rink.

S33 · Post by **S33** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:55 am

Designed by a Jew, I know it. There's the Star of David on one of the renderings.

NovakOmaha · Post by **NovakOmaha** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:28 am

S33 wrote:Designed by a Jew, I know it. There's the Star of David on one of the renderings.

And a great big cross in the other. Â Where's the crescent???

Sheesh

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:05 pm

The pep bowl with the cross is actually the star and crescent. :-)

Anyway, there are some great recommendations here. I love that both scenarios feature student housing! Also, the pep bowl amphitheater and grand stair to Elmwood Park are excellent touches.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:26 pm

skinzfan23 wrote:I was checking out UNO's web page and found this: Community Engagement Center

http://www.unomaha.edu/facilities/archi ... nt/CEC.php

Anyone heard anything more on the details of this building (is it still scheduled for construction starting in Oct 2011)

http://www.omaha.com/article/20121008/N ... 9945/1685#

The campus will break ground later this month on a $24 million Community Engagement Center, to be completed in 2014.

After the 60,000-square-foot facility opens, UNO will play host to a major conference of urban and metropolitan universities focusing on community engagement.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:23 pm

'Cutting-edge' buildings to transform UNO

http://www.omaha.com/article/20121024/N ... nsform-uno

Leslie Reed WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:With groundbreakings today, UNO launches two highly anticipated construction projects: a $6 million Biomechanics Research Building and a $24 million Community Engagement Center.

Officials say both projects have the potential to transform the University of Nebraska at Omaha — the biomechanics laboratory because it may be the first facility of its kind, and the engagement center because it could expand UNO's growing metropolitan community service mission.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:04 pm

What a great use for those wasteful parking lots.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:00 am

jessep28 wrote:What a great use for those wasteful parking lots.

LOL... Â first comment on the actual article page was someone bitching about the parking being removed.

SaOmaha · Post by **SaOmaha** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:38 pm

Yesterday, I drove thru the west side of the UNO Main Campus. I saw under construction, the north basement/lower lever wall
of the Community Engagement Center, I still can see the base of the bell tower or campanile

Construction is coming along on the Biomechanics Research Building, just east of the HPER building.
I hope to take more photos of both buildings soon.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Mon May 13, 2013 3:11 pm

Steel is a few floors up on the Community Engagement Center. Â Here is an updated rendering and a webcam, http://cba.cba.edu/it/concam/

TitosBuritoBarn · Post by **TitosBuritoBarn** » Mon May 13, 2013 11:29 pm

It looks like it's made from shipping containers and '90s elementary schools.

Post by **Coyote** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:13 pm

New UNO facility dedicated to biomechanics research

KETV wrote:One of the world’s first buildings dedicated to biomechanics research is part of the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:15 pm

Where on the campus is this new building?

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:17 pm

guitarguy wrote:Where on the campus is this new building?

Behind what would of been the south end zone if there were still a football stadium.

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:18 pm

Ok.. good idea to use that space on campus.. After going to school their for years its hard to believe the football stadium isn't used anymore.

Post by **Coyote** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:21 pm

guitarguy wrote:Ok.. good idea to use that space on campus.. After going to school their for years its hard to believe the football stadium isn't used anymore.

... for American football...

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:22 pm

A fantastic use of space. Â I love how the are positioning the new buildings on the main campus, south campus is another story.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:06 pm

I was up there yesterday and was thinking the exact same thing. It will give north campus a very dense feel which contrasts nicely to the open green space to the south. This building and the other new housing they installed over the past years is definitely changing things for the better IMO.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:08 pm

And there are plenty of parking lots left to build new facilities on.

RNcyanide · Post by **RNcyanide** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:06 pm

Coyote wrote:
guitarguy wrote:Ok.. good idea to use that space on campus.. After going to school their for years its hard to believe the football stadium isn't used anymore.
... for American football...

It's also used for their marching band.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:01 pm

jessep28 wrote:And there are plenty of parking lots left to build new facilities on.

They either need to drastically upgrade the parking situation on the main campus or drastically upgrade the shuttle system before they knock out too many more parking lots on the main campus. Â The shuttles have been extra bad this year.

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:24 pm

iamjacobm wrote:
jessep28 wrote:And there are plenty of parking lots left to build new facilities on.
They either need to drastically upgrade the parking situation on the main campus or drastically upgrade the shuttle system before they knock out too many more parking lots on the main campus. The shuttles have been extra bad this year.

I agree with Jacob big time. They need about two more large parking garages before they start going crazy taking away lots.

The next construction will be the open space (pep bowl) right north of the former football stadium.

RNcyanide · Post by **RNcyanide** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:17 am

MadMartin8 wrote:
iamjacobm wrote:
jessep28 wrote:And there are plenty of parking lots left to build new facilities on.
They either need to drastically upgrade the parking situation on the main campus or drastically upgrade the shuttle system before they knock out too many more parking lots on the main campus. The shuttles have been extra bad this year.

I agree with Jacob big time. They need about two more large parking garages before they start going crazy taking away lots.

The next construction will be the open space (pep bowl) right north of the former football stadium.

Of all the things I disliked about UNO, parking was at the top of the list. People would circle the campus like vultures looking for spots and if you were unlucky, you would get in a Mexican Standoff type situation with cars. If you were REALLY unlucky, you would lose that standoff. I don't know where, but they need to find a solution for more on-campus parking and NOT charge nearly 200$ a year to park there.

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:33 am

I always parked at Crossroads and took the shuttle.. had to get to there 15 minutes earlier but they dropped me off right in front of Strauss haha.. don't even know why people paid for parking and dealt with the BS involved with it.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:04 am

guitarguy wrote:I always parked at Crossroads and took the shuttle.. had to get to there 15 minutes earlier but they dropped me off right in front of Strauss haha.. don't even know why people paid for parking and dealt with the BS involved with it.

I had just a parking permit at UNO until a co-worker who dropped out let me use his garage pass for the Spring semester. This was back when the garage on the South side of the Arts & Sciences hall was the only one. After that, I gladly paid the premium for the parking structure until I graduated. Except for maybe the first week, that garage never filled up and I didn't have to worry about parking.

RNcyanide · Post by **RNcyanide** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:45 am

guitarguy wrote:I always parked at Crossroads and took the shuttle.. had to get to there 15 minutes earlier but they dropped me off right in front of Strauss haha.. don't even know why people paid for parking and dealt with the BS involved with it.

I tried the shuttle once and I didn't like it. My disdain for it was confirmed when Methodist Hospital was remodeling their employee parking garage and we all had to shuttle. I don't know how something so simple could suck that greatly.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:44 pm

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Masc ... 49911.html

In 2014, UNO’s Alumni Association is giving students the “Maverick Monument” an 8-foot-high, 1,500-pound bronze bull statue representing the university’s mascot.

The monument will be part of a newly renovated plaza in front of the Lee and Helene Sapp Fieldhouse and the Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) Building on UNO’s Dodge Campus.

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:30 pm

Well, it's better than installing a bust of that other "maverick", Sarah Palin. Â LOL

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:32 pm

nativeomahan wrote:Well, it's better than installing a bust of that other "maverick", Sarah Palin. LOL

I happen to like her bust.