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nebugeater wrote:

GRANDPASMUCKER wrote:

MTO wrote:This project has a BRT component that is integral to the future of the city's future trasnportation aspirations and I have a feeling Yates is holding that over their heads to drag this bullshít out. The city needs to grow some balls and tell Yates to suck an egg, if each individual component has to be built sepepratly (but according to a master plan) then so be it. An all or nothing approach in a city this size is too much for projects of this scale.

Sorry to be brutally honest but the City don"t really have any future mass transportation plans. Stothert and Mellow are both full of B.S. and could careless about the streetcar or any of it. They will promise you that they will get BIgfoot for the zoo if it will get you to vote for them.

So..... You are saying that the Zoo is getting a Bigfoot? To heck with Pandas!!!!!!!

Coyote wrote:Schmitt's Music across the street is apparently for sale. I don't know if they are moving (wasn't this a Hospe's back in the day?) or if their land in now too valuable to keep and expect an offer they can't refuse...

HR Paperstacks wrote:I was at the YP Summit today and the mayor said she met with the developer Friday and also hinted at a Nordstroms.

choke wrote:

HR Paperstacks wrote:I was at the YP Summit today and the mayor said she met with the developer Friday and also hinted at a Nordstroms.

Did you get to hear Ari Shapiro speak? I did not know he was going to be in Omaha. I would have taken the day off.

HR Paperstacks wrote:I was at the YP Summit today and the mayor said she met with the developer Friday and also hinted at a Nordstroms.

CNN wrote:Sears Holdings is not even sure it can raise enough cash through loans and debt financing to survive. The company owes $4.2 billion, up from about $3 billion a year ago.

It lost $2.2 billion in the fiscal year ending in January and has not turned an annual profit since 2010. Its losses since then total $10.4 billion.

Coyote wrote:Sears has 'substantial doubt' that it can survive

CNN wrote:Sears Holdings is not even sure it can raise enough cash through loans and debt financing to survive. The company owes $4.2 billion, up from about $3 billion a year ago.

It lost $2.2 billion in the fiscal year ending in January and has not turned an annual profit since 2010. Its losses since then total $10.4 billion.

bbinks wrote:

Coyote wrote:Sears has 'substantial doubt' that it can survive

CNN wrote:Sears Holdings is not even sure it can raise enough cash through loans and debt financing to survive. The company owes $4.2 billion, up from about $3 billion a year ago.

It lost $2.2 billion in the fiscal year ending in January and has not turned an annual profit since 2010. Its losses since then total $10.4 billion.

Who will honor my "Lifetime Guarantee" on my Craftsman tools??

choke wrote:That Sears at the Crossroads is like a cockroach. It could survive a nuclear bomb. Even if Sears folds, somehow that one will remain open with its 99-year lease.

bbinks wrote:

choke wrote:That Sears at the Crossroads is like a cockroach. It could survive a nuclear bomb. Even if Sears folds, somehow that one will remain open with its 99-year lease.

Its a HazMat dream. Probably asbestos aplenty.

RNcyanide wrote:

bbinks wrote:

Coyote wrote:Sears has 'substantial doubt' that it can survive

CNN wrote:Sears Holdings is not even sure it can raise enough cash through loans and debt financing to survive. The company owes $4.2 billion, up from about $3 billion a year ago.

It lost $2.2 billion in the fiscal year ending in January and has not turned an annual profit since 2010. Its losses since then total $10.4 billion.

Who will honor my "Lifetime Guarantee" on my Craftsman tools??

According to my dad who recently took a craftsman drill to the Oakview Sears, they won't honor the lifetime guarantee anymore.

nativeomahan wrote:I don't expect ANY Sears store to remain open through next year.

SaOmaha wrote:Last night, I attended the Omaha Planning Department public meeting on the city's redevelopment plans for the 72nd and Dodge Streets corridor in former the Old Navy space at Crossroads Mall.

Like everyone that attended, I was looking forward to details of the Crossroads Mall redevelopment plan with question and answers session afterward. Instead there were a short introduction and than everyone visit and asks questions to officials from various city department scattered though out the room.

The city master plan for 72nd and Dodge Streets corridor show Aksarben Village like street grid from 72nd, west to Papio, Cass to Dodge street. This plans that leaves only the Crossroads Parking garage and Target Store intent.  

I took photos of the Master Plan and other boards scatted though out the room.

Master plans Concept

Dundeemaha wrote:Very informative post! Thanks for the picture of the master plan.

My first thoughts when looking at it were: Wow that's a lot of parking, but it's better than what's there now.

choke wrote:During the last mayoral debate, Stothert said Yates came back asking for more incentives, once again. So much for the take-it or leave-it offer from the city. No doubt Yates is hoping for a Mello administration but the taxpayers already said noway, Jose to more incentives, so I don't know what to think.

GetUrban wrote:

choke wrote:During the last mayoral debate, Stothert said Yates came back asking for more incentives, once again. So much for the take-it or leave-it offer from the city. No doubt Yates is hoping for a Mello administration but the taxpayers already said noway, Jose to more incentives, so I don't know what to think.

For what it's worth, there is a large Stothert sign at the northwest corner of 72nd & Dodge. I haven't heard one way or the other which candidate Yates supports, but that sign, which appears to be on Crossroads property might be a clue.

Busguy2010 wrote:

GetUrban wrote:

choke wrote:During the last mayoral debate, Stothert said Yates came back asking for more incentives, once again. So much for the take-it or leave-it offer from the city. No doubt Yates is hoping for a Mello administration but the taxpayers already said noway, Jose to more incentives, so I don't know what to think.

For what it's worth, there is a large Stothert sign at the northwest corner of 72nd & Dodge. I haven't heard one way or the other which candidate Yates supports, but that sign, which appears to be on Crossroads property might be a clue.

Last time I checked there was a Mello sign by the Target exit. So maybe, maybe not.

Busguy2010 wrote:

GetUrban wrote:

choke wrote:During the last mayoral debate, Stothert said Yates came back asking for more incentives, once again. So much for the take-it or leave-it offer from the city. No doubt Yates is hoping for a Mello administration but the taxpayers already said noway, Jose to more incentives, so I don't know what to think.

For what it's worth, there is a large Stothert sign at the northwest corner of 72nd & Dodge. I haven't heard one way or the other which candidate Yates supports, but that sign, which appears to be on Crossroads property might be a clue.

Last time I checked there was a Mello sign by the Target exit. So maybe, maybe not.

Coyote wrote:Word on the street... The boystown project is attractive all the tenants Crossroads was courting. Expect little retail now at the Crossroads.

Coyote wrote:Word on the street... The boystown project is attractive all the tenants Crossroads was courting. Expect little retail now at the Crossroads.

bbinks wrote:

Coyote wrote:Word on the street... The boystown project is attractive all the tenants Crossroads was courting. Expect little retail now at the Crossroads.

Target will have a huge parking lot all to itself soon.

Coyote wrote:Word on the street... The boystown project is attractive all the tenants Crossroads was courting. Expect little retail now at the Crossroads.

Omaha Cowboy wrote:

bbinks wrote:

Coyote wrote:Word on the street... The boystown project is attractive all the tenants Crossroads was courting. Expect little retail now at the Crossroads.

Target will have a huge parking lot all to itself soon.

If these rumors are true, then yes.. The bulk of Crossroads parking will obviously be dedicated to Target.. That said, there will always be small niche retailers who have found, and will continue to find a home at the Crossroads development.. It's too prime of a retail area for it to go by the waste-side of greenspace as some have insinuated..

And in the end, who knows.. Maybe the Crossroads redevelopment plan will come to fruition..although I'm not holding my breath...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

choke wrote:

Omaha Cowboy wrote:

bbinks wrote:

Coyote wrote:Word on the street... The boystown project is attractive all the tenants Crossroads was courting. Expect little retail now at the Crossroads.

Target will have a huge parking lot all to itself soon.

If these rumors are true, then yes.. The bulk of Crossroads parking will obviously be dedicated to Target.. That said, there will always be small niche retailers who have found, and will continue to find a home at the Crossroads development.. It's too prime of a retail area for it to go by the waste-side of greenspace as some have insinuated..

And in the end, who knows.. Maybe the Crossroads redevelopment plan will come to fruition..although I'm not holding my breath...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

Frankly, I am to the point where if Yates thinks it is such a gamble to develop, then sell it to someone else who will. I don't need to see anything fancy there. The other strip malls in the area don't seem to be struggling. Let's just start enjoying the property again. Make it useful.