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The announcement of a proposed Technology Village at Crossroads near 72nd and Dodge streets in Omaha has brought equal parts excitement and concern from community members worried about density and the health of a dispersed startup community.
While some startup communities carve out an area of town with surgical precision, Omaha seems to be using a shotgun approach.
By 2017, there could be five or more tech or entrepreneurial "hubs" in Nebraska's largest city. Many of them would be many miles apart.
Among them:
The Mastercraft in North Downtown, where Flywheel, MindMixer and support services live.
Aksarben is home to SkyVu and Scott Technology Village, an incubator for tech businesses, Interface School and Straight Shot accelerator.
A renovated antique store at 39th and Farnam that could house 10 startups or small businesses when it opens later this fall.
The proposed 100,000-square-foot "Technology Village" at Crossroads.
Rumored to be in the works, two other tech/startup-centered developments elsewhere in the city.
Various co-working spaces, incubators and accelerators also are throughout the city.
The proliferation of entrepreneurial hubs around the city makes it harder to create startup density in any one place, preventing the serendipitous interaction that entrepreneurs thrive on, says Dusty Reynolds, the entrepreneurial director for the Omaha Chamber of Commerce.