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Valentino's Mixed Use

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http://journalstar.com/business/local/o ... 4a6d1.html
Valentino's plans to tear down its original restaurant at 35th and Holdrege streets but will continue to operate at the site as part of a large redevelopment project.

The longtime Lincoln restaurant company is working with local developer WRK LLC to build a mixed-use development.
The plans call for two three-story buildings. One will be built east of the existing restaurant on what now is its parking lot. Valentino's will occupy about 3,400 square feet on the first floor, with about 3,400 more square feet left for other retail. The top two floors likely will contain offices.

The other building will be built on the spot where Val and Zena Weiler started the iconic restaurant in 1957. The building will have about 4,200 square feet of first-floor retail and 23 apartment units on the top two floors.
Losing some history, but this will be a cool project near East Campus.
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Not a fan.
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So when I was in high school in the 70's we used to drive to Lincoln for Vals when they we only on 33rd & then on 70th & A.  I started at UNL & THEN they opened in Omaha.  

The thing is that Vals just isnt the same as when they only had one location.  Same is true for Godfathers...not the same as when they started on 99th & Q.  You get too big & you lose the quality.

Having said all that I'd go to Vals right now if I could.
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NovakOmaha wrote:So when I was in high school in the 70's we used to drive to Lincoln for Vals when they we only on 33rd & then on 70th & A.  I started at UNL & THEN they opened in Omaha.  

The thing is that Vals just isnt the same as when they only had one location.  Same is true for Godfathers...not the same as when they started on 99th & Q.  You get too big & you lose the quality.

Having said all that I'd go to Vals right now if I could.
I haven't been to the 33rd St. Lincoln Vals, for at least 10 years, but it was still much better than the other expanded locations.

It's good to hear that they're upgrading, as long as the new design can capture some of the ambiance of the original place....maybe without the red vinyl chairs though.
He said "They are some big, ugly red brick buildings"
...and then they were gone.
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http://journalstar.com/business/local/r ... a10af.html
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission on Wednesday voted to accept a consultant’s finding that a seven-acre area at roughly 35th and Holdrege streets is blighted.

The designation, which must be approved by the City Council, opens up the use of tax incentives to help redevelop the area.

In this case, the blight designation will help subsidize a specific redevelopment that’s already in the works: a plan to tear down the original Valentino’s restaurant and build two three-story mixed-use buildings in its place.
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Linkin5 wrote:Not a fan.
I take that back, it looks good.
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Wow, that looks amazing!
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Seth wrote:Wow, that looks amazing!
Would look perfect across from Slowdown on the parking lot...

Lincoln continues to kill it on the development front.
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iamjacobm wrote:
Seth wrote:Wow, that looks amazing!
Would look perfect across from Slowdown on the parking lot...

Lincoln continues to kill it on the development front.
Yeah, more development in the last two years than the 19 years I lived there.  It's unbelievable and exciting.
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Linkin5 wrote:Yeah, more development in the last two years than the 19 years I lived there.
No kidding
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Hmm.  Where have I seen this before?  12th and Howard.
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nativeomahan wrote:Renderings:
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Hmm.  Where have I seen this before?  12th and Howard.
The person who planned this should get some originality.

Copying omaha is so laughable its sad
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You two lost me.
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iamjacobm wrote:You two lost me.
Those renderings show the same mix of brick and dark metal facade as the new building in Old Market.
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So if it great for the old market it is automaticly bad for Lincoln?  

They are not near each other so does it really matter.   IT is FAR from the first time that the same basic design is used.  Bet if you look hard enogh you will find a THIRD building with the same basic look.
For the record  NEBUGEATER does not equal BUGEATER    !!!!!!!
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Wha?  I don't see that.
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