Downtown Lincoln Website

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:29 pm

For any interested:
This website has been around for a while, as far as websites go its not the greatest. But, the newsletter that comes out every couple months does a good job highlighting projects, and reports new business's coming into the downtown Lincoln area.
Anyways, I'm sure a lot of you know about it, but here it is:
http://downtownlincoln.org/

Ingersoll1978 · Post by **Ingersoll1978** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:17 pm

WOW! Check out Lincoln's Downtown Study Draft. I'm quite impressed with their transportation plan actually. It has everything from streetcars, boulevards, two level streets, etc. Even the back in angled parking spots make sense.

http://www.lincoln.ne.gov/city/plan/dt_ ... /index.htm

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:24 pm

Yeah, a lot of people are suprised about what Lincoln is planning downtown.

Ingersoll1978 · Post by **Ingersoll1978** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:26 pm

I lived there for about a year and half and really enjoyed it. It's a great, active, and clean city. I was kinda surprised by their employment numbers downtown as well.

jsheets · Post by **jsheets** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:45 pm

How many people work in downtown Omaha? And what percentage is that of total population?

Here's the numbers for Lincoln:

With 28,000 workers,
downtown worke r s
comprise approximately
19.3% of the 150,000
people employed in the
Lincoln MSA.

http://downtownlincoln.org/demographics ... igures.pdf

I'm not looking to restart the whole "street traffic" debate. I'm just curious how this compares.

Ingersoll1978 · Post by **Ingersoll1978** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:40 pm

The number I got from Omaha's chamber of commerce last summer was approximately 32,000. I'm sure it's gone up with the 1000 employees added with UP.

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:47 pm

I would think Lincoln's downtown has a lot more % of people working in it thatn Omaha's, as I can't really think of any business parks that Lincoln has.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:58 pm

Yeah, and there are lots of small towns with 100% of their population working in their "downtown".

jsheets · Post by **jsheets** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:06 pm

But towns Lincoln's size have traditional moved away from their dowtowns. Lincoln is doing a terrific job at staying away from this trend.

Although it doesn't help when Lincoln Benefit Life pulls their jobs out of a tower downtown and moves them out East to a campus on a golf course. State Farm also could have been downtown if they had wanted to. Ameritas is the third large corporation that I can think of outside of downtown (not including Duncan Aviation, or Kawasaki for obvious reasons).

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:07 am

Nice.

As for employment in the downtowns of state capitals ... let's hear it for government bureacracy.

Not to deviate from the subject (but on that of employment numbers in geographic areas), but I'd be interested to know how many people work within 1 mile of Dodge Street in Omaha... from the river all the way out to Elkhorn.

Ingersoll1978 · Post by **Ingersoll1978** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:30 pm

I would say at least 100,000 people.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:26 pm

At least.