Nebraska Medicine

MDWLAW13 · Post by **MDWLAW13** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:28 pm

Yup - all the way south to Pacific. Not all the way north to Leavenworth (not yet anyway) - just to Marcy. A company called VillaLobos operated a business on the east side of the trail for a long time -that property is being cleared in the next couple of months to build a parking lot. The land to the west of the trail with the Kiewit office and the vacant lot where condos were going to be built is also going to be a parking lot. That is a lot of parking lot. I am hopeful that in the future UNMC will encourage and participate in more infill in the Midtown area - so far, I see Leavenworth between 40th and Saddle Creek turning into a giant parking lot.

RNcyanide · Post by **RNcyanide** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 6:49 pm

Not at all optimal, but at least parking lots can be undone and developed easily. The only issue will be that of time; parking lots can last a long time but not forever.

bigredmed · Post by **bigredmed** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:36 pm

Parking structures above ground cost $13,000 per stall. Parking under ground is $20,000 per stall. It simply is not cost effective in this era for a hospital that is looking at substantial downward pressures on revenue and upward pressure on costs to drop that kind of cash on a building that would cost a ton to tear down when the space is needed for something else.

6EQUJ5 · Post by **6EQUJ5** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:05 pm

Cancer center

RNcyanide · Post by **RNcyanide** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:10 pm

That's a big hole...

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:47 pm

Nice maybe we can see a crane on site before the New Year!

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:37 pm

iamjacobm wrote:Nice maybe we can see a crane on site before the New Year!

Boom, crane is there when I drove by today.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:43 pm

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:46 pm

Coyote wrote: And you were right. It is all rubble:

And now a parking lot:

2Adam29 · Post by **2Adam29** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:40 pm

I was getting my car washed and noticed that the retaining wall on the north side of the Durham Research Tower was being torn up. Anybody know what that's about? It's facing the wrong way to be a part of the new building from anything I've seen...

Post by **Brad** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:50 pm

Coyote wrote:

Great View!

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:45 pm

Coyote wrote:

I thought that was a drawing for a second.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 1:45 am

2Adam29 wrote:I was getting my car washed and noticed that the retaining wall on the north side of the Durham Research Tower was being torn up. Anybody know what that's about? It's facing the wrong way to be a part of the new building from anything I've seen...

Thought I had responded to this... I saw that the retaining wall was gone after you mentioned this. I looked at the pics, and I think it is a part of this project. I'm almost tempted to get shots of the north tower from the north just to see.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 1:48 am

jessep28 wrote:
Coyote wrote:
I thought that was a drawing for a second.

You'd be surprised what the original photo looked like, until I corrected it in Adobe. I had to get rid of a lot of shadows shooting north in winter, give it light and color...

Post by **Brad** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:47 am

If you lighten the shadows too much, you almost need to start turning down the saturation, it really makes the colors get bright quick.

Post by **Brad** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:31 pm

TWO tower cranes going up! Photos when I get home.

Post by **Brad** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:58 pm

Photo Update:

1. One tower crane in the front left, one tower crane in the back right.

2. Pano:

Its going to interesting to see how much of this shows up from the Cemetery View.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:04 pm

Now were talking.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:11 pm

Nice!

Post by **Brad** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:21 pm

Nice! Both up it just the one?

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:30 pm

Not sure I just clipped that from the webcam. It only looked like one on there.

Post by **Brad** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:10 pm

Instead of waiting for a reply, I just ran over there and snapped a photo of it.

Here you go:

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:46 pm

Wow they really got the crane up fast! Drove by at 10a and it was still just 2 tiers high.

Post by **Brad** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:32 pm

Still Working at 8pm!

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guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:40 pm

Looks like they're about to start haulin some A$$ soon!

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:50 pm

This is a massive massive building. I can't wait to see this thing rise!

Post by **Brad** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:59 pm

guitarguy wrote:Looks like they're about to start haulin some A$$ soon!

I went back up there and they are still working. They haven't lifted the cross piece yet, but I didn't want to sit around and wait for security. I may go back up in a bit. I know a guard there so I left him a message to see if they care. I know in the past he said they did not as long as you were outside and as long as there are not patients in the photo.

Architect told me both cranes will be up with a week.

I fixed that second image too.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:34 am

They had half of the cross piece up this morning. I got a photo to post later. They were working on installing the cables when I left.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:26 pm

One from this morning before it got cloudy.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:11 pm

How high do you think the cranes are going to be....about the height of the one for the Hyatt Place downtown?

Post by **Brad** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:25 pm

skinzfan23 wrote:How high do you think the cranes are going to be....about the height of the one for the Hyatt Place downtown?

The Architect told me they are going to be as tall as allowed without being connected to a building, which Google says is 265 feet.

Post by **Brad** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:43 am

Crane getting larger today. Posted a cell phone shot on the EO FB page, someone on a real computer can post it on here if they want to. Photos from the real camera coming a bit later.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:21 am

Brad wrote:Crane getting larger today. Posted a cell phone shot on the EO FB page, someone on a real computer can post it on here if they want to. Photos from the real camera coming a bit later.

Post by **Brad** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:50 am

Awesome! Thanks!

I love how the basically build themselves!

Post by **BRoss** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 12:09 pm

Brad wrote:Awesome! Thanks!

I love how the basically build themselves!

I came across this video of one building itself. Never realized this is how the were built.
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iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 12:49 pm

Awesome! Can't wait to get off work so I can swing by.

Post by **Brad** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:34 pm

Growing the Crane!!!!

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guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:36 pm

Compared to the Durham towers how tall is this new building suppose to be? Hard to tell from the renderings..

RNcyanide · Post by **RNcyanide** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 8:33 am

Its going to be a little shorter. I remember having a discussion of it once but can't remember where...

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:45 am

iamjacobm wrote:I think this building is going to be ~167 feet. On this page they have cross sections of the building with elevations on the side, if you take the difference from street to roof you get 167.48. Unless I am looking into it wrong.

http://www.fredandpamelabuffettcancerce ... rettyPhoto

Here is what I found. I am not sure how tall the Durham towers are.