42nd and Leavenworth Building Collapse

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:29 pm

Crazy scene right now. Looks like a car crashed into an old brick building with an antique store in it. The roof is sagging in and looks like it could fall any second.

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:46 pm

They just opened that store didn't they? I used to live on 45th and Leavenworth so this is crazy to hear.. Hope everyone is ok!

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:52 pm

Yeah has to be less than a year old. I was just heading home and got redirected by about a dozen police cars and two fire trucks. When we swung by by I noticed the roof completely crumbling and sagging in the middle.

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:59 pm

Thats a shame if I remember correctly that was a beautiful old style building. Think they got ripped off hard on some antiques?

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:25 pm

Here's the initial OWH story.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130712/N ... eavenworth

S33 · Post by **S33** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:19 am

guitarguy wrote:They just opened that store didn't they? I used to live on 45th and Leavenworth so this is crazy to hear.. Hope everyone is ok!

lol @ the odds we used to live in the same home! lmao. little white home, driveway on east?

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 10:48 am

S33 wrote:
guitarguy wrote:They just opened that store didn't they? I used to live on 45th and Leavenworth so this is crazy to hear.. Hope everyone is ok!
lol @ the odds we used to live in the same home! lmao. little white home, driveway on east?

Haha I believe it was 4417 Leavenworth the house that has a 2 car garage leading out onto Leavenworth across from the Honda Repair shop? Doesn't sound like same house but I LOVED living in that area some day want to live near there again.

Post by **Brad** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:08 pm

Were were down there for several hours last night watching. Went back for about 20 min this morning. Building has to be a total loss.

They pulled 2 bodies out just before noon.

Turtle9160 · Post by **Turtle9160** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 1:48 pm

That building is a total loss, in the pictures online about the story you can tell the roof and what was left of the wall along 42nd are sagging. Article said the building was severley compromised so I would bet they have to take it down or risk it and that billboard collapseing

Post by **Brad** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 9:39 am

Here are some photos from the other night:

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jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:26 pm

The billboard had been successfully removed from the roof when I drove by earlier tonight.

Post by **Brad** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:49 pm

jessep28 wrote:The billboard had been successfully removed from the roof when I drove by earlier tonight.

Yep, its currently taking up 2 lanes of Leavenworth. 42nd Still closed.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:26 pm

New 2 You thrift store at 42nd, Leavenworth partially demolished

Asten · Post by **Asten** » Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:56 pm

The first few years of my life i lived not very far from there, 45th and Marcy or so, and my dad worked (still works) nearby, so I have probably been down Leavenworth a billion times or so. I remember this being a Postal Uniform store when I was a kid... Kind of sad to see it go.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:13 pm

Gone:

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:33 pm

Now that looks weird!! Was there no foundation? looks like it was built on top of grass

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:50 pm

Yes, the look is deceiving.
The foundation is gone - everything is neatly grazed to an even soil level.
You have to look closely to see it from this view.
There is a several foot drop from the building to the South (brick building on the far left) to street (Leavenworth) level.

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:51 pm

I bet the windows in the side of that house have been totally useless until now..

Post by **Brad** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:37 am

guitarguy wrote:Now that looks weird!! Was there no foundation? looks like it was built on top of grass

Not only a foundation, but a full basement. There was a day or two you could see it before they filled it in with dirt.

jelizh · Post by **jelizh** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:06 pm

UNMC will be working with Morton Meadows Neighborhood Association to make this lot more aesthetically pleasing. A group of MMNA's members met with Omaha by Design and completed a "Place Game Workshop." Ideas currently floating around include a patriotic mural on the remaining commercial building, benches, a new Morton Meadows sign, retaining walls etc. Fundraising and final plans to be determined, but at least a few of these ideas will most likely be implemented.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:47 pm

jelizh wrote:UNMC will be working with Morton Meadows Neighborhood Association to make this lot more aesthetically pleasing. A group of MMNA's members met with Omaha by Design and completed a "Place Game Workshop." Ideas currently floating around include a patriotic mural on the remaining commercial building, benches, a new Morton Meadows sign, retaining walls etc. Fundraising and final plans to be determined, but at least a few of these ideas will most likely be implemented.

That will be nice to dress up the corner and bring a little more green space to the area.

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:23 pm

I'm surprised that UNMC didn't purchase the corner in order to add 20 more parking spaces.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 5:00 pm

nativeomahan wrote:I'm surprised that UNMC didn't purchase the corner in order to add 20 more parking spaces.

Haha, yeah.

I can't wait until they do something with the old gas station on the other corner. It looks like such a dump.

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