6 Story Hampton Inn (SW corner 44 & Douglas)

[iamjacobm]

Not to be confused with this project on the NW corner. viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19198&p=314460&hil ... as#p314460

There is a TIF request for the SW corner of this intersection.

*Will update with planning docs later this week when the city posts them.

[ita]

Not to be confused with this project on the NW corner. viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19198&p=314460&hil ... as#p314460

There is a TIF request for the SW corner of this intersection.

*Will update with planning docs later this week when the city posts them.

Thanks for keeping us updated on potential projects. It looks like there are a couple investment groups that own multiple lots in that corner. I am xcited for another project in this area.

[MadJack]

Any idea what kind of use?

[iamjacobm]

Any idea what kind of use?

Looks like the request was by the developer of the hotel that just finished up across the street so I would assume another hotel. The city should get the documents posted Thursday or Friday that will give specific details.

[iamjacobm]

7 story, 95 room hotel with 7300 sf of commercial space. Renderings at the bottom of the doc, looks nice and will help fill out the budding density of this street.

https://planning.cityofomaha.org/images ... uly/11.pdf

[Omaha Cowboy]

7 story, 95 room hotel with 7300 sf of commercial space. Renderings at the bottom of the doc, looks nice and will help fill out the budding density of this street.

https://planning.cityofomaha.org/images ... uly/11.pdf

Those renderings do look pretty sweet. Looking forward to the potential of this development...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

[skinzfan23]

March 2021 start with a June 2022 finish is projected.

[Omaha Cowboy]

Pretty quick turnaround time for this one...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

[Linkin5]

You have to think that all of this density getting built up on Douglas that developers believe the street car isn’t too far off.

[ita]

You have to think that all of this density getting built up on Douglas that developers believe the street car isn’t too far off.

If that were only the case. I think the BRT and potentially massive growth of UNMC is pushing and going to continue push density up in urban Omaha within a few blocks of Dodge more than a maybe-sometime-in-the-future streetcar project. Streetcar Advocates were pretty consistent with news and updates, up until the end of March. I would imagine efforts for pushing a streetcar project are on hold currently in light of everything going on and the focus of finishing the BRT project.

[Omaha Cowboy]

From today’s W-H-

“A new seven-story, $17.5 million hotel mixed-use project is proposed for midtown Omaha southwest of 44th and Douglas Streets.

The developer is Dan Marak of the Kansas City area, who recently opened another hotel, a 102-room Home2 Suites by Hilton, across the street from the one being proposed. Marak’s MH Hospitality has multiple other hotel properties in the Omaha area as well.

The half-acre site where he hopes to build his newest project is occupied by vacant houses and a small office building.”..

The renderings really do look sharp.. The complete story link:

https://www.omaha.com/money/midtown-oma ... 55d.html#1

Ciao..LiO...Peace

[Busguy2010]

Eh I don't really feel great about it. I practically grew up at that corner cause of the Midtown Transit Center. All I really see is pushing people out, destroying viable existing homes, raising property values and property taxes, and bringing a bunch of pussycats into the city. I don't think this is a result of ORBT, as the other two similarly scaled projects on this block were in the books well before ORBT construction started.

[Taco]

If we want to have a strong transit system, we need density, and especially close to our transit nodes. This is why the current TOD plans are so important. This 95 room hotel will replace 5 living spaces (2 empty duplexes, 1 empty house). This hotel is in no way out of scale/character with the surrounding neighborhood. An investment of this size will increase property values (a good thing for homeowners and schools), but shouldn't affect property tax rates in any way.

[Louie]

Eh I don't really feel great about it. I practically grew up at that corner cause of the Midtown Transit Center. All I really see is pushing people out, destroying viable existing homes, raising property values and property taxes, and bringing a bunch of pussycats into the city. I don't think this is a result of ORBT, as the other two similarly scaled projects on this block were in the books well before ORBT construction started.

The homes are listed as vacant, so it's not really pushing anyone out besides the small Kiewit office.

[Omaha Cowboy]

If we want to have a strong transit system, we need density, and especially close to our transit nodes. This is why the current TOD plans are so important. This 95 room hotel will replace 5 living spaces (2 empty duplexes, 1 empty house). This hotel is in no way out of scale/character with the surrounding neighborhood. An investment of this size will increase property values (a good thing for homeowners and schools), but shouldn't affect property tax rates in any way.

Agreed. And as Louie stated, this development is not pushing any people out of current residences..

This is an important and Sharp looking development for the area..

Ciao..LiO...Peace

[Busguy2010]

The homes are listed as vacant, so it's not really pushing anyone out besides the small Kiewit office.

Ok I didn't know that. But it does remove that opportunity for someone to live there on the cheap. Same deal with the ones across the street that were torn down for the other project. Kinda just speaking generally of the whole city, too. A bunch of old houses torn down and or vacant lots developed and jacked up in value for 75 North, Blackstone, and in the Park Ave area. I know they weren't great houses, yes. The lots could have been bought for less than $5,000, and at least in the park ave area, are now the locations of some $300,000 homes. Just wayy too valuable for the part of town they're in, jacking up surrounding values and taxes. Maybe not directly pushing anyone out today, but soon enough the phenomenon will take effect.

[Busguy2010]

If we want to have a strong transit system, we need density, and especially close to our transit nodes. This is why the current TOD plans are so important. This 95 room hotel will replace 5 living spaces (2 empty duplexes, 1 empty house). This hotel is in no way out of scale/character with the surrounding neighborhood. An investment of this size will increase property values (a good thing for homeowners and schools), but shouldn't affect property tax rates in any way.

When stuff like this happens, I worry for other houses too. Like who knows what's gonna happen to the houses to the northeast corner of 42nd and Dodge. 33rd street, too. Lots of single family homes up there and I'm sure developers are already licking their chops and formulating plans. Don't get me wrong, I wanted ORBT, but my dreams were to see lots like those around the Park Ave stop developed, not to see 100 year old buildings torn down. I understand how it works, but I also find it kind of funny that the last lot standing on that block is the one that's just been a grass lawn for who knows how long. I was happy to see the old bank torn down and developed, and I'll be happy to see the Village Inn lot swept clean and developed, but it always rubs me wrong when houses are torn down.

[skinzfan23]

Here are the renderings for this project:

[Brad]

Impressive sized building!

[ita]

The homes are listed as vacant, so it's not really pushing anyone out besides the small Kiewit office.

Ok I didn't know that. But it does remove that opportunity for someone to live there on the cheap. Same deal with the ones across the street that were torn down for the other project. Kinda just speaking generally of the whole city, too. A bunch of old houses torn down and or vacant lots developed and jacked up in value for 75 North, Blackstone, and in the Park Ave area. I know they weren't great houses, yes. The lots could have been bought for less than $5,000, and at least in the park ave area, are now the locations of some $300,000 homes. Just wayy too valuable for the part of town they're in, jacking up surrounding values and taxes. Maybe not directly pushing anyone out today, but soon enough the phenomenon will take effect.

Apparently, the buildings were not vacant:

Upset residents get wiggle room to move off redevelopment site

Several tenants in a pocket near 44th and Douglas Streets were upset upon receiving a 30-day notice to move out of properties they rent. Their landlord plans to demolish four structures they live or work in to make way for a $17.5 million, seven-story hotel with street-level commercial bays.
...
Marcia Gustafson is among the 44th and Douglas tenants who said they’ve long figured their rented homes would be targeted for redevelopment. Close by is the University of Nebraska Medical Center, a fast-growing job magnet.

But she and others bristled at a deadline the landlord initially had given them to vacate by the end of November.

“We know we’re not going to stop it (development) from happening,” Gustafson, who uses an oxygen tank, told a reporter after she got the original letter. She said she needed more than a month to relocate.

After hearing complaints, the landlord last week sent a second letter — this time extending the move-out date to mid-January and offering free rent until then.
...
Though the proposed hotel east of Don & Millie’s restaurant was the subject of public government meetings as far back as July, the tenants said they were not told about the hearings. Language in city documents also was confusing, saying in one planning report that the properties involved were vacant and, in another, that residents were in the process of moving out (neither was so).

[U R my Helix]

The homes are listed as vacant, so it's not really pushing anyone out besides the small Kiewit office.

Ok I didn't know that. But it does remove that opportunity for someone to live there on the cheap. Same deal with the ones across the street that were torn down for the other project. Kinda just speaking generally of the whole city, too. A bunch of old houses torn down and or vacant lots developed and jacked up in value for 75 North, Blackstone, and in the Park Ave area. I know they weren't great houses, yes. The lots could have been bought for less than $5,000, and at least in the park ave area, are now the locations of some $300,000 homes. Just wayy too valuable for the part of town they're in, jacking up surrounding values and taxes. Maybe not directly pushing anyone out today, but soon enough the phenomenon will take effect.

If only there was a way to keep track ...... with few exceptions most of the removed housing stock has been for removal of outdated and substandard housing that is cost prohibitive to bring up to date. Good housing in it's day but unable to stand the test of time.

[Busguy2010]

I don't buy it. There's no way every house that was torn down wasn't livable. I don't mean "nice", but livable. A house doesn't have to be up to date to be livable. And it also doesnt have to cost $200,000 plus, or be replaced by a building full of $1,200 studio apartments. Also those comments are water under the bridge, not really worth revisiting.

[Brad]

Let me know if we have a thread for this.

[Brad]

Here is the site:

[Brad]

https://omaha.com/business/midtown-omah ... ae55d.html

[Busguy2010]

https://eomahaforums.com/viewtopic.php? ... 14#p318021

[Busguy2010]

But this is a better thread title so maybe merge some of it

[Brad]

But this is a better thread title so maybe merge some of it

Merged and changed the title. Thanks!

[Brad]

Demolition underway

[Cermak]

Looks like a good project, glad that it’s at least 7 floors. Omaha has alot of Hamptons, they are a good consistent hotel brand.

[ita]

Here's a commercial listing for retail space in this project. Nice rendering. It looks much better in 3d.

https://www.crexi.com/lease/properties/ ... s---retail

[Brad]

The developer of this hotel was on Grow Omaha this past weekend. He hinted that this may end up 6 stories. Still fine tuning. Will start in the fall.

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[Brad]

Bulldozer on site and dirt has moved.

[Brad]

There’s a piece of machinery on site drilling footings for the new building. Hope to see it going vertical soon

[skinzfan23]

There’s a piece of machinery on site drilling footings for the new building. Hope to see it going vertical soon

Glad to hear. Here is the 3D rendering of the building:

[OmahaOmaha]

As fast as construction costs are going up, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up being four or five stories.

[Athomsfere]

As fast as construction costs are going up, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up being four or five stories.

IMO that would be a very short sighted move. That location is going to be hot for decades. Dropping nearly half the rooms over 20 years wouldn't make any sense.

[Garrett]

As fast as construction costs are going up, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up being four or five stories.

IMO that would be a very short sighted move. That location is going to be hot for decades. Dropping nearly half the rooms over 20 years wouldn't make any sense.

Don’t worry, it’s just him dropping in for his quarterly chicken little the sky is falling schtick.

[skinzfan23]

Actually cutting a project like this in 1/2 probably wouldn't be feasible. With the number of rooms that small there wouldn't be enough revenue....so I doubt that happens.

[Omaha Cowboy]

Actually cutting a project like this in 1/2 probably wouldn't be feasible. With the number of rooms that small there wouldn't be enough revenue....so I doubt that happens.

Agreed..

And the rendering looks great …

Ciao..LiO…Peace