Burlington Station

Post by **Brad** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:52 pm

Jamison,

The electricity is a HUGE step even from when we were in there this summer. Good luck and keep us posted.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:03 am

Well you have no doubt coming form me you have all my respect. Good luck and great job with getting this all started. I look forward for more pics of all the progress.

Calibraskan · Post by **Calibraskan** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:50 am

BRA-VO! Some of the best recent pictures to hit the forum!!
What a place for a CLUB!...theaters. CHEESECAKE FACTORY!!

A great mixed use opportunity, and by the nature of what it is, has high cache value for Omaha

Its a given that a transit center will materialize someday and too bad its not going here!!! Isn't it too late?...Like trying to save the UP Buillding after the demolition crew is all geared up!

Although,..."World-Class Restaurants (Maybe better than CF?)

-Fine dining and grand entertaining without leaving The Burlington Station building." -- sounds good...But how MUCH restaurant? With all that other neat stuff, there may not be much room left. Is there any 'grand entertaining' if you're not invited to someone's unit ?
Done well, it could be spectacular, but it sounds like a rare 'public landmark' opportunity is being lost....Meanwhile the place HAS just sat there deteriorating.

This is going to be interesting to watch!

ItsAllAboutMe · Post by **ItsAllAboutMe** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:37 pm

Next weeks' city council agenda has info on this project. Looks good for continued progress with this project.

http://www.ci.omaha.ne.us/departments/c ... g/115a.pdf

Malmo · Post by **Malmo** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:09 pm

How about this building being a high-end club. Also part of it
being live music venue downtown replacing the Ranch bowl?

Post by **Brad** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:34 pm

Malmo wrote:How about this building being a high-end club. Also part of it
being live music venue downtown replacing the Ranch bowl?

Nope, its condos and a spa.

Finn · Post by **Finn** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:53 pm

And:

World-Class Restaurants - Fine dining and grand entertaining without leaving The Burlington Station building.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:38 pm

Glad progress is being made on saving the building, but it's still the wrong uses.

nebport5 · Post by **nebport5** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:45 pm

its an interesting project, but I agree with Streets. I agree that this doesn't seem like the best use for the building. Enjoy the pictures now, because one's its done no one will enjoy except the few people who live there. It's nice its being cleaned up and not neglected anymore, but there are still plenty of other opportunies for re-hab DT.

To me this building (if not a transportation center again), screams for retail throughout the whole thing. It would be a great extension from the OM with nice restaurants and higher end retail. I could see a brewery or a nice wine shop, galleries, a coffee shop and etc.

Finn · Post by **Finn** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:49 pm

Glad progress is being made on saving the building, but it's still the wrong uses.

Since the "right uses" have not worked for about 50 years, I welcome the redevelopment!

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:50 pm

Are you guys all going to run around in a circle saying the same things about this project every time someone posts something new?!

Calibraskan · Post by **Calibraskan** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:10 pm

ItsAllAboutMe wrote:Next weeks' city council agenda has info on this project. Looks good for continued progress with this project.

I think I scewed up my 'reader' trying to install an upgrade.....so I'm lost as to what's the latest....

There was speculation expressed that the project as proposed by ('Jamison' ?) was half-baked, and/or going no where. Has anything been confirmed? Permit Applications? Financing in place, etc.?

I'm lost as to what phase of development this project is in?

Calibraskan · Post by **Calibraskan** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:50 am

almighty_tuna wrote:Are you guys all going to run around in a circle saying the same things about this project every time someone posts something new?!

A very good point....(Although I have to admit I also was inclined to start ranting again about how many cool things could go in this bldg.)

Thanks for reminding me.....Its all been said!!

Post by **Brad** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:58 pm

2/5/2006

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:31 pm

Having those banners hanging on the building makes me realize what a beautiful museum that building would make.

Just think, Omaha Art Intitute/Omaha Intermodal Transit Hub.

smeace · Post by **smeace** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:54 pm

I've always thought it would be cool to rebuild the bridge between the Burlington Station and the Durham and turn that station into an extension of the Durham Western Heritage Museum.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:11 pm

To be honest the current project sure isn’t my 1st or even 5th idea for that building, I say even after all the praise I gave the project. I like the museum extension idea but imagine a modern glass skywalk between those monuments… naa most likely a tunnel. Speaking of detracting from their beauty its just a shame they are cutting up the main room.

omaproud · Post by **omaproud** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:24 am

This one is really a head scratcher. We all really would like to see SOMETHING happening in this beautiful, historic building, but earlier and continued posts suggest this particular use is either wrong, misguided, underfunded, or just plain wrong. The idea of an addition to the Western Heritage Museum is intruiging, but I'm sure the powers-that-be at the museum must have explored this possiblity and turned it down. Is it too late for a different direction?

OmahaJaysCU · Post by **OmahaJaysCU** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:27 am

Has this been approved by the city council yet?

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:49 am

OmahaJaysCU wrote:Has this been approved by the city council yet?

Since work has began on this already, I would reply with an infatic yes!

OmahaJaysCU · Post by **OmahaJaysCU** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:55 pm

adam186 wrote:
OmahaJaysCU wrote:Has this been approved by the city council yet?
Since work has began on this already, I would reply with an infatic yes!

I guess you're right. Thats a shame. Hopefully someday I can buy one of these condos so I can get to see its beauty, since the rest of this city will no longer get to be a part of it. What a shame. But hey, good for the tiny fraction of the population who will actually live there.

icejammer · Post by **icejammer** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:12 pm

But hey, good for the tiny fraction of the population who will actually live there.

Better that a "tiny fraction" enjoy it then no one at all, eh?

Post by **Brad** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:59 pm

How about we quit copmalining about what "it could be" or "it should be" and may be when it is finished Jamison will take us on another tour.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:17 am

No.

The more we point out the error of the uses, the more likely the developer is to reconsider

.

Zephyr · Post by **Zephyr** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:54 pm

^ Good point, Aaron - while you're pouring money into it, might as well do it right!

loyalomahan · Post by **loyalomahan** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:02 pm

I suspect the ink dried on the business plan long ago, investors have commited their money, Weitz has made their bid. This isn't a model railroad here. ;)

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:59 am

The WH brings gives some pub to the Burlington Station project.

"A plan to renovate downtown Omaha's long-vacant Burlington train station is moving forward with 60 percent of the commercial space spoken for and buyers for three of its 15 condominiums, the developer said."

Myriel "My" Boes said construction of a new restaurant over the tracks is to begin this spring and be completed in 10 months. She said the renovation would be completed by summer 2007.

Link to the WH.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=46&u_sid=2124999

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:21 am

After reading this I tried to go to Alley Poyner Architects site to see some plans. Not there. Tried to find the Burlington site - couldn't remember the address so I went to Eric's Burlington page http://www.geocities.com/burlingtonstation/ - at least I think it's Zephyr's - and it has been hijacked by SPSF!

What's up with that?

Cute babe in the third picture though.

Made you look?

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:31 am

This maybe what you are looking for.

http://ontrackdevelopment.com/

Also, this pub may have been created because the of the recent brunch at My Boes house. I was invited, but couldn't make.

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:34 am

Oh come on guys...

http://www.burlingtonstation.com

Although it appears to be a work in progress.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:41 am

adam186 wrote:This maybe what you are looking for.

http://ontrackdevelopment.com/

Also, this pub may have been created because the of the recent brunch at My Boes house. I was invited, but couldn't make.

That was it! Thanks.

I had an e-mail invite also and wish I could have been there too.

I was really looking for a tenants list. I am really glad that this historic building will have tenants and that it will be renovated but I still wish that having Amtrak and the Culinary Institute as main the tenants had happened.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:44 am

jhuston wrote:Oh come on guys...

http://www.burlingtonstation.com

Although it appears to be a work in progress.

OK - I posted after yours. Thanks also for the link Jeff!

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:44 am

Coyote wrote:After reading this I tried to go to Alley Poyner Architects site to see some plans. Not there. Tried to find the Burlington site - couldn't remember the address so I went to Eric's Burlington page http://www.geocities.com/burlingtonstation/ - at least I think it's Zephyr's - and it has been hijacked by SPSF!

What's up with that?

Cute babe in the third picture though.

Made you look?

You suck

I wish I could have gone to check it out, heck I wish I was even invited.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:47 am

MTO wrote:I wish I could have gone to check it out, heck I wish I was even invited.

I think that all those who signed up with an e-mail address on one of the previously listed websites was sent an invite. Nothing special.

Post by **Brad** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:46 am

Here are some pictures from one of the many other threads already started on the subject.

2/5/2006

Post by **Omaha Cowboy** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:02 am

Looks like the project is gaining more and more momentum..

From the Tuesday W-H:

' plan to renovate downtown Omaha's long-vacant Burlington train station is moving forward with 60 percent of the commercial space spoken for and buyers for three of its 15 condominiums, the developer said Monday.

Developer Myriel Boes displays a rendering by Alley Poyner Architecture of the renovated Burlington station. An 80-seat restaurant run by a former New York City chef is planned over the railroad tracks.

The City Planning Board could consider tax-increment financing for the project at 1001 S. 10th St. as soon as March.

Myriel "My" Boes said construction of a new restaurant over the tracks is to begin this spring and be completed in 10 months. She said the renovation would be completed by summer 2007.

She said 80 people attended a Sunday open house and brunch prepared by the former New York City chef who will open the 80-seat restaurant.

Boes and son Jamison Hiner are working with David and Brad Underwood to develop the project. Alley Poyner Architecture is preparing the drawings, and Weitz Co. is the general contractor.'..

Nice Jamie..I personally never doubted that this project would eventually become a reality..

..Ciao..LiO....Peace

Asten · Post by **Asten** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:05 pm

Coyote wrote:Cute babe in the third picture though.
Made you look?

Of course.

A bit short for my tastes, though. Makeup's a little plasticy too.

jhiner1 · Post by **jhiner1** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:56 am

Just finishing up the final touches on the site - check it out

http://www.burlingtonstation.com/

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:34 am

Quote from the website:

Only a very few will realize the dream of a lifetime: to possess their own piece of history and to live a life of elegance with every luxury at their fingertips.

That pretty much sums up a large part of what is wrong with this project.

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:51 am

I'm glad to see this long neglected piece of architectural history is at last just going to be utilized.

I am curious though... if someone sitting at a restaurant table over these regularly travelled tracks... isn't going to feel a little something passing beneath them.