Mercantile (Conagra campus development)

[Brad]

I find it comical how so many of you bash Drury for their hotel design when most of you don’t have the funds to build a two story Motel 6.

Motel 2 and a half…. lol

I do think 8 stories on the Conagra lot is gonna seem really tall.

[Garrett]

I think a lot of it has been us living in a streetcar hype where we wanna see something greater than 15 stories break ground that isn’t Mutual, while also seeing Drury pivot to this lot given the limits on the previous lot that this plan doesn’t even seem to surpass. Yeah it’s a lovely project but I think there was just a general hype that it might be more.

[stadsborgare]

I think a lot of it has been us living in a streetcar hype where we wanna see something greater than 15 stories break ground that isn’t Mutual, while also seeing Drury pivot to this lot given the limits on the previous lot that this plan doesn’t even seem to surpass. Yeah it’s a lovely project but I think there was just a general hype that it might be more.

I'd be bothered more if it was 8 stories on the old UP lot, but since this is on 10th Street, it seems to fit more with the Old Market. Not that I wouldn't love it if they were to decide on something taller, but 8 stories - not too shabby for the area.

I think in time you'll see highrises come about after the streetcar is up and running for a few years, and I envision them sprouting up between 20th and 31st Streets.

[Linkin5]

Hopefully I’ll be completely wrong but my primary concern is that Drury owns the caddy corner lot on 10th and Harney and I’m worried that they are going to keep this lot for Drury customer parking. If that happens I don’t see them ever relinquishing control of the property.

[nativeomahan]

Most of us on here had hopes for chateaubriand but apparently will have to settle for chateau-bland.

[Louie]

Hopefully I’ll be completely wrong but my primary concern is that Drury owns the caddy corner lot on 10th and Harney and I’m worried that they are going to keep this lot for Drury customer parking. If that happens I don’t see them ever relinquishing control of the property.

That hadn’t even crossed my mind, but that would be awful.

[Huskerbum]

At least Hyatt place built on top of parking to alleviate these kinds of concerns… still think this is a miss. If the lots across the way is going to be retained for parking its an overwhelming miss.

[thenewguy]

I know I'm in the minority here, but it looks like it will fit nicely with what is there and the density/height will be good. If we were rehabbing jobbers canyon, all the buildings there would be relatively the same height, so (for me at least) it doesn't have to be overly tall.

[skip]

Hopefully I’ll be completely wrong but my primary concern is that Drury owns the caddy corner lot on 10th and Harney and I’m worried that they are going to keep this lot for Drury customer parking. If that happens I don’t see them ever relinquishing control of the property.

That hadn’t even crossed my mind, but that would be awful.

there is underground parking and a dozen or so surface parking spots in the proposal. very very low chances they would keep the surface lot across street too.

[Louie]

Hopefully I’ll be completely wrong but my primary concern is that Drury owns the caddy corner lot on 10th and Harney and I’m worried that they are going to keep this lot for Drury customer parking. If that happens I don’t see them ever relinquishing control of the property.

That hadn’t even crossed my mind, but that would be awful.

there is underground parking and a dozen or so surface parking spots in the proposal. very very low chances they would keep the surface lot across street too.

Hope you’re right!

[kb97]

Fence put up this morning around the lot east of Brickline.

[jjjjhskr]

East or south of Brickline? East would be heartland park. South is where the hotel is going

[Brad]

East or south of Brickline? East would be heartland park. South is where the hotel is going

His photo is of the lot to the east circled in red on this map:

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[jjjjhskr]

If it’s east, that must be for the year round farmers market. Yea!

[kb97]

Yep, east. Nothing has happened in the lot south since they cut down the trees.

[omahahawk]

If it’s east, that must be for the year round farmers market. Yea!

Any changes since the fence has gone up? Been looking forward to this more than anything else proposed in the area and I haven't noticed any updates from the mailing list. Anybody got a bit of a scoop?

[iamjacobm]

There would almost certainly be docs in front of planning and city council before that project started and there haven’t been any yet.

[omahahawk]

That's just it......makes me wonder why it is all fenced like something is about to happen.

[Garrett]

Maybe they're doing some testing on the site, soil samples and the like? Though I imagine that would have happened earlier in a design process.

[jjjjhskr]

Maybe they're doing some testing on the site, soil samples and the like? Though I imagine that would have happened earlier in a design process.

They posted for the job of GM (or similar) awhile back

[iamjacobm]

I had the thought that site might be used as the staging area for the Drury hotel construction but will be interesting to see what happened with that at the planning meeting.