Whats with the wall coming down at 132nd and L?

joeglow · Post by **joeglow** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:14 am

Just noticed the huge wall everyone hated is being dismantled. Was there a structural issue, or is there going to be a change?

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:35 am

It is a structural issue. It was recently reported as unstable and so they are reassembling the wall.

Post by **nebugeater** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:02 am

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=163 ... nd=6189008

Here is the story from the Saturday OWH

An Oakview Construction manager said the wall has shown instability, shifting and sliding slightly over the past 18 months. It needs to be taken down and the situation assessed. Then the wall will go back up, he said.

"Everybody felt it was in the best interests to remove it, replace it before there was a catastrophe," Oakview's Dale Obermiller said Friday

TitosBuritoBarn · Post by **TitosBuritoBarn** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:09 pm

Hopefully they'll assess that it is ugly and needs to be replaced by something more aestthetically pleasing. Perhaps they can implement a pleasent waterfall falling down a terraced wall.

OmahaRules · Post by **OmahaRules** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:31 pm

It would be awesome for them to do something else with it. It's a very very ugly wall.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:46 pm

Let it crumble and suck WalMart into a hole, then use the land for something worthwhile.

-Big E

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:41 pm

All in all it was just a brick in the wall.. - Korn

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:44 pm

TitosBuritoBarn wrote:Perhaps they can implement a pleasent waterfall falling down a terraced wall.

That would be awesome, but way to innovative for Wal-Mart.

Just think if we had billions of dollars to throw around to improve the city. It would be amazing what we could do.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:47 pm

No their billions is being used to take over the world. “zoink”

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:36 pm

MTO wrote:All in all it was just a brick in the wall.. - Korn

I hope by Korn you meant Pink Floyd.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:38 pm

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:42 pm

No. NOT BOTH. That is one of the worst covers I have ever heard of ANY song.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:48 pm

Well with absolute no disrespect to Floyd but yes I meant BOTH!

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:55 pm

It would be nice if they do something better than the current wall in there. Sorry Jake, Korn has gone down the path of Metallica, bands that used to rock but now just suck.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:57 pm

the1wags wrote:It would be nice if they do something better than the current wall in there.

Ya, they have the perfect oppurtunity NOW. There was such backlash on the wall they should do something about it.

Post by **nebugeater** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:36 pm

From what I read into the story they will use the SAME blocks to rebuild it.

MTO · Post by **MTO** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:53 pm

I would hate to be the engineer behind that wall.

Asten · Post by **Asten** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:04 pm

MTO wrote:I would hate to be the engineer behind that wall.

No kidding, all that dirt's gotta make it hard to breathe...

... Thank you, i'm here all week.

Finn · Post by **Finn** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:14 pm

I needed a laugh.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:56 pm

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:28 am

They're going to the little landscape stones... that has to be one of the largest such walls ever made??

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:17 am

Yuck.

They should really hire an artist to paint some sort of mural on this wall.

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:53 am

I think they should have set backs and add some landscaping on those atleast. Maybe even throw in some vines or something to cover the darn thing.

Asten · Post by **Asten** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:31 am

adam186 wrote:I think they should have set backs and add some landscaping on those atleast. Maybe even throw in some vines or something to cover the darn thing.

yes, terracing this with some flowers or bushes or something would be infinintely more attractive than this monstrosity.

I don't know who's responsible for the design, but i'd bet wal mart has a hand in it.

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:02 am

Oh those keystone walls can go real big. Theres one in Sioux City behind the HyVee on Gordon drive thats gotta be 50 ft tall, crazy big keystone wall. That being said, I'd also like to see something like setbacks to "break it up" a bit.