Old Post Office Site - 36 Story Tower Proposal

[Linkin5]

Planned for the old post office site where the Doubletree and older First National Bank of Omaha tower now sit. Initially, a 36 floor mixed use tower was originally proposed.

[Garrett]

Planned for the old post office site where the Doubletree and older First National Bank of Omaha tower now sit. Initially, a 36 floor mixed use tower was originally proposed.

1965 if I'm making out the year right? That would have been quite the tower

[Linkin5]

Correct 1965.

[skinzfan23]

Love how the cost was est at $20, today that would be $500 million

[Renovator2559]

1965 if I'm making out the year right? That would have been quite the tower

Meh, it would have just been another woodman tower look alike, with an oppressive brutalist design.

If only the old post office would have been preserved, but they had trouble preserving.
This building would have been an iconic historic building.

[NEDodger]

Ground floor retail, half office space / half hotel. Assuming FNBO would have occupied the office space anyways. With the Woodman Tower coming online a few years later and us having both a 30-story and a 36-story by 1970, I wonder if there would have been more aggressiveness in building upwards?

[Garrett]

Ground floor retail, half office space / half hotel. Assuming FNBO would have occupied the office space anyways. With the Woodman Tower coming online a few years later and us having both a 30-story and a 36-story by 1970, I wonder if there would have been more aggressiveness in building upwards?

Making more of the article out, it says the restaurant would have offered views from 500 ft, so this would have been taller than Woodmen's 478 ft. Add in the ground floor retail, plus keeping 16th street open, this really would have been a much better use for that block. It's a shame it wasn't built.

[Busguy2010]

1965 if I'm making out the year right? That would have been quite the tower

Meh, it would have just been another woodman tower look alike, with an oppressive brutalist design.

If only the old post office would have been preserved, but they had trouble preserving.
This building would have been an iconic historic building.

I could be wrong, but isn't that also the second iteration of the post office? I seem to recall the original being more ornate and of brown brick. I think it was destroyed by fire.

[nebport5]

1965 if I'm making out the year right? That would have been quite the tower

Meh, it would have just been another woodman tower look alike, with an oppressive brutalist design.

If only the old post office would have been preserved, but they had trouble preserving.
This building would have been an iconic historic building.

I could be wrong, but isn't that also the second iteration of the post office? I seem to recall the original being more ornate and of brown brick. I think it was destroyed by fire.

Are you maybe thinking of the old city hall?

[Busguy2010]

1965 if I'm making out the year right? That would have been quite the tower

Meh, it would have just been another woodman tower look alike, with an oppressive brutalist design.

If only the old post office would have been preserved, but they had trouble preserving.
This building would have been an iconic historic building.

I could be wrong, but isn't that also the second iteration of the post office? I seem to recall the original being more ornate and of brown brick. I think it was destroyed by fire.

Are you maybe thinking of the old city hall?

I'm not sure. I'm probably remembering it wrong, but I thought I saw historical photos of a brown brick building right near there or 15th & Dodge. I think it was brown brick and might have had turrets on the corners.

[nebport5]

1965 if I'm making out the year right? That would have been quite the tower

Meh, it would have just been another woodman tower look alike, with an oppressive brutalist design.

If only the old post office would have been preserved, but they had trouble preserving.
This building would have been an iconic historic building.

I could be wrong, but isn't that also the second iteration of the post office? I seem to recall the original being more ornate and of brown brick. I think it was destroyed by fire.

Are you maybe thinking of the old city hall?

I'm not sure. I'm probably remembering it wrong, but I thought I saw historical photos of a brown brick building right near there or 15th & Dodge. I think it was brown brick and might have had turrets on the corners.

This one was at 18th and Farnam also known at "The Red Castle".

[Cermak]

Planned for the old post office site where the Doubletree and older First National Bank of Omaha tower now sit. Initially, a 36 floor mixed use tower was originally proposed.

I had never heard of this proposal before. I had heard about the one directly east of the Woodmen back in the 60 or 70’s. This is just one of many failed or downsized highrise projects in Omaha. Which makes the current Mutual tower all that much more of a big deal.