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UrbanNebraska
06-14-2018, 08:15 AM
Following OKC's and Tulsa's major urban parks investments, Omaha is getting in the game.

$290 million parks rehab/re-imagining. Designed by OJB of Myriad Gardens fame. $50 million will be paid by bonds issued by the city with the remainder from local philanthropic sources.

The Omaha side flythrough:

https://vimeo.com/ojblandscapearchitecture/omaha

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A big issue with connecting the park space to the Missouri River is a railroad that runs right along the bank. This will build over the tracks to get full use of the asset.
http://riverfrontrevitalization.com/assets/images/OM-RIV-HeartlandofAmericaPark-213.jpg

This part of the park has huge obstacles. It used to be a lead plant and had a ton of contamination. That was buried and capped which prevents building anything substantial which leads to more surface parking and no large buildings. Still this is going to bring active uses to an area that is mostly unused passive space now.
http://riverfrontrevitalization.com/assets/images/OM-RIV-LewisandClarkLanding-106.jpg
http://riverfrontrevitalization.com/assets/images/OM-RIV-LewisandClarkLanding-219.jpg

The Iowa side of the river is also included in the development. Their side really impressed me and I think will compliment Omaha's urban parks design with a more nature focused and active tone. Lots of interesting renderings in this PDF.
http://riverfrontrevitalization.com/assets/20180530-CB_Community_Presentation-reduced.pdf

UrbanNebraska
01-17-2019, 03:53 PM
Happy 2019 all my OKC friends, congratulations on the streetcar opening and I am looking forward to seeing all that it brings with it! I am really itching to make a quick weekend drive down and do a swing through OKC and Tulsa as there are a few really cool inspiring developments I would love to see in person.

Omaha keeps plugging along. These next 5 years may be the most transformative in 15 years for DTO. The infill is fine, but there are some major investments flowing into the core right now.

The largest public project is the $290 million parks project is starting work this spring pasted above. Roughly 90 acres of park space designed by the same firm behind OKC's Myriad Gardens and Dallas' Klyde Warren Park. It will straddle both sides of the Missouri River and completely rebuild our central park and existing riverfront greenspace. Most exciting of the details is pulling the park over a cap above the active rail tracks that block the city from the river, our natural asset.

In conjunction with the parks investments the Phase 1 of a 6 phase 500+ million project to densify the suburban ConAgra Campus has city approval and will begin construction this year.

Phase 1 consists of demoing one of the office buildings that ConAgra vacated when they moved some operations to Chicago. In its place will be a 375 apartment units wrapped around a 720 stall garage with 42K SF in retail space. They will also build an amenity filled boulevard designed for events. The brown building in the middle is the first phase.
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Later phases include:

1B Estimated Delivery 2022:
220 Key Hotel
284 Stall Garage
25K SF of ground floor retail

2A Estimated Deliver 2024:
237 MF units
550 Stall Garage
20K SF ground floor retail/flex

2B Estimated Delivery 2023:
250K SF office space
750 stall garage

2C Estimated Delivery 2024:
7500 SF of Event Space

4A Estimated Delivery 2025
200K SF of office
750 stall garage

4B Estimated Delivery 2026:
250 unit high rise MF or condo
375 stall garage

Totals:
862 Residential Units
450K SF Office Space
87K SF Retail Space
220 Hotel Rooms
7500 SF Event Space
3429 Parking Stalls

Current State:
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Master Plan:
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Elsewhere DT a $120 Million 10 story courthouse expansion is moving forward set to break ground this year likely. There was some push back initially b/c they wanted to take a 100 year old building through eminent domain, but they thankfully came to their senses and just pursued and secured a parking lot location across the street.
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North Downtown has two large new redevelopment actions happening.

The first is dubbed "The Builder's District." It will be anchored by Fortune 500 company Kiewit. They will be moving from their current home in Midtown to this project that just broke ground.
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The second area is being called "Millwork Commons." Currently it is a spattering of chain hotels, abandoned brick warehouses, industrial users and a building used as a tech startup space. They plan to spend $300 million to rehab the old warehouses and to divert the industrial traffic to a new route.

The first building is rehabbing The Ashton into tech friendly office space. The main anchor will be Flywheel, a local tech startup that has swelled from 3 employees at launch in 2012 to over 200 in Omaha today. Total buildout includes new built housing and converting a few other vacant brick buildings into office space. Marketing it as tech/startup space.
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The awesome local photographer Brad Williams was able to get in the air this past fall and captured some really great shots of the city and development progress.

Aksarben Village with the 10 story HDR Headquarters nearly complete. Aksarben Village has become one of the preeminent office locations in the city with HDR Inc, DLR Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Pacific Life insurance, Green Plains Energy(A Fortune 1000 ethanol producer)
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The Nebraska Medical Center is a major anchor for the east end of the city and has pumped over half a billion into their campus in recent years.
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This site is controlled by the med center and is set to be a mixed use area to support the campus with housing, hotels, office and retail. No timeline yet though.
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And some infill projects in the Midtown/Nebraska Medical Center area.
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This area was really tough 5 years ago. 3 new builds and loads of rehabs now. The cluster of townhomes at the bottom is the first few of 99 planned on vacant lots as well.
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Then just for fun b/c I thought it was cool the UP 4141 was in town for a few days. It is the locomotive that carried HW Bush's body from the site of his funeral to his burial site in College Station. After the events it was displayed in Omaha for a few days and will end up being at his presidential library I believe.
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G.Walker
04-17-2019, 11:26 AM
New 30 story skyscraper planned for downtown Omaha. This would be a great addition to their skyline!

https://www.omaha.com/money/businesses/new--story-skyscraper-planned-for-downtown-omaha-would-be/article_c66284e2-6df8-5cdf-9642-0c1a4cd2b64f.html

HangryHippo
04-17-2019, 12:38 PM
That's awesome! I'd love to see that or something with that kind of variation built in OKC.

UrbanNebraska
04-19-2019, 09:58 AM
New 30 story skyscraper planned for downtown Omaha. This would be a great addition to their skyline!

https://www.omaha.com/money/businesses/new--story-skyscraper-planned-for-downtown-omaha-would-be/article_c66284e2-6df8-5cdf-9642-0c1a4cd2b64f.html

Yeah, it is an exciting proposal. I am cautiously optimistic. That is a big building that is going to need a big user. The design they proposed actually has a phase feature. The core is set in the middle around two wings basically so they could build half the tower then add the second half later. That is shown in the marketing material linked below.

https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/dLZuUrJx-3aLJIyoJQp2_L__N3DtB9bHS0hbgx8cflU/document.pdf

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Just down the street from that proposal 70K SF of office space just broke ground.
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It will be the last piece to the open container courtyard completed about a year ago. Going on the right side of the photo.
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Hopefully these new amenities can attract some fresh office users to the core as job growth has been a little stagnant lately. Lots of residential in DTO, but the office market hasn't been as exciting. Kiewit moving their HQ downtown adjacent is good news, but some big new users have announced major expansions in the suburbs the last few months so DT could really use a win jobs wise.

Carson Financial announced plans to grow to 300 employees by 2020 and 2000 by 2030. New campus in the suburbs.
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Linkedin will expand their Omaha workforce from 450 to 1000 by 2021 in a new suburban building.
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Insurance company Applied Underwriters currently employs 800 in Omaha with a new suburban campus breaking ground soon that will be 450K square feet with room for 2000 employees.

Meanwhile long time downtown anchors like Union Pacific and ConAgra have pulled roughly 1500 jobs out of the core in the past few years. Would love to see someone exciting expand in the core and take a big chunk of the highrise proposal.

UrbanNebraska
12-28-2020, 11:36 PM
Hope all are staying sane and healthy in OKC. Had some free time after testing positive, totally fine no symptoms just staying isolated and really bored with the holiday season now. Almost 2 years since I shared a breakdown so its a big one sorry. I moved to Chicago and finished a master's so have been pretty busy, but I felt like bugging y'all again.

The $300 million urban parks project is still well into construction mode. They recently announced an additional $100 million will be spent to build a science museum on the riverfront. This is a major museum concept missing from the metro.

It will be named the "Kiewit Luminarium." Some are disappointed about the relatively unremarkable glass box design. I do wish it was a little bolder, but I do think if the lighting is right it could make for a pretty dynamic sight reflecting off the river with the skyline behind.

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The rest of the park is well underway. The design is by OJB who designed Myriad Gardens in OKC.

The riverfront portion. This is a really tough piece of land for the city. Premier space right on the river would ideally be used for some condo towers, but this site was a lead-smelting plant until 20 years ago, and the only real remediation was to cap the contaminated soil. This prevents any structure needing really any kind of below-ground foundation from going in.

So, we will get a large children's park, sand volleyball courts and a "beach" surrounding the science museum referenced above. It will go on the green patch in the rendering.
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The biggest change is at the Heartland of America park portion of the revamp. This land was park space before, but was largely unused steep hills. Can see the scale here.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkaxHZHW0AEY7J9?format=jpg&name=large

The rendering shows the great lawn portion, but the sides include more detail like a skating ribbon, bocce courts ect.
https://riverfrontrevitalization.com/assets/images/OM-HOA-20200929_OVERALL.jpg

Closer in gives a better idea of the private development that is happening at the same time as the parks project. The right part is all park, the graded portion on the left is where two of Conagra's buildings have been demoed to make way for The Mercantile mixed used development.
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The plan for the whole project includes ~900 residential units, ~450k SF of office, ~90k SF of retail, 220 hotel rooms and ~3500 structured parking stalls.
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Phase 1 of the project is started. It will contain about 400 apartments and 40k SF of retail in two different buildings surrounding a public parking structure. I like that they split the design into two looks b/c one would have gotten monotonous given the scale of the building. The structure with red brick is closer to the historic Old Market and the more modern looking one is further away.
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The final portion is the central park part of Omaha's downtown parks complex. The old park was a sunken pond that was nice for some pictures and a stroll, but not for anything else as the hills were too steep to even sit on. The park also kind of became where all the loose trash DT ended up as it would blow down there and never get out.

So they have brought it up to grade and will fill it with amenities. It is being modeled a bit after Klyde Warren Park in Dallas.
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Should be a ton of fun and a huge quality of life increase for Downtown Omaha.

Outside of the core suburban "urban" development is the trend right now. Almost $3 billion announced/some started construction for three mixed-use kind of urban development in car centric areas of town. It isn't all perfect, but still a lot for the market to absorb so we will see who wins out.

Nothing official on this one, but these renderings fit with some local rumors floating around that local billionaire Joe Ricketts(TD Ameritrade founder and Cubs owner) was going to develop some land that was formerly car dealerships his group had purchased. The rumors were ~20 story condo building with a rooftop restaurant and this matches up quite well. The site is next to Omaha's main and busiest mall and sits high up on a hill overlooking a big interstate interchange so it will appear fairly tall on the surrounding landscape.


Three buildings with stacked levels of programming are connected with sky bridges to create this mixed-use development featuring 120,000 s.f. of office space combined with 35,000 s.f. of retail space, a skyline restaurant, a 104,000 s.f. hotel, 120,000 s.f of luxury condos, and parking located partially below grade. The buildings are organized to maximize the “prairie landscape” and to provide a unique experience for pedestrian traffic and shared outdoor amenities.

It is anticipated to go where the car dealership is located on the right next to Top Golf with the mall in the background.
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View from the ring road around the mall.
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View from the interstate interchange.
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Interior courtyard area.
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5th times the charm for a dead mall redevelopment in the heart of the city. About every 3 years for the past 15 years a new group comes forward with a plan to redvelop Crossroads. The plan isn't perfect urbanism, but after a decade+ of failed proposals I just am happy to see one actually happening.

$500 million total project. 500k sf of office, 250 apartments, 130 units of senior living, 150 room hotel, 200k sf retail, 150k sf "lifestyle" and 4000 parking stalls.

The entire mall except for Target and the parking garage will be torn down.
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The plan.
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Some nice development near Crossroads big development are being done now too. The whole corridor was a really dated strip mall mess so taller structures with residential units are welcome. This project will replace this old dumpy Furniture Row. Its directly across the street from the mall.
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On farmland owned by Boy's Town that got jumped over for decades actually development is happening for $1.2 billion total development. More surface parking than I'd ideally like, but we aren't there yet I guess.
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Multiple buildings are under construction on the fringe, but recently the $500 million "downtown" component was announced.

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The land owner of the 500 acres is Applied Underwriters insurance. They are building a rather low profile building for themselves and aren't going dense at all, but aren't sparing expenses. They are providing over 1000 parking stalls underground. Their building will virtually appear to be in a park will all parking hidden below rolling hills. For a suburban campus it will be incredibly attractive without surface parking.

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Elsewhere in this same development a couple of new offices are moving along.

Carson Wealth's new HQ.
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Union Bank and Trust's new HQ rendering.
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Even further west into the suburbs about 4 miles down the highway from the previous development is another large mixed use project. Avenue One has infrastructure work well underway. Yet another attempt to create an urbanish destination in the burbs. Lots of product to absorb for the city.

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Leaving the mega projects in the burbs and headed back east into the city.

Nebraska voters passed gambling this election cycle finally with the contingent they can only be operated at horse tracks to prevent them from going anywhere and everywhere. Our current horse track is sad compared to the facilities in OKC and Des Moines. The casino investment will greatly upgrade the facility here.
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The Capitol District downtown is finally complete. 9 years from announcement to the last building completed, but its last building(a 3 story office component) finished this year.

Obviously haven't had a chance to fully use the open container courtyard this year with the space fully enclosed, maybe next summer.
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Some in town were disappointed the office component got cut from 8 floors to 3, but it turned out pretty sharp and I like the difference in scale it provided from the hotel and apartments.
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A large parking lot across the street has broken ground on a new music venue. $109 million for a new midsized venue. Officials have said the lack of a modern venue for the midsized artists causing them to skip over Omaha so this is an attempt to remedy that. I would think its similar to the hole that The Criterion filled in OKC.
https://i.postimg.cc/Qdxgz5jV/53-B79131-3-E38-49-AF-BD2-C-8-BB0-AF81-D354.jpg

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/omaha.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/f/bb/fbbd25dd-5d7b-5820-a682-462fc533182f/5dc32fa2bf920.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C784

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/omaha.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/bb/2bb2e330-e8b7-51d3-85ef-0f759eb03a63/5dc32fa0e16f3.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C777

A sharp midrise is going up in the DT core on a surface lot. It's a much needed courthouse annex. I am not a fan of them including the juvenile detention center on site. I think its going to really hurt the development potential in an untapped part of DT. Oh well they need to safely and humanely serve the young in the community somewhere.
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/omaha.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/23/823f36e6-3f2c-11eb-b4fd-0b2fd18850bf/5fd3f67c0dc9b.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C755

Kiewit, a Fortune 500 construction company, is getting close on their new headquarters in north downtown Omaha. The area was pretty dead in terms of day to day traffic. Event centric part of downtown, but getting a major employer in the neighborhood will hopefully help the local businesses in the area outside of the CWS boom weeks.
https://i.postimg.cc/6p5LRqV4/604-DFFBB-277-C-43-D8-B085-C969-EEDEEEB2.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/wTQzppfX/Kiewit-HQ-Street.jpg

Shows a nice presence north of the interstate in an area mostly full of 2-3 story buildings.
https://i.postimg.cc/51xC9Vhx/0-F39-CCAA-CBC7-45-D8-8784-6-FE7-F3-D3-D1-A9.jpg

Near the Kiewit HQ another mixed use development is underway. Its ~$300 million in a mix of rehab and new construction. The first anchor tenant is Flywheel, and Omaha based tech company that employs about 200. They will take a chunk of this rehabbed historic warehouse. The whole area is some old industrial and vacant land a great spot for tech startup space and a creative hub.
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The park in the foreground there is going to be between the office and a new built apartment building with commercial space facing the greenspace.
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Blackstone is the hot neighborhood in the city.

This is the latest finished apartment in the neighborhood.
https://i.postimg.cc/gJvwb0xV/Blackstone-Corner.jpg

This historic hotel has been fully restored with an addition added to the back and has joined the Kimpton umbrella, a great get for a city our size.
https://digital.ihg.com/is/image/ihg/kimpton-omaha-6242464996-55x31?

A collection of some of the other recent projects in Blackstone.

Historic rehab, I loved the basement bar touch on the corner.
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I like this project as it respected its commercial neighbors by doing two building with a smaller scale with commercial and walk up apts above.
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Another new build that is only two stories. To get a commercial building with only 3 residential units to work financially is a great little infill project.
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Here is the rest of the old commercial buildings that have been rehabbed and filled up.
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Obviously, this modest scale isn't going to last as the area becomes more in demand and the land goes away. Denser projects are proposed.

A 7 story hotel going in.
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/omaha.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/f/50/f503ccaf-54a9-53f6-a820-3d5b30d7562d/5ef7b17028dc7.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C1066

The demand here has stressed parking in the area. The city is proposing a public garage with a developer to build housing above. Kind of a bulky building as the lot is pretty long, but this is just a conceptual rendering so fingers crossed for a better final look.
https://i.ibb.co/NTcWtNf/Screen-Shot-2020-12-29-at-12-09-54-AM.png

HangryHippo
12-29-2020, 06:06 AM
Great update!

EricOK
01-11-2021, 02:53 AM
I was up there in the Fall of 2019 visiting friends. I love Omaha. It's such a cool city and seemed like something of a boom town. Can't wait to go back when all this Covid crap is over. it reminds me of OKC somewhat, but more art-y and less evangelical.

JoninATX
01-13-2021, 12:11 AM
Omaha is definitely on my bucket list.

UrbanNebraska
01-25-2022, 08:29 PM
Sounding like Fortune 500 insurance company Mutual of Omaha moving to a new tower downtown, potentially the tallest in the city, and a streetcar line to be announced tomorrow.

Will be sure to update if exciting news hits tomorrow as planned.

UrbanNebraska
01-26-2022, 10:19 AM
New HQ for Mutual of Omaha announced downtown no specifics on the height or costs right now. Our shorter version of Devon, Pickard Chilton is even working on it. A 3 mile $250 million streetcar line has been announced as well.

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/omaha.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/e/9e/e9ecda46-7eb4-11ec-be8b-e7e58d66f7f4/61f15bb288420.image.png

HangryHippo
01-26-2022, 10:35 AM
Gorgeous!

shawnw
01-26-2022, 10:45 AM
Am I the only one that thinks it looks like Devon Tower?


Edit: Oops I missed in the OP that it was already stated

Anonymous.
01-26-2022, 01:32 PM
That is definitely looking like OKC in that drawing.

G.Walker
01-26-2022, 02:41 PM
Yooo, this is long over due. I am sure people in Omaha are happy! I knew they were due for a new tower, but wow, this is nice.

But it's contingent on the city of Omaha developing the streetcar line?

UrbanNebraska
01-26-2022, 05:30 PM
Yooo, this is long over due. I am sure people in Omaha are happy! I knew they were due for a new tower, but wow, this is nice.

But it's contingent on the city of Omaha developing the streetcar line?

There is a bit of controversy. This is going on the site of the existing library downtown. The library is moving to another building DT on a 5 years lease and some feel that the public asset is being cast aside. The brutalist design kind of made it an easy target.
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/news-journal.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/b/01/b01ad0eb-5d36-5d64-9d08-0df8dc28330f/619e61b5017b0.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C800

The tower is contingent on the streetcar, but according to the Mayor the streetcar is happening. Engineering work starting ASAP turning dirt late 2023 open 2026 similar timeline for the tower. The streetcar is happening they said. It will be free to ride, it is being funded with funds from TIF developments in the area surrounding the route and ongoing maintenance is going to be funded through revenue that the city makes on the parking garages they own and street meters (not idea they pulled that kind of $ from those sources).

This is the streetcar route. I will just highlight some main attractions along the route.
https://www.cityofomaha.org/images/Omaha-Streetcar-Route_Jan2022-RGB.jpg

At the west is Nebraska Medicine as an anchor. It is the state's largest medical school and currently is home to 8000 employees. They have announced their NExT project. A 2.5 billion expansion over the next decade. The first phase on that expansion include a new administrative tower and a bio tech incubator built inside an industrial building left from an old steel mill. The tower will be in the bottom left of this picture an elevated greenspace will go above the road and connect it to the rest of the medical campus. Right next to the new tower an existing industrial building will be rehabbed into a biotech incubator.

https://www.nebraskamed.com/sites/default/files/documents/Aerials%20of%20UNMC%20looking%20east-6588.jpg
https://app1.unmc.edu/publicaffairs/TodaySite/Images/SiteImages/large/Rendering102521.jpg
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https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/omaha.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/f/b8/fb882853-ab5a-5d0a-9b35-82d910fa3ecb/60a3f297d3468.image.jpg

The next main node moving east is Blackstone. The cool newer district with a bunch of new bars, dinning and housing.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e8300be4b0dc5d503132c6/1627964619143-1YQIIG8QCDS5I8Y0JJSL/blackstone.jpg?format=1500w

This 9 floor retail, parking and apt building is the next big project in Blackstone. Love the scale, cracking the 5 story stick built mold that is more popular in town.
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/omaha.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/87/58719020-bd85-11eb-a91a-9f24f607051d/60ad3f05aebfb.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C675

The Cottonwood Hotel recently opened in a historic building in Blackstone. Originally known as the Blackstone Hotel it is said to be where the Ruben was invented. More recently held offices, but has returned to its former glory as a high end hotel. The developers did great work the property is really amazing inside.
https://metropolismag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2-cottonwood-hotel-jesse-duering.jpg

Next major area is the area Mutual of Omaha will be vacating. The current HQ and Midtown Crossing. The also own a lot of developable land and said in the press conference today that they will work with developers to put a plan together for all their land.
https://kubrick.htvapps.com/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/images/mutual-campus-aerial-view-1638330158.jpg

https://clubhousetours.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/midtown-2-1500x500.jpg

This snip shows all the parking and vacant lots they own in the area. Lots to work with.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZnF9q1Y3/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-5-51-02-PM.png

Some small infill that isn't work posting next, the next major new project along the streetcar line is a $100 million expansion to the Joslyn Art Museum designed by international firm Snohetta.

https://visitnebraska.com/sites/default/files/styles/listing_slideshow/public/listing_images/profile/3273/JoslynScptGdn_sel_w_screen.jpg?itok=ZdpoukHj

https://snohetta.com/uploads/images/2170b21fb8d884c27671f7b0955192a5_1024w.jpeg

https://snohetta.com/uploads/images/1dd0678bee6ad613bec842689e4bd517_2048w.jpeg

The next are is the CBD with the previously mentioned new tower for Mutual of Omaha and the Old Market.

Then new development that it will go by next are the new parks and the Mercantile mixed use development with the first phase of 400 apartments u/c.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD4biBUWQAArAvr?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEsBbqHXEAA4Liz?format=jpg&name=large

It will then turn north for a bit and go by the new $109 million concert venue being built for the middle side standing room shows that often skip town since we don't have a great space for that ~4000 crowd.
https://scontent-den4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/272617315_10166403606940508_7795669063092577668_n. jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=-j2dUqPl2kEAX9pxOD-&_nc_ht=scontent-den4-1.xx&oh=00_AT8tonqLHjvSXGhJEsA0XBvbsiSwicrS23hP5pqoAqhr Mg&oe=61F37F28

It will then go by the recently completed mixed use Capitol District.
https://image1.apartmentfinder.com/i2/ay7FPQ6bi_o0CmKysqgLVFp__ghQig4Yqa_sVVxQkbk/111/the-capitol-district-apartments-omaha-ne-building-photo.jpg

And finish at the front door of our arena and the outfield wall of the baseball stadium where the CWS is played.
https://www.hdrinc.com/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_image/public/2017-05/td-ameritrade-park-omaha-pp5037-baseball-stadium-field-view.jpg?itok=tscjttxu

Just a couple blocks from the northern terminus is a tech focused campus called Millwork Commons with rehabbed historic buildings for office, and new builds for residential and a new park recently completed and much more planned.
https://images.crexi.com/lease-assets/103460/d87f129452c04866bc428e8c9cb12ef8_1306x734.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI8wJ0FX0AMmN_s?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
https://i.postimg.cc/G2DCjwgP/034-BFEAD-E332-41-AC-BF71-1-F41859-BB4-B3.jpg

Just a ton of city to see without needing a car, exciting day!

shawnw
01-26-2022, 08:53 PM
Not a big brutalism fan but I LIKE that library building. Probably sounds dumb but would be cool if they could build the new building through the library and integrate it functionally. Streetcar line will be super nice. Will have to go back once done (was there fall 2020).

BG918
01-26-2022, 10:36 PM
Nice projects lined up for Omaha! Like our cities in Oklahoma all of this likely flies under the radar for those outside the central U.S. Des Moines also has lots of new development.

midtownokcer
01-27-2022, 09:15 AM
Omaha is on fire. New tower, streetcar line (fare free?!), and so many cool projects. Haven't visited in 10+ years. Loved it back then and can only imagine what it's like now. A good friend (originally from DFW) is stationed at Offutt. They moved from Bremerton, WA and are so much happier in Omaha than Puget Sound. They rave about living in Omaha and don't want to leave.

Urbanized
01-27-2022, 01:49 PM
That's a lovely sculpture by Oklahoma's Allen Houser on the lawn of the Joslyn Sculpture Garden.

fortpatches
01-28-2022, 09:41 AM
Omaha is on fire. New tower, streetcar line (fare free?!), and so many cool projects. Haven't visited in 10+ years. Loved it back then and can only imagine what it's like now. A good friend (originally from DFW) is stationed at Offutt. They moved from Bremerton, WA and are so much happier in Omaha than Puget Sound. They rave about living in Omaha and don't want to leave.

Yea, paying for riding the streetcar surprised me when I moved to OKC from KCMO.

G.Walker
01-29-2022, 12:46 PM
It's softly free, if that makes sense. Every time I ride the street car I buy a ticket, but the streetcar operator never checks to see if you actually bought one. I think the majority of the people who ride the streetcar don't buy tickets.

So I would say the kiosks are there to "encourage" you to buy a ticket, but they are not going to check or kick you off if you don't have one. ;)

UrbanNebraska
01-25-2023, 05:34 PM
Just one day short of a year from the announcement Mutual of Omaha had its official groundbreaking. Final figures on the tower turned out to be 44 floors and 677 feet tall to make it the tallest in the city edging out the First National Bank of Omaha's tower completed in 2002 at 634 feet tall.

https://blogs.mutualofomaha.com/newsroom/files/2022/10/From-Park3.jpg

https://blogs.mutualofomaha.com/newsroom/files/2023/01/V2_PC-Edit_small.jpg

https://blogs.mutualofomaha.com/newsroom/files/2023/01/V4_PC_Edit-min.jpg

https://blogs.mutualofomaha.com/newsroom/files/2023/01/V3_PC-Edit-min.jpg

https://blogs.mutualofomaha.com/newsroom/files/2023/01/C2_Edit-min.jpg

https://blogs.mutualofomaha.com/newsroom/files/2023/01/C1_Edit-min.jpg

Pete
01-25-2023, 05:50 PM
Very nice!

BG918
01-25-2023, 06:31 PM
That’s a great looking tower! What is the overall office vacancy rate in downtown Omaha? What happens to the current Mutual of Omaha campus when they move downtown?

HangryHippo
01-25-2023, 06:37 PM
That looks sexy af.

UrbanNebraska
01-25-2023, 08:35 PM
That’s a great looking tower! What is the overall office vacancy rate in downtown Omaha? What happens to the current Mutual of Omaha campus when they move downtown?

Mutual of Omaha controls a ton of undeveloped land around their current campus. They are selling all of their parking garages to the city, but still, own a ton of developable land. They don't have firm plans for it all yet, but last month the bonds were approved for our streetcar which will run right through their campus. They have said they are looking for a development partner to work with. They are Midtown Crossing on this map of the route. It will be a big redevelopment project.

https://indd.adobe.com/view/publication/6a0d73f7-0535-4660-ad27-1cfc4b6b5e4e/knd4/publication-web-resources/image/OSCA-Route%2BMap_v51.png

Regarding downtown office, a local report says 7% vacancy downtown. This is less driven by a ton of new office users and more driven by a lot of office space being converted to residential over the past decade (at least 500k SF) and another ~200k SF being demoed. Of interest, while this will be the tallest it will not the most square footage. The Mutual tower will be 800k SF and the Union Pacific Railroad headquarters (the squatty box next to this tower you can see in the renderings) is the biggest building downtown with over 1.1 million SF and only 317 feet tall.

There is for some reason momentum for office downtown now, who knew after the work-from-home scenario. Our first mass timber building broke ground in North Downtown this week as well. 110,000 SF of office, as far as I know its speculative and with no tenant attached.

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/30-scaled.jpg

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/31-768x300.jpg

There was another mass timber office building announced this summer and its even more exciting. If you are familiar with the T3 buildings by Hines one was proposed in the new Mercantile development. It is proposed to be 7 stories and 275k SF with about 800 parking stalls below grade to support the new parks next door as well.

https://www.eomahaforums.com/download/file.php?id=2998

https://www.eomahaforums.com/download/file.php?id=3000

https://www.eomahaforums.com/download/file.php?id=2999

Some really cool national and international company for the T3 brand.

https://postlmg.cc/fVdqSHf5

To give some perspective this will be immediately to the right of this 375 unit apartment building that is opening this spring. The apartments were Phase 1 and this office Phase II of like a 5 Phase mixed-used development. Also in this shot is the next phase of the downtown parks overhaul that is set to open this summer.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhApaf-XgAIKAP7?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

The T3 office will fall at the bottom of this picture. The finished phase one of the parks project is running through the center of this picture and the new Mutual of Omaha tower will be at the top left corner.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhApaf_WQAAmYg7?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

HangryHippo
01-26-2023, 05:32 AM
What historic buildings with reuse potential are they wiping out for that tower tho?

JoninATX
02-13-2023, 03:47 AM
Congrats on the new tallest Omaha!

UrbanNebraska
09-17-2023, 06:04 PM
The downtown parks system revamp is officially complete. Three parks comprising 72 acres got a $325 million overhaul to make the space much more usable. The old parks were underutilized and dated. OJB Architects (who did Myriad Gardens) did the design work and its been incredible. Never seen the parks in Omaha this lively. I'll post brief before and afters but the two ~4 min videos with drone shots really show the finished product off.

Gene Lehey Mall. The "central park" downtown. Was first built in the 70s and was designed as a lagoon. Decent for a walk, but not much else. Steep hills, below street grade reduced visibility and captured a lot of debris. New park was brought up to street level and added a number of active features.

https://i.ibb.co/nR7DgNV/Downtown-Mall-from-1st-Nat-cropped-w.jpg

https://www.ojb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/drone_concert1-scaled.jpg

Heartland of America Park was developed in the early 90s in conjunction with ConAgra's suburban style campus. It was a large lake with a walking path. Again not many uses. The lake was shrunk to make way for more usable greenspace, activities like a skating ribbon, and a pier to the river.

https://www.hlimg.com/images/things2do/738X538/ttd_1524111301m1.jpg?w=400&dpr=2.6

https://www.ojb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DJI_0079-scaled.jpg

Lewis and Clark Landing was developed in the early 2000s. The area was previously home to a lead smelting plant and needed major remediation, Once that was complete they basically just paved the whole area and didn't do much. Tried to have a destination restaurant, but the whole area was honestly sad. New park makes the area way more active and a science museum was added to the area.

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/omaha.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/b/be/bbe9bc62-993e-51be-9897-1bf84bcf2a5a/5a62d38da695a.image.jpg?resize=796%2C500

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/LewisandClarkLandingOmaha.jpg

https://www.ojb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Aerial-courtesy-MECA-scaled.jpg

This is a recent aerial of downtown showing much of the parks. Gene Leahey Mall in the center, with the new tallest building going up right at the end of that park. The Lewis and Clark Landing park space with the new science museum on the far right with Heartland of America Park out of frame to the left.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F45_MiXWsAARnvr?format=jpg&name=4096x4096


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_GHKNdNrXI

UrbanNebraska
09-17-2023, 06:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQA0xQ962Uw

unfundedrick
09-17-2023, 08:08 PM
It's all very very nice. Congrats to Omaha.

mugofbeer
09-18-2023, 10:18 PM
Omaha is on fire. New tower, streetcar line (fare free?!), and so many cool projects. Haven't visited in 10+ years. Loved it back then and can only imagine what it's like now. A good friend (originally from DFW) is stationed at Offutt. They moved from Bremerton, WA and are so much happier in Omaha than Puget Sound. They rave about living in Omaha and don't want to leave.

Omaha has such a huge corporate presence and wealthy philanthropists for a city of it's size to help with public benefits such as fare-free streetcars. They have a very healthy future.

BoulderSooner
09-19-2023, 07:13 AM
Omaha has such a huge corporate presence and wealthy philanthropists for a city of it's size to help with public benefits such as fare-free streetcars. They have a very healthy future.

there was a sponsor lined up to make the OKC streetcars free ... that was rejected by embark ..

UrbanNebraska
01-21-2024, 03:40 PM
Airline traffic is definitely back and Omaha's Eppley Airfield had its second busiest year ever with just over 5 million passengers in 2023. This week a much needed $950 terminal expansion/renovation was announced. The current airport offers two unconnected concourses so there are two separate TSA checkpoints and there is a limited amount of dining options past security as the amount of travelers is essentially cut in half. The new terminal will have one central security checkpoint and double the square footage offering a lot more space beyond security to increase the amenities. Also adding 2 gates to get to 22 (room to expand to the north in the future), building a large canopy over the dropoff/pickup area, and bringing international security into the main terminal. Going to be such a huge improvement.

Current:
https://lamprynearson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Eppley-Airfield-Terminal.jpg

Future:
https://www.buildoma.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ExteriorAirside_E010_re1400_WEB_1920x1080.jpg

https://www.buildoma.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CanopySkywalk_South_R030_re0400_COMP_Final_t01_v06 .0000_RGB_1920x1080.jpg

https://www.buildoma.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CurbsideFascade_E010_re0100_WEB_1920x1080-1536x864.jpg

https://www.buildoma.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CentralSecurity_E010_re1300_WEB_1920x1080-1536x864.jpg

https://www.buildoma.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CentralPavilion_E010_re0800_WEB_1920x1080.jpg

https://www.buildoma.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CentralPavilion_E010_re0500_WEB_1920x1080.jpg