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OT: Few Omaha updates for out of towners

ehenningsen

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Nov 18, 2004
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Boystown Development

As announced on Omaha.com, Jay Noddle is undertaking a $1.2 billion dollar (minimum assessed) mixed use development on the 500 Acres of Boystown Farmland from Dodge to Shirley Street and from 144th to 150th.

Included are features such as:
- Gateway Park: amphitheater, lake and dining district
- The Village Square is to be the center for community events such as live performances and farmers markets
- A trail network is to offer running, walking and biking routes 14 feet wide. Said Noddle: “We can do a 10K without even having to leave the property.”
- A boulevard is to run parallel to 144th Street and through the entire development — serving residents and shoppers as well as motorists seeking an alternative to 144th Street.
- Already working with 100 - 125 retailers that are 'new to the market' and others
- expanded interchange at 150th and West Dodge, extend south to intersect with Pacific Street just west of Millard North, then continue southward before bending around to the east to intersect with 144th Street at the southeast corner of the property​

Included specs are:
- 85% to be completed within eight years.
- $1,200,000,000 is on the low end of Noddle's estimates as far as cost to build this
- Spring is the hopeful start of grading
- Expanded 150th and Dodge Interchange
- approximately 167 acres of:
- green buffers, parkland and public squares​
- 2.3 million square feet of planned commercial space
- 1.4 million square feet of office (including Berkshire Hathaway’s Applied Underwriters Inc HQ)
- 1,500 apartments
- 140 town houses
- 440 single-family houses
- Tudor, Craftsman and Colonial styles
- Garages are to be lined up in the alleyway​
- 300-room hotel
- No TIF as this land will be a SID as it was just de-annexed by Boys Town, now designated as unincorporated land.​

First Spinoff known is St Wenceslaus church
- Plans to build a new church that seats 1,400 people
- Will transform its existing 900-seat church to a hall.​

Other Boystown Development related Notes:
- Millard North Will remain
- A pedestrian bridge over Pacific Street
- 10 miles of walking and bike trails
- Noddle was quoted something that has been rehashed many times with other proposals: “There are few opportunities, situations like this anywhere in America,” he said.
- This is being hyped as the West Omaha Downtown​

Also, in other development-related news:

- Noddle is working out the details with a Chicago-based high-rise developer in regards to his 'Playland Park' district development on the Council Bluffs side of the Pedestrian Bridge. This is yet another Super-block development that is already underway.

- The Yard development is still seeing the construction of the Kiewit University and an apartment complex with ground floor retail, a hotel should start construction after that first phase.

- Bellevue is now planning a third high school

- Two new high-profile KC Style BBQ resteraunts are expanding to the city:
- Strouds is currently working on their Village Pointe location
- KC BBQ from San Diego is going to Metro Crossing in CB
- Prarie Queen Lake Development at 132nd and Cornhusker is another 'Superblock' development that is a smaller version of Noddle's Boystown development. Includes:
- a main street with commercial space
- high-density town homes
- Multi-Unit mansions
- A large Lake
- We will know the fate of the Crossroads Mall redevelopment by the end of the year, given the agreed terms of break ground or all offered tax breaks are off the table

- La Vista's 84th Street Redevelopment Project (Nicely produced images)
- $235 million redevelopment
- Large park and Lake (Replaces Golf Course)
- Luxury apartments.
- Town homes. Offices.
- Restaurants.
- Retailers.
- An amphitheater.
- Maybe a hotel
- The Capitol District is well underway. The 12 story apartment building is topped out and the 14-story hotel is three floors from being topped out.
- This is going to also include two eight-story commercial buildings and a Plaza with an Entertainment district designation.
- Hotel rooms: 350
- Hotel operator: Marriott Hotels & Resorts
- Apartments: 200 market rate units, 80 affordable units
- Office/residential space: 140,000 square feet
- Entertainment/retail space: 61,300 square feet
- Tenth Street Market is working behind the scenes on their year-round farmer's market complex

- Tetrad Development (another superblock development) by Zach Weigert
- The Civic is being torn down as we speak.​


...... Hammer away.....
 
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