Phase 1 of this 9 building nearly decade long project is set to break ground soon.
It will be a 5 story 375 unit market rate apartment building, featuring 42K SF of ground floor retail and a 720 stall garage. It is the image in the center of the first rendering.
Phasing information in this platting document provided to the city
https://planning.cityofomaha.org/ima...ecember/11.pdf show the plan between now and the end of 2026.
Project highlights are:
9 total buildings
Nearly 900 total residential units(later phase suggests a highrise residential portion)
450K SF of office space
Nearly 90K SF of retail
220 room hotel
7500 SF of event space
Nearly 3500 garage stalls
For some background here. This land has long been a lightning rod issue in Omaha. ConAgra successfully demolished Jobber's Canyon to develop their new HQ in the late 80s. 24 century old buildings were torn down for Conagra's suburban style campus downtown. At the time it was the largest demolition of a National Register Historic District to date. ConAgra had threatend to leave Omaha without the new campus.
Omaha was reeling at that time from Enron move their HQ to Houston and taking 2000 jobs away just a couple years prior to the decision. The city did not want to risk losing another major employer and allowed the demolition to go through.
25 years later ConAgra moved their HQ to Chicago and cut the Omaha workforce roughly in half. ~1200 still work on their campus, leaving far too much space for the company and a half empty sprawling 5 building campus on the edge of DT Omaha. Their operations were consolidated into 3 buildings and a 4th was put on the market for other users. The 5th will be torn down to make way for this development.
Thankfully ConAgra seems committed to Omaha and to re-urbanizing their campus with this plan. Hines' plan is a scale of project that DTO hasn't seen before and will hopefully give our urban core back some of the luster it lost when Jobbers was torn down.
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