Real Estate News

3 Years After The Marshall Fire: Wildfire Smoke’s Health Risks Can Linger Long-Term In Homes That Escape Burning

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/02/2025 - 5:00am

Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through two communities just outside Boulder, Colorado. In the span of about eight hours, more than 1,000 homes and businesses burned.

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Effort Revived To Preserve Access To Iconic Rapids On Scenic Niobrara River

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/02/2025 - 3:00am

LINCOLN — An on-again, off-again effort to ensure public access to the Niobrara River is back on again.

If the purchase of the Rocky Ford rapids area happens this time – it was blocked more than once a decade ago – it would maintain the public use of an important take-out point for those floating and kayaking the nationally designated scenic river.

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Hurricane-Force Winds Bear Down On California, Latest In Stretch Of Extreme Weather

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 01/02/2025 - 1:00am

Remnants of a bathroom that fell off the wharf are visible at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024.
(Nic Coury / AP Photo)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Record-setting flooding over three days dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of northern California, a fire left thousands under evacuation orders and warnings in Los Angeles County, forecasters issued the first-ever tornado warning in San Francisco and rough seas tore down part of a wharf in Santa Cruz.

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Lengthy Effort To Remake Omaha’s Crossroads Mall Site Hits ‘Milestone’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/26/2024 - 7:00am

The latest version of the Crossroads redevelopment includes a public plaza surrounded by retailers and office space, shown here in a rendering.
(Courtesy of Holland Basham Architects)

OMAHA — It’s been 15 years since an Omaha developer bought the dying Crossroads Mall with expectations to create a bigger and better commercial centerpiece for Nebraska’s largest city.

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A Word … And A Warning

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/26/2024 - 6:00am

If you’re a Nebraskan, chances are your ZIP code has played a role in your being labeled “plain spoken,” a compliment about what some perceive as our native and natural custom to be clear, honest and forthright. Hey, as far as praise goes, we could do a lot worse … even those of us often accused as being anything but plain spoken.

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Lawmakers Look At What Works, What Doesn’t Among NE Housing Programs And Incentives

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/26/2024 - 3:00am

State Sen. Rob Dover of Norfolk. Dec. 12, 2024.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — State Sen. Rob Dover knows real estate.

The Norfolk lawmaker, appointed to the Legislature in 2022 and now elected to serve four more years, is a Realtor, a builder and a developer of private residential and commercial properties. He has previously served on the Nebraska Real Estate Commission.

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The Wanamaker Organ Has Been Part Of A Treasured Holiday Tradition In Philly For Over 100 Years − A Historian Explains Its Illustrious Past And Uncertain Future

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/26/2024 - 2:00am

Members of the Girard Academic Music Program perform at Macy's on Saturday, June 14, 2014, in Philadelphia. Macy's and the Smithsonian Museum salutes the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner with a special performance by The Girard Academic Music Program along with Grand Court Organist, Peter Richard Conte on the Wanamaker organ.
(Michael Perez / AP Images for Macy's)

After Macy’s announced in November 2023 its plans to close approximately 150 locations across the United States, some Philadelphians fretted – not so much about the fate of the Center City department store, but about a local treasure housed inside.

What would happen to the 120-year-old Wanamaker organ and annual Christmas light show?

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For Some, The Pope's Big Holy Year Only Aggravates Housing Crisis As Overtourism Pushes Out Romans

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 12/25/2024 - 4:00am

Tourists approaching the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica Saturday, July 11, 1998, walk through street works.
(Massimo Sambucetti / AP Photo)

When Pope Francis left the Vatican earlier this month for his traditional Christmastime outing downtown, he acknowledged what many Romans have been complaining about for months: That his big plans for a Holy Year had turned their city into a giant construction pit, with traffic-clogging roadworks tearing up major thoroughfares, scaffolding covering prized monuments and short-term rentals gobbling up apartment blocks.

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Atypical Nebraska Housing Project Aims At ‘Housing Crisis And Silver Tsunami’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 5:00am

A rendering of Corby and Benson houses at 58th and Corby Streets in the Benson area of Omaha. The infill housing and small accessory dwelling concept, which was designed and led by Nebraska graduate-level students, addresses the growing need for workforce and aging-ready housing.
(Courtesy of UNL Fabrication And Construction Team, FACT)

OMAHA — An eclectic area of Omaha is soon to meet new neighbors, Corby and Benson.

Corby and Benson are names of two atypical housing prototypes — smaller than average and likely to require shedding some belongings. But they’re easier on the pocketbook than a median priced newly constructed house and can fit on odd-sized, unconventional and infill lots.

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TIF Defenders In Nebraska Say It Boosts Housing, Other Projects

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 4:00am

OMAHA — In rural Nebraska towns of Scribner and Lexington, workforce housing is rising with help from a sometimes controversial economic development incentive called tax-increment financing.

The assistance TIF offers developers can cut a family’s cost of buying one of the roughly $300,000 houses by as much as $50,000, a developer of the projects said.