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Omaha Update: Development Plans, Weather, Police Incident, Job Market, and Community Events
- 2025/04/17
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Good morning, this is Omaha Local Pulse for Thursday, April 17th, 2025.
We start today with breaking news from City Hall. The Urban Design Review Board meets this morning and will be making recommendations to the Planning Director on several new site plans around downtown and the Old Market. These decisions could shape the look and feel of our city’s core for years to come, including new mixed-use development proposals and streetscape improvements that might bring more foot traffic and small businesses to our neighborhoods.
Turning to the weather, we wake up to cool, mild conditions. Expect skies to brighten through the morning with temperatures rising to the mid-sixties by the afternoon. There’s a slight breeze from the northwest, so keep a light jacket handy if you’re headed out. Looking ahead, we see a warm-up into the weekend, with Saturday looking especially pleasant for outdoor plans.
In local news, there’s been heightened attention in North Omaha after a police-involved shooting Sunday near Florence Tower. Police have confirmed that one individual is dead and another is recovering in the hospital. The investigation is ongoing; authorities urge anyone with information to come forward. Meanwhile, on the public safety front, a missing child from Omaha is safe after being found during a traffic stop in Kansas. The quick cooperation between states brought relief to a family and community that had rallied for answers.
Job seekers in Omaha are seeing modest improvement in the local market. Several downtown hotels are hiring ahead of the College World Series season, adding around a hundred positions in hospitality and food service. In the real estate world, interest in the Midtown area continues to run high, with median home prices topping three hundred thousand dollars and homes averaging just under three weeks on the market.
Spring means new beginnings in our schools as well. Omaha Christian High School has announced it will open this fall, offering a new non-denominational option for families across the metro. On the sports beat, Omaha North’s boys soccer team clinched a hard-fought victory against Central last night in a match that went to penalty kicks, giving North a spot in the district finals.
Looking to community events, families can visit Gifford Farm every Monday this spring to enjoy hands-on learning and meet their famous goats. The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts downtown is also highlighting new resident artists with special open studio nights this weekend. And aviation enthusiasts young and old can check out the interactive “Mission Astronaut” exhibit at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum in Ashland.
To end on an uplifting note, Omaha is once again showing its caring spirit. Volunteers gathered at Lauritzen Gardens yesterday to help plant hundreds of native wildflowers, part of an effort to beautify our public spaces and create more habitats for pollinators.
This has been Omaha Local Pulse. We’ll see you tomorrow with more local updates.
We start today with breaking news from City Hall. The Urban Design Review Board meets this morning and will be making recommendations to the Planning Director on several new site plans around downtown and the Old Market. These decisions could shape the look and feel of our city’s core for years to come, including new mixed-use development proposals and streetscape improvements that might bring more foot traffic and small businesses to our neighborhoods.
Turning to the weather, we wake up to cool, mild conditions. Expect skies to brighten through the morning with temperatures rising to the mid-sixties by the afternoon. There’s a slight breeze from the northwest, so keep a light jacket handy if you’re headed out. Looking ahead, we see a warm-up into the weekend, with Saturday looking especially pleasant for outdoor plans.
In local news, there’s been heightened attention in North Omaha after a police-involved shooting Sunday near Florence Tower. Police have confirmed that one individual is dead and another is recovering in the hospital. The investigation is ongoing; authorities urge anyone with information to come forward. Meanwhile, on the public safety front, a missing child from Omaha is safe after being found during a traffic stop in Kansas. The quick cooperation between states brought relief to a family and community that had rallied for answers.
Job seekers in Omaha are seeing modest improvement in the local market. Several downtown hotels are hiring ahead of the College World Series season, adding around a hundred positions in hospitality and food service. In the real estate world, interest in the Midtown area continues to run high, with median home prices topping three hundred thousand dollars and homes averaging just under three weeks on the market.
Spring means new beginnings in our schools as well. Omaha Christian High School has announced it will open this fall, offering a new non-denominational option for families across the metro. On the sports beat, Omaha North’s boys soccer team clinched a hard-fought victory against Central last night in a match that went to penalty kicks, giving North a spot in the district finals.
Looking to community events, families can visit Gifford Farm every Monday this spring to enjoy hands-on learning and meet their famous goats. The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts downtown is also highlighting new resident artists with special open studio nights this weekend. And aviation enthusiasts young and old can check out the interactive “Mission Astronaut” exhibit at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum in Ashland.
To end on an uplifting note, Omaha is once again showing its caring spirit. Volunteers gathered at Lauritzen Gardens yesterday to help plant hundreds of native wildflowers, part of an effort to beautify our public spaces and create more habitats for pollinators.
This has been Omaha Local Pulse. We’ll see you tomorrow with more local updates.