Omaha By Design
Place Game Outcomes

Explore Omaha's
Public Gardens
Today!
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Summer Fun 2005 Photo Page
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Leavenworth Neighborhood Begins Improvement Plan
On September 19, 2002, the Leavenworth Neighborhood Association began a journey of renewal in their neighborhood.  The group had requested that Omaha By Design then called Lively Omaha, help them...
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Ford Birthsite/Park Avenue
Neighborhood Explore Options with Place Game

Ford Birthsite Neighborhood Association meets at Perk Ave Café for a Park Avenue Place Game.


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Civic Center Planters in Full Bloom

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Omaha Summer Concerts Bring Music to Public Places
Visit our calendar page for listings of many area outdoor music concerts

See photos
from recent
concerts here.
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New Housing on Omaha's Riverfront
See plans on models
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Omaha's New Front Door
Find out about exciting new plans for North Omaha
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Get Moving Omaha!

Learn about a more active lifestyle using Omaha’s great public places.

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Regency residents work together for Place Game
On May 23, 2005, Omaha By Design and the Regency neighborhood joined forces to conduct a Place Game.

More than 30 Regency residents attended representing both the Home Owners Association and the Town Home Association.
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Metropolitan begins work on its first new building in 25 years
Metropolitan Community College broke ground on June 2, 2005 for its South Omaha Campus Connector Building, the College’s first new building in 25 years.. .
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Harte Block Renovation Shows Real Civic Heart in Dundee
Preserving and maintaining our architectural heritage has always been a link to our past and who we are. For 83 years Carl S. Baum Druggists, the oldest continually operated business in Dundee ...
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Mutual of Omaha Moves on Midtown Mixed Use Proposal
Mutual of Omaha is exploring the creation of a mixed-use urban neighborhood with residential, commercial and green space east of its headquarters at 33rd and Dodge streets.
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Exciting Plans for the 40th Street Neighborhoods
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Summertime is Free Concert time
Check out our photo Gallery of Free concerts around town.
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North 24th Street Swings Again!
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Improvements begin on Leahy Mall
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Omaha Public Art Needs your Help
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Here's Looking at You Looking at Me
Bemis Billboard Project
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Tree of Life to Grow in South Omaha
Exciting Plans for South Omaha
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Planning gets underway for a new Benson with Merchant’s and Architect’s charrette

Creative solutions for the Benson corridor.
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Omaha by Design Featured in Harvard Design Magazine
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What's New in Omaha
Public Art
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Bench Marks Project to Beautify Bus Stops with
Public Art
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Lively Omaha has become Omaha by Design
Our new name and logo are more descriptive of our mission and will eliminate confusion about the differences between Lively Omaha and Omaha By Design. We are proud of the success of (Read More)

Mayor Fahey wins Laurels Award

See the Nebraska Prairie as Lewis and Clark did!
We learn about it in school and read about it in the books by
Nebraska authors, but few of us have ever seen our native landscape as Lewis and Clark or Mari Sandoz did.
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See What's New
In
Architectural Preservation
Omaha’s architecture represents a rich cultural heritage and contributes to the City’s sense of place. .
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The Results Are In!
Omaha by Design Opinion Survey Results and Analysis
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Downtown Excitement
An exciting new vision
for 11th Street and
the Gene Leahy Mall

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See What's New
In Public Art
Public Art continues to flourish and grow in Omaha.  Here are some recent installations of art in public places that we can all use and enjoy.
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Place Game Results!
Place Game
helps Columbus Park get renovation funds

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Place Game Promotes
Plants on Plaza
Planters add beauty and
security.
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What's in There?
Hearty container plantings you can use in your neighborhood.

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Benson Place Game
On July 26, 2004 Lively Omaha, and
the Benson Merchants Association joined
forces to conduct A Place Game workshop.

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Holiday Lights Festival 2004
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Operation Midtown
Creating Places Where People Want to Be
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In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark
Retrace the steps of Lewis and Clark with public art.
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Plaza De La Raza
See how South Omaha is reinventing its business district.
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Happy Birthday Omaha
Who wants Cake?
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W.Dale Clark Library Place Game
On June 19, 2004 Lively Omaha, and the Omaha Public Library
joined forces to conduct A Place Game
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20th Street Place Game
AIA creates new vision of 20th Street with Place Game Ideas 
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Announcement: Laurels Award
Lively Omaha honors Gary Gates, President of OPPD.
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Creighton University Expansion
Creighton has big plans for healthy minds and bodies as its campus grows
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Destination Midtown
Community input gathered by playing with scale models.
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Omaha by Design
What's Green, Civic, Neighborhood and Omaha all Over?  It's Omaha By Design!"
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Metropolitan Community College – South Campus Place Game

On October 30, 2003, Lively Omaha joined with Metropolitan Community College, Metro Area Transit (MAT) and the Omaha Public Library for a Place Game
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Northeast Downtown Place Game
Place Game links Qwest Center Omaha to the Gene Leahy Mall
and the Old Market
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Destination Midtown
A partnership of local collaborators joined together to create a compelling vision for Omaha's Future.
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Farmers Market Event Game

Lively Omaha facilitated an Event Game Workshop with the The Omaha Farmers Market on Saturday, July 19th 2003.
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Summer Arts Festival Event Game Workshop

The Omaha Summer Arts Festival and Lively Omaha joined forces in an Event Game Workshop on Saturday, June 28th 2003.
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Civic Center Plaza Place Game Workshop
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Millard Town Center Project; New Urbanism in Old Millard
Picture yourself living, working, walking, shopping and dining in an attractive public space where you are welcomed and encouraged to spend time and enjoy yourself.
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Place Game on 11th Street
On November 16, 2002, the Old Market Business Association and Lively Omaha jointly sponsored a Place Game Workshop with Old Market businesses and residents.
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Bemis Window Project:
Omaha the Next 150 Years

As many as 1,000 participants and 100 artists will come together to visually explore Omaha
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Place Game on 20th Street
On September 17th, Lively Omaha facilitated a Place Game for the Cultural Arts District Committee to introduce the concept of an arts corridor on 20th
Street."
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"Improving Omaha's Neighborhoods" Workshop
On May 3rd and 4th, more than 100 people went to five neighborhoods to learn "how to turn a place around."
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Neighborhood Improvement Grants
City of Omaha awarded $85,000 in Neighborhood Improvement Grants to fund projects that improve Omaha neighborhoods.
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Kiwanis park
Kiwanis park reclaimed!

Downtown Kiwanis dream for creation of new Waterfront Pavillion.
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Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trails plan
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trails
Lewis & Clark Riverfront Interpretive Trail with its planned interconnected pedestrian trails and other public river-related projects.
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Monaghan Group and Jim Scholz, photographerThe Retro: Downtown Buses: Back to the Future.

Omaha's Metro Area Transit (MAT) is moving into the future while recapturing the past.
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Omaha Riverfront Improvement Plan
Omaha riverfrontJoin the discussion on the Omaha Riverfront. See what community members of Omaha have come up with so far!
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