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Construction continues on a Chick-fil-A location on the southwest corner so 156th & West Maple Road. The fast-food restaurant will open north of Hy-Vee and west of Union Pizzeria.

In this aerial view of Eppley Airfield, you can see more than $1 billion in ongoing construction, including the overhead canopy and drop-off lanes as well as the major expansion/renovation of the terminal. The canopy and front drive project will be done next year. The terminal will take a few years before it’s 100 percent completed. The terminal expansion will add more gates, consolidate the current terminals into one long corridor, create a centralized TSA security screening area, add several new restaurants/retailers and create an international arrivals facility. Photo credit: Omaha Airport Authority

Construction is now underway in the former Charleston’s building at 138th & West Dodge Road. That means renovations have started that will convert the building into Terra Gaucha, an upscale Brazilian steakhouse with current locations in Florida and Connecticut.

The City of Omaha plans to build a 600-stall parking garage on this site in Millwork Commons, the North Downtown mixed-use district north of Charles Schwab Field. The parking garage will be located just east of the Ashton building on a parcel bounded by 11th, 12th and Nicholas streets and Millwork Avenue. The estimated cost is $25 to $30 million.

Construction continues on Allora 168, known as an “apartminium” project on the southeast corner of 168th & Highway 370. The 182-unit development will have high-end finishes and all-inclusive pricings. A Starbuck’s Coffee is also under construction in the same area.

In what appears to be a celebration of Labor Day, crews at the Mutual of Omaha construction site have used the tower crane to hoist a large American flag above the downtown construction site at 14th & Farnam. The general contractor is JE Dunn. The developer is Lanoha Real Estate Company. Work on the central shear tower has reached the 19th floor. The 44-story building is scheduled for completion in about two years. Photo by Brad Williams

Millwork Commons may be getting a hotel. The Disbrow Building, also known as the Radford Building, south the Ashton Building, could become a 135-room boutique hotel. According to the TIF application, the $57 million project will transform the long-vacant building into a key component of the district. Located on the same block as the Dizzy Mule project already under construction, the Millwork Hotel would also have 7,000 sq. ft. of retail space and an atrium. A 4th floor would be added, including a rooftop bar. The Dizzy Mule project consists of two new 5-story apartment buildings with 172 units and 18,000 sq. ft. of retail space.

Steel beams are going vertical on the southwest corner of Farnam Street & Saddle Creek Road. That’s where the University of Nebraska Medical Center is building its Campus Operations and Research Excellence Building. The Leo A. Daly rendering shows what the 6-story building will look like when it’s complete in the summer of 2026. The facility will support computer-based research and wet lab-based research for drug discovery, oncology research and other strategic research areas at UNMC.

The CORE Building will serve as the cornerstone of UNMC’s new Saddle Creek Campus at the corner of Saddle Creek Road and Farnam Street. The site also is in proximity to the Catalyst building, scheduled for completion later this year, which will bring together UNMC’s UNeMed and UNeTech branches with biotech and technology startups and make the CORE Building ideal for research that leads to product and drug collaboration and innovation.

The building is being designed to accommodate a future pedestrian bridge structure crossing over Saddle Creek Road, linking the Saddle Creek Campus to the main academic health science campus. Work also has begun on an adjacent parking structure – which the City of Omaha will pay for, own and operate – to serve the building.