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Northwest Omaha is a community area in Omaha, Nebraska. It holds several neighborhoods. It holds several neighborhoods. The area is loosely bound by West Maple Road to the south, the Douglas - Washington County line to the north, Elkhorn to the west, and McKinley Street, I-680 , and 72nd Street to the east.
Omaha's economy has grown dramatically since the early 1990s. The city has five companies that rank in the Fortune 500 . It also is the smallest city to have two major research hospitals, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University Medical Center.
The Reader was established in 1994 by a group that included John Heaston and Dan Beckmann. Beckmann bought out Heaston in 1999, then sold nearly all of his ownership interest in February 2000 to 77-year-old Alan Baer, a member of the family that had founded the J. L. Brandeis and Sons department store chain. [2]
"Omaha Black Heritage Sites" on NorthOmahaHistory.com includes 165 locations, addresses and references in Omaha. Nebraska Black Oral History Project finding aid and digital collection, digitized by Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries; original held by History Nebraska.
Capitol School of Hairstyling & Esthetics (Capitol School of Hair Design) is a nationally accredited cosmetology and esthetics school located in Omaha, Nebraska. It was founded in 1923. [ 1 ] Capitol School of Hairstyling & Esthetics is a member of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce and accredited by the Better Business Bureau of Nebraska .
Omaha's main airport, Eppley Airfield, is now in East Omaha, and the community has been the location of racial contention for several years. East Omaha was the first annexation to the City of Omaha in 1854. Far north Omaha includes everything north of Ames Avenue, west of Florence Boulevard, and east of 72nd Street.
Omaha was home to an expansion team, the Nighthawks, in the United Football League from 2010 to 2011. [226] The Omaha Beef indoor football team played at the Omaha Civic Auditorium until 2012 when they moved to the new Ralston Arena. Omaha was a notable cadence term of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning during his 18-year ...
Ralston, a city in south-central Douglas County surrounded by Omaha on three sides and roughly bounded by 72nd to the east, 84th to the west, L on the north, and Harrison on the south. Elkhorn, on the outskirts of western Omaha and annexed in 2007; Millard, a broad area of southwest Omaha and annexed in 1971.