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 "id": "n-28621c606b",
 "slug": "omaha-omaha-rail-and-commerce-historic-district",
 "type": "industrial",
 "name": "Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District",
 "aka": [],
 "city": "Omaha",
 "county": "Douglas County",
 "state": "NE",
 "country": "US",
 "census_division": 4,
 "lat": 41.2525,
 "lon": -95.92944444,
 "geocode_method": "wikipedia",
 "address": null,
 "metro": null,
 "original_use": "Large warehouses, manufacturing warehouses, transfer and storage companies, and service businesses",
 "year_opened": null,
 "year_closed": null,
 "acres": null,
 "gla_sqft": null,
 "stores_peak": null,
 "levels": null,
 "original_developer": null,
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 "before_notes": "Draft from Wikipedia, model-extracted, unreviewed: The Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District, originally industrial and commercial buildings, has been reinhabited with apartments, artist studios, and other commercial enterprises.",
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  "reinhabit"
 ],
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  "housing",
  "mixed",
  "other"
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 "status": "built",
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 "developer": null,
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 "after_notes": "apartments, artist studios and other commercial enterprises",
 "narrative": "The Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District, roughly bounded by Jackson, 15th, and 8th Streets, as well as the Union Pacific main line, is located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Today this historic district includes several buildings listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Union Pacific Depot and the Burlington Station.\n\n\n== About ==\nThe Union Pacific Railroad was of central importance to the growth of Omaha, particularly between 1887 and 1945. Buildings in the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District were built to serve business related to the main line of the transcontinental railroad, which runs through the present-day district.",
 "narrative_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
 "narrative_source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Rail_and_Commerce_Historic_District",
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 "public_subsidy": null,
 "entitlement_year": null,
 "planning_notes": null,
 "wikidata_qid": "Q7089444",
 "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Rail_and_Commerce_Historic_District",
 "osm_id": null,
 "verified": "draft",
 "verified_by": null,
 "last_verified": null,
 "last_updated": "2026-10-18",
 "created": "2026-10-18",
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 "contributor_org": null,
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 "international": 0,
 "county_fips": "31055",
 "opp_score": 0.0,
 "opp_reasons": [
  "retrofit already built",
  "county grew 5.5% 2018\u201323",
  "housing in the record"
 ],
 "for_sale": 0,
 "distressed": 0,
 "deep": {},
 "elements": [
  {
   "slug": "place-mall-cluster",
   "name": "3+ other atlas sites within 10 km",
   "grp": "place",
   "evidence": "13 within 10 km",
   "origin": "computed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "place-apartment-boom-county",
   "name": "County permitting 2,000+ apartment units a year",
   "grp": "place",
   "evidence": "2,583 units, Douglas County",
   "origin": "census-bps"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strategy-reinhabit",
   "name": "Reinhabited",
   "grp": "strategy",
   "evidence": "apartments, artist studios and other commercial enterprises",
   "origin": "record"
  },
  {
   "slug": "use-housing",
   "name": "Housing",
   "grp": "use",
   "evidence": "apartments, artist studios and other commercial enterprises",
   "origin": "newtypes-extraction"
  },
  {
   "slug": "use-mixed",
   "name": "Mixed use",
   "grp": "use",
   "evidence": "new_use field",
   "origin": "newtypes-extraction"
  }
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  {
   "id": 7296,
   "site_id": "n-28621c606b",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Rail_and_Commerce_Historic_District",
   "title": "Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "date": null,
   "quote": "Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "retrieved": "2026-10-18"
  }
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 "ctx": {
  "assessment": {
   "what_happened": "The Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District (industrial, not a mall) is actively retrofitted. Original warehouses/manufacturing uses now include apartments, artist studios, and commercial enterprises. It's located downtown Omaha near Union Pacific facilities (0.2km to Harriman Dispatch Center) and the Old Market (0.4km).",
   "why": "Retrofit is complete (status: built). Housing market shows rising demand: ZHVI up 22.9% over 5 years ($294k latest). 2024 permits show 1,867 single-unit housing starts in Douglas County. Nearby peers (Center Mall, Nash Block) use same 'reinhabit' strategy.",
   "where_it_stands": "Downtown Omaha, within 1km of Union Pacific, Old Market, and Burlington HQ. 13 nearby sites within 10km (including 3 'reinhabit' peers).",
   "for_a_planner": [
    "Downtown location near transit/history supports mixed-use. Traffic: 11,976 ADT on 13th St (principal arterial).",
    "Housing market growth (2.2% YoY) aligns with current retrofit uses."
   ],
   "for_a_developer": [
    "Active housing permits (1,867 units in 2024) confirm market demand. No new construction needed\u2014existing structures are occupied.",
    "Nearby peers (e.g., Center Mall, 4km away) show similar successful retrofit model."
   ],
   "risks_and_unknowns": [
    "Exact building count/square footage not provided.",
    "County population growth rate (5.5%) lacks timeframe.",
    "No data on current occupancy rates or rent levels."
   ],
   "data_quality": "good",
   "one_line": "Downtown Omaha industrial district successfully retrofitted to housing/commercial; housing market growth supports ongoing use.",
   "model": "qwen3-30b-a3b-64k:latest",
   "machine": "Dell 5820 RTX 3090 (Ollama, qwen3-30b-a3b)",
   "record_sha1": "efde9ab704eb"
  },
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     "id": "n-0265b9e9ce",
     "name": "Union Pacific Harriman Dispatch Center",
     "city": "Omaha",
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    {
     "id": "n-3330f71446",
     "name": "Strip mall near Saddle Creek Road",
     "city": "Omaha",
     "status": "proposed",
     "km": 1.0
    },
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     "id": "n-38481305bb",
     "name": "J. L. Brandeis and Sons Store Building",
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     "km": 1.0
    },
    {
     "id": "n-59032934a4",
     "name": "Union Stockyards site",
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     "status": "partial",
     "km": 1.0
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    {
     "id": "m-609635c7fb",
     "name": "Center Mall",
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     "name": "Crossroads Mall",
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    {
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     "name": "Southroads Mall",
     "city": "Bellevue",
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   "count_25km": 14
  },
  "elevation": {
   "elevation_ft": 1010.4,
   "resolution": 1,
   "source": "USGS EPQS (3DEP)",
   "retrieved": "2026-10-20"
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   "low_access_1mi": 0,
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   "median_family_income": 97143.0,
   "snap_households": 166.0,
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   "source": "USDA ERS Food Access Research Atlas 2019 (ArcGIS copy)",
   "retrieved": "2026-10-20"
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    "month": "2026-09",
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   "source": "Zillow Research (ZHVI, ZORI)"
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   "food_accommodation_jobs": 2153,
   "year": 2022,
   "source": "Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022 (all jobs, primary and secondary), blocks summed to the 2020 tract",
   "retrieved": "2026-10-20"
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   "month": "202609",
   "median_listing_price": 517500,
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   "price_reduced_share": 0.087,
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   "retrieved": "2026-10-20"
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   "vintage": "children born 1978-83, outcomes measured 2014-15",
   "source": "Opportunity Insights, Opportunity Atlas (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones, Porter 2018)",
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     "id": "n-038606ea28",
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      "same strategy: reinhabit",
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      "1 km away"
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    },
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     "id": "n-38481305bb",
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      "same strategy: reinhabit",
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     "id": "m-fe8d311d71",
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