All about Midtown Crossing

Owner: East Campus Realty, a subsidiary of Mutual of Omaha

Developer: East Campus Realty and ECI Investment Advisors

Architects: Holland Basham Architects of Omaha, Cope Linder Architects of Philadelphia

Construction company: Weitz Construction

Groundbreaking: Sept. 20, 2007

Man-hours: 2 million

Building concrete: 120,000 cubic yards or about 13,200 truckloads, enough for a 5-foot-wide sidewalk from Omaha to Minneapolis

Pre-cast architectural panels: 364,000 square feet

Storm and sanitary sewer pipe: 1 mile

Street paving: 290,000 square feet

Pedestrian paving: 240,000 square feet

Reinforcing steel: 10 million pounds

Post-tensioning cables: 260 miles

Drywall: 4 million square feet, or about 125,000 sheets and truckloads.

Metal studs: 3.3 million feet, enough that is laid end to end would reach from Omaha to Vail, Colo.

Drywall finishing mud: 16,000 boxes or 28 truckloads

Landscaping: 574 trees, 35,455 flower bulbs, 3,042 shrubs, 15,135 containers of ornamental grass and ground cover, 5,435 containers of perennials

Features

» Seven buildings, 1 million square feet

» 225,000 square feet of retail space

» 297 condominiums costing from $174,900 to $249,900, plus more-expensive penthouses

» 196 apartments renting from $649 to $1,734

» 132-room Westin Element Hotel.

Parking for 3,000 vehicles

» 7 acres of park and green space

Events

Outdoor Market: Saturdays 9 a.m. to noon from May 29 to Sept. 4

Jazz on the Green: 7 p.m. Thursdays from July 8 to Aug. 12

Now open

» Fashion Cleaners

» Loft 610

» Marcus Midtown Cinema & GLO Lounge

» Parliament Pub

» Prairie Life Fitness

» Tru Salon & Spa

2010 openings

» Blanc Burgers + Bottles, summer

» Callahan Financial Planning, summer

» Delice European Bakery and Café, summer

» Ingredient, summer

» Westin Element Hotel, November

» Wohlner's Midtown Market and Deli, fall

» Cantina Laredo, fall

» Crave Restaurant, fall

» The Grey Plume, fall

» Three Dog Bakery, fall

« Money

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