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Big business pushed Conagra's downtown Omaha campus, dooming historic Jobbers Canyon

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Big business pushed Conagra's downtown Omaha campus, dooming historic Jobbers Canyon

Cindy Gonzalez Omaha World-Herald
Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021 Updated Dec 10, 2021
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Big ugly red brick buildings.

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Conagra campus aerial (web) — The ConAgra campus is seen from above on Sep. 25, 2015.
MATT MILLER, THE WORLD-HERALD

This story was published in partnership with History Nebraska.

1988 - Jobbers Canyon demolition (web) — The Duncan Hines Foods Building is largely gone in May 1988.
PHIL JOHNSON, THE WORLD-HERALD

Omaha Cold Storage tracks (web) — A couple explores the track area south of Omaha Cold Storage at Eighth and Farnam Streets in October 1987.
BILL BATSON, THE WORLD-HERALD

Jobbers Canyon carriage tour (web) — A carriage from the Old Market stops beside the Carpenter Paper warehouse in Jobbers Canyon in October 1987.
BILL BATSON, THE WORLD-HERALD

1988 - Landmarks commission meeting (web) — Balloons fill a hearing room as the city's Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission discusses the fate of Jobbers Canyon in January 1988. Opponents clutched the balloons through the meeting.
PHIL JOHNSON, THE WORLD-HERALD

The Ashton warehouse near 13th and Nicholas Streets is an anchor of Omaha's emerging Millwork Commons district, where vintage buildings are being restored and turned into trendy space. While impressive, Millwork Commons is not as huge a redevelopment project as the Jobbers Canyon district would have been.
CHRIS MACHIAN, THE WORLD-HERALD

The Mercantile_Rendering_Exterior_Harney 10th (web) — A rendering of the 375-unit apartment building now under construction southeast of 10th and Farnam Streets. It is the first piece of the Mercantile project that will span about 23 acres of land that used to be a part of the Conagra campus — and had been at the heart of the now-demolished Jobbers Canyon historic district before then. The new apartment building will wrap around a 720-stall public garage and include ground floor restaurants.
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