Freedom Center (Omaha)

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The John Gottschalk Freedom Center is a newspaper production facility located at 14th Street and Capitol Avenue in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Built for the Omaha World-Herald, the building is considered to be one of the most automated and technologically advanced newspaper facilities in the world.[1][2][3] The Freedom Center has been labeled a "catalyst" in the redevelopment of Downtown Omaha,[4][5] along with such other new downtown development as the opening of the Missouri riverfront, the First National Bank Building, the CHI Health Center Omaha and the Gallup University campus.[6] The facility covers four blocks, and houses the new shaftless printing presses, material handling center, assembly equipment, and a parking garage.[7]

Design

The facility was opened in August 2001, and cost almost $125 million to build.[8] It consists of three structures designed by HDR, Inc. They include a five-level, Script error: No such module "convert". press hall featuring 3 MAN Roland presses from Germany; a Script error: No such module "convert". paper-storage facility capable of storing 3,000 rolls of newsprint and a 600-stall parking garage. Large portions of the exterior are glass, allowing downtown traffic to see the storage facility and presses.[9]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The storage facility/press hall is connected by a tunnel than runs underneath 13th Street. Most newspaper facilities of this size have been built on greenfield sites. The Omaha World-Herald was dedicated to keeping its newspaper facilities downtown, which required a more vertical structure, and the tunnel. Transfer Vehicle System (TVS) robotic vehicles are used to deliver newsprint to the press.[10]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[11]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The presses weigh 1,661 U.S. tons and can produce 75,000 newspapers per hour. The John Gottschalk Freedom Center produces four editions of the Omaha World-Herald daily, in addition to a Sunday edition and daily editions of the Daily NonPareil for neighboring Southwest Iowa.

Construction of the modern facility served as the impetus for redesigning the layout of the actual newspaper.[12]

References

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  1. ↑ McMeekin, T. "Integration key to smooth operations at Omaha World-Herald," Newspapers and Technology. Retrieved 7/24/08.
  2. ↑ ""The Omaha World-Herald John Gottschalk Freedom Center: State of the Art, Concrete-Rich Challenge,", L&M Construction Chemicals Concrete News. Retrieved 8/25/08. Template:Webarchive
  3. ↑ "Tours", Omaha World-Herald company website. Retrieved 7/24/08 Template:Webarchive
  4. ↑ "Downtown development" Template:Webarchive, Greater Omaha Economic Development Partnership. Retrieved 7/25/08.
  5. ↑ "Great Plains", U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research. Retrieved 7/25/08.
  6. ↑ Kotock, C.D. "How Omaha looks is serious business" Template:Webarchive, Omaha World-Herald. January 11, 2004. Retrieved 7/25/08.
  7. ↑ "2006 Architectural Engineering Conference Keynote Speakers" Template:Webarchive, Architectural Engineering Institute. May/June 2006. Retrieved 7/25/08.
  8. ↑ "The Omaha World-Herald Freedom Center Grand Opening Ceremonies: September 1, 2001", OmahaHistory.com. Retrieved 7/25/08.
  9. ↑ "Omaha World-Herald Freedom Center", HDR Inc. Retrieved 7/25/08.
  10. ↑ "'Scary smart' students pass the grade during paper's security audit", University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Information Science and Technology. Retrieved 7/25/08.
  11. ↑ Moozakis, C. "Newspapers seizing automation with renewed sense of urgency"Template:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., Newspapers and Technology. Retrieved 7/24/08.
  12. ↑ Johnson, R. "Designing for readers: How the Omaha World-Herald’s redesign changed their thinking" Template:Webarchive, Design Update. Fall 2002. Retrieved 7/25/08.

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