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Kiewit Tower
Kiewit Plaza is a high-rise office building in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.. It is located at 3555 Farnam Street at the corner of South 36th Street. It was built from 1960 to 1961, and it was designed in the modernist architectural style. It has been home to the headquarters of Kiewit Corporation and Berkshire Hathaway since 1962 when Warren Buffett dissolved his six partnerships into one partnership headquartered in this building. It is named after Peter Kiewit's construction company, Kiewit Corporation, considered to be one of the most profitable construction companies in the world and once called "Colossus of Rhodes, Colossus of Roads."Dave Mack, "Colossus of Roads", Omaha Magazine, July 1977 References Office buildings completed in 1961 Skyscraper office buildings in Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway 1961 establishments in Nebraska {{Omaha-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest city, Omaha's 2020 census population was 486,051. Omaha is the anchor of the eight-county, bi-state Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. The Omaha Metropolitan Area is the 58th-largest in the United States, with a population of 967,604. The Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, NE-IA Combined Statistical Area (CSA) totaled 1,004,771, according to 2020 estimates. Approximately 1.5 million people reside within the Greater Omaha area, within a radius of Downtown Omaha. It is ranked as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, which in 2020 gave it "sufficiency" status. Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
