Downtown Omaha - Headquarters

Headquarters

Downtown Omaha is home to several corporate headquarters for businesses of international, national and regional importance. Among the earliest were the U.S. Army's Department of the Platte and the Union Pacific Railroad. Union Pacific laid its first rails in Omaha in 1862, and its headquarters have been located in Downtown Omaha since then. The company has stated their commitment to maintain their headquarters in Omaha, particularly with the opening of the new Union Pacific Center in 2004. The Enron corporation began in downtown as Northern Natural Gas Company, until they relocated their headquarters to Houston, TX. ConAgra Foods relocated their headquarters from Central Park Plaza in central downtown, to a riverfront campus in 1990, after a contentious battle with local historians of the destruction of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District to make room for their buildings. In 2002, First National Bank of Omaha moved into the 42-story First National Bank Tower as headquarters for the company.

The Gallup Organization built an $81 million operational headquarters that employs 650 people on the edge of downtown in 2001. RDG Planning & Design followed in 2004, winning awards for moving and contributing to downtown's growth. The Scoular Company, a grain trading & storing company, is headquartered in downtown Omaha in the Scoular Building. The new Carl T. Curtis National Park Service Midwest Headquarters located downtown on the Missouri Riverfront is the first building in Nebraska to be rated under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design system.

Neighboring Creighton University has been steadily expanding their campus in order to "integrate with Downtown Omaha". New facilities such as Morrison Stadium bring the university closer. Other locally relevant organizations downtown include all of the city's utilities. The Metropolitan Utilities District, Omaha Public Power District, Omaha Police Department, the Omaha Housing Authority and Metro Area Transit are each located within downtown. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District is headquartered in Downtown Omaha, as well.

Pacific Life's Omaha operations is headquartered in the 1200 Landmark Center and the Omaha World Herald has its headquarters, as well as its state of the art printing press, the Freedom Center, downtown.