Annual Holiday Celebration!

Thursday, December 1st – 4pm – 7pm

Annual Holiday Celebration! Thursday, December 1st – 4pm – 7pm

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Dundee Receives National Honors

It has been a popular neighborhood in the Heartland for years and now the Dundee – Memorial Park area is receiving national honors. It has been voted one of the ten best neighborhoods in the nation. The ranking comes as no surprise to the people who live there.

The people who live in the Dundee – Memorial Park Neighborhood are very proud of the top ten ranking and they say they’ve known for a while that they lived in a great area. Dundee is considered by some to be Omaha’s first suburb and as it developed over the years a variety of architectural styles emerged giving the area a unique feel. Taking advantage of a summer like day in the fall Allison McKamy brought her children to the Memorial Park playground to spend some quality time with friends. The neighborhood’s high ranking comes as no surprise to her. Allison McKamy says, “I chose to live here because I love the neighborhood.”

Originally from west Omaha Allison fell in love with the Dundee – Memorial Park Neighborhood. McKamy says the location means they are close to everything and within walking distance of great restaurants and a variety of architectural styles. Allison McKamy says, “My husband and I were looking for houses and I knew the area I wanted to live in so we just drove around the area and found the house.” The McKamys aren’t alone; Carole Souza has been selling homes for ten years and says she can tell the Dundee – Memorial Park area is popular because people are willing to do a little more to get one of the Midtown addresses. Sometimes a little hard work comes with the price of a home.

Carole Souza says, “So people are maybe more willing to take on a little bit of a project to redo the bathrooms or the kitchens if they’re not already done.” The appeal of the Dundee-Memorial Park Neighborhood is actually a mix of style and proximity and perhaps a little nostalgia. Souza believes the area reminds people of their neighborhoods growing up and they may be trying to reconnect with their past.

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Dundee Neighborhood to Receive Award

Mayor Suttle and the American Planning Association Award Omaha’s Dundee-Memorial Park Neighborhood for “Being One of America’s Best.”

The American Planning Association, Mayor Jim Suttle and the City Planning Department will be presenting the Omaha Dundee-Memorial Park neighborhood its award for being one of the nation’s 10 best neighborhoods in America. The award presentation will take place Wednesday, October 12, 2011 in front of the Dundee Dell at 50th and Underwood, at 10:30 a.m.

“This neighborhood is a great example of community commitment to every aspect of what makes a neighborhood great,” said Mayor Suttle. “That commitment stretches from its aesthetic beauty to the individual residents who do what it takes to keep their neighborhood an inviting place to live work and play.”

The Dundee-Memorial Park neighborhood which is on the National Register of Historic Places was built at the end of a streetcar line in the early days of the 20th Century. Mayor Suttle and a Bruce Knight of the American Planning Association will be giving neighborhood representatives the official award for “Great Places in American Neighborhoods” at 10:30 Wednesday morning. Posted: 5:07 PM Oct 11, 2011 | Reporter: WOWT