Sinkhole Opens Near 38th and Farnam Streets, Prompting Building Evacuations

Farnam Street sinkhole forces apartment evacuations in Blackstone neighborhood

Occupants of a Blackstone neighborhood apartment building were forced to evacuate Sunday morning after the wall of a nearby vacant building collapsed, creating a sinkhole in Farnam Street.

Sinkhole opens near 38th and Farnam streets, prompting building evacuations

A sinkhole opened near 38th and Farnam streets in Omaha Sunday morning, prompting city crews to evacuate nearby buildings.City crews received a call just before 8:30 a.m. The sinkhole left the sidewalk completely gone from the front of an unoccupied building along the streetcar construction on Farnam Street. Shortly after noon, crews told neighbors and employees it was safe to re-enter neighboring buildings."One of the things they talked to me a…

Sinkhole opens in midtown Omaha, forces apartment evacuation

The sinkhole in front of 3812 Farnam St., the former Brother's Lounge, was reported to the Omaha Public Works Department around 8:20 a.m.

Multiple buildings in Omaha’s Blackstone district evacuated after sinkhole opens along street

A sinkhole in Omaha’s Blackstone District prompted the evacuation of multiple buildings Sunday morning.