Personal finance website WalletHub last week named Lincoln the fifth-best capital city in the country, trailing only Austin, Texas; Boise, Idaho; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Madison, Wisconsin.
Look around the city, and you can see why Lincoln is so highly thought of.
The zoo will soon unveil a $24 million expansion that includes an added 10 acres, new buildings and animals never before seen here.
Work will start soon on a 20-story downtown condominium building, which will be the tallest building constructed in more than 80 years and will change the city's skyline forever.
Just around the corner, work is wrapping up on Lincoln's first boutique hotel.
Hausmann Construction, which has grown rapidly during its 15-year existence to become one of the city's largest construction firms, is involved in all three projects.
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Lincoln continues to nurture startups like Hudl and Virtual Incision, while attracting high-tech companies from elsewhere, such as Monolith Materials.
And some of the city's larger, established companies, such as Nelnet and Assurity, are acting more like startups to be able to innovate and attract and retain top talent.
Lincoln is a city on the move, both onward and upward.
For more on those companies, and other projects, check out Directions 2019, the Journal Star's annual look into what's driving progress in Lincoln, in Sunday's newspaper.