Grow Omaha 3-30-2024

Episode Transcript

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This is Grow Omaha, the onlyradio show that talks about economic development,
construction, business expansion, and allof those things that make Omaha a great
place to live or visit. GrowOmaha on News Radio eleven ten. Ka
Baby, Well, good morning,and welcome to the show. Jeff Giels
at your service, broadcasting live fromthe KFAB Penthouse Studio, a beautiful downtown

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Dundee. Glad you're with us.You will not find another show in the
metro area that talks about the thingsthat we discuss, and that is business
expansion, real estate growth, construction, just fun things related to Omaha becoming
bigger, more prosperous, and morevibrant. Thank you to our sponsors Dingman's

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Collision Center and Cheer Athletics. Andnow, without any further ado, it's
time to bring on my co host, a man who is a legendary real
estate deal maker and all around broker, Trenton Maggot. Good morning everyone,
Good morning Jeff, Well, Goodmorning Trenton. It's an exciting day.
We're going to take calls in ourcall in show. We're going to be

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taking calls from listeners here in alittle bit, so we're going to bring
on our good friend and frequent contributor, Brad Williams. Good morning, Brady,
Good morning guys. Good to haveyou back. Brad. It's been
a while. It's been a fewweeks since we've had you on the show.
Yeah, it was on a coupletimes in January and then took a
couple of weeks off and you weretraveling quite a bit last week. Well,

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I went to my annual fifteenth sixteenthannual sand Hill Crane photography trip,
which is always a lot of funout in Carney, and then I went
and saw the Omaha Mavericks play upin Seux Falls on Thursday night. Tough
weekend for Mavericks and Creighton Blue Jays, but congratulations both those teams. They
went far, but unfortunately they didn'tgo all the way. And we love

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our Creighton Blue Jays and yudo Mavericks. And can people see those sand Hill
Crane pictures yet on your Brad WilliamsPhotography dot com. Not yet, just
working on. There's plenty of othernight stuff on Brad Well, there's at
yotos on there, but nothing fromthis here yet. Brad is one of
the most respected photographers here in theOmaha area. The name of The company

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is Brad Williams Photography and he's alsoa member of the e and a consulting
family that's a civil engineering firm thatdoes a lot of the big development projects
all over the metro area. Well, we have a restaurant review this week.
Every other week, Sarah Baker Hanson, the premier food critic in Omaha,

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reviews a restaurant for us. It'spart of our Grow Omaha Eats restaurant
reviews series, and this week Sarahreviews Tracks and Tracks is the place that
used to be known as track Side, but it's on sixtieth Street and they're
famous for their fried chicken broasted chicken. Technically, they also have very good

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wings, and you'll have to readthe review if you're a big fan of
fried chicken or of wings. Iam. And Sarah is in the middle
of her her wings bracket this year, kind of playing off the March Madness
theme. She's been going to allsorts of wing restaurants and having a contest
and so in that spirit she reviewedTracks. Guys, I can give you
a personal story. A couple fewmonths ago, the family we went there

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on a Sunday at around noon andhad fried chicken and wings, and I'm
sure we consumed a fair number ofcalories, but my goodness, it was
a great lunch. I like howshe's not a food snob. Sarah big
her hands and she's reviewed, youknow, very fancy restaurants and everyday restaurants.
It's kind of a refreshing when itcomes to reading food critics. You

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know, that's a good point becausea lot of food critics like, ew,
I'm not going to someplace that's gotfried chicken. But Sarah's never been
that person. She appreciates all genresof food for what they're worth. Yeah.
Tracks is one of those cool,old school East Omaha looking places,
and I'm sure some food critics wouldshow up and look at the outside and
turn around. Yeah, but it'sa great place. They have great wings.

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I like it. Well. Youcan read about it by going to
gromha dot com and clicking on eatEats on the navigation bar, And not
only can you read that review,but you can read every single one of
Sarah's reviews that she's written for usover the past couple of years. Let's
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and they are good people. Thanksfor mentioning that. Well, Le's going
to our news Trenton and Brad andthe first item I have for you is
some good news. The library,the Central Library, which is under construction
on the southwest corner of seventy secondin Dodge and has already reached four stories

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with steel framing, has surpassed itsfundraising goal. So this is the Omaha
Public Library, City of Omaha Heritage, a few other organizations involved in this,
but at any rate, it haspassed its fundraising goal of one hundred
and fifty eight million dollars. Thatmeans that Omaha's new public library is one

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of the largest philanthropic commitments to apublic library system in recent history nationwide.
It'll be ninety six thousand square feetwhen it's done, and we want to
just kind of give you an ideaabout how widespread the support is. That
one hundred and fifty eight million dollarscame from two hundred and eighty two entities,

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foundations, corporations, or individuals.The City of Omaha was one of
them and put in twenty million dollars. So it's coming along great. It's
going to be an architectural landmark.Drove by it just this morning coming to
the studio and it's awfully big.Yeah, that's why I was going to
notice. I noticed this morning too. On the way here was it appears

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much larger in person than the renderingsdid. I would agree with that,
no, absolutely, And part ofit, I think is a fifty foot
warehouse where they can pull any booka period within like two minutes. It's
like a some kind of like anAmazon technology or something like that, which
will be kind of cool. ButI think it's a huge undertaking and it'll

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be beautiful for Omaha. But Iwonder if part of that, Jeff,
is because you don't see a lotof libraries going up in this country.
Fair fair point in that people arenot reading as many books as they used
to, But I think there arethere are a lot of libraries that are
being developed. Because it's a newlibrary, it's a different type. Yeah.
People see them as community centers now. It's a place where people can

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have access to technology that they mightnot be able to afford to have in
their house, especially when it comesto some of the more advanced things.
They oftentimes have, you know,a nice coffee shop, and they're really
becoming they're really becoming community centers anddo space which is the library is replaced
on that spot, there'll probably besome remnants of their services. So as

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long as it gets used, andobviously it'll be fun to look at,
but it's in the right location tobe used. You can get there by
any mode of transportation, I'm sure, And well, let's see what goes.
My guess is will be heavily used. I'm thinking it will be one
of those places that kind of becomesa living room for the city. I'll

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tell you what. The backyard orthe outdoor living room, if you will,
for the city are those three riverfrontparks. I had reason to be
downtown yesterday for a meeting, andI try to with the weather's nice.
I always try to build in anotherhour if I have anything downtown, because
I like to take a walk,and you know, partly to see all

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the Gromhall projects and it's just kindof one of the more interesting places to
walk. So yesterday was that dayfor me, yesterday afternoon, but it
was a later lunch and by thetime I got to walking it was well
into the mid afternoon. Holy cow, it was busy down there. I
mean, it's our new It's ifthe library in the Chi Center and some
places like that are our living rooms. Those parks are basically our backyard,

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and it's politics aside, it's kindof like a Disney world where there's people,
the guests are taking care of it, the citizens are taking care of
it, but also they have cleaningcrews and there's people sweeping up cigarette butts
and things like that. Well,speaking of politics, Mayor Jean Stouthert announced
this week that she will be runningfor an unprecedented fourth term. She was

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first elected in twenty thirteen, reelected in seventeen and twenty one, and
that announcement came this week, andshe gave about a fifteen to twenty minute
campaign announcement speech in which she kindof highlighted a lot of the successes of
her term. Given where Omaha isright now with growth and development, a

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lot of the things she mentioned wherethings we talk about on this show.
So we'll see who the challenges areand how the campaign goes. It's over
a year away. The primary willbe about a year from now, and
the general election, if I rememberthe city elections correctly, will be a
June a year from now. Sowe have to get through God help us,

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the presidential election, and then afterthat we can start focusing on the
city mayor election. I think Jane'sgoing to be awfully tough to beat given
the track record. Yeah, andshe's been a great guest on this show
and a great mayor. She's afriend. But what I really like about
her style and her personality is shewants to be mayor. She wants to

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continue to be mayor. She's notgoing for higher office, and it fits
her personality. And there's so manymajor projects that are you know, the
street car and the tower downtown andmore things to come. I don't have
any complaints. Yeah, I trynot to. We try very hard not
to be political on the show,and we don't officially endorse anyone. But

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I'll tell you she's done a hellof a job. And like I said,
I think anyone who who wants totake the job from her, I'm
sure there will be a handful they'regonna have to make a compelling argument because
she's she's got quite a quite agood track record. Well, let's go
on to the other story I wantedto share with everyone this morning, and

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that is some recognition, you know, like if you if you listen to
the mayor's speech, she talked aboutall of these projects and all these amazing
things going on, and and Ihave been thinking lately for the last year
that that almost kind of coming intoa golden era. In fact, I
talked to a group of rotarians overlunch earlier this week and kind of was

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sharing some stuff about groamha and andI told them that exact same thing.
I said, we're kind of cominginto a golden era. And and you
know, with all the projects andand and the big steps were taking,
and I think you're going to Ithink you're going to see some accelerated growth
as a result of it. Andwe're starting to see some signs and and

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we we mentioned two things in thisweek's Omaha newsletter, comes out every Thursday
afternoon. The first one is anational trade publication called multi Housing News ranked
Omaha number one on its list oftop ten emerging multifamily markets for twenty twenty
four. Mentioned that the Omaha marketdelivered completed over forty five hundred new apartment

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units last year and that eight thousandapartment units are currently under construction. Nevertheless,
the apartment market in Omaha still hasa ninety six percent occupancy rate.
But before you comment on that,guys, let me also mention this another
sign. Co Star, which isa real estate analytics firm, has reported

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that the vacancy in the retail realestate market is the lowest in recorded history
at only three point eight percent forthe metro area. Year over year,
rent growth seven point nine percent,the second highest level on record. Among
the sixty one top retail markets inthe United States, Omaha has the fifteenth

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lowest retail vacancy rate and fourth highestrental growth rate. By the way,
there are sixty five million square feetof retail space in the Omaha area.
When I see those two articles,incredibly healthy apartment development market and an incredibly

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healthy retail market, it tells mesome good, some good stuff is happening
here in the marketplace. I thinkwe're very fortunate in Omaha, and we're
a diverse economy where we're on thenational stage, we get a lot of
recognition, and you know, thecity, the city council, the Mayor's
office, everybody kind of works together. There's a ton of disposable income in

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Omaha. And also the didn't weread that the population growth is stepped up
a little bit too. Yeah,that's a good point, Trenton. It
had we actually had a surprisingly slowpopulation growth for that year. Towards the
two years toward the end of thepandemic, and that is really picked up.

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It went up to zero point sevento eight percent from summer of twenty
two to summer of twenty three.Metro areas in the United States as a
whole, on average only grew aboutpoint five to three percent, So it's
going well. I suspect that numberfrom twenty three to twenty four will be
quite a bit higher than that.It's the apartment number is good to see

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that that the rental rate is upthat high because there are, like you
mentioned, a lot of apartments comingonline. But also the retail number is
interesting that it seems like we've fora while had a lot of big boxes
that were coming empty. But I'veseen a lot of those big boxes,
maybe not be a traditional retailer movein there, but you know, some
of them are move into like asports and athletics, some of them are

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turning into entertainment venues. So there'sjust a lot of kind of creative reuses
of some of these retail buildings outthere. What are our old friends Phyllis
showed. I ran into her atan event down at the Durham and our
old Spanish teacher, Norm showed andher friend Eric that worked for us are
with us. She's on the DouglasCounty Historical Society and they do a garage

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sale of fundraiser that takes care ofa lot of the Omaha landmarks and stuff
like that, and she's looking fortwenty to thirty thousand square feet for a
couple of weeks in the next coupleof months to raise money and to take
care of the structures and different things. Everybody knows about that, but I
had to let her know. Andwhen she reached out to me after I

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saw her, was I can't thinkof big boxes, you know, in
twenty to fifty thousand feet or morethat are available. Can you guys think
of any space? We have trendand we have the same problem. We
have a couple of brokers in ouroffice at nai NP Dodge who are representing
a national hardware home improvement chain thatwants to come into the Omaha market.

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They're more they use more like junioranchor space. They're not huge like home
depot or minards. They want morejunior anchor space and it's very, very
difficult to find spaces for them.So it's a tight it's a tight market.
Well that is your news of theweek, which is brought to you
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break of the hour, and whenwe come back, the phones are open.
Every couple months we do this.It's our call in show. All
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involvement opportunity for your kids, yourgrandkids, your nieces and nephews. The
Omaha location located just southwest of highwaysfifty and three seventy. So we're going
to start with Howland, who hasa question about Anthony's. Go ahead,
Howland, you are on the air. Yes, I see that Anthony is

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having quite a bit of work doneto it. The old Anthony's. Was
wondering if you could tell us what'sgoing in there. I think it's a
plumbers union, isn't it. Yeah, it was one of the unions.
I don't remember which one exactly.Yeah, So basically a while back one
of the unions bought it, andthen apparently they're dramatically changing it into something

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that would suit their you know,their work and their way they serve their
members, but not a restaurant,no more. No more restaurant or food
service there unless it's for the unionthat they might have for functions inside.
We can't. My wife and Icannot go back there anymore and relive our
wedding night. You guys got marriedat Anthony's. No, that's the reception
was there? Oh? I'm prettysure that only the grease traps or the

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hood in the kitchen. It'll beinteresting to see what they do if they
do much cosmetic on the outside.Okay, well, we appreciate you call
in Howland and now we're going togo to Jay Jay. You are next
on Girlmaha. Good morning, Goodmorning guys. I've enjoyed your show for
many years. Thank you. Igot two questions. It's about the same

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issue of two libraries, the onedowntown that's been uprooted for the new business.
But why wasn't Mutual Omaha held accountablefor paying for that land? I
mean that was public land. Thenyou know, I don't understand why they
didn't. We're not held account forpaying for that land or that went to
a vote, or paying for thereplacement of that library. And then I

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hear the same things getting ready tohappen. Our back door deals are trying
to be made with the nineties andDodge Street Library with the mayor. I
just from a public point of view, a private citizen, to me,
that looks like that land downtown wasstolen from us, from Mitya Omaha who
paid nothing for it. Maybe youcan enlighten me. Maybe there's something I
don't I'm not seeing. That's mytwo questions, gentlemen. I'll take the

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downtown library question. And they dida landswap, so Lanaha owned the Union
Pacific lot and the city owned thelibrary lot, and they basically switched ownership
that they sold. You know what, do they do something for a dollar
a piece or something, But sothey basically swapped it. So Omaha still
has an entire city block downtown thatthey can do something with. And when

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the Dodge and when the mayor wason two weeks ago or three weeks ago,
she said that they're going to temporarilyuse that for a construction lay down
for the street car. As faras the ninetieth and Dodge, I've not
heard anything. I because and youknow, a couple of times on this
show in the last couple of months, I've mentioned that that would be a

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great redevelopment with a city sold thatto a developer or land leased it or
whatever to make a modern version ofSwanson Tower on eighty fourth Street. And
I just questioned whether that was redundancyor not to have both those libraries within
a couple of miles of each other. But when it comes to city government

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and private business, I understand whereyou could say that there's deals being made
or whatever. But if you lookat and I've been on the planning board
and we've been involved with clients thatyou know, want to do some of
these projects and in order to advancethe city. You know, if you

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look downtown where there's incentives your taxicrement financing, and there's there's all kinds,
you know, historic tax credits,there's some sweetheart deals or the perception
of sweetheart deals. But if itadvances the city for the good of everyone,
it's not all bad. In myopinion. I'm not saying that Jay
is thinking this way, but Ithink it's really easy for people, especially

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if a big corporation and a realestate developer is involved. It's very easy
for people to just assume that somethingnefarious is happening, or someone is getting
some ill deserved gain that's done ina back smoke filled room or something like
that. My perception is that theMutual of Omaha deal has been very much

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open and in the in the lightof day, Mutual of Omaha and its
developer, Lannaha cut a deal towork with each other. They cut a
deal with the city to swap theland because they preferred the library site.
The city long wanted to repurpose thatlibrary site because the building was horribly obsolete

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and uglier than a prison, andso we ended up with a win win
win situation. Downtown area gets anew library by the old market that is
beautiful and very user friendly and moreappropriate for the level of use that the
downtown library gets and that one's leastand they at fourteen to oh one Jones
after five or ten years they canget out. Yeah. And then the

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city gets a brand new flagship libraryright at the crossroads that is going to
be one of the finest libraries inthe United States of America. We get
a fortune five hundred company that makesa commitment to Omaha and brings four thousand
jobs to the downtown core, andit acts as a catalyst for us to

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justify a streetcar system which is goingto create billions of dollars in collateral real
estate development. So I think Ihear this all the time from people on
the Gromaha Facebook page or they callus and they say, oh, this
stuff is going on. Yeah.What's going on is we're making the city
better and people are doing a goodjob doing it. And Jay, don't
forget that when people talk about Omahaand the stakeholders and the community activists so

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much this money, I think onlyfifty million dollars out of four hundred and
fifty million dollars for the downtown improvementsto the park and everything were citizens.
There was these foundations and these familiesthat set around the table and they each
gave fifty million dollars, like atleast three or four of them. So
when it comes to civic involvement andstuff, we're unparalleled when it comes to

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people contributing, not just the government. Jay, we appreciate the call.
We're going to take our middle ofthe show break for the news, but
when we come back, we haveDonna, Ryan and Bob online. So
if you are Donna, if youare Ryan, or if you're Bob,
please don't go anywhere, but we'regoing to get to you. But if
anyone else wants to call, gofor it. Fourh two five, five,
eight, eleven ten. We'd loveto hear from all of you with

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your no Al companies. Commercial realestate development spotlight. Not all companies is
famous for building places. You know, they also build individual buildings and recently
have done some really cool headquarters buildingslike HDR and Valmont and many others.
But they're also known as placemakers.Sarbon Village is a place great place.
They did that builders district Downtown.Well, not all companies also did River's

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Edge, that is the development rightby the Tom Hannafin Park and Council Bluffs
on the Iowa side of the BobcareyMissouri River Pedestrian Bridge. And we have
a couple of reports about things thatare going on in that River's Edge development.
The first one is on the eastside. There are three residential buildings
under construction now. They all havetheir foundations in place, and we should

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start seeing those three buildings go vertical. From what I can tell, they
will come close to completing River's Edge. There is still room for one substantial
building right by the parking garage onthe west end, and then room for
maybe some sort of mid or highrise apartment or condo projects someday on the
north side, but that project's comingalong. The other thing in that same

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general area. As part of today'sreport, the tree Top Walk at Hannafin
Park appears to have started. There'sbeen some heavy construction equipment in the trees
and the low lying land just northof the Missouri River Pedestrian Bridge, and

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that's all part of this tree topwalk project that will include a fifty foot
climbing wall, a one hundred andthirty eight foot observatory tower, and an
elevated walkway through the trees. It'sgonna be really really cool, and the
very preliminary work is now underway onthat project. Isn't part of that the
Mid American Energy sponsored tower that that'swhat the tower's named, and they're gonna

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have like a simulated like a cavelike it's like a treasure hunt in there
and stuff like that, and thensome kind of a ride that comes down
a steel it's it's I don't know, it's kind of like a sipline but
a little different. Yeah, thecave part I'm not sure about, but
that sounds really cool. Maybe thatis going to happen. But the zip
line like thing, the observation tower, that's it's really cool. It should

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take I think about a year yearand a half to build it, but
that's going to be a real niceIt's a great compliment to what everything that
Noel's doing over there. And thatis your not All Companies Commercial real Estate
Development Spotlight of the week. AllRight, Donna has been waiting for a
very long time. Good morning,Donna, and welcome to grow Omaha.
Good morning. I have a questionabout or wondering if you guys know anything

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about B and G down in theoutlet mall. It just opened down there
and we went down there and it'sbeen closed. Do you fellows know anything
about that? Yeah, that they'regoing to reopen. To the best of
our knowledge. That's done there atNebraska Crossing. We don't know a lot
of the particulars about it, butit just didn't work out. And so

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they're done, and we are notaware of whether they're going to open another
location. At one point they werethinking about doing one along ninetieth Street around
Blonde Ope, but again we justwe just don't know what's going to happen
there. But that one in Gretnais done. And we appreciate you Colling,

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Donna, and now we're going togo to Ryan. Good morning,
Ryan, you're next on Gromha.Yeah, thanks for taking the call.
I've got a question about the twohundred and fifth and Cumberland area. This
would be the uh there's a largelot just north of the minards on two
hundred and fourth and Dodge. Theretwo questions. They've been re escaping and

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redeveloping that large lot that sits justnorth of Minards. It almost looks like
they're putting a street grid in,so I'd like to hear if you guys
know anything about that. And thenit's been a little while back, but
there was a proposal to kind ofreach change that intersection, which is exploded

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with all the growth in that littlecorridor over the last few years, but
there was a proposal or a coupledifferent proposals for roundabouts at that spot,
and just hoping maybe you guys couldtalk about what's going in that large lot
and then the timing of maybe anyimprovements on that intersection. Well stated Ryan,
thanks for the questions. I willtake the land to the north question,

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and then Brad Williams will talk aboutthe street improvements. That land was
minards zone that for a long time. And you'll see around the country that
they're big into owning their buildings andthe land, and they've got a development
side and they also are big onthe storage units. And so my understanding

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is that they took that land,they've always had a high price on it
if someone wanted to buy it.But they're going to do the infrastructure,
put in their own self storage facilityand then probably so off some of those
path sites. And that's very likelywhat you're seeing there in the roundabout,
I believe is this year. Itis coming. I don't remember the exact

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timeframe on it, but it willbe a Cumberland drive to the to the
west. Yeah, just one blockwest of two and fourth. All right,
Well, thank you so much forthe call. Now, Bob,
you get to be our last call. We've got about two minutes, Bob,
so go ahead and let's hear yourquestion. Okay, thank you.
On the West Maple Corridor around theone ninety eightieth there's a large structure going

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up looks like a church. Anyidea what that is you would be correct,
it's a church. It's Saint Patrick'sChurch, Catholic parish and Elkhorn.
That's going to be their new building. They're going to keep their their complex
further west for other programming, butit's my understanding that you know, masses
on Sunday and weddings and things likethat will be at that new one.

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It's West Maple Road and big ElkParkway, which is right about one hundred
and eighty third and then to theeast of that. There's a lot of
rumors about Sam's Club might go outthere to compete against the new Costco that's
that's coming out, but it's stillin the negotiation stage. I believe when's
that supposed to open, the costcoor the church the costco the Costco?

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I would think what late summer,early fall. Perhaps they've done a ton
of work to that site and itlooks like, I don't know, the
building's up and they were already puttingin the lines for the coolers a few
weeks ago. Yeah, so maybe. I mean my guess is once the
shell is in place, then merchandisingand training the staff is the big thing.
So who knows, maybe it'll evenbe open earlier than late summer.
We'll say that's coming along definitely thisyear. Okay, what squeeze it in

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Bob Fleet and Farm. We're supposedto go in that area too, anyword
on that. They have one planfor there. They've owned the land for
a long time and there's an Almohabased developer that's working on that and another
one northwest of one hundred ninety secondand Highway three seventy, but they don't
have any start dates. Okay,Bob, thank you for calling in,
Thank you for waiting so patiently.Got to take our final break of the

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hour, and when we come back, it'll be the Perkins Chreitzer Construction Lightning
Round. You're listening to Grow Omaha, brought to you by Cheer Athletics and
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show. Jeff Beal's, Trenton Maggotand Brad Williams with you today and it
is time for our Perkins Kretzer ConstructionLightning Round. Thank you to PC Construction
for making this possible. They area Class A general contractor based right here

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in Omaha, but they do workall over western Iowa and eastern Nebraska.
Got to it's a newer company,but it's by Dave Kreuzer, a guy
who has been leading projects and constructionfirms in this area for a long time.
Many of the project managers, administrators, the supers, the carpenter's labors.

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Many of these folks have over thirtyyears experience individually. So when you
put it all together, deep experiencein the construction business and in the true
spirit of the Lightning Round, PerkinsKreutzer has given us some content to share
with you today. They are buildinga new drive through coffee concept. It's

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called Ziggy's Coffee drive Through. It'sbig chain started in northern Colorado. They
have locations nationwide, including one that'salready opened in Lincoln and one coming soon
in Fairbury, Nebraska. But thefirst Ziggy's coffee drive through that Perkins Chreiszer
is going to build here in Omahais going to be at two hundred and

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first and Q Street. Groundbreaking aschedule to take place next week and it'll
be open in late summer. Thesedrive through coffees, those buildings can go
up pretty fast. There's already astrip center over there. That white building
over there, we've seen that withthe dark windows. A lot of things
that's sure what's going in there.A lot of the daycare that's already open.
Yeah, So keep an eye onZiggi's there. And if you want

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to learn more about Perkins Kretzer construction, just google them and you can find
some information there. And we thankthem for bringing us the Lightning Round.
A couple other little things. Theold Culprit Cafe at sixteenth and Farnham downtown
is going to be a wine andtapas bar tap us not topless. How

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about if I said a tapas andwine bar called Cattle Call. It looks
like it's gonna be really nice.I don't know why it's gonna be called
Cattle Call, but it looks likeit'll be a nice tapas and cocktail.
Delicious Delicious Charred Burger and Bar,which is at one hundred and thirty Second
and Pacific, getting very close toopening their next location in the Southport area

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Levista near Cabela's in late April.The owner of Hovey's Tacos, which is
Hovey Trhillo, is opening an upscale, sit down Mexican place called El Milagro
Mexican Bar and Grill. It's goingto open up in April. It's going
to be very close to Baker's andPepperwood near one hundred and fifty six then

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Dodge, So that's coming along nicely. We have a yet to be named
Asian restaurant that plans to open inmid May in a former Frank's Pizzeria space
at seventy second in Main Street.It's actually fifty four to thirteen South seventy
second Street in the Ralston area eastside. And this restaurant will likely feature

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ramen and dumplings. And I knowa lot of people in Omaha been clamoring
for a dumplings restaurant. Hopefully thiswill fill the Roostin is well known for
their ramen playing eaters. I didnot know that, but now I do.
Nerdy Nails, a locally owned nailsalon, plans to open in late
April at sixteenth and Farnham Street,really close to Cattle Call, just around

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the corner from Cattle Call that wementioned earlier. The Nerdy Nails will be
right next door to block sixteen.And we've got a sign of progress.
Exterior signage has been installed on thefuture smash Park building, a thirty thousand
square foot entertainment center in La Vista'sSouthport area. Also going to have a
big outdoor place. But this ispickleball and all sorts of fun things.

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It'd be the type of place thatyou know, if you have a sports
team and you get done with ahockey or a baseball game, you know,
all the players and the parents gothere and it'll be a lot of
fun. It's out of Des Moines. Iow I went to the one they
have. There's pretty cool place.Brad. We've got a Mahogany steakhouses about
ready to open in their new location. They're opening Monday evening at four PM

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and that is a move just likeCharleston's owned by the same company out of
Oklahoma City, but the old Mahoganieswill be replaced by the new one in
Heartwood Preserve, Southwest one hundred andforty fourth and Dodge Music's playing, which
means we're done. Brad, thanksfor joining us as you often do.
Oh thanks for having me. Ialways have a lot of fun. Brad
Williams Brad Williams Photography dot com.Also EINA Consulting Civil engineering firm. That's

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it for this week. I'm JeffBeils and I'm Trenton Maggott. You've been
listening to Grow Omaha, brought toyou by Dingman's Collision Center, Cheer Athletics,
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