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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is grow Omaha, the only radio show that talks
about economic development, construction, business expansion, and all of those
things that make Omaha a great place to live or visit.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Baby, Well, good.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Morning, and welcome to the Grow Omaha Show. Jeff Bele's
here at your service. We're brought to you by Dingman's
Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics, and we are the
only show in the metro area that talks about business expansion,
real estate, construction, new restaurants, new retail, and a lot
of other things. And without any further ado, it's time
(00:37):
to bring on my co host, legendary real estate deal
maker Trenton Maggott.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You are too kind as always, mister Beal's good morning everybody, Well,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
I just want everybody to know that as long as
Jeff's head doesn't spin around and something else happens, I'll
be okay safe in the studio. His voice is just
a little horse today because you have been on the road, yeah,
doing what you do better.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, you know a lot of listeners know I do
have a sales training business that takes me all over
the world, and I've been. January is always a busy month,
and last week I was up in Canada doing a
program and then over the last few days just come back.
Last night I was in Miami doing a conference down there,
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and on one of those trips I picked up a
little something and it hit me in the middle of
the night Tuesday, and I said, will this.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Be done by grow Omaha? Now it's nice?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I thought, you fly private? Yeah, I thought that. I
thought so too. And you're right, United and American are
not owned by the government. Oh yeah, so that's flying
private even although they're publicly traded companies. Well, Trent, and
we're going to get into our news of the week
and who brings that news of the week to us?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I'm glad you asked EGO Mortgage Holly Schneidewin and her
team at one hundred and twelfth in Davenport. They are
one hundred and fourteenth in Davenport. They've been doing it
for well over thirty years. They they are a mortgage broker,
which means they're not beholding to one bank or a
certain group to finance your your home, your refinance your
(02:12):
new home. They do an amazing job and just give
Hollyock call or check her out online at Eagle Mortgage
Company dot com and they will take care of you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Eagle Mortgage Company dot com. Well, first up on the
news today, we're going to talk about Epley Airfield, which
set an annual record for passenger traffic in twenty twenty
four with five million, two hundred and seventy seven twenty
six travelers flying through the airport. That according to the
airport Authority, that breaks the previous record of just a
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little over five million that was set back in twenty eighteen.
The new milestone is a five percent increase over the
previous year, which was twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Try, I'd say this is very encouraging.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Now, you know we're getting a billion dollars worth of
expansion and getting our airport totally redone.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, and you know that construction has been going on
all year in one way or another. I mean, the
terminal expansion project only started part way through the year,
but that front drive and canopy project has been underway
since last year or since twenty twenty three. And these
numbers are really high despite the fact that people have
to go through roadblocks and barriers and construction entrances to
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get into the building.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Well, and kudos to the airport authority, and they've been
on our show. They have done a wonderful job. And
even I can figure out how to pick somebody up
or drop somebody off.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's pretty smooth.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
You just got to pay attention to those signs and
it'll only get easier.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, and then if you haven't been to the airport lately,
next time you're there, look through some of the windows.
It's kind of hard to see the construction from a
lot of points of view because so much of the
old or current airport building has been kind of sealed
off because of construction. But there are a few places
in the both South terminal and the North terminal where
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you can see what's going on. And there are all
sorts of steel beams going up. And you know, this
airport when it opens, and it won't be fully done
until twenty twenty eight, but we will be using part
of the new terminal as early as next year. This
thing is going to be about double the square footage.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, and what's interesting if you go to anything, well
on the south side.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Where where let's see who's over there.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
American adulta can and delta that Cracking McGee or whatever
is like. Now there's like a temporary convenience store, food
restaurant type places. Not too fancy, but it does the job.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I feel bad for whoever owned Cracky mcgeese because there
has been so much blowback and celebration with Cracking McGee
closing for good, and because they're gonna be replaced with
more brands.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I never saw it open, and I traveled quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh god, yeah, it was I no offense to Kracky
McGee's in the South Turmo, which is gone now, but
it was the only choice. And like other airports have
sit down restaurants and or they have a brand name
you've heard of and and Omaha, we're stuck with kracking.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well they're going to make up for it.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, great.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
New tenants are on the docket for the new project.
All right, we have a we have an update for
some projects at one hundred and thirty Second and Fort Street.
A lot of Gromaha listeners have been riding in and saying,
what's going on there? What's going on there? Well, a
couple things southeast corner there's a gas station, but just
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to the east to that gas station. Construction is wrapping
up on Kowala Wash another.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Car wash, Yeah, we need those.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's a locally owned its liquid business.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
A new startup, and it will open first quarter this
year it appears. And then on the south side of
that gas station forty ten courts. The numbers four oh
one oh forty ten courts, a twelve thousand square foot
building that'll have two courts for basketball and volleyball.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It'll be year round training.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Looks like it's part of Nebraska Basketball Academy, and it'll
be for kindergarten to twelfth graders. Looks like opening there
should be pretty much any day now.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Speaking of car washer, Jeff on West Maple, there's an
IQ car wash, which is the development we did the
Thompson mile West, but also Ray Anderson on one hundred
and fourteenth south of Dodge. That Anderson Amaco has an
IQ car wash. It's the technology behind it. It's touchless
and that's where I go a lot to get my
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car washed.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
So IQ is not a company per se, it's a
brand of equipment or technically it's.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
A franchisey or licensee.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Rather on West Maple and then Ray updated his tunnel
Wash at one hundred and fourteenth south of Dodge, south
of Davenport.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
That is too and it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well, we do love Anderson Convenience Market on the show.
They do a fantastic job. Another company we like is
Hubble Realty Company. They are making progress on Sagebrook, a
two hundred and sixty four unit multi family project northwest
of ninety six then Giles in Love Vista. It's fifty
five million dollar project. It will have apartments, it'll have
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rental town homes, plus all the usual amenities that you
would expect from a very nice suburban complex, even a
dog park. Completionists planned for late twenty twenty five. Coming
along pretty well.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
At least, we're getting a lot more apartments, all kinds
of different types of apartments, subsidized, market rate, downtown, suburban.
All indications are that we need more apartments and we
also need more housing.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well that's just it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Because a lot of people will say, oh, we're building
too many apartments, or we're sick of all these rental units,
or whatever the case may be. But people build what
supply and demand tells them to build. And we have
a housing shortage here. We have a housing shortage of
single family houses, and believe it or not, we don't
have enough apartments. We're going to build what the people need.
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And if we need more apartments, developers are going to
fill that voiage.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And people ask, well, why are we getting so many
more housing units? Is population growing and we've reported that
it's usually just under one percent population growth Jeff.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, and it's kind of it was a little higher
in the last year.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
So people age out, you know, they move out of
their parents' basement. I feel sorry for those people in
parents' basements because some people get the real old bedrooms
that they grew up with there's in their parents' house.
But when they move out, they may need a house
or an apartment. Also, divorce is actually a good economic
driver when it comes to housing and things like that.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I'd rather have.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
In migration, people immigrating into Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Nebraska is not doing well within migration. Omaha is doing
okay but needs to do better. But the state of
Nebraska we have a negative when it comes to domestic
net migration every year and we need to change that.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
We're taking people off the farms and smaller cities.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, So basically what happens is the people come from
the farms and the small towns, they work their way
up to Lincoln, then they work their way up to Omaha,
and then some of them leave and so so it's
like Omaha is almost kind of like a portal to
pull rural people out of the state. But thank god,
a lot of them stay in Omaha. We need a
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bigger percentage to stay in Omaha.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
What I liked when it comes to employment professionals, I
like the theory and I don't think I think it's
more than a theory. And the headhunters say when it's
really hard to get top talent to move into Omaha,
but it's even harder to get them to move out,
which says a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
That second part, all right, that's your News of the week,
brought to you by Eagle Mortgage Eagle Mortgage Company dot Com.
Going to take our first break of the hour, and
when we come back, we're going to bring on Nancy Sons.
She is the co owner of S and N Landscaping,
one of our Grow Omaha sponsors, and they do an
outstanding job with commercial and residential landscaping. We're going to
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hear a little bit about that business and that industry.
So stay with us. You're listening to Grow Omaha, brought
to you by Dingman's Collision Center and Cheer Athletics on
News Radio eleven.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Ten KFABE and welcome back to Gromaha.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
There is only show devoted to the growth and development
of your favorite city. I'm Jeff Beal sitting next to
Trenton Maggan. We are brought to you by Cheer Athletics
along with Dingman's Collision Center. I tell you what, Trenton,
You've got a lot of history Dingman's Collision Center.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, I go back about twenty five years.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I actually I had a long conversation with Papa Boyd Dingman,
who's the original og over there, and that is their
last name. Fabulous work that they do, but just as
important it's they're just an ethical, great family and they
protect you from the insurance companies. They they use the
right parts and I've used them quite a bit actually,
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and they have four locations all around the metro. There's
a fifth coming up probably later this year, very southwest.
I don't know if I'm supposed to announce that yet
or not, so I'll wait to get Andy's clearance clearance.
But Dingman's also has a mechanical shop one hundred and
twentieth and West Maple Road.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
They you just check.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Them out and then free estimates, and we highly recommend
whether it's just a scratch or a serious accident.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I had one car that they just said was totaled.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Well, that one was not your fault though that one
was oh okay, but one before.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That another one that was really it was not your fault.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Same vehicle, so I had to move up in automobiles.
But they did a great job. So highly recommend Dingman's
and they will take care of you well.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
We periodically like to feature some of our sponsors businesses
and it allows us to learn a little bit about them,
and then it also gives us a chance to learn
a little bit about their industry. And we're very happy
today to have Nancy Sons with us. She's the co
owner of S and N Landscape Design. They are one
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of our sponsors on grow Omaha dot com. Omaha company.
They do commercial and residential landscaping along with some other
related services. And first of all, Nancy, I'd like to
say welcome to the show and thank you for your
sponsorship of grow Omaha.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Thank you so much for having me today. I really
appreciate the opportunity and the opportunity to be on your website.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Well, Nancy, give us a little bit of an overview
of what your landscaping company is all about. Maybe take
us back to some of the history. How'd you get started?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Honestly, I was working with my female business partner, Sarah
Perry at Heritage Nursery. We worked there for eight years.
We saw while we were working there a gap in
the communication between landscape contractor and consumer. So we thought,
watching all these guys do landscaping, like, why can't we
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do this? So we decided to venture out on our
own and take a stab at it ourselves. And we
found that we really enjoyed connecting with clients, building relationships,
building trust, and working with the same people year after year.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It's a really I've used landscapers and let's face it,
people have a They take their landscapers very seriously. And
you're not only doing residential, you're also doing commercial. And
isn't there a big Can you talk about your big
account that you just landed?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I can. We have been the sole landscape in Cellar
for Heartwood Preserve. Since twenty nineteen was when we started.
We have planted the threshold along Dodge Street, the park,
all of the greenways. We're currently working on the campus
and greenways CND, and the estate lots right now.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So that what is that five eight hundred acres or
how big is that.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Five hundred acres?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, it's a huge development.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Do you do all those stone walls mecho Heney construction?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, it does. That's more of a construction.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
But this is this is installation and this is maintenance
hopefully for years to come. And this is the area
everyone one hundred and forty fourth from Dodge Street and
then past Pacific Street and then the applied under riders,
big building with eleven hundred parking stalls underground that whole area.
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That's crazy. Do you have multiple crews on that or
how do you keep something that big going?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I have a maintenance crew there twenty four to seven
in the season, and then we bring in additional crews
as needed during planting times.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
So, Nancy, I was going to say, what's the difference
between commercial and residential and your answer would probably be like, well,
residential's houses, Okay, So beyond that, and then how do
you approach them differently? How do you market to those
companies differently? Do you have crews that only do commercial
versus residential?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
My crews can do both. They are very well versed
in either side of the business, commercial or residential. I
definitely have guys that are more on the hardscape side
of the business, so they would be like Patio's walls,
water features, fire features, lighting, and then I have other
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crews that are better at like maintenance, planting, renovation, landscape renovation.
We do a lot of that on the residential side.
As far as marketing towards residential versus commercial, commercial is
a lot of word of mouth from people we know
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or people we've worked with. Commercial or residential is the same,
but that's more like women wives talking to each other
going out. You know who did your landscaping? I would
like to get their number or work with them as well.
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Or it's people reaching out to us because they've seen
our guys on the job working and see the work
ethic that they have and how dedicated they are to
the projects.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
What's the website?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
We'll repeat it later, but SNN Landscaping, What is the website?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
And how can people get a hold of.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
You sn Landscape Design dot com. We are also on
Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And how big of a service.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Area Omaha Council Bluffs, Bennington, Elkhorn, Waterloo Valley.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Gretna talk with Nancy Son's co owner of SNN Landscape
Design and you know, Nancy, we keep hearing from businesses
like yours, your industry that gosh, it's so hard to
find labor these days, it's so hard to find good workers.
How is that going for you? And what do you
guys do to make sure that you constantly have good
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quality people that can serve your clients.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
We've been extremely blessed. I have a foreman who is
an older gentleman who I've known my entire time in
the business. He came on with us in twenty sixteen
and brought both of his sons, his cousin and a
couple of other guys with him that we've had the
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entire time. He does all am my hiring and firing.
He lets us know when he feels the pressure to
need additional guys or to let guys go, which is amazing.
I really count on him to handle these types of
things as this is a struggle on the woman's side
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of the business in the landscaping industry.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
So along the same lines.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
After the pandemic, everyone was getting their backyard redond and
all that, and at that time there were material shortages.
You couldn't find the stuff you needed to do landscaping projects. Well,
now a few years have gone by, how are we
there are things still in short supply for projects or
can you get what you need?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Having any trouble getting what we need? Our issue is price,
As everybody knows, they never come down and people are
definitely not used to it. They want the prices of
twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Me too, we can't have those when it comes. You
mentioned that the dynamic between female run businesses and male
run businesses, and your foreman's a male and you know
it shouldn't make any difference, But in business, obviously you
don't see a lot of female owned landscaping companies. Can
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you shed some light on that or any fun stories
about that.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
I think one of the best things about being a
female owned business and having minority ran crews is we're
able to nurture those relationships as a mother would. Even
though some of the these guys are older than us,
younger than us. Whatever the case may be. We celebrate
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birthdays on both sides. They celebrate ours, we celebrate theirs.
We're really good about having special occasions celebrating our I think,
really what I have or be able to do the
things with my kids and my family and travel the
way that I do without them. So I think that
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sometimes that's a big disconnect, and why companies have trouble
keeping their labor staff is because they're not celebrating or
treating them as equals like they should.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
All right, you treat it like a family, and that's important.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, Nancy, we appreciate you joining us today, and like
I said earlier, thanks for being part of our gro
Omaha community and being one of our key sponsors on
grow Omaha dot com. You have an outstanding company and
you do outstanding work. And thanks for bringing us up
to speed with the landscape industry in Omaha.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Thank you so much, guys, I really siate the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That's Nancy Soones, co owner of S and N Landscape Design,
going to take our middle of the show break for
the news and when we come back, Trenton and I
are going to talk a little bit about good life
district talk goodness Gracious, there's a lot to talk about
when it comes to good life districts. So stay with us.
You're listening to Grow Omaha, brought to you by Dingman's
Collision Center and Cheer Athletics on News Radio eleven ten
(21:25):
kfab and welcome back to Grow Omaha, the area's only
show dedicated to commercial real estate construction. We talk about
new restaurants and retail. We also like to talk a
lot about economic development. We're brought to you by Dingman's
Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And I'll tell you what. Trenton Cheer Athletics.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Is the Cadillac of the all Star cheer World and
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America right here in Omaha.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Absolutely Cheer ethlete does a great job.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
And also Not All Development is a wonderful sponsor of
our show, the the Not Old Development Spotlight.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Today.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
This is the company that is third generation. Harlan started
it with Joe Kershenbaum, then Jane Oddel took it over
and really expanded it. And now our friend Sam Nodel
is in the thicke of things with his brother Aaron,
but you know him mainly for Exarbon Villa Village, places
that their predecessors actually worked on Commercial Federal Business Park
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which became Bank of the West Business Park which is
now Memo orm.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
And first National Business Park. They they did.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Headquarters for HDR at Xarbon Village, they did Valmont Industries
out at Heartwood Preserve, and they're busy and so they
do stuff all over the country lat in Denver as well.
But they are are also getting into residential development when
it comes to condos and other fascinating places with lots
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of amenities.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And in every week at this time we like to
highlight activity happening in or around one of the Naudel
Company's Mini Omaha area projects. And today we go downtown
to the Builders District. The Builders District is that area
kind of around Charles Schwab Field, Omaha where the new
Keywit headquarters is not'll build it and a lot of
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stuff going there. And the big news is that construction
will start on a Builders District parking garage in February.
And that's needed Trenton to keep the momentum going in
that Builders District area of North downtown.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Absolutely and we're seeing more and more parking garages. We're
seeing one come to Milwork Commons and not just for
the College World Series, but just to create a place,
a sense of place twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
And hopefully we'll see more retail coming after all this.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And by the way, Je Nodel, who you mentioned earlier,
the head guy at Nodel Companies. He's also on Metropolitan
Entertainment Convention Authority and at the MECCA meeting.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
In January.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Earlier this month, Jay said at that meeting that that
MECCA has been hearing from hotel operators, not necessarily hotel brands,
just the companies that operate hotels and team up with
a brand getting interest for a third convention hotel near
or possibly even connected to see Hi Health Center Omaha.
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So that's really exciting to think about.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It'd be interesting to see where it would go.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, my guess is, you know on Lot B, you know,
directly north of the Hilton, and.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
They could incorporate that with maybe a parking garage, some
retail hub or something.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Like that as well.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, probably something like that, but we'll definitely keep your
eye on it. My guess is, don't get too excited
about happening really fast, because that probably will take a
while for that to happen. But it's good to know
that there's conversations being held and that's apparently getting closer.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
All right, should we talk about good life districts?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Aye yay yay ya yai Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
So the Good Life Districts are continuing to make headlines
in the news, not always in the best way. It's
been a little over a week since Gretna voters approved
the establishment of this program in Gretna. Now the Nebraska
Department of Revenue has let us know that Rod Yates,
the developer whose Good Life District application was the original
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one accepted under the terms of the so called Good
Life District Transformational Projects Act, now believes that is development
cannot be completed as proposed, and so the deed Department
of Economic Development has to collect evidence from the City
of Gretna and other interested parties until February twelfth to
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determine whether a Good Life District is stilliable and Gretna
without Nebraska crossing and without Rod Yates, So Trenton that
there's more to say about this, but that process alone
is going to be fascinating.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Well, what's interesting is a couple of years ago and
Rod Yates and his team at Nebraska Crossing really championed
this legislation along with Senator Luanne Lenihan who was term
limited and she's out now.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
And what's interesting about.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Is although Rod was approved as the first applicant of
one of these districts where the state said, okay, there
can be five of these, there's a number of five
million dollars that Governor Pillin kind of set aside for
whatever expenses. I don't know what that is to be
used for, but they said they could be five of
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these in the state. There's one approved at one hundred
and ninety second and West Dodge Road, which has been
very quiet.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
There's one that has not been quiet. It seems like
they got.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Their stuff together to build this or outdoor swimming pool
that the city of Bellevue is the declarant down in Bellevue.
And then there's one in Grand Island that seems to
be going down the road. And then be one other
one and so far it's been between Carnie and Papillion,
which we haven't heard much about either one of those
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that could be the fifth. But now We have everything
from from the governor saying, Okay, this thing has gotten convoluted,
it's off track. You know, we thought that this was
going to be developed a certain way, and these things
were having a certain way. Now the governor saying, well,
we got this shortfall, I might pull back this five
million dollars, we might scrap the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Well, and then don't we have legal issues because have
we as a state not made commitments to the developers
in Grand Island and Bellevue? And I mean there hasn't
been a lot of progress yet on the Omaha one.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
But there you go.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
The City of Omaha approved the Good Life District at
one hundred and ninety second of dodge and a vote.
It seems kind of a little too late to be
pulling this away from people, you would think. So.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Not only that, but there's been about a million dollars
in sales texts loss. So what this was created for now?
Keep in mind it's for new projects, new construction and
tourism and new to market type stuff. And the legislation
that the rod Champion initially was two thousand acres. What
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some people don't know is that in Gretna it's a
ten year thing, and within ten years they have to
have seventy five percent of new construction completed. For instance,
in Gretna it's five hundred million dollars. Omaha is a
billion dollars. I'm not sure what Grand Island is or
what Bellevue is, but they've all stated what they think
they can build there. And Rod Yates and his team
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decided that two thousand acres wasn't big enough. So even
though the legislation doesn't call for it, he now saying
says that it should be forty five hundred acres and
he's going to do a three to five billion dollar
deal and then new legislation. I guess it was the
deadline like yesterday or something for the unicameral to put
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things on the docket for this session.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
And so there's like three or four different.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It was actually Wednesday, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Legislative bills, and so now some people are they're trying
to change and all that stuff. So everything seems to
be up in the air. I think Mike Evans has
done a good job and trying to He's done a
good job representing the city of La Vista. They did
pass their issue, their vote and their vote just says
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that they had this quasi government agency that can now
collect this two point seventy five percent which has been
taking off people's bills at Nebraska Crossing the Brest Crossing. Basically,
this million dollars is evaporate. The state didn't get it,
the city didn't get it, and the developers.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Didn't get it.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
And so now at least they can start collecting that
and figure out what they're going to do with it.
So my sense is that rationale, we'll come back to
the table and say we need to make this work.
And in Gretna, the biggest challenge it seems like, is
the applicant Rod pulled out. But people that own land
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there are pretty big time developers and they want they
want to be able to develop their own property and
benefit from this legislation.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
And really past Rod Yates the original applicant pulling out,
as Trenton said from the Gretna Good Life District at
the time, he said he was going to try to
get a different partner like the State of Nebraska as
opposed to the City of Gretna. And it now appears
that he's got a senator in the Unit Cameral to
carry that water. It is Senator Bo Ballard of Lincoln
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who introduced legislative Bill six point thirty seven called the
Nebraska Destination Act, and it would basically allow someone like
Rod Nebraska Crossing to do something kind of like a
good Life District, but not a good Life district and
not work with the city of Gretna. Well, we got
to take our final break of the hour, and when
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we come back, it's the Perkins Chritser Construction Lightning Round.
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Speaker 3 (33:06):
A little note about a restaurant here in Dundee neighborhood,
the same place where we are on kfab ooh da.
Lali is expanding its hours to include lunch Thursday through Saturday.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Ooh Day.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Lali's first lunch took place earlier this week on Thursday.
The nonprofit restaurant is located at forty nine sixteen underwo
Avenue in beautiful downtown Dundee. And just like Kfab, they're
high above under what Avenue.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
That's quality service in quality food and they've got a
couple of throwbacks two Marks that was there before, which
is a great restaurant as well.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
So Uta Ali.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
As Chris Corey, our food critic, he put him on
one of his best lists.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah he or they made Chris Corey's top five and
twenty twenty four of all the places that he reviewed.
And by the way, you can read all of Chris's
reviews on Grolmaha dot com simply click on reviews on
the navigation. Bar Goo Goo Ramen, a ramen and Korean
fried chicken concept will open soon at ninety eight twenty
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South seventy First Plaza. It's in a corner bay of
a strip mall next to Jersey Mike's in Papillion that's
just off seventy second in corner Oscar. It's adjacent to
Golden Apple Buffet, which opened in June under the same ownership.
And then we have the Posh Peacock. Gotta be careful
when you say that. Posh Peacock a locally owned consignment
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furniture store. It'll close its doors at one hundred and
twenty first in West Center Road in bel Air Plaza
today January twenty fifth. The store, which opened in October
of twenty eleven, specializes in home furnishings and decorps sourced
from model homes, estate liquidations, and store close out.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
That's kind of good idea. I hadn't heard of it before,
which doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You're the reason it's closing.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Yeah, they should advertise on the GROMA show.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You know, we a lot of times people say, why
does grow Omaha, which talks about growth, Why do you
guys talk about businesses closing? Well, we think that's important
to know too. For one reason, we want you to
be informed about business news related to Omaha. Number two
stores opening and closing like the circle of life, right,
it's part of the business cycle. And the third thing is,
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while just depressing sometimes for the owners and the employees
and the valued customers of a business, when it closes,
it does open a spot for some new business. Absolutely,
And that's like we said, it's a circle.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Lets people know what works and what doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, so we'll keep telling you.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
And by the way, because sometimes people all say, oh
my gosh, it seems like so many places are closing.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
There always are a lot of places closing.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, a lot. If there is if there's a hood
for the grow and there is a drain a for cooking,
there will be an entrepreneur at a restaurant tour that'll
take the space.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Caddy's Brunch Bar, formerly known as Caddie's Kitchen and Cocktails,
will reopen on February third in its original location at
one oh three West Broadway that's in the historic hundred
block of Council Bluffs. Caddies closed in October and is
under the same ownership as the Salty Dog Bar and Grill,
which operates and counts Bluss but also recently opened in
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Omaha location seventy second and Grover, right next to Wiener Schnitzel.
Now route you know the way you get famous these
days is being next to Wiener Schnitzel.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how busy they are now.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
You know.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
We went to the soft opening the day before they opened,
and just like Crumble Cookies every hey talks about, it
was like, oh my gosh, you can't get in there
and anything. I bet you could get in there, especially
if you kind of vary your hours.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Paradise Pace Crean Cafe has officially opened at Nebraska Crossing
in Gretna. It's located in an end cap bay near
Old to Beauty. The new location includes delivery options and
a drive through lane. Of course, Paradise relocated from Village
Point shopping center. It was there for years shut down
there toward the end of twenty twenty four, most Paradise
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bakeries have been converted into Panera restaurants around the country.
The only remaining one or the only remaining two are
the new one in Gretna and one in Dallas. Wow,
that's a concept that is very rare now.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
All right.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Harder to find paradise these days.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
You paved paradise and put in a parking lot. Give
me the scoop. A local Italian ice food truck. Oh,
I'm sorry, give me the scoop a local Italian ice
food truck. I said, I was like thinking ice truck,
that'd be kind of weird. So in an Italian ice
food truck. We'll soon offer its products at Huskerland Popcorn
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at twenty three oh five North ninetieth Street. And this
is a dessert concept. Makes sense. They also have gluten
dairy free flavors like mango, green apple, blue raspberry, and more.
All right, Kawai Team Time Kawai Tea Time, formerly known
just as Tea Time, recently rebranded its Bubble Tea shop
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near one hundred and forty fifth and Maple into an
Asian fusion restaurant. And this is a New York City
based concept specializing in authentic boba te, sushi, tacos, and
poke Bento bowls.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Wow sounds good.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I'll go to that.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yeah, are you into boba te?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You know?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
I'll drink it. My daughter thinks it's the greatest thing
on the face of the planet, but I'll drink it.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
I look at my floaters like.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
The I like Bento bowls better than Bubble to them.
All right.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Finally, Shadow Lake Collision Center local auto Body Shop will
open a second location near at the former H and
H Kia site near eighty fourth and F. And that's
it for this week. We hope that everyone has a
great week. I'm Jeff Beils and I'm Trenton Maggott. You've
been listening to GROHLMHA, which was brought to you by
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the nation's number one all star cheer gym, and Perkins
Chritzer Construction. We'll chat with you next week at nine
right here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
This is grow Omaha, the only radio show that talks
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things that make Omaha a great place to live or visit.
Grow Omaha on News Radio eleven ten K.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Baby, Well, good.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Morning, and welcome to the Grow Omaha Show. Jeff Bele's
here at your service. We're brought to you by Dingman's
Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics, and we are the
only show in the metro area that talks about business expansion,
real estate, construction, new restaurants, new retail, and a lot
of other things. And without any further ado, it's time
(00:37):
to bring on my co host, legendary real estate deal
maker Trenton Maggott.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You are too kind as always, mister Beal's good morning everybody, Well,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
I just want everybody to know that as long as
Jeff's head doesn't spin around and something else happens, I'll
be okay safe in the studio. His voice is just
a little horse today because you have been on the road, yeah,
doing what you do better.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, you know a lot of listeners know I do
have a sales training business that takes me all over
the world, and I've been. January is always a busy month,
and last week I was up in Canada doing a
program and then over the last few days just come back.
Last night I was in Miami doing a conference down there,
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and on one of those trips I picked up a
little something and it hit me in the middle of
the night Tuesday, and I said, will this.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Be done by grow Omaha? Now it's nice?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I thought, you fly private? Yeah, I thought that. I
thought so too. And you're right, United and American are
not owned by the government. Oh yeah, so that's flying
private even although they're publicly traded companies. Well, Trent, and
we're going to get into our news of the week
and who brings that news of the week to us?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
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team at one hundred and twelfth in Davenport. They are
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Speaker 3 (02:26):
Eagle Mortgage Company dot com. Well, first up on the
news today, we're going to talk about Epley Airfield, which
set an annual record for passenger traffic in twenty twenty
four with five million, two hundred and seventy seven twenty
six travelers flying through the airport. That according to the
airport Authority, that breaks the previous record of just a
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little over five million that was set back in twenty eighteen.
The new milestone is a five percent increase over the
previous year, which was twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Try, I'd say this is very encouraging.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Now, you know we're getting a billion dollars worth of
expansion and getting our airport totally redone.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, and you know that construction has been going on
all year in one way or another. I mean, the
terminal expansion project only started part way through the year,
but that front drive and canopy project has been underway
since last year or since twenty twenty three. And these
numbers are really high despite the fact that people have
to go through roadblocks and barriers and construction entrances to
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get into the building.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Well, and kudos to the airport authority, and they've been
on our show. They have done a wonderful job. And
even I can figure out how to pick somebody up
or drop somebody off.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's pretty smooth.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
You just got to pay attention to those signs and
it'll only get easier.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, and then if you haven't been to the airport lately,
next time you're there, look through some of the windows.
It's kind of hard to see the construction from a
lot of points of view because so much of the
old or current airport building has been kind of sealed
off because of construction. But there are a few places
in the both South terminal and the North terminal where
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you can see what's going on. And there are all
sorts of steel beams going up. And you know, this
airport when it opens, and it won't be fully done
until twenty twenty eight, but we will be using part
of the new terminal as early as next year. This
thing is going to be about double the square footage.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, and what's interesting if you go to anything, well
on the south side.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Where where let's see who's over there.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
American adulta can and delta that Cracking McGee or whatever
is like. Now there's like a temporary convenience store, food
restaurant type places. Not too fancy, but it does the job.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I feel bad for whoever owned Cracky mcgeese because there
has been so much blowback and celebration with Cracking McGee
closing for good, and because they're gonna be replaced with
more brands.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I never saw it open, and I traveled quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh god, yeah, it was I no offense to Kracky
McGee's in the South Turmo, which is gone now, but
it was the only choice. And like other airports have
sit down restaurants and or they have a brand name
you've heard of and and Omaha, we're stuck with kracking.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well they're going to make up for it.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, great.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
New tenants are on the docket for the new project.
All right, we have a we have an update for
some projects at one hundred and thirty Second and Fort Street.
A lot of Gromaha listeners have been riding in and saying,
what's going on there? What's going on there? Well, a
couple things southeast corner there's a gas station, but just
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to the east to that gas station. Construction is wrapping
up on Kowala Wash another.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Car wash, Yeah, we need those.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's a locally owned its liquid business.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
A new startup, and it will open first quarter this
year it appears. And then on the south side of
that gas station forty ten courts. The numbers four oh
one oh forty ten courts, a twelve thousand square foot
building that'll have two courts for basketball and volleyball.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It'll be year round training.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Looks like it's part of Nebraska Basketball Academy, and it'll
be for kindergarten to twelfth graders. Looks like opening there
should be pretty much any day now.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Speaking of car washer, Jeff on West Maple, there's an
IQ car wash, which is the development we did the
Thompson mile West, but also Ray Anderson on one hundred
and fourteenth south of Dodge. That Anderson Amaco has an
IQ car wash. It's the technology behind it. It's touchless
and that's where I go a lot to get my
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car washed.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
So IQ is not a company per se, it's a
brand of equipment or technically it's.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
A franchisey or licensee.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Rather on West Maple and then Ray updated his tunnel
Wash at one hundred and fourteenth south of Dodge, south
of Davenport.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
That is too and it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well, we do love Anderson Convenience Market on the show.
They do a fantastic job. Another company we like is
Hubble Realty Company. They are making progress on Sagebrook, a
two hundred and sixty four unit multi family project northwest
of ninety six then Giles in Love Vista. It's fifty
five million dollar project. It will have apartments, it'll have
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rental town homes, plus all the usual amenities that you
would expect from a very nice suburban complex, even a
dog park. Completionists planned for late twenty twenty five. Coming
along pretty well.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
At least, we're getting a lot more apartments, all kinds
of different types of apartments, subsidized, market rate, downtown, suburban.
All indications are that we need more apartments and we
also need more housing.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well that's just it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Because a lot of people will say, oh, we're building
too many apartments, or we're sick of all these rental units,
or whatever the case may be. But people build what
supply and demand tells them to build. And we have
a housing shortage here. We have a housing shortage of
single family houses, and believe it or not, we don't
have enough apartments. We're going to build what the people need.
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And if we need more apartments, developers are going to
fill that voiage.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And people ask, well, why are we getting so many
more housing units? Is population growing and we've reported that
it's usually just under one percent population growth Jeff.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, and it's kind of it was a little higher
in the last year.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
So people age out, you know, they move out of
their parents' basement. I feel sorry for those people in
parents' basements because some people get the real old bedrooms
that they grew up with there's in their parents' house.
But when they move out, they may need a house
or an apartment. Also, divorce is actually a good economic
driver when it comes to housing and things like that.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I'd rather have.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
In migration, people immigrating into Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Nebraska is not doing well within migration. Omaha is doing
okay but needs to do better. But the state of
Nebraska we have a negative when it comes to domestic
net migration every year and we need to change that.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
We're taking people off the farms and smaller cities.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, So basically what happens is the people come from
the farms and the small towns, they work their way
up to Lincoln, then they work their way up to Omaha,
and then some of them leave and so so it's
like Omaha is almost kind of like a portal to
pull rural people out of the state. But thank god,
a lot of them stay in Omaha. We need a
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bigger percentage to stay in Omaha.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
What I liked when it comes to employment professionals, I
like the theory and I don't think I think it's
more than a theory. And the headhunters say when it's
really hard to get top talent to move into Omaha,
but it's even harder to get them to move out,
which says a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
That second part, all right, that's your News of the week,
brought to you by Eagle Mortgage Eagle Mortgage Company dot Com.
Going to take our first break of the hour, and
when we come back, we're going to bring on Nancy Sons.
She is the co owner of S and N Landscaping,
one of our Grow Omaha sponsors, and they do an
outstanding job with commercial and residential landscaping. We're going to
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hear a little bit about that business and that industry.
So stay with us. You're listening to Grow Omaha, brought
to you by Dingman's Collision Center and Cheer Athletics on
News Radio eleven.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Ten KFABE and welcome back to Gromaha.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
There is only show devoted to the growth and development
of your favorite city. I'm Jeff Beal sitting next to
Trenton Maggan. We are brought to you by Cheer Athletics
along with Dingman's Collision Center. I tell you what, Trenton,
You've got a lot of history Dingman's Collision Center.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, I go back about twenty five years.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I actually I had a long conversation with Papa Boyd Dingman,
who's the original og over there, and that is their
last name. Fabulous work that they do, but just as
important it's they're just an ethical, great family and they
protect you from the insurance companies. They they use the
right parts and I've used them quite a bit actually,
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and they have four locations all around the metro. There's
a fifth coming up probably later this year, very southwest.
I don't know if I'm supposed to announce that yet
or not, so I'll wait to get Andy's clearance clearance.
But Dingman's also has a mechanical shop one hundred and
twentieth and West Maple Road.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
They you just check.
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Them out and then free estimates, and we highly recommend
whether it's just a scratch or a serious accident.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I had one car that they just said was totaled.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Well, that one was not your fault though that one
was oh okay, but one before.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That another one that was really it was not your fault.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Same vehicle, so I had to move up in automobiles.
But they did a great job. So highly recommend Dingman's
and they will take care of you well.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
We periodically like to feature some of our sponsors businesses
and it allows us to learn a little bit about them,
and then it also gives us a chance to learn
a little bit about their industry. And we're very happy
today to have Nancy Sons with us. She's the co
owner of S and N Landscape Design. They are one
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of our sponsors on grow Omaha dot com. Omaha company.
They do commercial and residential landscaping along with some other
related services. And first of all, Nancy, I'd like to
say welcome to the show and thank you for your
sponsorship of grow Omaha.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Thank you so much for having me today. I really
appreciate the opportunity and the opportunity to be on your website.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Well, Nancy, give us a little bit of an overview
of what your landscaping company is all about. Maybe take
us back to some of the history. How'd you get started?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Honestly, I was working with my female business partner, Sarah
Perry at Heritage Nursery. We worked there for eight years.
We saw while we were working there a gap in
the communication between landscape contractor and consumer. So we thought,
watching all these guys do landscaping, like, why can't we
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do this? So we decided to venture out on our
own and take a stab at it ourselves. And we
found that we really enjoyed connecting with clients, building relationships,
building trust, and working with the same people year after year.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It's a really I've used landscapers and let's face it,
people have a They take their landscapers very seriously. And
you're not only doing residential, you're also doing commercial. And
isn't there a big Can you talk about your big
account that you just landed?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I can. We have been the sole landscape in Cellar
for Heartwood Preserve. Since twenty nineteen was when we started.
We have planted the threshold along Dodge Street, the park,
all of the greenways. We're currently working on the campus
and greenways CND, and the estate lots right now.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So that what is that five eight hundred acres or
how big is that.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Five hundred acres?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, it's a huge development.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Do you do all those stone walls mecho Heney construction?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, it does. That's more of a construction.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
But this is this is installation and this is maintenance
hopefully for years to come. And this is the area
everyone one hundred and forty fourth from Dodge Street and
then past Pacific Street and then the applied under riders,
big building with eleven hundred parking stalls underground that whole area.
(15:04):
That's crazy. Do you have multiple crews on that or
how do you keep something that big going?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I have a maintenance crew there twenty four to seven
in the season, and then we bring in additional crews
as needed during planting times.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
So, Nancy, I was going to say, what's the difference
between commercial and residential and your answer would probably be like, well,
residential's houses, Okay, So beyond that, and then how do
you approach them differently? How do you market to those
companies differently? Do you have crews that only do commercial
versus residential?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
My crews can do both. They are very well versed
in either side of the business, commercial or residential. I
definitely have guys that are more on the hardscape side
of the business, so they would be like Patio's walls,
water features, fire features, lighting, and then I have other
(16:03):
crews that are better at like maintenance, planting, renovation, landscape renovation.
We do a lot of that on the residential side.
As far as marketing towards residential versus commercial, commercial is
a lot of word of mouth from people we know
(16:25):
or people we've worked with. Commercial or residential is the same,
but that's more like women wives talking to each other
going out. You know who did your landscaping? I would
like to get their number or work with them as well.
(16:48):
Or it's people reaching out to us because they've seen
our guys on the job working and see the work
ethic that they have and how dedicated they are to
the projects.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
What's the website?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
We'll repeat it later, but SNN Landscaping, What is the website?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
And how can people get a hold of.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
You sn Landscape Design dot com. We are also on
Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And how big of a service.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Area Omaha Council Bluffs, Bennington, Elkhorn, Waterloo Valley.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Gretna talk with Nancy Son's co owner of SNN Landscape
Design and you know, Nancy, we keep hearing from businesses
like yours, your industry that gosh, it's so hard to
find labor these days, it's so hard to find good workers.
How is that going for you? And what do you
guys do to make sure that you constantly have good
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quality people that can serve your clients.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
We've been extremely blessed. I have a foreman who is
an older gentleman who I've known my entire time in
the business. He came on with us in twenty sixteen
and brought both of his sons, his cousin and a
couple of other guys with him that we've had the
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entire time. He does all am my hiring and firing.
He lets us know when he feels the pressure to
need additional guys or to let guys go, which is amazing.
I really count on him to handle these types of
things as this is a struggle on the woman's side
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of the business in the landscaping industry.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
So along the same lines.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
After the pandemic, everyone was getting their backyard redond and
all that, and at that time there were material shortages.
You couldn't find the stuff you needed to do landscaping projects. Well,
now a few years have gone by, how are we
there are things still in short supply for projects or
can you get what you need?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Having any trouble getting what we need? Our issue is price,
As everybody knows, they never come down and people are
definitely not used to it. They want the prices of
twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Me too, we can't have those when it comes. You
mentioned that the dynamic between female run businesses and male
run businesses, and your foreman's a male and you know
it shouldn't make any difference, But in business, obviously you
don't see a lot of female owned landscaping companies. Can
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you shed some light on that or any fun stories
about that.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
I think one of the best things about being a
female owned business and having minority ran crews is we're
able to nurture those relationships as a mother would. Even
though some of the these guys are older than us,
younger than us. Whatever the case may be. We celebrate
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birthdays on both sides. They celebrate ours, we celebrate theirs.
We're really good about having special occasions celebrating our I think,
really what I have or be able to do the
things with my kids and my family and travel the
way that I do without them. So I think that
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sometimes that's a big disconnect, and why companies have trouble
keeping their labor staff is because they're not celebrating or
treating them as equals like they should.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
All right, you treat it like a family, and that's important.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, Nancy, we appreciate you joining us today, and like
I said earlier, thanks for being part of our gro
Omaha community and being one of our key sponsors on
grow Omaha dot com. You have an outstanding company and
you do outstanding work. And thanks for bringing us up
to speed with the landscape industry in Omaha.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Thank you so much, guys, I really siate the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That's Nancy Soones, co owner of S and N Landscape Design,
going to take our middle of the show break for
the news and when we come back, Trenton and I
are going to talk a little bit about good life
district talk goodness Gracious, there's a lot to talk about
when it comes to good life districts. So stay with us.
You're listening to Grow Omaha, brought to you by Dingman's
Collision Center and Cheer Athletics on News Radio eleven ten
(21:25):
kfab and welcome back to Grow Omaha, the area's only
show dedicated to commercial real estate construction. We talk about
new restaurants and retail. We also like to talk a
lot about economic development. We're brought to you by Dingman's
Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And I'll tell you what. Trenton Cheer Athletics.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Is the Cadillac of the all Star cheer World and
we've got one of the best cheer athletics locations in
America right here in Omaha.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Absolutely Cheer ethlete does a great job.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
And also Not All Development is a wonderful sponsor of
our show, the the Not Old Development Spotlight.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Today.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
This is the company that is third generation. Harlan started
it with Joe Kershenbaum, then Jane Oddel took it over
and really expanded it. And now our friend Sam Nodel
is in the thicke of things with his brother Aaron,
but you know him mainly for Exarbon Villa Village, places
that their predecessors actually worked on Commercial Federal Business Park
(22:35):
which became Bank of the West Business Park which is
now Memo orm.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
And first National Business Park. They they did.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Headquarters for HDR at Xarbon Village, they did Valmont Industries
out at Heartwood Preserve, and they're busy and so they
do stuff all over the country lat in Denver as well.
But they are are also getting into residential development when
it comes to condos and other fascinating places with lots
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of amenities.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And in every week at this time we like to
highlight activity happening in or around one of the Naudel
Company's Mini Omaha area projects. And today we go downtown
to the Builders District. The Builders District is that area
kind of around Charles Schwab Field, Omaha where the new
Keywit headquarters is not'll build it and a lot of
(23:29):
stuff going there. And the big news is that construction
will start on a Builders District parking garage in February.
And that's needed Trenton to keep the momentum going in
that Builders District area of North downtown.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Absolutely and we're seeing more and more parking garages. We're
seeing one come to Milwork Commons and not just for
the College World Series, but just to create a place,
a sense of place twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
And hopefully we'll see more retail coming after all this.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And by the way, Je Nodel, who you mentioned earlier,
the head guy at Nodel Companies. He's also on Metropolitan
Entertainment Convention Authority and at the MECCA meeting.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
In January.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Earlier this month, Jay said at that meeting that that
MECCA has been hearing from hotel operators, not necessarily hotel brands,
just the companies that operate hotels and team up with
a brand getting interest for a third convention hotel near
or possibly even connected to see Hi Health Center Omaha.
(24:35):
So that's really exciting to think about.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It'd be interesting to see where it would go.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, my guess is, you know on Lot B, you know,
directly north of the Hilton, and.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
They could incorporate that with maybe a parking garage, some
retail hub or something.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Like that as well.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, probably something like that, but we'll definitely keep your
eye on it. My guess is, don't get too excited
about happening really fast, because that probably will take a
while for that to happen. But it's good to know
that there's conversations being held and that's apparently getting closer.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
All right, should we talk about good life districts?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Aye yay yay ya yai Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
So the Good Life Districts are continuing to make headlines
in the news, not always in the best way. It's
been a little over a week since Gretna voters approved
the establishment of this program in Gretna. Now the Nebraska
Department of Revenue has let us know that Rod Yates,
the developer whose Good Life District application was the original
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one accepted under the terms of the so called Good
Life District Transformational Projects Act, now believes that is development
cannot be completed as proposed, and so the deed Department
of Economic Development has to collect evidence from the City
of Gretna and other interested parties until February twelfth to
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determine whether a Good Life District is stilliable and Gretna
without Nebraska crossing and without Rod Yates, So Trenton that
there's more to say about this, but that process alone
is going to be fascinating.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Well, what's interesting is a couple of years ago and
Rod Yates and his team at Nebraska Crossing really championed
this legislation along with Senator Luanne Lenihan who was term
limited and she's out now.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
And what's interesting about.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Is although Rod was approved as the first applicant of
one of these districts where the state said, okay, there
can be five of these, there's a number of five
million dollars that Governor Pillin kind of set aside for
whatever expenses. I don't know what that is to be
used for, but they said they could be five of
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these in the state. There's one approved at one hundred
and ninety second and West Dodge Road, which has been
very quiet.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
There's one that has not been quiet. It seems like
they got.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Their stuff together to build this or outdoor swimming pool
that the city of Bellevue is the declarant down in Bellevue.
And then there's one in Grand Island that seems to
be going down the road. And then be one other
one and so far it's been between Carnie and Papillion,
which we haven't heard much about either one of those
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that could be the fifth. But now We have everything
from from the governor saying, Okay, this thing has gotten convoluted,
it's off track. You know, we thought that this was
going to be developed a certain way, and these things
were having a certain way. Now the governor saying, well,
we got this shortfall, I might pull back this five
million dollars, we might scrap the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Well, and then don't we have legal issues because have
we as a state not made commitments to the developers
in Grand Island and Bellevue? And I mean there hasn't
been a lot of progress yet on the Omaha one.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
But there you go.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
The City of Omaha approved the Good Life District at
one hundred and ninety second of dodge and a vote.
It seems kind of a little too late to be
pulling this away from people, you would think. So.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Not only that, but there's been about a million dollars
in sales texts loss. So what this was created for now?
Keep in mind it's for new projects, new construction and
tourism and new to market type stuff. And the legislation
that the rod Champion initially was two thousand acres. What
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some people don't know is that in Gretna it's a
ten year thing, and within ten years they have to
have seventy five percent of new construction completed. For instance,
in Gretna it's five hundred million dollars. Omaha is a
billion dollars. I'm not sure what Grand Island is or
what Bellevue is, but they've all stated what they think
they can build there. And Rod Yates and his team
(28:54):
decided that two thousand acres wasn't big enough. So even
though the legislation doesn't call for it, he now saying
says that it should be forty five hundred acres and
he's going to do a three to five billion dollar
deal and then new legislation. I guess it was the
deadline like yesterday or something for the unicameral to put
(29:17):
things on the docket for this session.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
And so there's like three or four different.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It was actually Wednesday, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Legislative bills, and so now some people are they're trying
to change and all that stuff. So everything seems to
be up in the air. I think Mike Evans has
done a good job and trying to He's done a
good job representing the city of La Vista. They did
pass their issue, their vote and their vote just says
(29:45):
that they had this quasi government agency that can now
collect this two point seventy five percent which has been
taking off people's bills at Nebraska Crossing the Brest Crossing. Basically,
this million dollars is evaporate. The state didn't get it,
the city didn't get it, and the developers.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Didn't get it.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
And so now at least they can start collecting that
and figure out what they're going to do with it.
So my sense is that rationale, we'll come back to
the table and say we need to make this work.
And in Gretna, the biggest challenge it seems like, is
the applicant Rod pulled out. But people that own land
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there are pretty big time developers and they want they
want to be able to develop their own property and
benefit from this legislation.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
And really past Rod Yates the original applicant pulling out,
as Trenton said from the Gretna Good Life District at
the time, he said he was going to try to
get a different partner like the State of Nebraska as
opposed to the City of Gretna. And it now appears
that he's got a senator in the Unit Cameral to
carry that water. It is Senator Bo Ballard of Lincoln
(30:53):
who introduced legislative Bill six point thirty seven called the
Nebraska Destination Act, and it would basically allow someone like
Rod Nebraska Crossing to do something kind of like a
good Life District, but not a good Life district and
not work with the city of Gretna. Well, we got
to take our final break of the hour, and when
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we come back, it's the Perkins Chritser Construction Lightning Round.
I'm looking at the list and there are a lot
of things on it, so stay with us. You're listening
to grow Omaha brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center
along with Cheer Athletics on News Radio eleven ten Kfabe
(31:36):
and welcome back to Girmaha. It is your Perkins Kritzer
Construction Lightning Round, in which we talk about a lot
of things in a short period of time. Thanks to
Perkins Kretzer for making this possible. Dave Kreitzer runs things
over there, a good friend of ours, and Dave has
assembled a team about whom or for which he can
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They do projects at a great price, They do things quickly,
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Speaker 2 (33:05):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
A little note about a restaurant here in Dundee neighborhood,
the same place where we are on kfab ooh da.
Lali is expanding its hours to include lunch Thursday through Saturday.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Ooh Day.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Lali's first lunch took place earlier this week on Thursday.
The nonprofit restaurant is located at forty nine sixteen underwo
Avenue in beautiful downtown Dundee. And just like Kfab, they're
high above under what Avenue.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
That's quality service in quality food and they've got a
couple of throwbacks two Marks that was there before, which
is a great restaurant as well.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
So Uta Ali.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
As Chris Corey, our food critic, he put him on
one of his best lists.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah he or they made Chris Corey's top five and
twenty twenty four of all the places that he reviewed.
And by the way, you can read all of Chris's
reviews on Grolmaha dot com simply click on reviews on
the navigation. Bar Goo Goo Ramen, a ramen and Korean
fried chicken concept will open soon at ninety eight twenty
(34:10):
South seventy First Plaza. It's in a corner bay of
a strip mall next to Jersey Mike's in Papillion that's
just off seventy second in corner Oscar. It's adjacent to
Golden Apple Buffet, which opened in June under the same ownership.
And then we have the Posh Peacock. Gotta be careful
when you say that. Posh Peacock a locally owned consignment
(34:33):
furniture store. It'll close its doors at one hundred and
twenty first in West Center Road in bel Air Plaza
today January twenty fifth. The store, which opened in October
of twenty eleven, specializes in home furnishings and decorps sourced
from model homes, estate liquidations, and store close out.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
That's kind of good idea. I hadn't heard of it before,
which doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You're the reason it's closing.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Yeah, they should advertise on the GROMA show.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You know, we a lot of times people say, why
does grow Omaha, which talks about growth, Why do you
guys talk about businesses closing? Well, we think that's important
to know too. For one reason, we want you to
be informed about business news related to Omaha. Number two
stores opening and closing like the circle of life, right,
it's part of the business cycle. And the third thing is,
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while just depressing sometimes for the owners and the employees
and the valued customers of a business, when it closes,
it does open a spot for some new business. Absolutely,
And that's like we said, it's a circle.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Lets people know what works and what doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, so we'll keep telling you.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
And by the way, because sometimes people all say, oh
my gosh, it seems like so many places are closing.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
There always are a lot of places closing.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, a lot. If there is if there's a hood
for the grow and there is a drain a for cooking,
there will be an entrepreneur at a restaurant tour that'll
take the space.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Caddy's Brunch Bar, formerly known as Caddie's Kitchen and Cocktails,
will reopen on February third in its original location at
one oh three West Broadway that's in the historic hundred
block of Council Bluffs. Caddies closed in October and is
under the same ownership as the Salty Dog Bar and Grill,
which operates and counts Bluss but also recently opened in
(36:28):
Omaha location seventy second and Grover, right next to Wiener Schnitzel.
Now route you know the way you get famous these
days is being next to Wiener Schnitzel.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how busy they are now.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
You know.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
We went to the soft opening the day before they opened,
and just like Crumble Cookies every hey talks about, it
was like, oh my gosh, you can't get in there
and anything. I bet you could get in there, especially
if you kind of vary your hours.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Paradise Pace Crean Cafe has officially opened at Nebraska Crossing
in Gretna. It's located in an end cap bay near
Old to Beauty. The new location includes delivery options and
a drive through lane. Of course, Paradise relocated from Village
Point shopping center. It was there for years shut down
there toward the end of twenty twenty four, most Paradise
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bakeries have been converted into Panera restaurants around the country.
The only remaining one or the only remaining two are
the new one in Gretna and one in Dallas. Wow,
that's a concept that is very rare now.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
All right.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Harder to find paradise these days.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
You paved paradise and put in a parking lot. Give
me the scoop. A local Italian ice food truck. Oh,
I'm sorry, give me the scoop a local Italian ice
food truck. I said, I was like thinking ice truck,
that'd be kind of weird. So in an Italian ice
food truck. We'll soon offer its products at Huskerland Popcorn
(37:51):
at twenty three oh five North ninetieth Street. And this
is a dessert concept. Makes sense. They also have gluten
dairy free flavors like mango, green apple, blue raspberry, and more.
All right, Kawai Team Time Kawai Tea Time, formerly known
just as Tea Time, recently rebranded its Bubble Tea shop
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near one hundred and forty fifth and Maple into an
Asian fusion restaurant. And this is a New York City
based concept specializing in authentic boba te, sushi, tacos, and
poke Bento bowls.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Wow sounds good.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I'll go to that.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yeah, are you into boba te?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You know?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
I'll drink it. My daughter thinks it's the greatest thing
on the face of the planet, but I'll drink it.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
I look at my floaters like.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
The I like Bento bowls better than Bubble to them.
All right.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Finally, Shadow Lake Collision Center local auto Body Shop will
open a second location near at the former H and
H Kia site near eighty fourth and F. And that's
it for this week. We hope that everyone has a
great week. I'm Jeff Beils and I'm Trenton Maggott. You've
been listening to GROHLMHA, which was brought to you by
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the nation's number one all star cheer gym, and Perkins
Chritzer Construction. We'll chat with you next week at nine
right here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
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