Grow Omaha 10-11-2025

Episode Transcript

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.
Grow Omaha on News Radio eleven ten KFFAB.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, good morning, and welcome to the show. Jeff Beiles. Here,
we are broadcasting live from the Kfabpenhouse Studio high above
Underwood Avenue and beautiful downtown Dundee. You're not going to
find another show anywhere in Omaha that talks about what
we discuss, and that is the growth and development of
your favorite city. Lot of things on the docket today,
as we always have, and of course we want to

(00:37):
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Speaker 3 (00:52):
And now it's time to.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Introduce my co host, a legendary real estate deal maker
from NAINP dot com guy who hasn't been here for
a couple of weeks, Trenton Maggot. The Go Boys are back.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning, Jeff, Good morning.
So it is this is the first time in four
weeks that you and I have been on the show together. Absolutely,
it's good to have you back. It's good to be back.

(01:16):
I took a sojourn throughout Poland, my wife and I Amy.
Very educational and the history, the culture. Poland is a
very unique place because who doesn't take a two week
vacation to Poland. Absolutely, the resilience of the Polish people
is outstanding. We even got to Slovakia on the south

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and saw a lot of those nice sights and I
gotta tell you, people should really study Poland and if
you get a chance to go there, it's amazing what
that country's been through, you know, over the last fifty
to one hundred years, and very kind people, tough people,

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and we learned a lot. Well, welcome back, and you
came back just in time for a grow Omaha Eates
restaurant review written by our friend Chris Corey, our Gromaha
Heates restaurant reviews are always sponsored by All Makes, the
legendary office furniture and technology store based at twenty fifth
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into Iowa and other parts of Nebraska. And they do
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this week in the All Makes Grow Omaha Eats restaurant review,
Chris reviews Marrow in a Row Merrow. This is a
brand new restaurant in Gretna. It's located ad about one

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hundred and seventy eighth and Highway three seventy and the
restaurant review is very positive. I have not yet tried Marrow,
but I really want to get out there.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yea, I have it.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's a restaurant tour from They have other restaurants, right, Yeah,
they have the.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh a car and doesn't he have one at Countryside
Village Timber Timber or something like that.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
So good stuff and we had to get a little
prompt there. That's why there was a positive I said,
what yeah, so any rate. If you want to read
about Marrow or any of the other restaurants that we've reviewed,
just go to Gromaha dot com click on reviews on
the navigation bar. There's a drop down menu and it
says eats Eats. That is where you will find all

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of our restaurant reviews. Shall we go to the news, Absolutely,
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that situation. All right, let's get into the news of
the week. First of all, we go out to two
hundred and fourth in West Center Road. That is where
Lincoln based Brian Health, in partnership with Midwest Independent Physicians

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Private Practice Association that's a mouthful, is establishing the Brian
Elkhorn Campus. It's going to be almost fifteen acres outpatient
healthcare campus. This will be in the Privada subdivision, which
a very nice subdivision southwest of two hundred and fourth
in Center. Phase one will feature sure two medical office
buildings totally in one hundred and thirty seven thousand square feet.

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It's designed to accommodate broad range of outpatient healthcare services.
The buildings look to be about three stories and this
should be open in the spring of twenty twenty seven,
so call it about a year.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
And a half from now.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
That medical field is getting competitive. Yeah, you think about
you know here in Omaha, Chi health is big, Nebraska
medicine is big. You've got Children's Nebraska, You've got Methodist,
and now you're bringing in, you know, a big player
from the Lincoln market that has decided that they want
to expand into Omaha. It'll be interesting to watch that
healthcare business battle play out. Absolutely, and keeping all the

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doctors and the insurance straight has got.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
To be a challenge.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I've always heard that leading doctors is the ultimate experience
and exercise in herding cats. If you're a I've represented
doctors in real estate transactions. I grew up in the
house of a doctor, and they are very focused and
they have so much information in their heads and their
expertise that when it comes to business matters sometimes they

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have to refocus and it is it is tough, especially
when you get multiple doctors to agree on something. You
earn your keep on that and that those transactions well.
I went to the relatively new Big Grove Brewery this week,
and that of course is in the University of Damaska
Medical Center's new Edge District campus west of Saddle Creek.

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And while there I had the opportunity to park in
a brand new parking garage.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Park Olmaha held a ribbon cutting this week for its
recently completed garage. The actual address is forty six oh
five Farnham Street, seven levels, city owned garage with seven
hundred and fifty three stalls, and that is that is
a nice move forward for this Edge District. You know,
the Edge District is also where the cat business, the

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Catalyst building is in and Big Grove takes the northern
part of that. Also that Core building, which is under
construction six story building which will be part laboratory, part offices,
is in that district. There's going to be a big
pedestrian bridge construction starting pretty soon. That edge district is
going to become a very special part of town. Yeah,
check out gromha dot com to see some of those pictures.

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It's amazing what's going to happen there. And you know,
we've seen over the last twenty five years Nebraska Medicine
and the whole UNMC campus just explode and it's getting
even bigger and a lot taller. Just a little bit
east of the med center, of course, is the Blackstone District,
And earlier this week, the Blackstone Business Improvement District, along

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with Omaha may Or John Ewing, cut a ribbon for
the new outdoor event space near thirty ninth in Farnham.
It's called Blackstone Alley. Now, why would they call that
Blackstone Alley because it is literally in an alley way,
and so during the day it's an alley you can
drive in there to drop off and pick up things
for the businesses or whatever that are in that area.

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But at night it becomes an illuminated outdoor event space
very nice. It's a seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars
project paid for with ARPA funds, TIFF Contribution funding, a
Douglas County Visitor Improvement Fund grant, and the Business Improvement District.
There so real cool way of making the Blackstone District
even more of a special place. Haven't we talked about
that for decades on the show, that we need an

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alley in the Blackstone District.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
I know we've talked about need to illuminate it. We
need to.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I know we've talked about a grocery store downtown, but
I don't remember us talking about it Ali an Ali
event center until now. But a great idea. I think
we didn't know we needed one until we got one.
And you know what, it's things like that that make
a city special. And in the next segment, we're going
to be talking about Omaha's competitiveness when it comes to
attracting people, let alone jobs and retaining and capital. Things

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like that go along with to make a city specially,
you need more of that. I agree to make a
city special. Another thing that makes a city competitive is
how it looks. And in that spirit, the City of
Omaha parks and Recreation Department is doing a survey about
the string of pearls. What's the string of pearls? Those
are the line of globe lights that illuminate Abbot Drive

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between Eppley Airfield and downtown, and so to gather feedback,
the city is asking residents to complete a short survey.
You can get to that survey by reading our newsbrief
about it on grow Omaha dot com. That's probably the
best way to find it, because the only other link
I have for it is docs dot Google dot com

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dot a lot of different stuff, So you're probably better
off just going to grow Maha dot com reading our
brief about the string of pearls. But take this survey.
You have till October twentieth to do it. That's I
think one of the one of the reasons why I
really want people to take the survey is personally, I
think the care and maintenance of it has kind of

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slipped a little bit. Well, especially when they had that
ice storm and they had to replace a bunch of them.
They made them a lot stronger, yeah, so they wouldn't shatter.
They're doing a good job from what I can tell,
of replacing the globes and the lights, but it seems
like if a tree dies, they just cut it off
and just like there's no tree there. Essentially, usually have
a survey to say like, does Omaha need this string

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of pearls or do they need this accent and a
welcoming We definitely need welcoming features, especially since you go
through Iowa and Carter Lake for a short distance. So
you got to have continuity and make sure people know that.
You know, wayfinding and public artwork and everything else is
a great thing, but usually it happens before they built something.

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Now they're saying, well, we have this existing string of pearls,
and what are the options take it down? Well, frankly,
that's why I'm I don't know the real reason why
the survey exists, but it raised my eyebrow because my
thought was, for God's sake, I hope they're not thinking, oh,
it's expensive to care for it, let's get rid of it,
you know.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
That would be I like them. I love them.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I mean, it's so unique and gotta have them. I
think it's an essential, but I actually I really do.
I mean, that's that's the gateway to the city.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
They light it up, well, yeah, they do well all right.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Construction of the first phase of the Crossroads redevelopment is
long awaited and finally underway. There was a recently filed
building permit for construction of the first of several underground
parking garages at the Crossroads.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
These will be submerged.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
The first one will be a I love that word,
submerged one hundred and seventy nine thousand square foot parking garage,
two levels. It'll serve as a podium for the future
Gamescape by Cinemak Entertainment Center, which will be built upon it.
And according to the development agreement, the city will build
and operate this in future parking garages, even though the
rest of it will be privately developed. It's a great

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public private partnership. The city's doing that a lot in
recent years. They'll own these parking garages in developments, and
so far it's proven to be pretty lucrative for the
city and very good for the development as well. Yeah,
this reminds me of nfm's Grantscape down in the Colony,
Texas outside of Dallas, where they have some of these
podium parking garages and they're expansive, and this is big

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city stuff we're doing here.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, and we need to do that. And just to
remind you, the game.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Scape is going to be only the second one in
the country. The first one is in El Paso, Texas.
But it'll be a ninety thousand square foot indoor entertainment center,
which of course will be a real nice benefit to
everything we're trying to do in Omaha. Imagine taking down
that parking garage that's there. Oh yeah, that's a later
phase of the crossloads, but yeah, you're right. I mean,

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that'll really open up that Castree corner. Their intention is
to take that down because it's in the way for
what they really want to do. Having a huge parking
garage off to the side doesn't really create the walkable
community they're looking for, so they're going to integrate the
garages into the center. But yeah, taking it down it's.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Kind of I don't know, I'm kind of mixed on that.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
I like the fact it's that they're gonna be more
open because it's in the way, but at the same time,
it's pretty it could have been very usable.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Seems like a waste in some way.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, yeah, because you think about all the money and
energy and effort that goes into building anything anytime you
tear something down, you are basically erasing all of the
money and the effort that went into it, and all
that money goes into the ground basically pretty much. So
Amazon has finally opened its North Omaha delivery station, which
has long stood empty for several years. Seventy second and

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State Street that just a little bit south of six
eighty and seventy second Street had a ribbon cutting earlier
this week. It's one hundred and forty thousand square foot
facility that employs about two hundred people. So Amazon does
this thing like a lot of companies. They have a
hub and spoke system, and one of their hubs in
this part of the country is in Papilion, and they
got a million square foot plus center at Highway fifty

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and three seventy. They've got another like delivery center or
last Mile center in a different part of Papilion, and
this was going to be the second one in Omaha.
They built it during the pandemic when they were going
hogwild crazy with expansion, decided they didn't need it yet,
so it's sat there empty for a couple of years.
Now they're doing that, but they also have another one

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that's kind of a tweeterer. It's about a quarter million
square feet in Council Bluffs. Absolutely, And what's interesting is
the industrial space being so short in short supply of
the last couple of years, I'd get call saying can
we have that?

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Like is is Amazon really going to use it?

Speaker 2 (14:42):
And it's like they can afford to hold on to it,
But it was when you build something like that one
hundred and forty thousand feet and it's just vacant. Yeah,
I don't think Amazon will let you have it. And that,
ladies and gentlemen, is your development News of the week
brought to you by Eagle Mortgage. Going to take our
first break of the hour and when we come back
and I are going to be talking about what does

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and doesn't make Omaha competitive. We're kind of kicking off
a mission that we're going to come back to a
lot for the last couple months of this year, and
that is making Omaha and making Nebraska more competitive. We
start that conversation today, so stay with us. You're listening
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it's out there and they're building it. Okay, where is it?

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Give it? Like break the news? Well, it'ster newscast.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
URFA Highway three seventy about two hundredth and we'll leave
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Speaker 3 (16:29):
We'll let them announce it themselves. But it's out there.
I think you you just announced it.

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You have it right there, breaking news in segment number two.
We're also going to in this segment talk about Omaha's
and Nebraska's competitiveness vis a vis other metros and states.
Spoiler alert, it's not very good lately. It's gone it's
gone downhill. In twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, and twenty eighteen,

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not that long ago. Three years in a row, Nebraska
won the Governor's Cup. This was an award from Site
Selection Magazine, an important trade journal in the economic development profession.
Site Selection Magazine goes through every year and rank states
for most capital investment from corporate expansion projects per capita.

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Like I said, twenty sixteen through two eight twenty eighteen,
Nebraska wins three years in a row, including new projects
and also expanding local career. These are these are corporate
expansion and construction projects per capita that require a major
capital investment. Omaha was number one for two of those
years for mid sized metro areas, so we had a

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real good run there, but now things are not looking
as good. In the recent weeks, the Xarbin Foundation has
come out with a report about Omaha and Lincoln's competitiveness
and there was a lot in there that wasn't so good.
And then the Greater Amaha Chamber right after that released
its Barometer report which compared Omaha to twenty two other

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cities that had certain things in common with us, and
it generally wasn't that good. And so we have to
get a little more serious about being competitive. And if
you look at the xarbon Foundation report, it looked like
the three big things that were really causing us the
most problems were high property taxes, high income taxes, and

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other states having better job opportunities. If you look at
some of the other reports, you know there were things
about maybe we were lagging behind with entrepreneurship, with research
spending with patents per person and things like that. But Trenton,
we have decided here on GROLLMHA that for the rest
of this year, we're going to make this a focus.
This is a not to bitch or moan or complain.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
This is constructive.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
We want to do what we can to make people
aware of this and know that we have to get
a little edgier and a little more serious about growing Omaha's,
Lincoln's and Nebraska's economies.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
We're living up to our name, Groom. That's what we're
all about.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
So, Jeff, if people that have listened to the show
for twenty two years, people that work in Omaha, you
see the tower cranes, you see the skyscraper downtown, you
see all these new districts opening up, new retailers that
we talk about, restaurants and medical campuses, and there's a

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lot of things that sound rosy, but these reports kind
of tell a different story. Yeah, and I think, you know,
I think we're we're doing a great job in a
lot of areas when when you look at those reports
or it's our quality of life is really high, workforce
education is high, workforce participation is high. We're really good

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with like not having a huge gender pay gap between
men and women, which helps with talent recruitment, and we
do some other things. I believe it or not, our
inclusivity rating is pretty competitive compared So we're doing a
lot of things well. And I think one of the
things that Omaha has been doing particularly extremely well awesome
if you will, in the last few years is creating

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better quality of life attractions that are privately or mostly
privately funded. Like you think about the last few years,
three hundred million dollars for Riverfront Parks, over one hundred
million dollars for Keywit Luminarium, over one hundred million dollars
for Steelhouse Omaha, one hundred million dollars for Joslin expansion,
one hundred million dollars for Tenasca Center for Arts Engagement.

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We're going to have a streetcar system funded by real
estate developers that's going to be almost a half a
billion dollar investment. So great, great, great stuff that will
make this any more competitive? Do we need a great
job there? We need to keep building on that momentum.
I think we've just gotten laxed when it comes to
business incentives, when it comes to making our tax structure

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more competitive and try. And I can tell you know,
there are certain people in state government that feel that
we need to focus on the businesses that are already
here and worry about the people that are here and
the jobs that are here. And I understand that thinking,
but it kind of reminds me of my other life.
A lot of Gromha listeners know that I do sales

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training and consulting. I do it all over the world,
actually a lot of it here in Nebraska and Iowa too,
And I always preach that you never ever take your
foot off the gas. And one time I had a
client that was a manufacturing business and the head of
sales came to me and said, hey, we're doing well
too well.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
I'm getting a lot of heat.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
From operations, the manufacturing people that want me to pull
back on the reins a little bit because operations can't
keep up with all of our sales.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
What do you think I should do?

Speaker 2 (22:06):
And he said, manufacturer keeps saying you're burying me. And
I said, well, my first reaction is to bury them,
because the day you take your foot off the gas
pedal is the day, as a sales manager you set
yourself up for your inevitable termination eighteen months from now

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because the business will go away. And I think that's
kind of happened Nebraska. I think we've taken our eye
off the ball a little bit and we've taken our
foot off the gas pedal. Well, I agree, but you,
as missus b used to say, you have to underpromise
and over deliver, So I like that real life example.
But when it comes to production, you got to be

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honest to your customers and either they need to expand
to their production or run another shift or whatever it takes.
But I agree with you, you.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Grow or die.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
And that's when we put this show together originally. That's
what it was about, is keeping our foot on the gas.
I've talked to a couple of economic development experts in
Nebraska over the last week or two because this has
really been in my mind and we're going to make
this a focus for the rest of the year. And
a word that kept coming up and describing Nebraska is

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the word complacency.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Complacency.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
I think we got a little complacent because Nebraska and
Omaha was always on the top of so many of
these lists. And don't get me wrong, we're still on
the top of a lot of lists, but we need
to be on top of a particulars. One thing I
want you to highlight Trenton from that Exarbon Foundation report
before we go to our break for the news, and
that was a sobering statistic about Nebraska's ranking for state

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gross state product or something like that, right, and it's
it says looking looking beyond employment and wages and onto
growth in the state's gross domestic product GDP. Nebraska ranks
last at fifty fiftieth in the United States with a
negative GDP growth in first quarter twenty twenty five. I

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was shocked when I saw that. I was shocked and disturbed.
And with that, we're going to wrap up this segment
go to our News of the week. But like we said,
we're going to be talking to a lot of experts
over the next couple months, and we want all gro
Omaha listeners to be thinking what can we do to
make Omaha and Nebraska and the Lincoln metro area because
that's important to more competitive visa VI these other cities

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and states. It'll be the theme for the next several months.
All Right, it's time for the news. You have been
listening to grow Omaha. We want you to stay with us.
The show's brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center and
Cheer Athletics, and we'll be back in a moment on
news radio eleven ten KFAB And if you really want
to know what's happening in Omaha, don't miss Grow Omaha

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with Jeff and Trenton. And that's what's on the air
right now. We appreciate you being with us. Thank you
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It is time for your Not All Companies Commercial real
Estate Development Spotlight of the Week, which is brought to
you by well Not All Companies.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
They are the.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Premier developer in the Midwest, doing projects in multiple states,
but we're really most interested in their projects that they
do in the Omaha metro area, and there are a
lot of them. Doesn't matter whether you're talking about corporate
headquarters buildings like HDR or Valmont, or whether you're talking
about shopping centers, they've done so many of those over
the years, or if you're talking about destination places like

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Xarbon Village, like the Builders District and so many others.
And in today's Non All Companies Report, we're going to
talk about Xarbon Village, the great development there and Trenton.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
We've got some.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Spaces available in Xarbon Village, and interestingly it looks like
maybe there have been some spaces least lately in x
Sarbon Village. Absolutely, we should call our friends Sam Nodel
at Nodel Companies, and he really sees over the retail
and an office space at Exarbon Village, the main drag
sixty seventh Street. If you take if you talk about

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everybody talks about mixed use. Live here, work here, play here.
The greater Exarbont area is there's no better example of that.
Where you have the college campus, you have corporate offices,
you've got apartments everywhere and condos, town homes, you've got
Stintson Park, you've got the Sunny's and all kinds of

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outdoor spaces to go and visit with your friends. But
what Nodel has is they've got a couple of leases
that they're about to announce that our leased. But there's
four spaces from about fifteen hundred square feet over six
thousand square feet, some former restaurant spaces, some retail spaces.
Call Sam Nol at Noel Companies and he will hook

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you up. Tell him Trenton and Jeff sent you and
he will say thanks guys. All righty, and that is
your nonl company's commercial real estate development spotlight of the week.
You can learn more by going to Noelecompanies dot com.
We got to have a few additional news items that
we didn't have time for in the first segment, and
we're going to start first with Visit Omaha. That organization

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is the official the official convention and visitors bureau for
the city. And last segment, we were talking about how
Nebraska and Omaha and Lincoln need to get more competitive
when it comes to tracting jobs and talent and investment.
We're doing a great job with tourism. We had a
banner year last year for tourism coming into Omaha, and

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this is encouraging. The Visit Omaha group was exhibiting this
week at imex America.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
This is a.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Major global trade show for the meetings and events industry,
and Omaha had a very cool booth there. There's a
picture of it if you go to Gramaha dot com
and go to the Visit Omaha section. But this IMAX
conference brings together over fifteen thousand people in that Convention
and Tourism World Omaha had one hundred appointments made before

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the convention even started with convention and visitor decision makers
more than twice is what it had last year. So
some encouraging things, but there, that's what we need.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
We are, we are. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
And then got a little development news out of Council Bluffs.
The city Council and the Bluffs approved a resolution to
pick our Perry Construction out of Sioux City to get
started on the phase one of its East Mania Project,
the East Manaha Housing Project, big housing development there. They're
going to do forty single family attached units contained in

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ten four unit buildings. This is all part of what
will eventually be a nine hundred unit development really close
to Lake Manoa on the northeast corner of Lake Manawa.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
If you will so.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Encouraging dicisable, Yeah, because Council Bluffs is kind of lagged
behind in housing development lately and it's good to see
some progress made there. Then we have a degree wellness
is opening in Whispering Ridge near one hundred and seventy
second and West Maple Road. This is a national chain.

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They have locations in about twenty states, but this is
the first one anywhere near our region. There's no other
degree wellnesses than in any of the states that border
on Nebraska right now. But it'll be two thousand square
feet and offer access to sauna and cold plunge therapies.
I've got I've got a client in Calgary and he's

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a he's fitness crazy dude. This guy does cold plunges
every day.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
And he's got himself. He's conditioned his body where he
can do these cold plunges. He can be in there
for like a couple minutes and it's near freezing and
all this suff turn the hot off of my shower
for about three minutes, Okay, he said, He said, Jeff,
you guta get started with cold plunch. I said, I
can't do it, and he said, start by making the
shower cold at the end. I can handle that, but
I don't think it's done any good.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, I don't get it. So now I've gone back
to hot showers.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
All right, We're going to take our final break of
the hour, and when we come back, I'm looking at
a lot of things on the docket for the Perkins
Chritzer Construction Lightning Round.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
So that's coming up. Stay with us.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
You're listening to Grow Omaha, brought to you by Dingman's
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pashcconstruction dot com. That's pashcconstruction dot com. Well, during the
Perkins Chritser Construction Lightning Round, we like to talk about
restaurant retail news, and we're going to give you a
news item here that's also designed to save you money.
We are happy to announce that Little King at their

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eighty sixth then Dodge location now offers breakfast. So Little
King is an Omaha brand that's been around since what
the early seventies, and the eighty six oh two Dodge
location now offers breakfast from six am to ten am
Monday to Saturday, seven to ten on Sunday and Trenton.

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We have a special just for grow Omaha listeners absolutely
and from now till November tenth, right that if on
breakfast just at eighty six h two Dodge, a location
that actually sold them and they built a brand new
flagship store, twenty five percent off just for mentioning grow Omaha.

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If you get on their app grow Omaha all in
capital letters, all one word, that'll work as well. They
are ready for you today and at least for the
next ten o'clock eight minutes, but now through November tenth,
just mentioned grow Omaha and you get twenty five percent
off your breakfast.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Pretty cool. I'm gonna I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm gonna absolutely this week, I'm gonna have breakfast at
Little King in eighty six oh two Dodge.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
I'm gonna say grow Omaha and the power of grow Omaha.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Media got a very popular restaurant out of Scottsdale, Arizona
that goes by the name Culinary Dropout. I've actually been
to three of their locations over the years at Phoenix
in the Phoenix area. They are opening their first Nebraska
location at Village Point. This was according to a building permit.
They're going into the old local beer patio and kitchen space,

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so that's on the west end of the shopping center,
kind of by the movie theater and not too far
from Firebirds and that area of the mall. Culinary Dropout
good place. No opening date has been announced, but Culinary
Dropout currently has fifteen locations in nine states. The closest
existing ones to Omaha are in Denver and Indianapolis.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Got a new.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Upscale wine and cocktail bar right here in downtown Dundee.
It is called The Hollows and it opened last month
at fifty nineteen Underwood Avenue. That's in Pitch Pizzeria's former
party room. Pitch had this party room just to the
east side of Pitch Piece area. Apparently they didn't need
that anymore. Now it's the Hollows. Really cool place. I

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actually have a working fireplace, so you can have a
drink by the fire, and they also have a meeting
room in the back that can accommodate up to twelve people.
Hero eighty eight Downtown location is temporarily closed. The actual
address is thirteen oh eight Jackson Street in the Old
Market for a major renovation. They are really changing the

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look of this place. It's all a photograph of the
inside and they're really kind of taking it down. Probably
going to be open like around Thanksgiving time, But while
it is temporarily closed for renovations, don't fear. The other
two Hero eighty eight locations at one hundred and twenty
ninth and Maple and one hundred and seventy sixth and
Q are operating as normal. So when I think of

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the Dairy Queen's store at one hundred and fourteenth in Dodge,
I think a Warren Buffett because that's where the remember
that like during Berkshire Weekend back to he would go
there and people would go to that Dairy Queen was
part of the Berkshire Weekend. I don't think it is anymore.
And that thing hadn't had changed for years for decades.
The classic barn style roof that Dairy Queen used to have.

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That thing is going through a major renovation coming up
here pretty soon. And get a load of this. They
are actually going to lop off the roof. They're gonna
cut it off and it will become a standard one story,
frankly boring Dairy Queen building because I think it looks
cool with that old buddy. They are gonna I mean,

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you won't recognize it when it is done. It is
going to have a complete and total new look and
that's supposed to kick off.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Here pretty soon. It needs it well.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
People are really excited about Seven Brew Coffee coming into
the metro area. They've been around in Nebraska, they're in
several Nebraska cities, but they're just now getting to Omaha
and the building is now in place for its first
Omaha location at one hundred and eighty second and West
Maple Road. This is one of those things They are
just a little drive through Kiosks. They build the building

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at a factory and they just PLoP it onto the
site getting close there. But people will drive way out
of town to get Sevenber And now that we're getting it,
that's wonderful. But now all the coffee fishonados are like,
when are we getting Dutch Brothers? Touch Brothers? Seven Brew
is not good enough. Porky Buts Barbecue. Congratulations to the
owners of Porky Butts. They are now back open at

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one hundred and fifty fourth in Ruggle Street after a
horrible flood caused them to have to shut down and
repair and rebuild a lot inside the building.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
So it's good to see that happen.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
And we do always want to tell you a little
bit about the closures. We hate talking about closures, but
their reality. Nebraska Brewing Company plans to go out of business.
They were around for eighteen years. People really loved and
were loyal to the product, but there's been a lot
of competition in that local brewing brewing business. I don't
think those spaces will last very long because I mean

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more brou pubs just pop up all the time constantly.
And the other one really Fast, Frosty's ice Cream, and more.
One hundred and seventy second and West Cner Road closing
on October fifteenth. Music's playing, which means we are done.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. I'm Jeff Beils and
I'm Trenton Maggot. You've been listening to Grow Omaha, brought
to you by Dingman's Collision Center, Cheer Athletics, and Perkins

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Chritzer Construction.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
We'll chat with you

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Next week at nine o'clock right here on news radio
eleven ten KFAB