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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 (00:13):
Ka Baby, Well, good morning, and welcome to the show.
Jeff Beals at your service. Glad you joined us today.
This is the only show in the metro area that
talks about business expansion, real estate, construction, really anything related
to Omaha becoming more vibrant and more prospers and perhaps
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sponsors Dingman's Collision Center and Cheer Athletics, the nation's number
one all star cheer Jim and got to tell you
my co host, Trenton Maggot has the weekend off celebrating
a family wedding, but in his stead is a familiar name.
Our guest co host today is Craig Wolf, the owner
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of Cheer Athletics. Good morning, Craig, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Good morning, Jeff, Glad be back again. Always fun to
be on the show. You know, as I was driving
in this morning, I'm thinking Trenton and Jeff do this
every Saturday morning. Whether rings sleeders shine, Right, how many
years have you guys been doing the show?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Now we're we're not you know, keeping track too close
or anything like that, but twenty years and nine months.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, you know you guys are always talking about, you know,
the current events in Omaha, what's what the future holds.
I think there should be a show where I come
in and do an interview of you guys.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Let's be nostalgic and talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Those twenty years and the great things that have happened
over that, the time for the growth of Omaha and
your guess you had, and maybe even bring in somebody
like a Hall Dobb to talk about that the architect
of Omaha kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And it would be fun to do kind of like
a gir mah, this is Your Life hosted by Craig Wolf. Well,
you know what, I don't even have to do it.
I just want to hear it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I want to hear from you guys on the twenty
years of Omaha because we've had tremendous things happen here
over the last twenty years.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, that is true. I mean, in the time that
this show has been on the air, there has been
no shortage of topics for us to address. And I
don't want to jinx anything, but there has never even
been a single week where we haven't had plenty of topics.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
To what you're saying is we need a two hour show,
not an hour.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's been contemplated, but it's not going to happen because
it already takes a pretty big chunk out of the Saturday,
but we could definitely fill it. And Craig. Craig and
I go way back to nineteen seventy four to be specific.
That's right. I've known you since nineteen seventy four. A
lot of our listeners are not even close to have
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been born in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No, this is true. Yeah, we grew up together as
neighbors off of eighty fourth and Center Arbor and Gold
Street and West Side Kids, and it's been a great run.
And look at you now. You're famous, wide famous, and
look at you now.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Hey, I want to bring on our third person of
our broadcast team this weekend. Isaiah On is our our
reporter who covers the Planning Board City of Omaha building
permits construction. He also monitors planning boards and City Council
and Bellevue and and Council Bluffs and Isaiah. I'm excited
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to introduce you everyone. Good morning and welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Morning Jeff, I'm glad to be here today. Appreciate the invite.
I try to stay anonymous for the most part. I
appreciate the opportunity to be here and help with the
show today.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
A lot of people who read our newsletter, which comes
out every Thursday afternoon, will notice when they when they
scroll down to the snippets sections. Our snippet section is
basically we chose snippets because they're little bits and pieces
of classic grow Omaha news where we talk about construction
and development and on there it'll say Isaiah ONNG contributing writer,
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that's that's mostly your work. When they get to that
snippets area, and Isaiah will talk a little bit more
about you and some of the stories you covered in
the last week in the next segment. But before we
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to join me for the new using our first story
is it's kind of cool. It's a good sign of
what can happen as we try to bolster economic development
in north and South Omaha. Pacific Engineering, which is a
manufacturing company out of Lincoln, is opening up a fifty
two thousand square foot manufacturing facility at fifty nine oh
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two North ninth Street. So that's a little bit west
of Eppley Airfield and north of Stores Expressway. But what's
unique about this is it is part of the North
and South Omaha Recovery grants from the Nebraska Department of
Economic Development. They're receiving ten million dollars for this, and gentlemen,
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I see this as an encouraging sign, especially as we're
talking about creating an inland port around Eppley Airfield. We
desperately need to get more jobs in the heart of
the city and this seems to be a step in
the right direction.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, this is a this area I think is within
that in port the area, and so having a large
employer like that come in and make that kind of
commitment I think is super important for that moving forward
in North Omaha. We've talked about this in the past,
but history of this investment, and it's nice to see
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private employers, private investment going into North Omaha, especially at
that scale.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And then we're gonna shift our gears now from Northeast
Omaha all the way out to Gretna. Bit of a drive,
but nevertheless, we had some really exciting news this week.
League One Volleyball, which is one of the two professional
volleyball teams in Omaha this year, announced plans to build
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a sixty six thousand square foot training facility called the
Love Hub Omaha League One Volleyball. Their logos like lov
and that's kind of an E, kind of a B,
so it's like Love Hub Omaha League one Volleyball Hub Omaha.
This team is launching in January of twenty twenty five.
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They'll join the Omaha super Novas as two major league
professional volleyball teams and Omaha. We're go actually talking about
something about the super Nova's here a little bit later
in the show. But Craig, this League one Volleyball facility
will be just north of Highway three seventy and west
of one hundred and ninety second Street. Also happens to
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be the same general area where you're going to be
building a chair athletics Jim, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
This is just a great area of town, that one
hundred and ninety second corridor all the way to two
hundred and fourth and three seventy. You know, you've got
the greatest highv in the world. You got Flea Farm
coming in. Now, you've got you know, the premier group
is coming in for volleyball, and you know we're developing
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a thirty four acre spot on Long one hundred and
ninety eight and three seventy to put a new cheer
athletics in in over the next twenty four to three
six months. So what a what a phenomenal area. Mayor
Mike Evans is doing a great job there.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And Craig, I don't know, you know, we can't necessarily
have you say what they are. But in addition to
this League one volleyball and cheer athletics, and of course
eventually in a you know, maybe a couple of years,
we expect Fleet Farmed open there. You know, you and
the other people involved in that are it's my understanding
you're working with some pretty good brands and some big businesses.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes, you know, we're in the process right now of
doing our due diligence. We will. We've already got some
organizations that have committed to the development. I cannot talk
about who that is right now, but right around I
think the first of the year, we'll be breaking big
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news of who's going to be in our thirty four
acres and let me just say, the people, especially of
Grettin in that area should be very excited.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
All right, Well, we will anticipate what that might be
as the next couple of months go on, Well, we
had some interesting news about the Omaha rental market. There's
an organization called rent Cafe, which covers apartment news, multifamily news,
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and recent survey. Rent Cafe surveyed one hundred and thirty
seven US rental markets and Omaha was one of them.
And as it turns out, the plan was to determine
just how competitive these rental markets are and which ones
are the most competitive. And when we're saying competitive, we're
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talking about how many people essentially compete for available units
because we have a shortage of housing units in this country.
And as you're about ready to find out, certainly in
this metropolitan area, Omaha's number seven out out of one
hundred and thirty seven, the seventh most competitive rental market.
And get this, an average of thirteen prospective renters compete
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for each available rental unit in Omaha. What about the
rest of the top ten. The most competitive market was
suburban Chicago, followed by Miami Dade, then Milwaukee, then Bridgeport,
New Haven, and Connecticut. Number five was City of Chicago,
six was North New Jersey, seven Omaha. Eight suburban Philadelphia,
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followed by Manhattan, New York, and then the Borough of Brooklyn,
New York, Isaiah. When you look at something like this,
you can see it from two perspectives. If you're looking
at the health of the city, good sign if you're
a department developer or landlord. Good sign if your tenant.
It's getting expensive.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, and that's I think I've seen other reports it's
regarding the growth of rental rates, and we're still definitely
one of the fastest, which again for that first half
of the group that you're talking about, definitely positive for
for users or for residents that it's tough.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It's tough, yeah, and and and you want to strike
this balance because it's good to have this this healthy
growth and and uh and when you know, the real
estate investment world does good, the economy does well. But
but yeah, you do you do find yourself being concerned
about affordability. Guys. I think this also tells us because
we've been hearing statistics kind of like this for a
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couple of years now. Uh, Yet a couple of years ago,
our population was not growing as fast as it had been.
I suspect something is picking up because someone is creating
a demand for all these rental units, because it seems
to me like we're building apartment units like they're going
out of style.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Right, and that yeah, that that builds apartment boost hasn't stopped.
So I agree that there's there's numbers that aren't adding up,
and I think that we are growing at least a
steady pace.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And I think when you talk about thirteen people for
every available apartment, you know, just in general everyday conversations,
you know, you say to each other, jeez, an apartment
buildings going up and it's full like but you know,
within a couple of months and now that this makes
sense to us, and and you know, with interest rates hire,
maybe people are continuing to look at the apartment just
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just disave a little money. But there's no doubt that
we Where are all the people coming from?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
That's a good question. Who the hell are all these
people and where are they coming from? We're glad they're here.
We're glad they're We just need to build a lot
more housing units for them really fast too. We need
to do it really fast, well, Craig, for a couple
couple of West Side grads, this is you know, a
hard story for us to bring up. But nevertheless, we
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want to congratulate all of our friends who are alumni
of Burke High School because they're everyone. Oh right, our
board producer Bill is a Burke alum. Okay, we better
be nice, all right. So congrats to Burkeye students, alums
and staff because they are getting a very thoroughly renovated
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outdoor sports facility. You know, they have the very big
football stadium where the state track meet has held every year,
but that thing is being completely renovated, and when it's
all said and done, it's going to be a pretty
special place. And I would imagine, you know, you love
youth sports Krag which we'll talk about later in the show,
some youth sports stuff. It's great to see. It's great
to see ops making that facility in their biggest stadium.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Absolutely, it's long overdue and and especially with the state
track meet there that this will this will be a
phenomenal add to to that area, to the city. What's
the timeline on that, Joe?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know, they're not playing football there this fall, but
it needs to be ready for state track next spring.
So my guess is they're going to get the letout
and they're gonna hustle, and those guys will be working
pretty hard and pretty faster to get that thing ready
for next spring. And ladies and gentlemen, that is your
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break of the hour, and when we come back, we're
going to talk with Isaiah about a few growth and
development stories coming out of city Hall in the last week.
You don't want to miss any of that. You're listening
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KFAB and welcome back to the show. Jeff Biles in
the studio, joined by my friends since Kindergarten, Craig Wolf,
who also happens to be the owner of Cheer Athletics,
and a few other entrepreneurial endeavors. We're also enjoined by
Isaiah Ang who does our reporting on grow Omaha for
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building permits and Planning Board and City Council and things
like that. And we're brought to you by Dingman's Collision
Center and the aforementioned cheer athletics. Craig, where can we
find cheer Athletics if we're driving around looking for the place.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
We are located off a Highway fifty and three seventy
right across from the National Cemetery. We have a thirty
thousand square foot facility. Beautiful facility. So come on out
and visit us.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We'd love to see you in beautiful Papilion, Nebraska. So Isaiah,
you know we're writing some articles for Grandma. Is not
the only thing you do. Tell us a little bit
about yourself and your background.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Sure. My day job is as a commercial underwriter at
Title Core National, which is a part of NP Dodge
real Estate. Title Core National provides title insurance and escro service.
Is I specifically work on the commercial side, so you know,
I have the opportunity to work with all the great developers,
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agents and attorneys in town. We have a really great
commercial real estate ecosystem, and that's that's kind of what
I do. I report only on things that are made public.
Just put that outs are comfortable. We're working on a
lot of confidential things. I don't report in anything that
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I'm staying across my desk. But there's a lot of
exciting things happening in town, and so I'm glad to
be a part of, you know, being able to talk
about the things that are out there.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well, tell us how you ended up in Omaha, because
you're not originally from here.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, right, I didn't grow up in Omaha. I
actually grew up on the West Coast. My dad was
in military. My family had eventually said on Hawaii and
a lot of people ask why did you come here?
I came here for grad school, me and my wife,
And when we came here, we had my wife was pregnant,
and when we had our first kid, and then our
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second kid, and so on and so forth. We really
decided that Omaha would be a great place to raise
a family and has been.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Well, we love that. So that's for all of you
out there who are interested in helping us recruit talent.
What we need them to do is when they come
to create a university, find a spouse, and have kids,
then we can lock them down and the next thing
you know, they're writing for Girl Omaha. So, Isaiah, let's
talk a little bit about a couple of the things
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that you had in the Girl Maha newsletter this week.
There's a few of them I wanted to highlight and
one that might be a little bit disappointing for some people,
but it's still important. We were gonna there was talk
about having this very impressive sports and recreation facility on
the south side east of if A Dyes, gotta be
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something different.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yes, that one. So the original developer, it was a
pretty short timeline did they announced in twenty twenty one
they were gonna do something really interesting, you know, mental
health and wellness and recreational center. I was supposed to
be over one hundred million dollars, joining so many other
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one hundred million dollar investments of that of that nature,
you know, like the Joscelyn the Library. Unfortunately, this one
fell through, and it was already an industrial site historically speaking,
and crushing it which is a concrete recycler is now
looking into developing that site for crushing concrete.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well, and and that's an important part of the economy.
So we have we have nothing against that company because
we need those firms. But I think it's also you
know a good chance for us to point out that
that not every development happens and that's not necessarily a
bad thing because you can't. It's kind of like your
favorite sports team isn't gonna win all of.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Them, exactly. And another way to look at it, wasn't
really used and now it will at least be used
for some kind of.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Economic Yeah, it'll be producing, it'll be economic producer. So
thirty third Mason Street looks like we might have a
town home development in the works there.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yeah, that so that area, there were several lots that
were developed for town homes. Unfortunately, the previous developer was
not able to complete this one, but there's a new
developer taking over. I think there is actually a reduction
in number of town homes that was previously anticipated. But
fifteen town homes on a twenty two thousand square foot lot.
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Eighteen thousand square foot units on pretty decent size, especially
for that area. And they all have garage bases, which
is important for a lot of a lot of people
who are interested in purchasing homes. So it'll be interesting
to see that one go up in how they turn out.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
We talk a lot about the development and the urban
core here at a major focus of Grandma. It's a
major focus for the city and the chamber and the
business community, and it seems like, fortunately almost every week,
we have a new thing to talk about in the
urban core. This one is an apartment project near thirty
fifth and Howard Street. Isaiah, Yeah, this.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Is a previously approved project. They're currently looking to get
tip funds. Fifteen residential units, ranging from studios the two bedrooms.
What we're seeing, and we talked about one previously a
couple of months ago. They're building on small footprints and higher.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Which is a good thing to you know, that's what
we want because in that urban core we need density, density, density,
so that we can maximize the land and the infrastructure
we have there, increase economic activity, and not have to
knock down too many cornfields. So Isaiah, appreciate bringing us
up to with some of those development projects. And that
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brings us already to the middle of the show. It's
time for our news break, and when we come back,
we're going to talk about a few other things. We
have our commercial real estate development spotlight from nonel Companies,
and we're also going to talk with Craig Wolf about
a couple of exciting happenings in the youth sports industry
here in Omaha. You're listening to grow Omaha. We have
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Craig Wolf of Cheer Athletics and Isaiah Ong from Title
Core National and also our city hall reporter if you will,
for gro Omaha, Trenton, how's the weekend off? We're brought
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dot com. Well, like I said, we have Isaiah Ong
and Craig Wolf with us here today. Craig is the
owner of Cheer Athletics and also but that's not the
only youth sports and athletics interest that he has. Craig,
just real briefly tell us about your basketball business.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, thanks, Jeff. Yeah, before I get into the basketball business,
I want to talk about an exciting announcement that we've
we have today. Over the last several weeks, I've been
talking with the Supernovas and we're excited to announce today
breaking news this is not public until now, that the
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Omaha Supernovas and Share Athletics have are formerly partnering to
have a professional cheer and hype team for every home
game coming up in the twenty twenty five season, which
runs January to May. So as the college back or
the college volleyball season is winding down there in December,
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the Supernova's pick up and so we are very excited
to break that news. We are going to have a
tryouts for this team. You have to be eighteen by
May one in order to participate on the team. Tryouts
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and we'll put this out on social media. Will be
November three, in November tenth at Cheer Athletics from six
thirty in the evening to eight thirty. And so if
you're interested in participating in what really is Omaha's first
and only professional actual cheer team, We're not going to
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be quite the Laker girls right out of the gate,
but who knows what happens here is I believe in you, Well,
we're gonna get there, right and so we're excited to
announce this Supernovas. I've been working with Travis Payne and
Jeff Hogan and Grant Gallo from that organization. We're really excited.
They're excited all as well to enhance the family experience
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not only of great volleyball, but we're gonna have a
lot of fun with this cheer and hype team during
the games.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
So it's kind of like how the Lakers or the
NFL teams have cheerleaders. They're not kids. These are these
are grown ups that are doing the d They will
be athletes. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, we're gonna put the show on. Well,
very cool, all right, Well that is that is very
good news and we'll enjoy having having that amenity at
the super Nova's games this year and then cragged also
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some of the other youth sports stuff that you're you're
involved in these days. Sure.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So, Uh, I'm co owner of a e F, which
stands for Attitude, Effort and Focus Basketball Academy with Andy
Beck uh Rachel Bloom. Isaac Simpson just joined our team. Uh,
And we have a facility off of ninety ninth in Portal,
which main road wise is about one hundred and eighth
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and Giles there and Papillion and we're we're coming into
the fall and winter season. In fact, NBA exhibition games
have already started. I'm like, weren't the finals just last
like last week.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Or some days ago.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, it feels like it's just amazing how fast uh time,
time you know, goes. And so you know, at AEF,
we the youth sports world. Let's talk about the youth
sports world. So with AEF and Share Athletics, we opened
these organizations because what I saw in youth sports is
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not good. It's a money grab. And in fact, The
New York Times reported that back in February that only
thirty four percent of the poorest families were able to
have their kids in some type of youth sports where
the wealthiest families were at sixty eight percent of their
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kids were participated in youth sports outside of school. And
that's a problem. And with the cost of youth sports today,
that's that gap. Unless we get this under control right now,
that gap is going to continue to spread. And what
better way to invest in our youth and teach them
about life skills and how to handle adverse city then
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through sports. Obviously education is very important, but when you
get into those tense moments, you know, I'll ask my son,
how did you feel in this, you know, last drive
of the game, or you know that you had to
stop or you had to carry the ball, and you
know he says, oh, I'm so nervous. Well, right, it's
those types of moments that get them a little bit
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of an experience for them to carry on into adulthood.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah. And we've been hearing also too, not only about
the accessibility for people of different backgrounds and to youth sports.
One of the things we hear a lot about here
in Omaha is that we have been behind some of
the other metro areas facility wise, and it seems like
you and a lot of other people lately have been
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working really hard to maybe catch us up or even
get ahead.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I was really surprised, you know, I spent thirty years
in the corporate world with CNA Industries, Arius Medical, in
healthcare staffing, and as the good lord my attention to
the youth sports world. How broken it was that it's
a money grab, that we're not pouring enough into these kids.
And so I thought somebody's got to carry the flag to.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Be changed here.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And so one thing that is absolutely clear is that
we just don't have the sports facilities that cities like
Des Moines, Kansas City, Denver. Obviously Denver's a lot bigger,
but even Sioux City, Sioux Falls. There is a huge
opportunity here for this city to have an opportunity to
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bring in sports complexes. You know, I think that the
overall that the city leaders, the state leaders, and the legislature,
you know, they've done an okay job, right, But what's
more important than investing into our youth and creating opportunities
and facilities for these youth to be a part of
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We complain that kids on their phones too much today,
and heck, we all are. Kids are on their Xbox today. Well,
there are organizations that have to cut kids that want
to participate in sports because we don't have the facilities.
And so myself and Jeff Week and Burkharr and our
development team, we aren't going to be the change in this.
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And I'll just say this, if you're interested in being
part of that change, I'd love to hear from you,
because we've got to change this. We've got to have
more sports facilities, volleyball, basketball, baseball, soccer. We don't have
footsal in the winter. We don't have anywhere for these
kids to play. Footsaal is the winter sport for soccer.
So there's a huge opportunity here, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
And with that, we are going to take our final
break of the hour, and when we come back, it'll
be your Perkins Chritzer Construction Lightning round. In the meantime,
you've been listening to Jeff Beials, Craig Wolf, and Isaiah Ong.
Trenton Maggot has the weekend off. We'll be Veck on
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All right, we have Craig Wolfe and Isaiah Ong here
substituting for Trenton Maggott and guys, we've got a bunch
of things here. We've got Starbucks under construction at one
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hundred and twenty second and Fort Street. Isaiah, this is
probably about the seventh or eighth Starbucks under construction we've
reported on in the last two months.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Yeah, they're just on a roll. They just won't stop.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
And this is as even when we're putting up a
Scooters on every block.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Mike, kids love Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
They're keeping it in business. Former CVS on the northeast
corner of one hundred and eighth then fort is going
to become a dollar Tree. That's probably going to be
about the twentieth or twenty first dollar tree in the
metro area. Centrist Credit Union planning a branch office and
the Coven Tree development southwest of two hundred and fourth
and Q. We reported a few weeks ago that Woolner's
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would be closing in Midtown Crossing. It has happened. There's
a sign on the door. A lot of people pretty
sad about that one.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah we're missing now, we're really really missing a grocery
store of that kind of that size in the urban core.
So whenever the rumored grocery store we needed asap.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, desperately needed. And like you said, Isaiah, there are rumors,
so we're keeping our eyes in ears open. Okay, we
have Grace Pizza and Shakes, which has opened its first
Nebraska location, and downtown Papillion. This is inside the Old
County Courthouse from the year eighteen seventy five in downtown Pavilion.
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The restaurant, as the name would indicate coal fired pizza
and quote over the top end quote milkshakes. They have
locations in Texas and Florida. Local culinary scene got a
nice boost this week when Rooted Table Kitchen opened in
Countryside Village. This is a plant based restaurant offering cold
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pressed juices or organic foods made with little to no oils,
natural or natural sweeteners, but a lot of fresh fruits
and vegetables. Roll them up. Takitos plans to open in
Southport West. That's the part of La Vista by Cabellas
and Embassy Suites. It will be small space, small space
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just west of Charred Burger and Bar Okay. A lot
of people excited about this. Hot Pot eighty eight announced
plans to open in mid no October mid October. This
Asian cuisine restaurant occupies a site where Stoyicach House of
Sausages stood for several decades. Big restaurant and as the
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name eighty eight, Hot Pot eighty eight would indicate, it's
part of Hero and some of those other restaurants in town.
All right, what else do we have? Isaiah? You keep
your pulse on the development world and what people are
thinking about it. And this megasaver that's been planned for
seventy second of Dodge has caused a little bit of controversy.
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A lot of people are not thrilled about it. It's
taking over, uh the former fud Rucker space on the
southeast corner. Construction on that thing has started.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Oh yeah, that we need gas stations. Unfortunately, I don't
want to pine weather that's a good location or not.
I'm sure it's a good location for the business.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, they'll do well there.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Yeah, they'll do They'll do very well. As for the neighbors,
I know, it's it's not something you want to see.
But they also offer, you know, convenience store and I
don't know if they'll have their European delicatessen that the
concept that they have at the other locations. That is
a thing. I don't know if you've ever been a megasaver. Yeah,
they have European products. Some of them even have like
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a grill that these ill heros and.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Other prepared foods knock me over with a feather, that
one coming. Yeah, So a lot of people are think, oh,
you know, we're building this gorgeous architectural masterpiece of a library,
and then across the street will be a megasy. But
what do you do? All right? Some bad news, some closings.
Old Chicago has closed both locations. The Pizza Pie Guys
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on North one hundred and fifty sixth Street also closed
recently as well. Sorry to leave you on a down note,
but have a good weekend. At any rate, we've had
Craig Wolf and Isaiah On here substituting. Thanks guys, go
big gread.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah, I have a good weekend, all right, Craig Wolf.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
And Isaiah on with us. Trenton will be back next week.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. You've been listening to
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