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Davenport Street. All right, on with the news. We start
at Heartwood Preserve. That is the five hundred acre development
west and southwest of Boystown. If you drive by, there's
so many projects underway and it's very very impressive, a
lot of projects have been completed in that area, but
we got news updates for two of them. First of all,
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we got yet another four story class A office building
planned for that development. It's going to be called Heartwood Place.
It'll be one hundred and sixty six thousand square feet
multi tenant building with all of the Class A amenities
like underground parking, gym facilities, locker rooms, patio balconies, fire pits,
conference room. I have to say all that stuff. Conference
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room sounds a little bit anticlimactic. It doesn't measure up
quite to a shower and a fire pit. But the
exact address, if you're familiar with Hartwood Preserve, will be
twittered south Applied Parkway, just south of a Canny or
rather I'm just south of Valmont, i should say. And
it will be built by Siasac Construction.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, in Seisac Development ron se Isaac has been a
very upscale home builder. He's been doing it for a
long time, most longer than most of all of us.
And he builds beautiful buildings. He partners with the Scots
to get at least. And what's unique about this building.
(05:34):
Jeff is in a kind of a tough office market.
This is as high end as it goes. I'm told
this is the nicest building that he's ever built. And
he's built a lot of stuff at First National Business
Park and along Dodge Street, and this will be high
rent district, but it's going to be very cool, a
lot of glass balconies, a lot of amenities, and it's
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good that people will take the development risk to do this,
and so it's the right place for it. So we're
excited to see how fast it fills up. But they're
going to break ground in just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, and we have not yet seen a rendering for that,
but when we do, we'll make sure we put that
on the website and all of the Gromaha social media.
Now in the same area, we believe, directly to the
South and Arizona real estate developer by the name of
Raymond Partners plans to build a very large condominium project.
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We reported on this back in nearly summer, late spring,
I believe it was. It's going to be called the
Residences at Heartwood Preserve luxury condo development. It'll have three
six story buildings, very very impressive stuff. But we've just
found out through a Raymond Partner's press release that the
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thirty five condo units that will make up Phase one,
they'll build these three buildings in three phases. The thirty
five condo units in Phase one are supposedly twenty percent
pre sold, and so that shows a lot of progress.
Now I cannot find any record of a building permit
in that area, but it looks like that project is progressing.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But it's also twenty twenty eight delivery, it says, and
so when people make reservations for these and put down deposits,
we're talking about most of these units are going to
be over a million dollars, which is for condos, and omaha,
they're going to set some records. And it is, you know,
a pool, and I'm sure they have other amenities and
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concierge services and things like that. But there's three buildings
that it'll be interesting to watch the progress of this project.
But everybody talks about a modern version of Swanson Towers
that we haven't had that forever. This is eighty fourth
and Dodge, where a lot of people have been there
for generations and this is a class A condo project
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and I hope it.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Goes well well.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We now go to North Downtown, specifically the Millwork Commons district,
and that's where crews have recently demolished a very underwhelming,
small vacant industrial building bounded by eleventh, twelfth Nicholas and
Millwork Avenue, and the city recently purchased that ground for
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six hundred thousand dollars. The city will build and own
a six hundred stall garage about a twenty five million
dollar project. Completion is scheduled for about a year from now.
And that's actually a very exciting project. And you might say,
why are you so excited about a parking ed I'm
glad you asked. And the reason for it is that
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we have so much development already happening in that area.
You've got the Nova apartments, you've got the Frame apartments.
Suppose another vacant historic building is going to become a
hotel pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Also, there's a lot of land to the east currently
owned by Union Pacific, and we keep hearing about all
sorts of things that could be developed there. It's becoming
a grit. It'll become a greater area. And you know,
you've got to have a place to park people. So
this is a good step to make Milwark Commons even bigger. Yeah,
and we need a place to have a Union soccer stadium.
Who knows, maybe that's where it might end up, but
(09:13):
it's funny that you should say that, because we reported
on gir Omaha dot com yesterday that Union Omaha will
be playing next year season on Creighton University's Morrison Stadium field.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Bring it to the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, so they are going downtown, so who knows, maybe
that will be the next step to getting a downtown
soccer stadium. We also reported, since we're speaking of sports,
yesterday that the Omaha Supernovas have released their twenty twenty
sixth schedule, which will be their first season in the
new Major League Volleyball, and you can find that article
on the sports section of girmaha dot com. Supernovas are
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getting to be a big, big deal and people are
really really excited. They hold all the records professional volleyball
attendance at Chi Health Center Omaha. Now we want to
stay in the urban core. Moving from downtown, we now
go to twenty ninth in Jackson Street, and that is
where Midwest Businesses and Projects LLC plans to build a
(10:18):
six unit town home on a long vacant lot. Like
I said, it's twenty ninth in Jackson Street, a little
bit south of Levenworth. If that helps you out, site
preparation is now underway. A groundbreaking ceremony took place last week.
It's going to be a two and a half million
dollar project and this is one of those several projects
that are receiving funds from the North and South Omaha
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Recovery Grant program. It will also get a little tax
increment financing from the city and then finally, the row
House building will feature a large outdoor mural and Trenton,
speaking of this, I attended a program I think it
was Tuesday morning this week. It was put on by
the Great Rama Chamber. But they had the CEO of
OPPD Omaha Public Power District there and he talked for
(11:02):
about an hour and it was fascinating just to kind
of hear about the challenges and everything else. But one
of the things he said, and you know, he said
this in a good way, he said, my goodness, the
amount of power usage going up in the urban core
because there's so much construction. And that's where we want it,
because we already have good infrastructure in the urban core.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's not just the data center. So we hear a
lot of rumblings of the you know, is OPPD keeping
up with enough power with AI and technology and everything,
and that's the last thing that we need the Silicon
Prairie to be held back by.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Now looking away out west, we have some early indication
of a user coming to the Avenue one Good Life District.
This is just south of one hundred and ninety second
and West Dodge Expressway. We have a small two story building.
(11:54):
It'll be a two story building fifteen thousand square feet
for a wellness and health center. We know from a
building permit that the name is a Viva, But that's
about all we know now. We keep hearing rumblings about
some very impressive retailers, like big brand name upscale retailers
going to that development. We're keeping our eye on that
(12:15):
and we'll report things. But good to see some early
movement in that Avenue one Good Life District.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
No question, Ron, It's been a long time and everybody
talks about you know the name of the crossover one
hundred ninety second Street, what do they call that?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
The once you get off to Odde Street and you go,
oh the intersection, Yeah, diverging diamond. It's still diversion. Go
try it out. It's weird when you're going south and
you're in the left on the south or the east side.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, a couple quick little stories we want to hit
before we wrap this thing up. The Latino Center of
the Midlands is undergoing a ten million dollar renovation and expansion.
The project was kickstarted by a two point eight million
dollar grant also from that state of Nebraska's North and
South Alma Recovery Grant program I talked about just a
moment ago. This project is scheduled to be completed on
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the twenty fourth Street corridor in early twenty twenty seven,
will expand the center from seventeen thousand square feet to
almost thirty thousand square feet. This is a part of
the nonprofit Canopy South, which is doing a lot of
cool projects in South oh And then, finally, an organization
by the name of Omaha Street Soccer. Omaha Street Soccer
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is looking to revitalize the Shenzel Community Center field at
twenty two to twenty North twentieth Street. It's really close
to Sherman's School on the north side, just a little
bit south of sixteenth and Stores Expressway, and the nonprofit
is looking to raise seventy five hundred dollars more to
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make that happen. So good to see projects happening on
the North Side.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Now usually we talk about multimillion dollar projects on this show.
They just need soenty five one hundred dollars people, let's
step it up.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Hell, most gro Omaha lists can find that in their
car seats, So get that done. I'll go to your
children's car seats, all you well healed Groma listeners. And finally,
a new documentary called Baby Blue or I'm Sorry Blue Baby.
A new documentary called Blue Baby, A little bout of
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offers a candid look into Boystown and the work being
done there. The film takes audiences into one of the
homes at Boystown and follows eight boys through their highest
highs and their lowest lows. Blue Baby is now streaming
on Amazon Prime Video. And that is your News of
the week, brought to you by Eagle Mortgage Eagle Mortgage
Company dot Com. When we come back, Halloween's over, which
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means that it's almost Christmas at everything's being decorated. The
Salvation Army Tree of Lights is under construction at ninetieth
and Dodge. As we broadcast, we're going to be talking
about that and some related topics that are very cool.
We've got with us Jeff Beckman from the Salvation Army
and Travis Freeman, president of Bright Ideas Decorating.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Stay with us, You're gonna love it.
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excited to bring on Jeff Beckman, Executive director of Development
for the Salvation Armies Omaha based division, and Travis Freeman,
president of Bright Ideas Decorating. We are doing this because
it is almost Tree of Lights time. Travis is chairing
this year's Tree of Lights campaign and I couldn't help
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but notice as I drove to the studio this morning,
passing by ninetieth and Dodge, the Christmas Tree is under construction.
Jeff and Travis welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Welcome to the season, guys.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, this is great.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
So, just as we understand, the Tree of Lights is
at ninetieth and Dodge construction today, but we don't turn
it on for a while. It'll be there, but it
won't be turned on until we have a proper ceremony.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Right November thirteenth, five o'clock at ninety of them Dodge
is the kickoff for the Red Kettle event and also
the kickoff of the Tree. What will turn on? And
our newest adventure with theme park. Yeah, theme park seventy
acres in Valley called Christmas Land.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Tell us a little bit about that. So we bought
the land two years ago.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
We've been working on it literally since we bought it,
and it's been a dream of mine since right out
of high school.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
And I was starting bright ideas.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
And I don't know if you guys aremem but the
one I went to was they had a drive through
around zarbon Is the infield, yep, remember that, And it
was literally like upside down Maato cages with Christmas lights
strung on them, and I don't know every I was like,
I can do better, Yeah, we can do better than that.
So we found the land, started working on it, doing
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the roads, getting all the electrical in and to be
what it is. And then when they had asked me
to cheer the Tree of Lights this year for the
Salvation Army, I thought, what a great way to be
able to give back to the Salvation Army. So we're
going to have a portion of every single car ticket
that goes through there, we'll be giving back to the
Salvation Army Tree of Lights.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So just so we under we understand. So this this
Christmas Land, Travis. You drive through, you'd stay in your
car and you drive through, and as you go through,
you'll see amazing light displays.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, it's in the holiday space.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
It's literally it's stuff you've never seen anywhere.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Three D. Yeah, it's three D.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
There's nine tunnels of lights. There's a four hundred foot
RGB tunnel that when you're inside the tunnel you can't
even see the other side of it. It's two miles
long and it'll take you approximately twenty seven minutes to
get through.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Is there a website?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
There is, It's Christmas Land Valley dot com.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So this is going to be located to get to
it from Olmaha. You would take Highway two seventy five
and exit MiGs Street and then you take a right
and you take a right and it's right there, and
it's behind the Groundscapes facility.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I think it's just.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
East of like you can see it leterally from the
Dairy Queen right there, So it's just east of there's
the Beefcake Jerky building right there and then Groundscapes and
we're just east of that.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Just instead of going away from the light, go towards
the light. People.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, we were having a hard Trent and I were
having a hard time until you said dairy Queen and
beefcake and they were like, oh fine, as long as
you associated with food, we'll be there.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So is that at nightfall or what are the hours?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
It's from four thirty to ten thirty and we're going
to be there from November thirteenth all the way through January.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Fourth, and then what would be the cost of admission?
Is it on a per car basis or a per
passenger basis? It's a per car basis.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday is thirty five dollars per car, and
then through Sunday is.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Forty dollars So if I have a bunch of clown friends,
fourteen of them in a Volkswagen, it's still this one fee.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah, if you can fit those in, we'll pay to
see that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It'll be part of the display. Julio, bring out the stretch.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
So you were going to do this though it sounds
like Travis, you were going to do this anyway, and
then a separate from the Salvation Army, and then when
you became in charge of the Tree of Lights campaign,
that's where you got the idea. So this is this
has been in the works, regardless, it sounds like this ad.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
This has been in the works regardless. I've been thinking
about this for a long time, looking at different pieces
of land, and then this.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
One came up.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
And you know, as things go, it was bigger than
what I wanted, but you know, you fill it up
and then now you think we need more.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So tell us a little bit about bride Ideas. You know,
a name of the company is bride Ideas Decorating. I
think most people can get the impression that you're all
about Christmas decorations and other holiday decorations. But tell us
a little bit more about your company.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
So, yes, I started the company right out of high school.
I've actually and then been involved with the Salvation Army
for twenty four years. I was telling Jeff that when
it was down at the courthouse and then went the
treatment from the courthouse to Crossroads Mall and then to
where the tree sits today. And you know, I started
with somebody handing me a trash bag of lights and saying,
(20:26):
can you put these up in my house? And it
took me longer to untangle the lights, and it did
for me to put them up on.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
The house, and one didn't work back then fagured out
and that was rough.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
And you know, I had tried to find a solution
for a problem that you know, I thought we had,
and then started doing distributorships all around the country, and
today we have over five hundred and fifty distributors across
the United States selling our product.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And you you manufacture your own stuff, you know, somewhere
but it's your name on it.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
We have our own fact China and then we manufacture
all that and then bring that in and so there's
been some struggles with the tariffs and pricing and things
like that.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
But I imagine, you know, dealing with that working through that.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
So so when when Christmas Land opens on November thirteenth,
same day as the Tree of Light ceremony at ninetieth
and Dodge, where where did you go to find some
of these amazing displays that we've never had before in Omaha?
And how difficult were they to uh, I don't know,
find them, put them together, come up with them.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Well, I will tell you, I mean the guys out there,
Johnny Josiah, that it's taken. Literally, we got a container
yesterday they were unloading, so we're they're still putting up
the lights that we're that are going to be on
for November fifth. So we're literally down to the last
minute trying to get everything ready. And we paid the
truck driver to drive it from La Port to Hear
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extra to get the lights here in time.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
To get that's greact. It's like cleaning up for company.
But you're going to get a lot of.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That'll open to the public November thirteenth and then on
the Tree of Lights. Jeff Beckman from the Salvation Army,
you said at five o'clock on ninetieth and Dodge, do
you want the public there? The public is invited. Thank you, Trenton.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
We're gonna have music for about an hour and then
we have a brief program and then we have a
countdown and the lights come on. And it's one of
the greatest Christmas traditions, and that's a free free it's free,
and there's lots of food treaton, So bring for both
of you, gentlemen. We'll we want this to be the
public event. We have several other events. Travis hosted one
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for our major donors the other night at Bright Ideas.
It was a wonderful event. We just want the entire
community to show up and celebrate the beginning of the
Christmas season.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Okay, and then right real fast, before we wrap up, Jeff,
give us the overview of what the Tree of Lights
campaign does and how important the red kettles are.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
The Tree Lights Campaign our goal this year is three
point three million dollars. We raised the vast majority of
our annual funding during the next couple of months. Seventy
eighty percent of our funding comes in now, and that
will all be invested in programs and services that really
help the most vulnerable people in our community. Almost every
person who we serve is living in poverty. There are
a few exceptions. It's food, it's clothing. Food right now
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is the big topic, and we're trying to raise more
money for food. But we also have behavioral health services
for people who don't have anywhere else to turn. Lots
of youth activities in North Omaha, South Omaha. We have
a new center in North Omaha that we opened half
of it a couple of weeks ago, and we're seeing
a lot more need to serve youth in like I said,
particularly North and South Omaha, but we serve the entire community.
(23:35):
Matter of fact, if somebody comes in from outside of
the metro area, they can find assistance from the Salvation
Army too.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, gentlemen, we appreciate you joining us. Jeff Beckman, thanks
for all the work you and your colleagues do at
the Salvation Army to enhance our community.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
And Travis Freeman appreciate.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You making this big commitment and your team they're at
Bright Ideas doing such good work for a community.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Thanks, gentlemen, Yeah, thank you. And by the way, US
is very humble. That's a world class drive through. He
is putting something together really special and I hope people
will enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
All right, It's called Christmas Land opening November thirteenth in Valley,
same day as the Tree of Lights Tree Lighting Ceremony
at ninetieth and Dodge. All Right, we've got to take
our middle of the show break for the news. When
we come back, We've got the Nodel Company's commercial real
estate development spotlight with three count them, three new retailers
at Xarbon Village. You're listening to grow Omaha, brought to
you by Dingman's Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics on
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News Radio eleven ten KFAB and.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Welcome back to gro Omaha.
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Jeff and Trenton Here sitting in the KFA Penthouse studio
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time for your NODL Companies Commercial real Estate Development Spotlight
(25:17):
of the Week, in which we talk about projects and
happenings and construction in or around one of no Ale
companies mini projects and not all companies has a lot
of them. I was just we got an email this week.
Trent and I are on the commercial real estate broker emails,
and we got an email for various retail properties that
(25:40):
Nodel Companies has. My gosh, there were so many of them.
So many of these, like retail properties are not a companies.
And it's interesting because when we're here we usually talk about, oh,
you know, they got Acarbon Village or the Builders District,
But a lot of your favorite shopping centers are not
a companies properties. So we're going to go for this.
Not all companies commercial real estate developments like two the
(26:01):
world famous Exarbon Village.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I didn't realize how old Exurbant Village is.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Oh, like what it is about twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Years now, twenty twenty five years old. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Well, it's like it's its own little city, really, it really, but.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It's developed over time and all the new elements and
tenants and it's really and I've always said this that
it's the true mixed use development. People talk about mixed
use development, but this has the education aspect with the college.
It's got condos, apartments, businesses, retail service businesses at the park.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And so let's talk about these three new retail users.
The first one is a restaurant called Red Door Wood
Fired Grill. They are taking over the former Spirit World
Space and Xarbon Village. That's an eight thousand square foot space.
Will be a real nice sized restaurant. The exact address
is sixty six eighty Center Street, but it's right there
(26:56):
on the corner now. Red Door Wood Fired Grill plans
to open in the second quarter of next year, so
in the spring. It is from Kansas City. They have
six Kansas City Metro locations. They're known for scratch made
food cooked with smoky pecan, oak and hickory blend, so
a lot of wood fire stuff. And they're also planning
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opening in Gretna, but Trenton. A lot of people have
asked us what's going into spirit World at Xarbon Village
now you.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Know, absolutely, and they get high marks on social media.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
The next one is Grand Patisserie. This is a popular
French bakery at one hundred and forty fourth and West
Center Road. They are going to open an additional a
second location in x Sarbon Village by the end of
this year. Their signage is already up on the building.
It's a twenty eight hundred square foot space formerly occupied
by Rexius Nutrition. Now, before you're wait a minute, wait
(27:51):
a minute, Rexius Nutrition is still in x Sarbon Village.
They just moved around the corner. So the old Rexius
Nutrition space is going to be Grand Patisserie.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Absolutely, and we go there all the time. It's right
next to Vasa, just to the west of US one
hundred and forty fifth and West Center Road and PATISSERII.
It's unbelievable. All their big goods are fresh and really
nice people. The couple is from Tunisia.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And then the third and final new retailer that we're
going to report for Xarbon Village is Marigold Mercantile. This
is a home goods store and it is taking over
the former Booknook space. Just a fifteen hundred square foot space.
The exact address is twenty one to fifteen South sixty seventh,
but it's next to a Godfather's Pizza that has been
there in Xarbon for some time. So it's nice to
(28:41):
see Trenton you know, a home good store coming, you
know a little bit of upscure.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, So good on x.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Arbon Village and nod Al Companies for bringing three great
new additions to that development.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I can't wait to try.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I can't wait to try that red door because wood
fired food is about.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
As good as it gets.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
In Jeff's opinion, Well, shifting gears just a little bit
a real fast. Couple other things, the Almas City Council
has made a big step forward on the Tranquility Park
Sports Complex. We've been hearing about that. There's been a
lot of background work going on, time coming yep, for
the last couple of years. A lot of people worked
very hard on that. But during this week's city council meeting,
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the city Council heard remarks regarding an ordinance to approve
a contract with Keywit to get going a sixty million
dollar contract that would include the construction of twelve synthetic
turf soccer fields. Twenty million dollars of that would go
into a new interceptor sewer line because you've got to
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serve the area. Sewers are important. And the initial buildout
will include grading four additional fields which would be finished
in the future, so the site will be prepped for them,
but eventually they would have then sixteen fields and looking
like the first phase open summer of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, and they also have supposedly a nice hotel waiting
in the wings to go up there, but they want
to see this project started as well. And then you
also have t inquility comments which mole Halls is developing
right next door.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
So great area.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
And this is really important because Omaha has been having
to do a lot of catch up when it comes
to the lucrative, multi billion dollar youth sports industry, and
we have, we've we've added a lot of facilities, a
lot on their way, but we need more because let
me tell you, as you know, as a guy who's
who's you know, kids went through it and they're getting
a little they're too old for youth activities like that now.
(30:37):
But goodness gracious, it is a lucrative business and Omaha
wants every piece of it.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
We can possibly what.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
You're saying is that not everybody plays volleyable soccer. We're
doing our volleyball.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
We're doing our soccer football hocke.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I think swimming. I know there's a couple of projects
focused on swimming and swimming safety they look forward to.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
All right, it's time for your Perkins Christser construction lightning
round after we make this final break of the hour,
and that's when we talk about a lot of things
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All right, it's time for your Perkins Chritser Construction lightning round,
just a few minutes of this in which we're going
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All right, Trent, and we've got a new business coming
to the failed Burger Detour building at twelve twenty South
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two hundred and third Street. It's going to be called
j Garats Delhian Market. They are now hiring right now.
This of course is southeast of two hundred and fourth
in Pacific, but we don't know much. They've got just
kind of a basic website up so far, but it
says this, I'll quote, We're bringing together a classic deli
with a local market of delicious, fun and eclectic food
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items to prepare your meal at home, or stay as
or stay and enjoy one of our fresh, flavorful meals.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
So I wonder that's going to be a pickup window
if they're going to keep that drive through.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I know I could see that going either way. We're
going to keep our eye on it. We'll try to
get more information.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Do you know related to the Grots that have been
That was the.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
First thing I wondered when we discovered that Jay Garotz
is going into the former Burgher Detour at two hundred
and fourth in Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Because the Grotz family doesn't own Grots anymore. So yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Could be or it could just be a coincidence. We'll
try to find out. Blahas b La h As Blahas
as a craft beer and cocktail bar concept. They're opening
at seven twenty one North fourteenth Street in the former
zip Line Brewing space in North Downtown, next to the
Ruth Sokoloff Theater. They're described as an upscale, yet approachable
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tap room. The bar will have told the fourteen rotating
tap seasonal cocktail menu looks like a nice addition in
North Downtown. Owner plans to open by the end of
this year. And then we've got this new concept out
of Des Moines, Iowa. It's called hyper Energy Bar. It's
a beverage chain. They've got three of them under development
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in Omaha. Now we knew of two, now they've got three.
The third one is going to open just northwest of
two hundred and fourth in Harrison Street. There's a Children's
Nebraska facility there. Hospital, kind of suburban mini hospital. The
other planned locations are one hundred and eightieth in Burke
near Village Point and one hundred and eightieth in Maple.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I think kind of a coffee kiask double drive through
and it's a lot of energy drinks, and they've done
well in Des Moines and this is a natural old
place to expand that concept. I believe seven Brew does
a lot of the energy drinks as well, but opening
in the same area Mapel And now we're going to
find out whether Dutch Brothers because now that we every
(35:00):
time we get a new concept that everybody raves about
on social media, they want the next one. So let's
see how these all do.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Tussy's Casual Grill, a local restaurant that opened back in
two thousand and eight, has changed ownership. Jennifer Zong, who
is the president and CEO of Omaha based j ZW International,
has taken over ownership. She also owns Omaha Prime in
the Old Market. Now, Tussy's is located at ninety two
to twenty nine Mormon Bridge Road. That's really close to
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forty eighth and McKinley. I want to congratulate Hides Slides.
It's hard to say that it's Hydes Hide Slides Omaha
burger and fry concept that grew from a food truck
into a brick and mortar store located one hundred and
sixty eighth in Q in that Mission Village shopping center.
(35:48):
There they are spotlighted on the YouTube show called America's
Best Restaurants, and their episode is expected to air in
February by the way, they also operate inside the Grover
Inn near forty second in Grover. And then we have
one more thing, another restaurant changing ownership. Beacon Hills, a
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full service restaurant in at Sarbon Village, is now under
new ownership after twenty four years the founder retired. New
owner plans to kind of keep things similar, but maybe,
you know, spruce things up a little bit here and there,
and maybe throw in a couple of his own changes.
And the addresses sixty seven fifty Mercy Road. Also really
(36:29):
fast got a closure. Eden's Preserve, a local health and
beauty shop focused on sustainability, has closed its doors in
the Shops a legacy Southwest one hundred sixty eighth in Center.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
It's no longer sustainable.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
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at Heartwood Preserve. That is the five hundred acre development
west and southwest of Boystown. If you drive by, there's
so many projects underway and it's very very impressive, a
lot of projects have been completed in that area, but
we got news updates for two of them. First of all,
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we got yet another four story class A office building
planned for that development. It's going to be called Heartwood Place.
It'll be one hundred and sixty six thousand square feet
multi tenant building with all of the Class A amenities
like underground parking, gym facilities, locker rooms, patio balconies, fire pits,
conference room. I have to say all that stuff. Conference
(04:54):
room sounds a little bit anticlimactic. It doesn't measure up
quite to a shower and a fire pit. But the
exact address, if you're familiar with Hartwood Preserve, will be
twittered south Applied Parkway, just south of a Canny or
rather I'm just south of Valmont, i should say. And
it will be built by Siasac Construction.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, in Seisac Development ron se Isaac has been a
very upscale home builder. He's been doing it for a
long time, most longer than most of all of us.
And he builds beautiful buildings. He partners with the Scots
to get at least. And what's unique about this building.
(05:34):
Jeff is in a kind of a tough office market.
This is as high end as it goes. I'm told
this is the nicest building that he's ever built. And
he's built a lot of stuff at First National Business
Park and along Dodge Street, and this will be high
rent district, but it's going to be very cool, a
lot of glass balconies, a lot of amenities, and it's
(05:54):
good that people will take the development risk to do this,
and so it's the right place for it. So we're
excited to see how fast it fills up. But they're
going to break ground in just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, and we have not yet seen a rendering for that,
but when we do, we'll make sure we put that
on the website and all of the Gromaha social media.
Now in the same area, we believe, directly to the
South and Arizona real estate developer by the name of
Raymond Partners plans to build a very large condominium project.
(06:27):
We reported on this back in nearly summer, late spring,
I believe it was. It's going to be called the
Residences at Heartwood Preserve luxury condo development. It'll have three
six story buildings, very very impressive stuff. But we've just
found out through a Raymond Partner's press release that the
(06:47):
thirty five condo units that will make up Phase one,
they'll build these three buildings in three phases. The thirty
five condo units in Phase one are supposedly twenty percent
pre sold, and so that shows a lot of progress.
Now I cannot find any record of a building permit
in that area, but it looks like that project is progressing.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But it's also twenty twenty eight delivery, it says, and
so when people make reservations for these and put down deposits,
we're talking about most of these units are going to
be over a million dollars, which is for condos, and omaha,
they're going to set some records. And it is, you know,
a pool, and I'm sure they have other amenities and
(07:30):
concierge services and things like that. But there's three buildings
that it'll be interesting to watch the progress of this project.
But everybody talks about a modern version of Swanson Towers
that we haven't had that forever. This is eighty fourth
and Dodge, where a lot of people have been there
for generations and this is a class A condo project
(07:55):
and I hope it.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Goes well well.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We now go to North Downtown, specifically the Millwork Commons district,
and that's where crews have recently demolished a very underwhelming,
small vacant industrial building bounded by eleventh, twelfth Nicholas and
Millwork Avenue, and the city recently purchased that ground for
(08:18):
six hundred thousand dollars. The city will build and own
a six hundred stall garage about a twenty five million
dollar project. Completion is scheduled for about a year from now.
And that's actually a very exciting project. And you might say,
why are you so excited about a parking ed I'm
glad you asked. And the reason for it is that
(08:40):
we have so much development already happening in that area.
You've got the Nova apartments, you've got the Frame apartments.
Suppose another vacant historic building is going to become a
hotel pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Also, there's a lot of land to the east currently
owned by Union Pacific, and we keep hearing about all
sorts of things that could be developed there. It's becoming
a grit. It'll become a greater area. And you know,
you've got to have a place to park people. So
this is a good step to make Milwark Commons even bigger. Yeah,
and we need a place to have a Union soccer stadium.
Who knows, maybe that's where it might end up, but
(09:13):
it's funny that you should say that, because we reported
on gir Omaha dot com yesterday that Union Omaha will
be playing next year season on Creighton University's Morrison Stadium field.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Bring it to the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, so they are going downtown, so who knows, maybe
that will be the next step to getting a downtown
soccer stadium. We also reported, since we're speaking of sports,
yesterday that the Omaha Supernovas have released their twenty twenty
sixth schedule, which will be their first season in the
new Major League Volleyball, and you can find that article
on the sports section of girmaha dot com. Supernovas are
(09:53):
getting to be a big, big deal and people are
really really excited. They hold all the records professional volleyball
attendance at Chi Health Center Omaha. Now we want to
stay in the urban core. Moving from downtown, we now
go to twenty ninth in Jackson Street, and that is
where Midwest Businesses and Projects LLC plans to build a
(10:18):
six unit town home on a long vacant lot. Like
I said, it's twenty ninth in Jackson Street, a little
bit south of Levenworth. If that helps you out, site
preparation is now underway. A groundbreaking ceremony took place last week.
It's going to be a two and a half million
dollar project and this is one of those several projects
that are receiving funds from the North and South Omaha
(10:39):
Recovery Grant program. It will also get a little tax
increment financing from the city and then finally, the row
House building will feature a large outdoor mural and Trenton,
speaking of this, I attended a program I think it
was Tuesday morning this week. It was put on by
the Great Rama Chamber. But they had the CEO of
OPPD Omaha Public Power District there and he talked for
(11:02):
about an hour and it was fascinating just to kind
of hear about the challenges and everything else. But one
of the things he said, and you know, he said
this in a good way, he said, my goodness, the
amount of power usage going up in the urban core
because there's so much construction. And that's where we want it,
because we already have good infrastructure in the urban core.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's not just the data center. So we hear a
lot of rumblings of the you know, is OPPD keeping
up with enough power with AI and technology and everything,
and that's the last thing that we need the Silicon
Prairie to be held back by.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Now looking away out west, we have some early indication
of a user coming to the Avenue one Good Life District.
This is just south of one hundred and ninety second
and West Dodge Expressway. We have a small two story building.
(11:54):
It'll be a two story building fifteen thousand square feet
for a wellness and health center. We know from a
building permit that the name is a Viva, But that's
about all we know now. We keep hearing rumblings about
some very impressive retailers, like big brand name upscale retailers
going to that development. We're keeping our eye on that
(12:15):
and we'll report things. But good to see some early
movement in that Avenue one Good Life District.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
No question, Ron, It's been a long time and everybody
talks about you know the name of the crossover one
hundred ninety second Street, what do they call that?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
The once you get off to Odde Street and you go,
oh the intersection, Yeah, diverging diamond. It's still diversion. Go
try it out. It's weird when you're going south and
you're in the left on the south or the east side.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, a couple quick little stories we want to hit
before we wrap this thing up. The Latino Center of
the Midlands is undergoing a ten million dollar renovation and expansion.
The project was kickstarted by a two point eight million
dollar grant also from that state of Nebraska's North and
South Alma Recovery Grant program I talked about just a
moment ago. This project is scheduled to be completed on
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the twenty fourth Street corridor in early twenty twenty seven,
will expand the center from seventeen thousand square feet to
almost thirty thousand square feet. This is a part of
the nonprofit Canopy South, which is doing a lot of
cool projects in South oh And then, finally, an organization
by the name of Omaha Street Soccer. Omaha Street Soccer
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is looking to revitalize the Shenzel Community Center field at
twenty two to twenty North twentieth Street. It's really close
to Sherman's School on the north side, just a little
bit south of sixteenth and Stores Expressway, and the nonprofit
is looking to raise seventy five hundred dollars more to
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make that happen. So good to see projects happening on
the North Side.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Now usually we talk about multimillion dollar projects on this show.
They just need soenty five one hundred dollars people, let's
step it up.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Hell, most gro Omaha lists can find that in their
car seats, So get that done. I'll go to your
children's car seats, all you well healed Groma listeners. And finally,
a new documentary called Baby Blue or I'm Sorry Blue Baby.
A new documentary called Blue Baby, A little bout of
dyslexia here this morning. A new documentary called Blue Baby
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offers a candid look into Boystown and the work being
done there. The film takes audiences into one of the
homes at Boystown and follows eight boys through their highest
highs and their lowest lows. Blue Baby is now streaming
on Amazon Prime Video. And that is your News of
the week, brought to you by Eagle Mortgage Eagle Mortgage
Company dot Com. When we come back, Halloween's over, which
(14:44):
means that it's almost Christmas at everything's being decorated. The
Salvation Army Tree of Lights is under construction at ninetieth
and Dodge. As we broadcast, we're going to be talking
about that and some related topics that are very cool.
We've got with us Jeff Beckman from the Salvation Army
and Travis Freeman, president of Bright Ideas Decorating.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Stay with us, You're gonna love it.
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president of Bright Ideas Decorating. We are doing this because
it is almost Tree of Lights time. Travis is chairing
this year's Tree of Lights campaign and I couldn't help
(15:49):
but notice as I drove to the studio this morning,
passing by ninetieth and Dodge, the Christmas Tree is under construction.
Jeff and Travis welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Welcome to the season, guys.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, this is great.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
So, just as we understand, the Tree of Lights is
at ninetieth and Dodge construction today, but we don't turn
it on for a while. It'll be there, but it
won't be turned on until we have a proper ceremony.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Right November thirteenth, five o'clock at ninety of them Dodge
is the kickoff for the Red Kettle event and also
the kickoff of the Tree. What will turn on? And
our newest adventure with theme park. Yeah, theme park seventy
acres in Valley called Christmas Land.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Tell us a little bit about that. So we bought
the land two years ago.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
We've been working on it literally since we bought it,
and it's been a dream of mine since right out
of high school.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
And I was starting bright ideas.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
And I don't know if you guys aremem but the
one I went to was they had a drive through
around zarbon Is the infield, yep, remember that, And it
was literally like upside down Maato cages with Christmas lights
strung on them, and I don't know every I was like,
I can do better, Yeah, we can do better than that.
So we found the land, started working on it, doing
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the roads, getting all the electrical in and to be
what it is. And then when they had asked me
to cheer the Tree of Lights this year for the
Salvation Army, I thought, what a great way to be
able to give back to the Salvation Army. So we're
going to have a portion of every single car ticket
that goes through there, we'll be giving back to the
Salvation Army Tree of Lights.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So just so we under we understand. So this this
Christmas Land, Travis. You drive through, you'd stay in your
car and you drive through, and as you go through,
you'll see amazing light displays.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, it's in the holiday space.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
It's literally it's stuff you've never seen anywhere.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Three D. Yeah, it's three D.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
There's nine tunnels of lights. There's a four hundred foot
RGB tunnel that when you're inside the tunnel you can't
even see the other side of it. It's two miles
long and it'll take you approximately twenty seven minutes to
get through.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Is there a website?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
There is, It's Christmas Land Valley dot com.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So this is going to be located to get to
it from Olmaha. You would take Highway two seventy five
and exit MiGs Street and then you take a right
and you take a right and it's right there, and
it's behind the Groundscapes facility.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I think it's just.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
East of like you can see it leterally from the
Dairy Queen right there, So it's just east of there's
the Beefcake Jerky building right there and then Groundscapes and
we're just east of that.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Just instead of going away from the light, go towards
the light. People.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, we were having a hard Trent and I were
having a hard time until you said dairy Queen and
beefcake and they were like, oh fine, as long as
you associated with food, we'll be there.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So is that at nightfall or what are the hours?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
It's from four thirty to ten thirty and we're going
to be there from November thirteenth all the way through January.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Fourth, and then what would be the cost of admission?
Is it on a per car basis or a per
passenger basis? It's a per car basis.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday is thirty five dollars per car, and
then through Sunday is.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Forty dollars So if I have a bunch of clown friends,
fourteen of them in a Volkswagen, it's still this one fee.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah, if you can fit those in, we'll pay to
see that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It'll be part of the display. Julio, bring out the stretch.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
So you were going to do this though it sounds
like Travis, you were going to do this anyway, and
then a separate from the Salvation Army, and then when
you became in charge of the Tree of Lights campaign,
that's where you got the idea. So this is this
has been in the works, regardless, it sounds like this ad.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
This has been in the works regardless. I've been thinking
about this for a long time, looking at different pieces
of land, and then this.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
One came up.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
And you know, as things go, it was bigger than
what I wanted, but you know, you fill it up
and then now you think we need more.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So tell us a little bit about bride Ideas. You know,
a name of the company is bride Ideas Decorating. I
think most people can get the impression that you're all
about Christmas decorations and other holiday decorations. But tell us
a little bit more about your company.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
So, yes, I started the company right out of high school.
I've actually and then been involved with the Salvation Army
for twenty four years. I was telling Jeff that when
it was down at the courthouse and then went the
treatment from the courthouse to Crossroads Mall and then to
where the tree sits today. And you know, I started
with somebody handing me a trash bag of lights and saying,
(20:26):
can you put these up in my house? And it
took me longer to untangle the lights, and it did
for me to put them up on.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
The house, and one didn't work back then fagured out
and that was rough.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
And you know, I had tried to find a solution
for a problem that you know, I thought we had,
and then started doing distributorships all around the country, and
today we have over five hundred and fifty distributors across
the United States selling our product.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And you you manufacture your own stuff, you know, somewhere
but it's your name on it.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
We have our own fact China and then we manufacture
all that and then bring that in and so there's
been some struggles with the tariffs and pricing and things
like that.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
But I imagine, you know, dealing with that working through that.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
So so when when Christmas Land opens on November thirteenth,
same day as the Tree of Light ceremony at ninetieth
and Dodge, where where did you go to find some
of these amazing displays that we've never had before in Omaha?
And how difficult were they to uh, I don't know,
find them, put them together, come up with them.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Well, I will tell you, I mean the guys out there,
Johnny Josiah, that it's taken. Literally, we got a container
yesterday they were unloading, so we're they're still putting up
the lights that we're that are going to be on
for November fifth. So we're literally down to the last
minute trying to get everything ready. And we paid the
truck driver to drive it from La Port to Hear
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extra to get the lights here in time.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
To get that's greact. It's like cleaning up for company.
But you're going to get a lot of.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That'll open to the public November thirteenth and then on
the Tree of Lights. Jeff Beckman from the Salvation Army,
you said at five o'clock on ninetieth and Dodge, do
you want the public there? The public is invited. Thank you, Trenton.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
We're gonna have music for about an hour and then
we have a brief program and then we have a
countdown and the lights come on. And it's one of
the greatest Christmas traditions, and that's a free free it's free,
and there's lots of food treaton, So bring for both
of you, gentlemen. We'll we want this to be the
public event. We have several other events. Travis hosted one
(22:33):
for our major donors the other night at Bright Ideas.
It was a wonderful event. We just want the entire
community to show up and celebrate the beginning of the
Christmas season.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Okay, and then right real fast, before we wrap up, Jeff,
give us the overview of what the Tree of Lights
campaign does and how important the red kettles are.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
The Tree Lights Campaign our goal this year is three
point three million dollars. We raised the vast majority of
our annual funding during the next couple of months. Seventy
eighty percent of our funding comes in now, and that
will all be invested in programs and services that really
help the most vulnerable people in our community. Almost every
person who we serve is living in poverty. There are
a few exceptions. It's food, it's clothing. Food right now
(23:13):
is the big topic, and we're trying to raise more
money for food. But we also have behavioral health services
for people who don't have anywhere else to turn. Lots
of youth activities in North Omaha, South Omaha. We have
a new center in North Omaha that we opened half
of it a couple of weeks ago, and we're seeing
a lot more need to serve youth in like I said,
particularly North and South Omaha, but we serve the entire community.
(23:35):
Matter of fact, if somebody comes in from outside of
the metro area, they can find assistance from the Salvation
Army too.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, gentlemen, we appreciate you joining us. Jeff Beckman, thanks
for all the work you and your colleagues do at
the Salvation Army to enhance our community.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
And Travis Freeman appreciate.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You making this big commitment and your team they're at
Bright Ideas doing such good work for a community.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Thanks, gentlemen, Yeah, thank you. And by the way, US
is very humble. That's a world class drive through. He
is putting something together really special and I hope people
will enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
All right, It's called Christmas Land opening November thirteenth in Valley,
same day as the Tree of Lights Tree Lighting Ceremony
at ninetieth and Dodge. All Right, we've got to take
our middle of the show break for the news. When
we come back, We've got the Nodel Company's commercial real
estate development spotlight with three count them, three new retailers
at Xarbon Village. You're listening to grow Omaha, brought to
you by Dingman's Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics on
(24:28):
News Radio eleven ten KFAB and.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Welcome back to gro Omaha.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Jeff and Trenton Here sitting in the KFA Penthouse studio
high above Underwood Avenue and beautiful downtown Dundee. We are
brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center, which has four
metro area locations. Got a new one coming soon to Gretna.
None other than Trenton Maggot did that real estate deal
and they're going to be opening soon. And then we
have also Cheer Athletics, which is our second title sponsor.
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Craig and Tiffany wolf own it. I've known Craig's literally
since kindergarten, and Tiffany not quite as long but since
they've been married and they do a great job. Their
base is right there in Papillion, a little bit southwest
of Highways fifty and three seventy. All right, it's now
time for your NODL Companies Commercial real Estate Development Spotlight
(25:17):
of the Week, in which we talk about projects and
happenings and construction in or around one of no Ale
companies mini projects and not all companies has a lot
of them. I was just we got an email this week.
Trent and I are on the commercial real estate broker emails,
and we got an email for various retail properties that
(25:40):
Nodel Companies has. My gosh, there were so many of them.
So many of these, like retail properties are not a companies.
And it's interesting because when we're here we usually talk about, oh,
you know, they got Acarbon Village or the Builders District,
But a lot of your favorite shopping centers are not
a companies properties. So we're going to go for this.
Not all companies commercial real estate developments like two the
(26:01):
world famous Exarbon Village.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I didn't realize how old Exurbant Village is.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Oh, like what it is about twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Years now, twenty twenty five years old. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Well, it's like it's its own little city, really, it really, but.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It's developed over time and all the new elements and
tenants and it's really and I've always said this that
it's the true mixed use development. People talk about mixed
use development, but this has the education aspect with the college.
It's got condos, apartments, businesses, retail service businesses at the park.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And so let's talk about these three new retail users.
The first one is a restaurant called Red Door Wood
Fired Grill. They are taking over the former Spirit World
Space and Xarbon Village. That's an eight thousand square foot space.
Will be a real nice sized restaurant. The exact address
is sixty six eighty Center Street, but it's right there
(26:56):
on the corner now. Red Door Wood Fired Grill plans
to open in the second quarter of next year, so
in the spring. It is from Kansas City. They have
six Kansas City Metro locations. They're known for scratch made
food cooked with smoky pecan, oak and hickory blend, so
a lot of wood fire stuff. And they're also planning
(27:19):
opening in Gretna, but Trenton. A lot of people have
asked us what's going into spirit World at Xarbon Village
now you.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Know, absolutely, and they get high marks on social media.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
The next one is Grand Patisserie. This is a popular
French bakery at one hundred and forty fourth and West
Center Road. They are going to open an additional a
second location in x Sarbon Village by the end of
this year. Their signage is already up on the building.
It's a twenty eight hundred square foot space formerly occupied
by Rexius Nutrition. Now, before you're wait a minute, wait
(27:51):
a minute, Rexius Nutrition is still in x Sarbon Village.
They just moved around the corner. So the old Rexius
Nutrition space is going to be Grand Patisserie.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Absolutely, and we go there all the time. It's right
next to Vasa, just to the west of US one
hundred and forty fifth and West Center Road and PATISSERII.
It's unbelievable. All their big goods are fresh and really
nice people. The couple is from Tunisia.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And then the third and final new retailer that we're
going to report for Xarbon Village is Marigold Mercantile. This
is a home goods store and it is taking over
the former Booknook space. Just a fifteen hundred square foot space.
The exact address is twenty one to fifteen South sixty seventh,
but it's next to a Godfather's Pizza that has been
there in Xarbon for some time. So it's nice to
(28:41):
see Trenton you know, a home good store coming, you
know a little bit of upscure.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, So good on x.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Arbon Village and nod Al Companies for bringing three great
new additions to that development.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I can't wait to try.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I can't wait to try that red door because wood
fired food is about.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
As good as it gets.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
In Jeff's opinion, Well, shifting gears just a little bit
a real fast. Couple other things, the Almas City Council
has made a big step forward on the Tranquility Park
Sports Complex. We've been hearing about that. There's been a
lot of background work going on, time coming yep, for
the last couple of years. A lot of people worked
very hard on that. But during this week's city council meeting,
(29:24):
the city Council heard remarks regarding an ordinance to approve
a contract with Keywit to get going a sixty million
dollar contract that would include the construction of twelve synthetic
turf soccer fields. Twenty million dollars of that would go
into a new interceptor sewer line because you've got to
(29:44):
serve the area. Sewers are important. And the initial buildout
will include grading four additional fields which would be finished
in the future, so the site will be prepped for them,
but eventually they would have then sixteen fields and looking
like the first phase open summer of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, and they also have supposedly a nice hotel waiting
in the wings to go up there, but they want
to see this project started as well. And then you
also have t inquility comments which mole Halls is developing
right next door.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
So great area.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
And this is really important because Omaha has been having
to do a lot of catch up when it comes
to the lucrative, multi billion dollar youth sports industry, and
we have, we've we've added a lot of facilities, a
lot on their way, but we need more because let
me tell you, as you know, as a guy who's
who's you know, kids went through it and they're getting
a little they're too old for youth activities like that now.
(30:37):
But goodness gracious, it is a lucrative business and Omaha
wants every piece of it.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
We can possibly what.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
You're saying is that not everybody plays volleyable soccer. We're
doing our volleyball.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
We're doing our soccer football hocke.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I think swimming. I know there's a couple of projects
focused on swimming and swimming safety they look forward to.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
All right, it's time for your Perkins Christser construction lightning
round after we make this final break of the hour,
and that's when we talk about a lot of things
really fast. So stay with us. Good things on the dock.
You're going to love it. You're listening to grow Omaha.
Jeff and Trenton from nai NP Dodge were brought to
you by Dingman's Collision Center and Cheer Athletics on News
Radio eleven ten kf Abe and folks, that was a
(31:21):
monumental announcement. We wish the best to our beloved Gary
as he goes into retirement, although he's not really retiring.
He's still going to be on the docket as a
fill in host. But well, when we get close to
Gary's actual last day on KFAB, we'll talk about how
Gary brought us over to.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
This awesome superstation.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
All right, it's time for your Perkins Chritser Construction lightning round,
just a few minutes of this in which we're going
to tell you a lot of things. Thank you, though,
to Perkins Chritzer Construction for making this possible. Dave Kreutzer
is in charge over there, and I talked to him
regularly about the very cool projects that they're doing. And
I tell you what, if you are looking at bill
(32:00):
holding something for your business or in your whatever, your nonprofit,
your religious organization, your community organization, call Perkins Chritzer Construction.
I'm not going to give you the phone number because
no one remembers phone numbers on the radio, but I
can tell you that the website is pdashcconstruction dot com
pdashcconstruction dot com. Perkins Kritzer is a full service class
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a contractor and it's not just Omaha. They go deep
into Nebraska, deep into Iowa and they do a great
job delivering projects that are outstanding, on time, in the budget,
and a project that you'll be proud of. Perkins Chritzer Construction.
All right, Trent, and we've got a new business coming
to the failed Burger Detour building at twelve twenty South
(32:45):
two hundred and third Street. It's going to be called
j Garats Delhian Market. They are now hiring right now.
This of course is southeast of two hundred and fourth
in Pacific, but we don't know much. They've got just
kind of a basic website up so far, but it
says this, I'll quote, We're bringing together a classic deli
with a local market of delicious, fun and eclectic food
(33:07):
items to prepare your meal at home, or stay as
or stay and enjoy one of our fresh, flavorful meals.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
So I wonder that's going to be a pickup window
if they're going to keep that drive through.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I know I could see that going either way. We're
going to keep our eye on it. We'll try to
get more information.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Do you know related to the Grots that have been
That was the.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
First thing I wondered when we discovered that Jay Garotz
is going into the former Burgher Detour at two hundred
and fourth in Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Because the Grotz family doesn't own Grots anymore. So yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Could be or it could just be a coincidence. We'll
try to find out. Blahas b La h As Blahas
as a craft beer and cocktail bar concept. They're opening
at seven twenty one North fourteenth Street in the former
zip Line Brewing space in North Downtown, next to the
Ruth Sokoloff Theater. They're described as an upscale, yet approachable
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tap room. The bar will have told the fourteen rotating
tap seasonal cocktail menu looks like a nice addition in
North Downtown. Owner plans to open by the end of
this year. And then we've got this new concept out
of Des Moines, Iowa. It's called hyper Energy Bar. It's
a beverage chain. They've got three of them under development
(34:16):
in Omaha. Now we knew of two, now they've got three.
The third one is going to open just northwest of
two hundred and fourth in Harrison Street. There's a Children's
Nebraska facility there. Hospital, kind of suburban mini hospital. The
other planned locations are one hundred and eightieth in Burke
near Village Point and one hundred and eightieth in Maple.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I think kind of a coffee kiask double drive through
and it's a lot of energy drinks, and they've done
well in Des Moines and this is a natural old
place to expand that concept. I believe seven Brew does
a lot of the energy drinks as well, but opening
in the same area Mapel And now we're going to
find out whether Dutch Brothers because now that we every
(35:00):
time we get a new concept that everybody raves about
on social media, they want the next one. So let's
see how these all do.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Tussy's Casual Grill, a local restaurant that opened back in
two thousand and eight, has changed ownership. Jennifer Zong, who
is the president and CEO of Omaha based j ZW International,
has taken over ownership. She also owns Omaha Prime in
the Old Market. Now, Tussy's is located at ninety two
to twenty nine Mormon Bridge Road. That's really close to
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forty eighth and McKinley. I want to congratulate Hides Slides.
It's hard to say that it's Hydes Hide Slides Omaha
burger and fry concept that grew from a food truck
into a brick and mortar store located one hundred and
sixty eighth in Q in that Mission Village shopping center.
(35:48):
There they are spotlighted on the YouTube show called America's
Best Restaurants, and their episode is expected to air in
February by the way, they also operate inside the Grover
Inn near forty second in Grover. And then we have
one more thing, another restaurant changing ownership. Beacon Hills, a
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full service restaurant in at Sarbon Village, is now under
new ownership after twenty four years the founder retired. New
owner plans to kind of keep things similar, but maybe,
you know, spruce things up a little bit here and there,
and maybe throw in a couple of his own changes.
And the addresses sixty seven fifty Mercy Road. Also really
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fast got a closure. Eden's Preserve, a local health and
beauty shop focused on sustainability, has closed its doors in
the Shops a legacy Southwest one hundred sixty eighth in Center.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
It's no longer sustainable.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Apparently, and the music is playing, which means that the
show is fanito. But we hope you have a great
weekend and enjoy the chilly autumn weather.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
I'm Jeff Beals and I'm Trenton Maggott.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You've been listening to Girl Omaha, brought to you by
Dingman's Collie Vision Center along with Cheer Athletics and Perkins
Chreutzer Construction. We'll chat with you next week at nine,
as always right here on news radio eleven ten kfab
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