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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, and welcome to the show. Jeff Bial's here
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And without any further ado, it's time to bring on
my co host, a legendary real estate deal maker from
nai NP Dodge Commercial Real Estate, Trenton Maggot.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning Joe, Good morning Trenton.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm in a really good mood today because we have
a brand new Brad Williams construction video on the website
and ready for people to view. Brad does several of
these a year. They're sponsored by Boyd Jones Construction and
he just goes through and gives a kind of an
update and a pictorial update on a wide variety of projects.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
But this one is different. Ladies and gentlemen, I gotta say,
hands down and Brad Williams. You've seen his still photography,
you've seen his nature photography, you've seen his buildings, the tower,
downtown everything, and he's our go to guy. And he
got up in a helicopter, so he's mixing still photographs, videos,
aerial shots. And go to groamha dot com check out
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the construction videos and kudos to Brad Williams and you
may see your project in there.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
When you go to Girlmaha dot com. On the navigation bar,
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window pops up and just go down to construction update
and you can see that and all of the videos
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Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
First up on the news this week, the Omaha Public
Library did an unveiling of the Central Library. It's not
going to be open until April twenty ninth, but Brad
Williams and I were there on Thursday and we walked around,
saw all five levels, yes count them, five levels of
that thing, and took a lot of photographs. In fact,
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you can see those photographs in one of our stories
that is on grow Omaha dot com. Headline is one
hundred and fifty million dollars. Central Library scheduled to open
April nineteenth. Yeah, it's nineteenth, but Trenton. I tell you,
this ninety six thousand square foot building looks a hell
of a lot bigger on the inside than it does
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on the outside.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Absolutely, and there's different levels in there too. And I
really want to see the Amazon technology or whatever it
is to pick these books.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, in fact, we saw that and we photographed that, well,
Brad photographed it. I held a glass of wine while
he was photographing things. But it is amazing. It goes
the entire vertical length of the library.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It is shocking.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And it's got this robotic contraption that will go up
and down and they have countless numbers of metal boxes
that will store all sorts of books, files, photographs, whatever
the case may be. And it is believed by Heritage Systems,
which is making this project come together, that it will
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be the first public library in the country to utilize
this automated storage and retrieval system. It is a multi story,
climate controlled it can store more than six hundred thousand
printed materials.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That's incredible. And I see this as really a meeting place,
and especially when Crossroads really gets going the next few years,
that corner people are just going to go hang out
and meet and Initially they're going to be wanted to
see what the heck this thing is all about. Not
everybody's going to want to go in there and read
a book, but they're going to be an awe of
the structure and the amenities. The Zen Coffee shop there,
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and it's really something to check out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So when we were there for the preview, the Zen
Coffee Shop building, if you will, it feels like it's
its own little building inside the library.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It was there.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's not up and running yet because they don't open
until from nineteenth, but it just looks cool. The finishes
are high quality, and it's you if you hear that
a city is building one hundred and fifty eight million
dollar library, you think, oh, it's going to be a
pretty special place.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's a very very special place. And it's a lot
different than our library is from college and back in
the day. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
When I think of the library from college, I just
think of rows and rows and rows of scholarly journals
and you had to use the card catalog because there
was a system Doe Decimal was more like at the
grade school and high school levels. The university libraries used
the Library of Congress system.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, I wonder if they're gonna get like a cent,
you know, kind of hotels get a really nice flower scent.
I wonder if they're going to bottle like old library
musk and that pump it into this one hundred and
fifty eight million dollar library. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know, now that I don't have to study anymore
for school, I'll actually love Vietman libraries all right. Creighton
University recently broke ground on one of the main components
of its three hundred million dollars Fly Together initiative. The
University of starting construction on a fifty thousand square foot
sports Performance Center that's going to be kind of the
heart and soul of this new let It Fly. Let
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It Fly is a sports bar Fly Together initiative. The
Sports Performance Center will be a twentieth in Bert Street,
ten thousand square foot strength and conditioning area, a dining
hall for athletes, additional spaces for sports medicine, student advising,
and counseling services. The center is just west of the
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Ruth Scott Training Center, so it'll be on the If
you're familiar with the campus area, the southeast corner of
twentieth and Bert looks like it should be completed in
twenty twenty seven. Creighton University is in Fuego. I mean,
they're just going crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well this fly together. I remember when Morrison Stadium went up,
the soccer field and stadium, we thought that was exciting.
But when you've got multiple developers doing the the Builders
District and another three hundred million dollars at creating on
top of everything else they've done to make it walkable
and to have the services and to have the meeting places.
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And we went to a conference on Thursday and they
everything at this commercial real estate conference was about connections
and connecting not just people, but connecting places, and that's
what they're doing a great job of over there.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, yeah, speaking of connecting, Creighton University and the Builder's
District are going to eventually blend together, and it almost
kind of feel like it's all just one big development.
By the way, Builders District has a very impressive parking
garage that's under construction now between fifteenth and sixteenth south
of California, So you're going to see more activity there
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and it's not that many years before. Like I say,
Creighton and the Builders District and Millwork Commons all seem
like one big, one.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Big, absolutely, and we've talked about this before, but the
different the Capital District, developers and Builders District and Millwork
Commons which is also getting a parking garage. All these
developers are talking to each other and not just doing
the same thing, but figuring out how they can compliment
each other. So you have like a cohesive area.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well just south of Creaton University and the builder's district
is what we call the urban core and the streetcar
influence district. And we found out that the mystery organization
behind the forty million dollar bond purchase that will accelerate
our ability to build affordable housing in the urban core.
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We found out that is the Logier Foundation, which has
done so much amazing work in Omaha. They have agreed
to purchase forty million dollars in housing bonds from the
City of Omaha to jumpstart the affordable housing piece of
the Streetcar and urban Core revitalization effort. Recall, and we've
talked about this a lot on the show, that the
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streetcar is being funded by taking a portion of the
real estate developers tax increment financing. The amount of development
that would spur that has always been projected to be
way more than what the streetcar would cost, and it's
already way, way way ahead of schedule. And so the
thought was, as soon as the streetcar is covered for
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its costs, the remainder would be used to enhance and
increase affordable housing in the urban core, and that was
always part of the project. But Mayor Ewing announced a
few months ago that there was this mystery organization that
was partner with the city that was going to buy
them early and we found out that that's the Low
Year Foundation, and that's because they're named in a proposed
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city ordnance that will have its first reading coming up
here this next week that authorizes the sale of the
low interest bonds and Trenton's just in case people are
wondering how this works. After this is almost surely approved
in early December, that money will then go to Front
Porch Investments, which would receive the proceeds from the bonds
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and then use it to help builders construct and estimated
one thousand, nine hundred living units of various kind in
the core, which we desperately need.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Which everybody talks about we need more affordable housing. Well,
this is a great shot in the arm for that
and kudos to Diane Lozier, the late Alan Lozier and
their team. And when you talk to people about where
are the best charities, especially for north Omaha, where their
business is located, it's everybody says Lozier Foundation. Yeah, there's
plenty of others, but they really have put their money
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where their mouth is, and we thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And Lozier Foundation is famously quiet, famously modest, and humble
and anonymous in many many cases, and so for them
to be recognized as the organization behind this, this is
the largest investment in the Lozier Foundation's history might not
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be the most comfortable thing for them, but they deserve
to be thanked and appreciated for the great work that
they have done and continue to.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You don't care what anybody says, but forty million dollars
is still a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, seems like a lot of money to me. Maybe
not to you so much, but certainly to me.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It is all right.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Our last story is another big one. Boystown has announced
that it will expand its National Research Hospital. This is
the sprawling, one story facility northeast of one hundred and
forty fourth in Pacific around the southwest corner of the
Boystown main campus going to do a three hundred million
dollar expansion. This will total more than a quarter million
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square feet and it will consist of two four story
wings that will kind of jut out from the southwest
and southeast corners of the existing one story building. This
will allow for one hundred and thirty one thousand score
feet of edition hospital space for acute care, imaging, and
in patient rooms, plus one hundred and twenty three thousand
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square feet of dedicated research labs and clinics. They'll also
have an on site cafe. And you know, Boystown is
already doing amazing things Trenton, but this will this is
over the top. I mean, Boystown is going to go
from being a great organization helping kids in so many
ways to an even more amazing one.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I used to live right down the street. On me
for a drive over there, and to see that thing
get built. It just keeps going and going, and then
all of a sudden they're going to go go vertical.
It is truly amazing. And the amount of what do
you think of all the medical of all the construction
going on in Omaha right now, how much of it
is medical? It seems like fifteen to twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
The percentage would be a lot, especially if you count
the two point two billion dollar UNMC hospital that's just
getting started, so it's a lot more.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It might be more than twenty. And there's a lot
of Mexican restaurants being put together right now.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
And car washers, Yeah, we get a lot of complaints
about that at girl maaha dot com, people like why
are they building so many car washers? Like they're mad
at us, folks. We've never built a single car wash
in our lives and I've sold a lot of to
Tommy's Express, But.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
How many of you built? Not a lot, So it's
not your fault, but it is a liquid business.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And with that, we want to also mention that one
last thing about that Boystown National Research Hospital. They were
founded in nineteen seventy seven, so it's not a terribly
old organization. For this three hundred million dollar expansion, fundraising
efforts were kicked off by a transformational donation by the
Ryan Family Foundation, Kudos to them, and opening is scheduled
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for twenty twenty seven, so not that far away. And
that is your News of the Week, which is brought
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When we come back, we're going to have a business highlight,
a business feature viewl we will have with us Mike
Corrigan and Katie Henry from Access Bank, SUS Bank, one
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we have a business feature segment today with us from
Access Bank, our Mike Corrigan, Senior vice president and Katie Henry,
executive vice president of Consumer Banking.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Katie and Mike, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Thank you so much for having you.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We appreciate you guys being here.
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And you are one of the newest grow Omaha sponsors
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Mike Gromaha, So thanks for being part of our community.
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That's good to hear.
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Wasn't even close. Yeah, it was even close. Not even
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Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, pretty much, no question. So let's talk a little
bit about the bank. We always like to start with
the thirty thousand foot overview. What is the bank, what's
its origin, and what makes it special?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yeah. So Access Bank was founded back in two thousand
and seven.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
A group of local bankers here in Omaha decided, just
like any entrepreneur, that hey, we can we can maybe
do this a little better than the big boys. So
they put their heads together and unlike a lot of banks,
they actually went out to market and sought out local
investors to invest in start starting Access Bank. So money
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was raised in December of seven. Access Bank started with
the goal of being Omaha's super community bank, you know,
a bank that's local, that helps local families and businesses
and just kind of a powerhouse that can out hustle
some of the bigger folks. And you know, fast forward
to now we're creeping up on twenty years in the
Omaha market.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
We've got six.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Locations, we're at about one hundred and twenty five employees. Again,
we're shareholder owned, so there's not some big East West
Coast bank that owns us. It's we pride ourselves on local,
quick decision making for the local families and business owners
here in Omah in the.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Metro and Access Bank that the services kind of a
rundown of the services.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yeah, So we first off started as primarily a commercial bank,
but we quickly realized that Omaha needs the broader needs
of the consumer and commercial needs.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So we will do pretty much anything.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I'd say our primary focus is the commercial side, both
in the commercial industrial and the real estate space. And
then when again we quickly realize that the consumer needs
were there as well, So we'll do everything from auto loans,
the home equity lines of credit, to mortgage loans and
any type of commercial.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Loan, and then the consumer loans, Katie. The consumer loans
is also known as retail banking, right, that's what you head.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Up, Yep, that's exactly where I sit. So we spend
a lot of time working with our customers, you know,
answering questions right now about refinances in the mortgage world,
or we're talking a lot about high yield checkings and savings.
Families are really looking to put their dollars to work
and maximize savings and highest yieled possible. So we spend
a lot of time working with families and really listening
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and making sure we're putting them in the right products
and solutions to fit their needs.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Also have real commercial real estate loans, which is headed
up by.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Yeah We dan Ertz is the head of our commercial
real estate department, and he's got a team of great
qualified folks that will review and and and lend out
on the commercial real estate space.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It seems like it's a great time to have a
bank that is right size, meaning it's not one of
the huge banks that seemed to be coming into Omaha,
but someone that you you know your banker and there's
a comfort level and you probably hear that a lot.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yes, Katie and I were both going to talk at
the same time because that's that's huge. And again that's
the preface of why Access Bank was started. I mean,
the relationship side to us banking is it's it's difficult
to be transactional in banking. We pride ourselves a big
time on the relationship side of the banking space. So, yeah,
you're trying near exactly right. We're at that sweet spot
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where we can perform the big bank, big bank deals,
but we have that small bank personal touch and relationship aspect.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So we say, guys, we have six locations for Access Bank.
Where's the headquarters and where are some of these branches located?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Sure, so our headquarters is located at eighty seventh and Dodge,
and then we have pockets of the city where we
have presence as well. So we're in La Vista, We've
got one branch out at Oak Vie Mall one near
Village Point. We've got one at Xarbone, which is kind
of our newest location. And then we've actually our our
sixth location is actually at Center Mall, and we launched
what we call access Point, which is our video banking service,
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So clients can go visit the upstairs of Center Mall
and they just have to push a button and they
can talk to a banker Monday through Friday and Saturdays
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We love Center Mall. Actually at ai NP Dodge, we
take care of that building. Cool peace Omaha history.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So, Katie Henry, give us an idea. I always thought
that now now I can deposit online, you can move
money from account to account, there's a lot of things
you can do on your phone. And then you start
seeing these free standing banks and these endcap banks. It
sounds like they're not going away. Why is that?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Yeah, So I would tell you that this is where
I think community banks really stand apart from the competition.
So we understand the need to continue to develop digitally
and really be able to meet our clients where they're at.
But we also understand that when a customer needs us,
they also want to come in and be able to
visit with us. Generationally, when you're starting to look at
these younger generations come up, they're going to need home loans,
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they're going to need that personalized service sing with a
business that's starting out. Very rarely do you not want
to meet us in person, and so we believe that's
where Community Bank has a really strong feature, because we
can really still continue to meet people digitally, but we'll
also be there and ready for them when they need us.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We're talking with Mike Corrigan and Katie Henry from Access Bank,
founded in two thousand and seven here at Omaha and
really has grown to be a big part of our
business community as a community bank, and I would like
to ask you guys, what makes Access Bank different or
special compared to other banks out there.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Good question, Thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
You know, I think we really put an investment in
our team and our employees, which I think then folds
out into the performance that we do for our customers.
But we've really focused on giving back to the community.
Almost all employees are on some sort of nonprofit board.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
They serve back to the.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Local community that they that they live in. In addition
to that, we've done some really neat things with some
internal products and projects at the bank where we will
let an employee pick a certain nonprofit or a certain
something to donate towards, and so each employee gets gifted
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some money to go ahead and put those dollars back
towards projects that are near and dear their heart. And
again we just think that culturally that's huge to invest
in the employees because then that has a ripple effect
towards our customers and clients, both on the consumer and
the commercial side.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Obviously, one of the biggest changing in the world is
AI and everybody talks about that, but also when it
comes to technology and banking, how do you embrace that
and how does it change Access Bank.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
So actually, what we're looking at and we're building for
the future and preparing for is really trying to meet
our clients where they're at. We're calling it, or we've
dubbed it the omni channel experience or the omni channel approach,
which is really trying to evolve and become that financial
institution of the future.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
So how do we.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Continue to deliver our products and services in the way
customers have come to expect as well as continue to
meet them digitally. So again, it's through chat, it's through text,
it's through other means that people are wanting to engage
with us. So we're going to continue to evolve, and
that's some of the investment that we've made as we
gear up for the future, opening accounts online, all of
those good things that people have really become accustomed to.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
One last question for Katie Henry and Mike Corrigan from
Access Bank. You guys, as you as you look to
the future, you're you're about ready to hit your twentieth
anniversary here in a couple of years. As you look
to the future, where's where's Access Bank going and what
will the future bring?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
That's a great question.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
You know, our commitment has always been the Omaha metro market.
You know, I don't believe that we have any large
dreams or desires to grow much further out of market.
We really want to just make sure that again we
stay true to us being the Omaha super community bank.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
That was why we were founded, and.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
We will, like Katie say, we'll continue to invest in
research and technology and figure out what is the right
moves for us to continue to serve the people of Omaha.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
All right, Well, we really appreciate both of you joining
us this morning. Like I said earlier, thanks for being
one of our very important sponsors in gro Omaha Media
on the gromha dot com website.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
And appreciate you guys being here.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Thanks so much for having us. We're really grateful for
the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That's Katie Henry, executive vice president of Consumer Banking and
Mike Corgan, Senior vice president Commercial Relationship Banking with Access
Bank here in Omaha.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
And that is your.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Business spotlight for this week. We've got another spotlight, the
commercial real estate Spotlight by Novel Companies coming up after
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for your commercial real estate development Spotlight of the Week,
which is brought to you by not all companies, not
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not a company's office just recently moved to the brand
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a little bit west of Charles schwab Field, one block
south of Keewitz World Headquarters, which not All Company's built
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but anyway, so not All Companies has moved into this
building in the Builders District, so they're right there where
so much of the action is taking place. Of course,
Builders District is one of Nodel Companies project. Another not
All Companies project that you may have heard of is
called Xarbon Village, and we are happy to say that
renovations are underway inside the former Jones Bros. Cupcakes space
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at Xarbon Village. The exact address is twenty one twenty
one South sixty seventh Street. Nothing's been announced, but according
to a City of Omaha building per the new tenant
will be a breakfast restaurant known as Breakfast Club Omaha.
So keep your eyes and ears open about that. And
as a guy Trenton who is a huge aficionado of
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going out to breakfast, I can't wait for another breakfast place.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Well, I believe they also have pretty much a full
bar and they have some exotic drinks and breakfast and
lunch and it's it's a it'll be a great place
to try. So you seem to know something about this
if you look online, you look at their menu. You
got a couple of locations in the Des Moin area
Des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I think they're from there. And then someone made a
post on one of our on our Facebook announcement about
is this the same place as Des Moines and Minneapolis?
So who knows, maybe they're up there too, But yeah,
because I poked around too and I found one in
Des Moine, I when I assume that is the one
that is going to x Arbon Village and that is
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Speaker 3 (28:04):
Well, I tell you what, I've.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Got a lot of weaknesses in my life, and one
of my weaknesses is craft beer. I just love a
good beer. I love high quality beers. My cousin John
and I a couple of nights go into wrath Scaler
and we had a couple of German beers and my gosh,
it was so good.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
And I am not that.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's really a craft beer because a lot of that
comes from from Europe that they have at Wrathskeller.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Good place, by the way, But.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'm really excited to share with you that Omaha is
one of the best cities to drink craft beer. And
that is according to Craft Beer and Brewing, another magazine
that I don't think Trenton subscribes to, but dog on
it you should. And I want to thank our buddy
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Brad Williams, who not only does construction videos but is
a key part of our team and and takes all
sorts of photograph for us and all of that. He
discovered this craft beer in Brewing Olmaha.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
He is. He's so even bigger Fishonado than I as
a podcaster beers with Brad well.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, yeah, in addition to in addition to doing all
the creative work that he does on Gromha. But yeah,
so we came at number thirteen on best Cities for
Drinking craft Beer in twenty twenty five, and so that's
pretty impressive. And Lumen a Brewery a craft brewery here
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in Omaha at fourteen thirty three South thirteenth Street and
little Bohemia was named by that publication as one of
the best actual craft breweries in the country, so that's
really cool. Now, we also want to talk about another
list where Omaha shows up, and this is pretty exciting,
especially given that we've been hearing a lot about US
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losing college educated people to some other cities and the
state of Nebraska really falling behind when it comes to
being active in economic development. But we are still getting
some good signs here in Omaha. CNBC has a feature
that they call make It a lot of times, it's
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about careers and things like that, and on Friday they
published an article the top ten US cities for gen
Z workers. According to new report, six are in the Midwest.
Nice We're one of them, so they say, move over,
coastal hubs. Many of the best cities for gen Z
workers are located in the Midwest, according to a new
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report from Checker, a human resources technology company. They used
US Census Bureau data as well as data from the
Bureau of Economic Analysis to figure out where gen Z
workers want to go according to three metrics, employment, affordability,
and social life. Number one in America. Madison, Wisconsin, the
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home of the University of Wisconsin. Number two in America Minneapolis.
It's one of the bigger Midwestern cities, but it's a
very cold place, but has Minneapolis has a lot of
cool stuff going for it. Three not very far away,
des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Interesting. Number four ladies and gentlemen, drum roll.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
If we had the sound effect Omaha, Nebraska, and it says,
Omaha blends that Midwestern charm with pretty real economic momentum.
Gen Z workers can find ample jobs in the insurance, finance,
and education sectors, as well as a small startup ecosystem.
And then it says, notably legendary investor Warren Buffett calls
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Omaha home. Not that Warren Buffett is anywhere close to
being a gen Z worker, but he is a hard worker.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Nonetheless.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Then the rest of the top ten, in case you're curious, Nashville, Tennessee.
Saint Louis, Missouri surprised me, but it says the reason
for that is affordability. Number seven Austin Tech. Just no
surprise there. Number eight Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee's been getting a
lot of love lately. Number nine Salt Lake City. That
doesn't surprise me. That's been booming. And then the biggest
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metro on the list, number ten Boston, of course, Boston
being the world epicenter for higher education.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
You and I are talking to our friend, attorney Scott
Myerson the other day and we're talking about doing business
in Brokeridge. We do business with people from all over
the country, and lawyers do the same thing. And what's
interesting is sometimes we're underestimated. It's the Nebraska nice thing,
Midwest and nice, but they soon realize that we're sophisticated
and we know what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
All right, We're going to break for our Perkins Chritzer
Construction Lightning Round, and we are looking at the list.
There's a lot on there, so we'll be back in
just a moment. Right here on news Radio eleven ten,
okfab It's the Perkins chrits Aer Construction Lightning Round, in
which we talk about a lot of things super fast.
Thanks to Perkins Kritzer Construction for making this possible. Are
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an outstanding full class general a a rather full service
class a general contractor hare in Omaha, working all over
Nebraska and Western Iowa. Dave Kreutzer and his team do
an outstanding job. In fact, we've got a couple of
Perkins Kreutzer construction projects to start off with here today.
One of them is Image Studios, plans to open right
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in the heart of La Vista's city center. It'll be
salon suites for individual independent beauty professionals. Buildout has started
five thousand square feet open at the end of the year.
And another Perkins Kreutzer construction project to tell you they
are building out space for Cone Asukar Cafe. This is
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a California based coffee chain that will open early next
year two thousand square foot space at Stockyards Plaza near
thirty third and L Street. The local franchisees of Cone
Asukar caf also own the East La del Mar restaurants
and are in the process of opening Lachime, which we
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reported on last week and ice Cream Shop, also in
Stockyards Plaza, also built by Perkins Kreutzer Construction. By the way,
Kona Sukar Cafe has existing locations in the Old Market
and inside the East Law del Mar near on hundred
thirty second and Center. Okay, so what's on the docket
other than those two things? Trenton, We've got the Zeos
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that is currently operating at one hundred and eighty first
in center. Looks like it's going to close in about
a month and it will be replaced with Don and Milli's.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah, it's a great space and it's neat to see
Don and Millie's expanding.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, so we don't know when the opening area or
opening date would be for Don and Millie's, but they
have several existing Omaha area locations. Classe Codigo, Cochina and
Tequila opened Saturday thirty three fifty South one hundred and
forty third Plaza near Oakview Mall. You may remember that
building as an Applebee's. It does not look like a
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former Applebee's. I had lunch there this week. Is really good,
by the way, they have completely renovated it, so when
you go to class A Cody Go, you don't feel
like you're in an Apple It's actually upscale Mexican. They
have like table side guacamole service, really good stuff. I
enjoyed being there and they are open every day, open
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to nine thirty on weekdays and ten pm on Fridays
and Saturdays. Then we have a ribbon cutting scheduled for
December seventeenth to celebrate seven Brew Coffees new drive through
one hundred and eighty second and Maple Trenton. This place
is based out of Arkansas. They've got locations in like
seven different Nebraska towns, finally making it till one popular.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Everybody talks about that in Dutch Brothers.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Yeah, now, don't just because you heard that word Dutch Brothers,
we are not reporting that they are coming till all right.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Now, that's the response I get when we tell people
seven Brew is coming.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
My God, as soon as you said that name, I'm
afraid about eight or nine different cars swerved off the
freeway they were so excited. Seven Brew is coming, not
Dutch Brothers. When Dutch Brothers come someday, though, we will
definitely let you absolutely A place that is not quite
as popular as Dutch Brothers, but probably still pretty good.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
It's Church's Texas Chicken.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
They just opened their second location twenty three to ten
North ninetieth Street, where a former Godfather's building once stood.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Operator also at one hundred and sixty eighth in West
Maple Road. And you know, I have still not been
in there.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
A couple times I went when they were brand new,
and they were so busy, and I was like, ah,
I don't want to wait and then I don't get
to that area very often, but I need to try it.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You and I were both back in the day.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We would love the Popeyes, but a church is pretty
darn good, if from what I've heard. So if you
live near the Coventry neighborhood, be happy if you like burgers,
because Freddie's Frozen Custard and Steake Burgers has a building
permit for the northwest corner of two hundred and fourth
in Harrison Street, three thousand score foots freestanding building with
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a drive through, pretty much like every other one. And finally,
we've got a Golf Galaxy store going through build out
in the former Bye Bye Baby space at l Street Marketplace,
so that should be open probably early next year. I'd
estimate music's playing, which means that we are done. Hope
everyone has a great week. I'm Jeff Bils and I'm
Trent and Maggot. You've been listening to Grow Omaha, brought
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, and welcome to the show. Jeff Bial's here
at your service. We are the only show in the
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really anything related to Omaha becoming bigger, more vibrant, and
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And without any further ado, it's time to bring on
my co host, a legendary real estate deal maker from
nai NP Dodge Commercial Real Estate, Trenton Maggot.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning Joe, Good morning Trenton.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm in a really good mood today because we have
a brand new Brad Williams construction video on the website
and ready for people to view. Brad does several of
these a year. They're sponsored by Boyd Jones Construction and
he just goes through and gives a kind of an
update and a pictorial update on a wide variety of projects.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
But this one is different. Ladies and gentlemen, I gotta say,
hands down and Brad Williams. You've seen his still photography,
you've seen his nature photography, you've seen his buildings, the tower,
downtown everything, and he's our go to guy. And he
got up in a helicopter, so he's mixing still photographs, videos,
aerial shots. And go to groamha dot com check out
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the construction videos and kudos to Brad Williams and you
may see your project in there.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
When you go to Girlmaha dot com. On the navigation bar,
you will see shows. Click on shows, the drop down
window pops up and just go down to construction update
and you can see that and all of the videos
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Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
First up on the news this week, the Omaha Public
Library did an unveiling of the Central Library. It's not
going to be open until April twenty ninth, but Brad
Williams and I were there on Thursday and we walked around,
saw all five levels, yes count them, five levels of
that thing, and took a lot of photographs. In fact,
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you can see those photographs in one of our stories
that is on grow Omaha dot com. Headline is one
hundred and fifty million dollars. Central Library scheduled to open
April nineteenth. Yeah, it's nineteenth, but Trenton. I tell you,
this ninety six thousand square foot building looks a hell
of a lot bigger on the inside than it does
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on the outside.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Absolutely, and there's different levels in there too. And I
really want to see the Amazon technology or whatever it
is to pick these books.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, in fact, we saw that and we photographed that, well,
Brad photographed it. I held a glass of wine while
he was photographing things. But it is amazing. It goes
the entire vertical length of the library.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It is shocking.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And it's got this robotic contraption that will go up
and down and they have countless numbers of metal boxes
that will store all sorts of books, files, photographs, whatever
the case may be. And it is believed by Heritage Systems,
which is making this project come together, that it will
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be the first public library in the country to utilize
this automated storage and retrieval system. It is a multi story,
climate controlled it can store more than six hundred thousand
printed materials.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That's incredible. And I see this as really a meeting place,
and especially when Crossroads really gets going the next few years,
that corner people are just going to go hang out
and meet and Initially they're going to be wanted to
see what the heck this thing is all about. Not
everybody's going to want to go in there and read
a book, but they're going to be an awe of
the structure and the amenities. The Zen Coffee shop there,
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and it's really something to check out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So when we were there for the preview, the Zen
Coffee Shop building, if you will, it feels like it's
its own little building inside the library.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It was there.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's not up and running yet because they don't open
until from nineteenth, but it just looks cool. The finishes
are high quality, and it's you if you hear that
a city is building one hundred and fifty eight million
dollar library, you think, oh, it's going to be a
pretty special place.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's a very very special place. And it's a lot
different than our library is from college and back in
the day. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
When I think of the library from college, I just
think of rows and rows and rows of scholarly journals
and you had to use the card catalog because there
was a system Doe Decimal was more like at the
grade school and high school levels. The university libraries used
the Library of Congress system.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, I wonder if they're gonna get like a cent,
you know, kind of hotels get a really nice flower scent.
I wonder if they're going to bottle like old library
musk and that pump it into this one hundred and
fifty eight million dollar library. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know, now that I don't have to study anymore
for school, I'll actually love Vietman libraries all right. Creighton
University recently broke ground on one of the main components
of its three hundred million dollars Fly Together initiative. The
University of starting construction on a fifty thousand square foot
sports Performance Center that's going to be kind of the
heart and soul of this new let It Fly. Let
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It Fly is a sports bar Fly Together initiative. The
Sports Performance Center will be a twentieth in Bert Street,
ten thousand square foot strength and conditioning area, a dining
hall for athletes, additional spaces for sports medicine, student advising,
and counseling services. The center is just west of the
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Ruth Scott Training Center, so it'll be on the If
you're familiar with the campus area, the southeast corner of
twentieth and Bert looks like it should be completed in
twenty twenty seven. Creighton University is in Fuego. I mean,
they're just going crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well this fly together. I remember when Morrison Stadium went up,
the soccer field and stadium, we thought that was exciting.
But when you've got multiple developers doing the the Builders
District and another three hundred million dollars at creating on
top of everything else they've done to make it walkable
and to have the services and to have the meeting places.
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And we went to a conference on Thursday and they
everything at this commercial real estate conference was about connections
and connecting not just people, but connecting places, and that's
what they're doing a great job of over there.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, yeah, speaking of connecting, Creighton University and the Builder's
District are going to eventually blend together, and it almost
kind of feel like it's all just one big development.
By the way, Builders District has a very impressive parking
garage that's under construction now between fifteenth and sixteenth south
of California, So you're going to see more activity there
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and it's not that many years before. Like I say,
Creighton and the Builders District and Millwork Commons all seem
like one big, one.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Big, absolutely, and we've talked about this before, but the
different the Capital District, developers and Builders District and Millwork
Commons which is also getting a parking garage. All these
developers are talking to each other and not just doing
the same thing, but figuring out how they can compliment
each other. So you have like a cohesive area.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well just south of Creaton University and the builder's district
is what we call the urban core and the streetcar
influence district. And we found out that the mystery organization
behind the forty million dollar bond purchase that will accelerate
our ability to build affordable housing in the urban core.
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We found out that is the Logier Foundation, which has
done so much amazing work in Omaha. They have agreed
to purchase forty million dollars in housing bonds from the
City of Omaha to jumpstart the affordable housing piece of
the Streetcar and urban Core revitalization effort. Recall, and we've
talked about this a lot on the show, that the
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streetcar is being funded by taking a portion of the
real estate developers tax increment financing. The amount of development
that would spur that has always been projected to be
way more than what the streetcar would cost, and it's
already way, way way ahead of schedule. And so the
thought was, as soon as the streetcar is covered for
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its costs, the remainder would be used to enhance and
increase affordable housing in the urban core, and that was
always part of the project. But Mayor Ewing announced a
few months ago that there was this mystery organization that
was partner with the city that was going to buy
them early and we found out that that's the Low
Year Foundation, and that's because they're named in a proposed
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city ordnance that will have its first reading coming up
here this next week that authorizes the sale of the
low interest bonds and Trenton's just in case people are
wondering how this works. After this is almost surely approved
in early December, that money will then go to Front
Porch Investments, which would receive the proceeds from the bonds
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and then use it to help builders construct and estimated
one thousand, nine hundred living units of various kind in
the core, which we desperately need.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Which everybody talks about we need more affordable housing. Well,
this is a great shot in the arm for that
and kudos to Diane Lozier, the late Alan Lozier and
their team. And when you talk to people about where
are the best charities, especially for north Omaha, where their
business is located, it's everybody says Lozier Foundation. Yeah, there's
plenty of others, but they really have put their money
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where their mouth is, and we thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And Lozier Foundation is famously quiet, famously modest, and humble
and anonymous in many many cases, and so for them
to be recognized as the organization behind this, this is
the largest investment in the Lozier Foundation's history might not
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be the most comfortable thing for them, but they deserve
to be thanked and appreciated for the great work that
they have done and continue to.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You don't care what anybody says, but forty million dollars
is still a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, seems like a lot of money to me. Maybe
not to you so much, but certainly to me.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
It is all right.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Our last story is another big one. Boystown has announced
that it will expand its National Research Hospital. This is
the sprawling, one story facility northeast of one hundred and
forty fourth in Pacific around the southwest corner of the
Boystown main campus going to do a three hundred million
dollar expansion. This will total more than a quarter million
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square feet and it will consist of two four story
wings that will kind of jut out from the southwest
and southeast corners of the existing one story building. This
will allow for one hundred and thirty one thousand score
feet of edition hospital space for acute care, imaging, and
in patient rooms, plus one hundred and twenty three thousand
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square feet of dedicated research labs and clinics. They'll also
have an on site cafe. And you know, Boystown is
already doing amazing things Trenton, but this will this is
over the top. I mean, Boystown is going to go
from being a great organization helping kids in so many
ways to an even more amazing one.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I used to live right down the street. On me
for a drive over there, and to see that thing
get built. It just keeps going and going, and then
all of a sudden they're going to go go vertical.
It is truly amazing. And the amount of what do
you think of all the medical of all the construction
going on in Omaha right now, how much of it
is medical? It seems like fifteen to twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
The percentage would be a lot, especially if you count
the two point two billion dollar UNMC hospital that's just
getting started, so it's a lot more.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It might be more than twenty. And there's a lot
of Mexican restaurants being put together right now.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
And car washers, Yeah, we get a lot of complaints
about that at girl maaha dot com, people like why
are they building so many car washers? Like they're mad
at us, folks. We've never built a single car wash
in our lives and I've sold a lot of to
Tommy's Express, But.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
How many of you built? Not a lot, So it's
not your fault, but it is a liquid business.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And with that, we want to also mention that one
last thing about that Boystown National Research Hospital. They were
founded in nineteen seventy seven, so it's not a terribly
old organization. For this three hundred million dollar expansion, fundraising
efforts were kicked off by a transformational donation by the
Ryan Family Foundation, Kudos to them, and opening is scheduled
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for twenty twenty seven, so not that far away. And
that is your News of the Week, which is brought
to you by Eagle Mortgage Eagle Mortgage Company dot Com.
When we come back, we're going to have a business highlight,
a business feature viewl we will have with us Mike
Corrigan and Katie Henry from Access Bank, SUS Bank, one
of our newest sponsors here on gro Omaha Media. We're
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so happy to have them with us, and you're going
to love hearing about this homegrown bank and the amazing
things that they're doing.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Stay with us.
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we have a business feature segment today with us from
Access Bank, our Mike Corrigan, Senior vice president and Katie Henry,
executive vice president of Consumer Banking.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Katie and Mike, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Thank you so much for having you.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We appreciate you guys being here.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And you are one of the newest grow Omaha sponsors
on gromaha dot com. And uh, we appreciate your your
commitment to supporting local journalism.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Mike Gromaha, So thanks for being part of our community.
And I want to say that you guys passed the
background check with flying colors.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
That's good to hear.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Wasn't even close. Yeah, it was even close. Not even
a question.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, pretty much, no question. So let's talk a little
bit about the bank. We always like to start with
the thirty thousand foot overview. What is the bank, what's
its origin, and what makes it special?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yeah. So Access Bank was founded back in two thousand
and seven.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
A group of local bankers here in Omaha decided, just
like any entrepreneur, that hey, we can we can maybe
do this a little better than the big boys. So
they put their heads together and unlike a lot of banks,
they actually went out to market and sought out local
investors to invest in start starting Access Bank. So money
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was raised in December of seven. Access Bank started with
the goal of being Omaha's super community bank, you know,
a bank that's local, that helps local families and businesses
and just kind of a powerhouse that can out hustle
some of the bigger folks. And you know, fast forward
to now we're creeping up on twenty years in the
Omaha market.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
We've got six.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Locations, we're at about one hundred and twenty five employees. Again,
we're shareholder owned, so there's not some big East West
Coast bank that owns us. It's we pride ourselves on local,
quick decision making for the local families and business owners
here in Omah in the.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Metro and Access Bank that the services kind of a
rundown of the services.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yeah, So we first off started as primarily a commercial bank,
but we quickly realized that Omaha needs the broader needs
of the consumer and commercial needs.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So we will do pretty much anything.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I'd say our primary focus is the commercial side, both
in the commercial industrial and the real estate space. And
then when again we quickly realize that the consumer needs
were there as well, So we'll do everything from auto loans,
the home equity lines of credit, to mortgage loans and
any type of commercial.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Loan, and then the consumer loans, Katie. The consumer loans
is also known as retail banking, right, that's what you head.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Up, Yep, that's exactly where I sit. So we spend
a lot of time working with our customers, you know,
answering questions right now about refinances in the mortgage world,
or we're talking a lot about high yield checkings and savings.
Families are really looking to put their dollars to work
and maximize savings and highest yieled possible. So we spend
a lot of time working with families and really listening
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and making sure we're putting them in the right products
and solutions to fit their needs.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Also have real commercial real estate loans, which is headed
up by.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Yeah We dan Ertz is the head of our commercial
real estate department, and he's got a team of great
qualified folks that will review and and and lend out
on the commercial real estate space.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It seems like it's a great time to have a
bank that is right size, meaning it's not one of
the huge banks that seemed to be coming into Omaha,
but someone that you you know your banker and there's
a comfort level and you probably hear that a lot.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yes, Katie and I were both going to talk at
the same time because that's that's huge. And again that's
the preface of why Access Bank was started. I mean,
the relationship side to us banking is it's it's difficult
to be transactional in banking. We pride ourselves a big
time on the relationship side of the banking space. So, yeah,
you're trying near exactly right. We're at that sweet spot
(18:55):
where we can perform the big bank, big bank deals,
but we have that small bank personal touch and relationship aspect.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So we say, guys, we have six locations for Access Bank.
Where's the headquarters and where are some of these branches located?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Sure, so our headquarters is located at eighty seventh and Dodge,
and then we have pockets of the city where we
have presence as well. So we're in La Vista, We've
got one branch out at Oak Vie Mall one near
Village Point. We've got one at Xarbone, which is kind
of our newest location. And then we've actually our our
sixth location is actually at Center Mall, and we launched
what we call access Point, which is our video banking service,
(19:38):
So clients can go visit the upstairs of Center Mall
and they just have to push a button and they
can talk to a banker Monday through Friday and Saturdays
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We love Center Mall. Actually at ai NP Dodge, we
take care of that building. Cool peace Omaha history.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So, Katie Henry, give us an idea. I always thought
that now now I can deposit online, you can move
money from account to account, there's a lot of things
you can do on your phone. And then you start
seeing these free standing banks and these endcap banks. It
sounds like they're not going away. Why is that?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Yeah, So I would tell you that this is where
I think community banks really stand apart from the competition.
So we understand the need to continue to develop digitally
and really be able to meet our clients where they're at.
But we also understand that when a customer needs us,
they also want to come in and be able to
visit with us. Generationally, when you're starting to look at
these younger generations come up, they're going to need home loans,
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they're going to need that personalized service sing with a
business that's starting out. Very rarely do you not want
to meet us in person, and so we believe that's
where Community Bank has a really strong feature, because we
can really still continue to meet people digitally, but we'll
also be there and ready for them when they need us.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We're talking with Mike Corrigan and Katie Henry from Access Bank,
founded in two thousand and seven here at Omaha and
really has grown to be a big part of our
business community as a community bank, and I would like
to ask you guys, what makes Access Bank different or
special compared to other banks out there.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Good question, Thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
You know, I think we really put an investment in
our team and our employees, which I think then folds
out into the performance that we do for our customers.
But we've really focused on giving back to the community.
Almost all employees are on some sort of nonprofit board.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
They serve back to the.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Local community that they that they live in. In addition
to that, we've done some really neat things with some
internal products and projects at the bank where we will
let an employee pick a certain nonprofit or a certain
something to donate towards, and so each employee gets gifted
(21:55):
some money to go ahead and put those dollars back
towards projects that are near and dear their heart. And
again we just think that culturally that's huge to invest
in the employees because then that has a ripple effect
towards our customers and clients, both on the consumer and
the commercial side.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Obviously, one of the biggest changing in the world is
AI and everybody talks about that, but also when it
comes to technology and banking, how do you embrace that
and how does it change Access Bank.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
So actually, what we're looking at and we're building for
the future and preparing for is really trying to meet
our clients where they're at. We're calling it, or we've
dubbed it the omni channel experience or the omni channel approach,
which is really trying to evolve and become that financial
institution of the future.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
So how do we.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Continue to deliver our products and services in the way
customers have come to expect as well as continue to
meet them digitally. So again, it's through chat, it's through text,
it's through other means that people are wanting to engage
with us. So we're going to continue to evolve, and
that's some of the investment that we've made as we
gear up for the future, opening accounts online, all of
those good things that people have really become accustomed to.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
One last question for Katie Henry and Mike Corrigan from
Access Bank. You guys, as you as you look to
the future, you're you're about ready to hit your twentieth
anniversary here in a couple of years. As you look
to the future, where's where's Access Bank going and what
will the future bring?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
That's a great question.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
You know, our commitment has always been the Omaha metro market.
You know, I don't believe that we have any large
dreams or desires to grow much further out of market.
We really want to just make sure that again we
stay true to us being the Omaha super community bank.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
That was why we were founded, and.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
We will, like Katie say, we'll continue to invest in
research and technology and figure out what is the right
moves for us to continue to serve the people of Omaha.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
All right, Well, we really appreciate both of you joining
us this morning. Like I said earlier, thanks for being
one of our very important sponsors in gro Omaha Media
on the gromha dot com website.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
And appreciate you guys being here.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Thanks so much for having us. We're really grateful for
the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That's Katie Henry, executive vice president of Consumer Banking and
Mike Corgan, Senior vice president Commercial Relationship Banking with Access
Bank here in Omaha.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
And that is your.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Business spotlight for this week. We've got another spotlight, the
commercial real estate Spotlight by Novel Companies coming up after
the break, and we're also going to talk about Omaha
might be one of the best places to drink craft
beer in America. We'll explain that in a moment, so
stay with us. Going to break for the news in
the weather. You're listening to Grow Omaha brought to you
(24:36):
by Dingman's Collision Center, Cheer Athletics, and we'll be back
in a moment on news Radio eleven ten kfab and
welcome back to the show. Growmaha is brought to you
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go to Dingman's, you are treated like royalty. They communicate
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they're just very good about everything. Trent and I have
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or you know, yeah, you had one where someone ran
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and they were in the other lane and they just
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(25:41):
an amazing job of making it seem like it never
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making all of this possible. All right, it is time
for your commercial real estate development Spotlight of the Week,
which is brought to you by not all companies, not
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(26:02):
not a company's office just recently moved to the brand
new five story mass timber building at fifteen oh one
Mike Fahi Drive. So that's really close to like just
a little bit west of Charles schwab Field, one block
south of Keewitz World Headquarters, which not All Company's built
(26:25):
but anyway, so not All Companies has moved into this
building in the Builders District, so they're right there where
so much of the action is taking place. Of course,
Builders District is one of Nodel Companies project. Another not
All Companies project that you may have heard of is
called Xarbon Village, and we are happy to say that
renovations are underway inside the former Jones Bros. Cupcakes space
(26:50):
at Xarbon Village. The exact address is twenty one twenty
one South sixty seventh Street. Nothing's been announced, but according
to a City of Omaha building per the new tenant
will be a breakfast restaurant known as Breakfast Club Omaha.
So keep your eyes and ears open about that. And
as a guy Trenton who is a huge aficionado of
(27:13):
going out to breakfast, I can't wait for another breakfast place.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Well, I believe they also have pretty much a full
bar and they have some exotic drinks and breakfast and
lunch and it's it's a it'll be a great place
to try. So you seem to know something about this
if you look online, you look at their menu. You
got a couple of locations in the Des Moin area
Des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I think they're from there. And then someone made a
post on one of our on our Facebook announcement about
is this the same place as Des Moines and Minneapolis?
So who knows, maybe they're up there too, But yeah,
because I poked around too and I found one in
Des Moine, I when I assume that is the one
that is going to x Arbon Village and that is
(27:54):
your Not All Companies Commercial real Estate Development Spotlight of
the Week. Thank you to Not All Companies for being
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Speaker 3 (28:04):
Well, I tell you what, I've.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Got a lot of weaknesses in my life, and one
of my weaknesses is craft beer. I just love a
good beer. I love high quality beers. My cousin John
and I a couple of nights go into wrath Scaler
and we had a couple of German beers and my gosh,
it was so good.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
And I am not that.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's really a craft beer because a lot of that
comes from from Europe that they have at Wrathskeller.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Good place, by the way, But.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'm really excited to share with you that Omaha is
one of the best cities to drink craft beer. And
that is according to Craft Beer and Brewing, another magazine
that I don't think Trenton subscribes to, but dog on
it you should. And I want to thank our buddy
(28:52):
Brad Williams, who not only does construction videos but is
a key part of our team and and takes all
sorts of photograph for us and all of that. He
discovered this craft beer in Brewing Olmaha.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
He is. He's so even bigger Fishonado than I as
a podcaster beers with Brad well.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, yeah, in addition to in addition to doing all
the creative work that he does on Gromha. But yeah,
so we came at number thirteen on best Cities for
Drinking craft Beer in twenty twenty five, and so that's
pretty impressive. And Lumen a Brewery a craft brewery here
(29:33):
in Omaha at fourteen thirty three South thirteenth Street and
little Bohemia was named by that publication as one of
the best actual craft breweries in the country, so that's
really cool. Now, we also want to talk about another
list where Omaha shows up, and this is pretty exciting,
especially given that we've been hearing a lot about US
(29:55):
losing college educated people to some other cities and the
state of Nebraska really falling behind when it comes to
being active in economic development. But we are still getting
some good signs here in Omaha. CNBC has a feature
that they call make It a lot of times, it's
(30:15):
about careers and things like that, and on Friday they
published an article the top ten US cities for gen
Z workers. According to new report, six are in the Midwest.
Nice We're one of them, so they say, move over,
coastal hubs. Many of the best cities for gen Z
workers are located in the Midwest, according to a new
(30:36):
report from Checker, a human resources technology company. They used
US Census Bureau data as well as data from the
Bureau of Economic Analysis to figure out where gen Z
workers want to go according to three metrics, employment, affordability,
and social life. Number one in America. Madison, Wisconsin, the
(31:00):
home of the University of Wisconsin. Number two in America Minneapolis.
It's one of the bigger Midwestern cities, but it's a
very cold place, but has Minneapolis has a lot of
cool stuff going for it. Three not very far away,
des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Interesting. Number four ladies and gentlemen, drum roll.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
If we had the sound effect Omaha, Nebraska, and it says,
Omaha blends that Midwestern charm with pretty real economic momentum.
Gen Z workers can find ample jobs in the insurance, finance,
and education sectors, as well as a small startup ecosystem.
And then it says, notably legendary investor Warren Buffett calls
(31:41):
Omaha home. Not that Warren Buffett is anywhere close to
being a gen Z worker, but he is a hard worker.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Nonetheless.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Then the rest of the top ten, in case you're curious, Nashville, Tennessee.
Saint Louis, Missouri surprised me, but it says the reason
for that is affordability. Number seven Austin Tech. Just no
surprise there. Number eight Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee's been getting a
lot of love lately. Number nine Salt Lake City. That
doesn't surprise me. That's been booming. And then the biggest
(32:10):
metro on the list, number ten Boston, of course, Boston
being the world epicenter for higher education.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
You and I are talking to our friend, attorney Scott
Myerson the other day and we're talking about doing business
in Brokeridge. We do business with people from all over
the country, and lawyers do the same thing. And what's
interesting is sometimes we're underestimated. It's the Nebraska nice thing,
Midwest and nice, but they soon realize that we're sophisticated
and we know what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
All right, We're going to break for our Perkins Chritzer
Construction Lightning Round, and we are looking at the list.
There's a lot on there, so we'll be back in
just a moment. Right here on news Radio eleven ten,
okfab It's the Perkins chrits Aer Construction Lightning Round, in
which we talk about a lot of things super fast.
Thanks to Perkins Kritzer Construction for making this possible. Are
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an outstanding full class general a a rather full service
class a general contractor hare in Omaha, working all over
Nebraska and Western Iowa. Dave Kreutzer and his team do
an outstanding job. In fact, we've got a couple of
Perkins Kreutzer construction projects to start off with here today.
One of them is Image Studios, plans to open right
(33:24):
in the heart of La Vista's city center. It'll be
salon suites for individual independent beauty professionals. Buildout has started
five thousand square feet open at the end of the year.
And another Perkins Kreutzer construction project to tell you they
are building out space for Cone Asukar Cafe. This is
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a California based coffee chain that will open early next
year two thousand square foot space at Stockyards Plaza near
thirty third and L Street. The local franchisees of Cone
Asukar caf also own the East La del Mar restaurants
and are in the process of opening Lachime, which we
(34:07):
reported on last week and ice Cream Shop, also in
Stockyards Plaza, also built by Perkins Kreutzer Construction. By the way,
Kona Sukar Cafe has existing locations in the Old Market
and inside the East Law del Mar near on hundred
thirty second and Center. Okay, so what's on the docket
other than those two things? Trenton, We've got the Zeos
(34:30):
that is currently operating at one hundred and eighty first
in center. Looks like it's going to close in about
a month and it will be replaced with Don and Milli's.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah, it's a great space and it's neat to see
Don and Millie's expanding.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, so we don't know when the opening area or
opening date would be for Don and Millie's, but they
have several existing Omaha area locations. Classe Codigo, Cochina and
Tequila opened Saturday thirty three fifty South one hundred and
forty third Plaza near Oakview Mall. You may remember that
building as an Applebee's. It does not look like a
(35:09):
former Applebee's. I had lunch there this week. Is really good,
by the way, they have completely renovated it, so when
you go to class A Cody Go, you don't feel
like you're in an Apple It's actually upscale Mexican. They
have like table side guacamole service, really good stuff. I
enjoyed being there and they are open every day, open
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to nine thirty on weekdays and ten pm on Fridays
and Saturdays. Then we have a ribbon cutting scheduled for
December seventeenth to celebrate seven Brew Coffees new drive through
one hundred and eighty second and Maple Trenton. This place
is based out of Arkansas. They've got locations in like
seven different Nebraska towns, finally making it till one popular.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Everybody talks about that in Dutch Brothers.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Yeah, now, don't just because you heard that word Dutch Brothers,
we are not reporting that they are coming till all right.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Now, that's the response I get when we tell people
seven Brew is coming.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
My God, as soon as you said that name, I'm
afraid about eight or nine different cars swerved off the
freeway they were so excited. Seven Brew is coming, not
Dutch Brothers. When Dutch Brothers come someday, though, we will
definitely let you absolutely A place that is not quite
as popular as Dutch Brothers, but probably still pretty good.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
It's Church's Texas Chicken.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
They just opened their second location twenty three to ten
North ninetieth Street, where a former Godfather's building once stood.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Operator also at one hundred and sixty eighth in West
Maple Road. And you know, I have still not been
in there.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
A couple times I went when they were brand new,
and they were so busy, and I was like, ah,
I don't want to wait and then I don't get
to that area very often, but I need to try it.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
You and I were both back in the day.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We would love the Popeyes, but a church is pretty
darn good, if from what I've heard. So if you
live near the Coventry neighborhood, be happy if you like burgers,
because Freddie's Frozen Custard and Steake Burgers has a building
permit for the northwest corner of two hundred and fourth
in Harrison Street, three thousand score foots freestanding building with
(37:12):
a drive through, pretty much like every other one. And finally,
we've got a Golf Galaxy store going through build out
in the former Bye Bye Baby space at l Street Marketplace,
so that should be open probably early next year. I'd
estimate music's playing, which means that we are done. Hope
everyone has a great week. I'm Jeff Bils and I'm
Trent and Maggot. You've been listening to Grow Omaha, brought
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to you by Dingman's Collision Center, Cheer Athletics and Perkins
Kreutzer Construction. We'll chat with you next week in nine
right here on Nebraska superstation news Radio eleven ten KFAB
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