Grow Omaha 11-8-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Grow Omaha, the only radio show that talks
about economic development, construction, business expansion, and all of those
things that make Omaha a great place to live or visit.
Grow Omaha on News Radio eleven ten Ka Baby.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, good morning, and welcome to the show. Jeff beials
here at your service. Glad you've joined us. You won't
find another show in the metro area that talks about
what we discuss, and that is the growth and development
of your favorite city. We do a lot of real
estate development, construction, new businesses. We're also kind of famous
for talking about new restaurant and retail businesses. We're going

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to do all of that today. It'll be a busy show.
As always. We want to thank our title sponsors. They
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Without any further ado, it's time to bring on my
co host, a legendary real estate deal maker from Ina

(01:00):
NP Dodge Commercial real Estate, Trenton Maggot.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Good morning everyone, Good morning, mister Veal's.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, good morning Trenton I'm very excited today because we
have a grow Omaha Eats restaurant review by Chris Corey,
sponsored by All Makes. All Makes, of course, the legendary
office equipment, office furniture retailer that is located near twenty
fifth and Farnham, also locations in a lot of surrounding cities,

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like they have one in Lincoln, a relatively new one
they opened in Lincoln, but Trenton. The restaurant to be
reviewed this week is not so much a restaurant as
it is a cocktail bar. Chris looked at Inkwell in
Countryside Village.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Very unique place and it's popular, and they've got an
affiliation with ACX Theaters too.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yes, similar ownership or at least the ACX Theater ownership
of our partners in Inkwell, and nice little place. It's
right there in Countryside Village, very close to Timber And
in fact, I think Chris said in the review that
after enjoying a little bit of ink Well, they decided
to go I'm not going to say sober up, but

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maybe have a nice meal at Timber after going to
in quell a bad idea. You can read that review
and all of Chris's reviews about a wide variety of
Omaha restaurants. Simply by going to grow Omaha dot com,
click on reviews on the navigation bar, and then there's
a drop down. You have two choices there, eats and flicks.
Eats would be restaurants, flicks would be movies, and you

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can see them all there. And thank you to all
Makes office equipment and furniture for making grow Omaha Eats
restaurant reviews possible. All right, let's go into our News
of the week. We have a lot of things on
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Speaker 4 (03:46):
First up on the news today.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
A bit of surprising news and a bit of bad news,
but Omaha Children's Museum announced that it will not be
building a four story, more than one hundred million dollar
building to where it would relocate the building at eighth
and Douglas Street. Came as a big surprise to a
lot of people. It was right about a year ago

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when they announced that they planned to be doing that.
They also released an architectural rendering at the time that
was very impressive.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
World renowned architect Yeah, same.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Firm that designed the expansion of Joslyn's Noetta. I think there.
I don't know if I pronounced that properly. If I didn't,
I apologize, But it took a lot of people by surprise.
And they're they basically are not saying they never will,
but they're saying the time is not right now.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I think they've had some administration changes as well, which
probably did not help that equation. But they will do it,
and they'll do it right when the time is right.
I wouldn't be surprised if they just chose another location,
because that's kind of a tight location where they're talking
about it.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's got to be challenging now they have. I'd done
a lot of sewer and underground work to get the
site ready for that children's museum, and we'd been hearing
rumors for the last few weeks that it was either
going to be a no go or possibly move somewhere,
and we now know that to be confirmed. We're going
to keep our eye on it. The current location is

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at five hundred South twentieth Street. Press release yesterday said
for the time being, that's where they will continue to operate,
but the new one was to have started going vertical
within the next several months. Opening was scheduled for twenty
twenty seven. Now, you may recall this was in conjunction

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with a seventeen story multifamily building called The Beam. It
being developed by New Style Development, which is famous for
doing so many amazing multifamily projects in downtown Omaha. We
don't know for one hundred percent what the plan is
for the Beam. We're trying to get that confirmation. We

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have some intel that's saying it's still a go and
we'll still be there, but we were waiting to confirm
that with New Style, and when we do that will
definitely post a brief on gromaha dot com.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
That'd be a seventy story apartment complex ground up next
to a parking garage, right yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
And the other thing is, well, it was going to
have a parking garadge incorporated into it, and then there
was to be a city owned parking garage directly north
of the Children's museum. That is another thing we're trying
to confirm. We don't know if that city parking garage
that is to be north of the now not happening
Children's Museum is still ago. We're trying to find that

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out as well. But Yeah, a lot of moving parts.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
In that area.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
One thing we can tell you about construction in that
general area is that steel beams have gone vertical on
the future streetcar vehicle maintenance facility right in that same area.
It is in the shadow of Interstate for eighty, immediate
north of it, kind of on the south part of
Lot A of the Chi Center, directly west of the

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Keywitt Luminarium or west of the railroad tracks that are
west of the Kiwait Luminarium. That is going vertical and
and on target. We also know that when the rails
start to go into the concrete for the streetcar next year,
we believe that the first rails that will probably be

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installed will be in that general area around eighth Street.
You got to get the cars out of the barn
and and like get hay into the barn. If we're trying,
isn't that like a metaphor, if you're trying to get
a lot of things done, get more hay in the barn.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
At least to get the horses in there.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Get the street car in the barn. All right, So
that's the big opening story. You got some other news
that is a lot better than delayed or canceled museums
and the first piece of good news is Little Bohemia
plans moved forward quite a bit this week. The City
Council approved on a seven and to nothing vote, zoning

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change is necessary to build the forty million dollar Little
Bohemia redevelopment project, led by Clarity Development. This is a
big deal trend. It involves about ten buildings, either existing
ones or to be constructed ones. You and I have
looked over the renderings and it is absolutely amazing how

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they want to blend these buildings in and renovate some
of the historic ones. As the name Little Bohemia would suggest,
this was an area for many years where a lot
of immigrants from Eastern Europe settled, and so many Omahans
today can trace their roots back to Little Bohemia. It
kind of centers on and revolves around the intersection of

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thirteenth and William Street.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, it's really cool, though, not just to tear down
an entire neighborhood, but to take the buildings and keep
the same culture ambiyonce.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, the idea here is to truly make it more
of an urban, walkable neighborhood. And if you go through
this thirteenth and William Rray Right now, you'll see a
lot of cavities. Cavities are what I call surface parking
lots or places whether there's not a building or there's
a place where there's a very underwhelming building for the site. So,
like you said, Trent, and they're going to do a

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great job of preserving a lot, but then fill it
in and it's really going to create more of a
sense of place. And this is what's happening all over
our urban core and it's a great way to propel
a city forward for years to come and make the city,
you know, a walkable, sustainable place.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
And and kudo's call the developers, especially the urban core
developers that take the risks. You know, people say, well,
they're getting all this tax recrep of financing and historic
tax credits and stuff, but not everybody understands how that works.
And it's a heck of a lot better to reinvigorate these
neighborhoods than to let them sit and do a bunch

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of one off projects that aren't cohesive to the neighborhoods.
And if they make it walkable, next will come the
residential tenants and the commercial tenants, and you want that
mix so people can walk and get their groceries and
go to restaurants and things like that. And it'll be
another node that's just come to life when this thing
gets done.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
And we go from the near south side to traditional
South Omaha, and that is where a light industrial complex
is just getting underway, a light industrial project, i should
say getting underway. The exact address is twenty fifth and
Z Street Z as in Zebra. The Omaha Planning Board
this week approved tax increment financing for El Toro Plaza.

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This is a five acre redevelopment area on the southeast
corner of twenty fifth and Z. So if you're trying
to picture where exactly is that. If you're familiar with
the huge ups complexes on the west side of Kennedy Freeway,
it's just south of that. The site had been kind
of well an i sore for a lot of years,
but now developer plans to build thirty two thousand square

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foot light industrial building. They'll have some warehousing, office and
manufacturing space. Ten point three million dollar project and slated
to come online at the end of next year. But
love seeing things like this. We want more and more
of these types of job creating investments right in the
heart of Omaha.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Well, the developer sounds pretty bullish on this one. I
like what you did there. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
For people who don't know Spanish, toro is the word
for bull in the Spanish and Trent and I'm so
glad you remember at least one thing from Westside High
School Spanish class with Senorita Burgos, and it is that
El toro means the bull.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yes, I hope we're both right on that.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Okay, Now we are going to talk about Heartwood Preserve.
We're going to go way out west after being in
South though. Heartwood Preserve is the five hundred acre mixed
use development west of Boystown and we've had a lot
of people asking us on grollm HA, what is the
building under construction just west of Gunderson's Jewelry and thirty
Hop the restaurant. It is a two story office building

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and it will be a multi tenant building and we
now know the first tenant to be in this building.
It'll take just part of the building, but it's called
B Morton Interior Design. According to a city building permit,
they are moving from two hundred and fourth and Pacific
to this commercial building, and the exact address is the

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northeast corner of one hundred and forty seventh the Canopy Avenue.
The design company will take seventy five hundred feet. There's
room for a lot more, but Heartwood preserve Trent and
keep it just going hogwild crazy.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Absolutely, And there's still a lot of land to be developed,
and there's a lot of talk there's some really cool
apartments that broad Moore is doing. Backing up against Millard
North High School, there's going to be some When you
go south, you're going to see a lot of homes
for rent and things like that around to play it.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Underwriters, Yeah, that apartment building that you refer to just
North and miller North High School will have five hundred
and fifty units. That is quite an apartment building when
you drive by, it's pretty impressive. Just last week on
the show, we announced that Heartwood Place, four story Class
A building will be constructed immediately west of Valmont's global headquarters.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
And earlier this.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Year we announced that there would be a very nice
upscale condominium project south of that.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
So a lot of things happen.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Which will come online in twenty twenty eight. But it's
what three buildings.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
I believe, Yeah, the condo thing in twenty eight that
the office building t which I just referred would probably
be what twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, I would say, but you're also starting to see
the single family homes sprout up.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah. The the Heartwood Preserve also goes south of Pacific
and there are luxury single family houses there, but just
west of Miller North there's more of kind of a
They're still really nice and fairly big houses, but they're
more cottage style if you will.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Right and you see the landscape, I mean mature trees
being planted, which you're awesome.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, great, great development. Kudos to Applied Underwriters for making
that happen. Well Wood Framing is now underway on the
future Oxworth Apartments at twenty seventh and Levenworth Street Downtown.
This is another Clarity development project. They're planning a five story,
one hundred and ninety four unit apartment building on the
southeast corner of twenty seventh and Levenworth. The layout includes

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a whole variety of studio, one bedroom, two bedroom. They'll
have one hundred and twenty seven indoor parking stalls and
an existing building that has been preserved will actually have
another twelve indoor parking stalls completion plan for late twenty
twenty six. But another example of the explosive growth of

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multifamily buildings on the Levenworth corridor. They are a couple
more under construction and a couple more planned between downtown
and the med Center on eleven.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Orth here what we called Levenworth on in high school.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Eleven Worthless. Yeah, yeah, it has come along noise.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Jeff, But yeah, I remember that well.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Back when you and I were in high school, Levenworth
looked a little dodgy. Yeah, and it doesn't anymore. I
like da street ladies, gentlemen, but just kind of icky.
But now it's a place to be. Levenworth is one
of the coolest corridors in the city now. And when
you saw it a couple decades ago, you wouldn't have
believed it. But yeah, Levenworth is kind of where it's at. Hey,

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we got a little bit of a road construction news
for you scheduled next week Thursday, November thirteenth. They're going
to tear down the El Street bridge over seventy second Street.
Traffic will be closed on seventy second Street in both
directions until Friday morning, let me a quick teardown. But
during construction, which will last a good year, L Street

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traffic east west will be funneled into a two lane system,
so one Laney direction, So it could be tough going
for for the next year on l Street. I'm a
little bit they're going to turn it into just a
regular surface intersection. I kind of like the fact that
it used to used to be able to go over it. Hey,
I don't like to I don't like to lose anything

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that takes away speed of travels like that.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
I got you. Are you ready for a Farnum's bridge
to come down now that Harney's getting done?

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I tell you what, I'm not going to chain myself
to it or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
And I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I'm excited growing up a lot. Yeah, I've grown up
a lot. No, that bridge should demo should take place
early next year on that, and then the Harney Street
one is getting pretty close. See it's opening later this month,
isn't it. We hope so, yeah, we hope so, and
but definitely by the end of the year. And that's that,
of course, is being done to accommodate streetcar traffic and
just upgrade the bridges, and with that, we officially conclude

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your News of the Week brought to you buy Eagle
Mortgage Eagle Mortgage Company dot Com. I'm going to take
our first break of the hour, and when we come back,
we're going to talk about a few statistics about Omaha
and Nebraska when it comes to population growth and a
few other things from the UNO Center for Public Affairs Research.
Trent and I are very, very interested in what it

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takes to get Nebraska and Omaha more economically competitive visa
the competing markets. It's going to be a theme we
have for the next several months. We're going to touch
on that. And we also have a few news items
that well, frankly, we weren't able to fit into the
News of the Week, so we're going to slam them
into the next section. Stay with us, you're listening to
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Caomaha dot com got a couple lingering news items that
we couldn't fit in the previous segment. First of all,

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Less Schwab Tire Center plans to build a store in
the Iron Bluff mixed use development two hundred and fourth
and f Street. Less Schwab is also building one in Papillion,
about a ten thousand square foot building. This is a
national chain that is really trying to come into the
Omaha market.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
They're looking for more locations as well. So Iron Bluff
is a Lockwood development project. They've announced a Fairway Foods
going there. I think they've got a gas station convenience
store in the Omaha Public Library and Olma Public Glebrin
what two schools too, right, Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Middle school and an elementary school. In that area. Great
development's going to be really nice. Image Studios plans to
open near eighty four and Barmetler Drive in La Vista's
city center. The business will offer salon suites to be
rented by independent beauty professionals. Buildout is currently underway by

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one of our sponsors, Perkins Chritzer. Construction will be about
a five thousand square foot space. Completion planned for the
end of this year. And finally, before we talk about
a few little statistics, I want everyone to be aware
of the Omaha Municipal Land Bank just celebrated its ten
year anniversary. They grow up so fast, Yeah, they do.
It's hard to believe ten years has gone by. That

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is a hard thing to do. Tough, but very important.
They have generated over the course of that ten year
period and estimated eighty four million dollars in citywide economic impact.
Their mission is to transform vacant or abandoned properties into
new opportunities, and over that time they have acquired more

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than fifteen hundred nuisance parties and prepared them for redevelopment.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's great. Even if they just mow them in the meantime,
that's a step in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, that land bank really is making a difference. It's
not like a difference that's going to like knock you over,
like whoa, what's happening. It makes a difference in the
bad stuff you don't see, and it helps the neighborhood
thrive too. Absolutely. Yeah, kudos to the people that are
involved in that. So we have this organization a UNO
that does some amazing research. It's called the Center for
Public Affairs Research. And one of the things that Trent

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and I are going to be talking about and have
been talking about a lot lately and will continue for
the next several months, is the sudden ish lack of
competitiveness that Nebraska, Omaha, and Lincoln have visa vi O
their markets. We were soaring really high in the late

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twenty teens before the pandemic, constantly being recognized at the
top of a lot of lists for growth and development,
and we've tanked.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Saying we're starting to coast. We do coast, No, we
don't coast.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
And it's a pretty significant problem.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
And the state of Nebraska has fallen woefully behind when
it comes to business incentives, tax incentives, recruiting efforts to
get new jobs and companies here and there's a few
things that we want everyone to kind of be aware of.
We've had some good population growth in recent years, but

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it kind of slowed down a little bit, kind of
give you an idea. We did get some really good
population growth from twenty three to twenty four, the most
recent numbers we have available, the Nebraska population grew point
eight percent, which is pretty pretty healthy. But part of
that was because the Census Burero changed some ways that

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international migration has counted, which kind of gave us a
little bit of a boost. And we just need to
do a job, a good job with a few different
things in general, like get a load of this. The
current ratio of people under the age of five to
the people over the age of eighty.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
Five is three to one.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Okay, So right now you've got three under five little boogers, toddlers, kiddos,
whatever you want to call them, three of those to
every one person over eighty five, okay, And what does
that mean. In nineteen eighty it was five to one.
So what that tells you is that the population population
is getting older. And hey, we love old people. I'm

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becoming one myself, and so we love old people. But
you want to have. You want to have a nice
young population. The other thing is we are starting to
we're having a problem with net migration within the United States.
So we're doing a really good job and have been

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doing a real good job of getting international migration. Immigrants
coming from other countries that come to Nebraska, that come
to Omaha, we fare very well compared to a lot
of our surrounding states. But we're not doing so well
with US citizens, and that's a problem because the federal

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government has been well documented is clamping down on international migration,
which means we're losing one of Omaha's biggest growth sources,
and it means that we have to do a better
job with domestic migration, getting more people to come here
from other states and losing fewer people to other states. Competitiveness, Yes, jobs,

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job opportunities. A wise man who has a lot of
experience in the economic development world told me, when it
comes to competitiveness, when it comes to attracting and retaining
a population, it all begins with a job.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
It always begins.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
They bring spouses, they bring kids, they bring grandparents, they
bring friends and family.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
And we got to talk a little bit about an
excuse that people make and to one of the excuses
that's out there. When you say, hey, we need to
have better, more competitive incentives to attract businesses, and we
need to do more to attract people and companies, some
people say, yeah, but we've got this really low unemployment rate.
No one wants to come here when we have an
unemployment rate. I just want to say this, When Nebraska

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was number one state three years in a row for
most economic development projects per capita in the late twenty teens,
we still had a very low unemployment rate. Can't use
it as an excuse. So, folks, we'll be talking about
this a lot. But remember, anytime you talk with a
state senator, anytime you talk with someone from the governor's
office or the governor himself, anytime you talk with someone

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in the Department of Economic Development or something like that,
tell them how important it is for us to have
competitive businesses in it. And with that, we're going to
take our middle of the show break. We got to
get the news in and then when we come back,
we'll have our non al companies commercial real estate development spotlight.
And also we're going to be talking a little bit
about crossroads. So stay with us. Interesting stuff you're listening

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to Trenton Maggot and Jeff Beiles on grow Omaha brought
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Jeff Beiles here sitting next to the one and only
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mention a couple other statistics from the Center for Public
Affairs Research at UNO that illustrate how we need to
get more competitive and less complacent about business incentives in
our state. And here's one that's interesting. The young workforce
age is the most likely to move out of state.

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So if you're young, you're more likely to leave here,
and that's a concern. What's a bigger concern is that
I see the data in a whole bunch of different
age increments. Let's say there's about twelve or fifteen of them.
The first age group is one to four years old.
They don't have much say whether they stay or leave,

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so we don't look at them too closely. And then
then it goes up to seventy five years and over.
So there are only three age groups where you actually
have a greater likelihood to stay in Nebraska than to leave.
One of them is thirty five to thirty nine years.
That's good, that's a very good desirable age group for

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economic growth. The other one is seventy to seventy four
and seventy five and over. Every other age group leaves.
In fact, the biggest one that's most likely to leave
Nebraska is thirty to thirty four.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Do we know where they're going?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Well, they're going to a lot of places. I mean,
is there what do we this is just a one
pager here, sure, okay, let's I get into that.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Show.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
And then the other one who is most likely to leave?
Wealthier people, those with incomes over seventy five thousand dollars
are the most likely to have a net departure from Nebraska.
In fact, there is no income group whatsoever that is
more likely to migrate into Nebraska than to leave. But

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by far the biggest thirty percent of all of the
net out migration Nebraska comes from people who make seventy
five thousand or more. Now, the good news is only
one point three percent of the people who leave on
a net migration basis make less than ten thousand.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
Okay, so we got that going for us.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
You know, maybe we should change it from we don't
coast to it's good enough for Warren Buffett.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
We just need to get a little more aggressive and
keep beaten that drum. Well, let's go into our Nodel
Companies Commercial real Estate Development Spotlight of the Week brought
to you by NODL Companies. They are one of the
true shining star, premier real estate developers in all of America,
headquartered right here in Omaha. They do projects nationwide. But

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what we really are interested here are the amazing company
the amazing projects that Nodel Companies does in Omaha Builders
District Downtown so cool. What's happening down there? And we
hear a lot more to come. The Village Point West
Medical Campus, the new medical campus in Gretna near one
hundred ninety second and Highway three seventy. Of course, the

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most famous development here in Omaha that Nodel Companies has
done is none other than Exarbon Village.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
We're still doing it.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
And yeah, we.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Keep hearing about more things coming to Xarbon Village and
Nodel Companies is doing such great work there. But let's
talk about Xarbon Village today. A couple things to make
you aware of. First of all, congratulations to HDR, which
has its headquarters in Xarbon Village. And oh, by the way,
Notel Companies did that project too. HDR headquarters in Xarbon

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Village just found out. According to the National Center for
Employee Ownership, HDR, the international architecture and engineering firm, is
number five on the list of America's largest employee owned companies.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
So that is really cool headquarters right there in x
Sarbon Village. Also, in case you missed it last week,
I just want to remind you of three new retail
restaurant businesses coming to Xarbon Village. The former Spirit World
store right there on the corner is going to become
Red Door, which is kind of a wood fired barbieque

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type restaurant out of Kansas City. It will open in
the old Spirit World a Sarbon space second quarter of
this coming year twenty twenty six. Also Grand Patisseri, the
very popular French bakery near one hundred and forty fourth
and Center, opening a second location in Xarbon Village very soon.
And then Merrigold's Mercantile, which is a home goods store

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home furnishing store, small, real cool, kind of like a
boutique type look. It will open in the former Booknook
space in January. So three cool retailers coming to xarbonvillais invigorating.
And that is your novel Company's commercial real estate development
spotlight of the week. You can learn more about Nodel
companies by going to Nodel Companies dot com just a

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couple quick.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Minutes, we want to highlight crossroads.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
There was a town hall meeting earlier this week hosted
by the developers, which is Woodbury Corporation out of Salt
Lake City, along with the City of Omaha and MCL Construction,
which is the general contractor. They shared some new renderings
of the eight hundred and sixty million dollar development. Nothing
earth shattering, pretty much what we've already seen. Cool, mixed

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use retail. A couple things that came out of the meeting.
A drilling for the foundations will begin very soon. You
should see a droolling rig on site next couple weeks,
and most of the infrastructure utility work is done. The
first phase, which is Block E, will have Gamescape by Cinemark.
We've already talked about that, a central green underground parking,

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but this is kind of interesting. They said they might
have to adjust the order in which they build phases
of crossroads because they've had unexpected interest from tenants they
didn't plan on ever talking to. And this is a
good thing, but because of it, they might need to
adopt the way or adapt the way they build out

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the crossroads to accommodate some of these tenants if they're
successfully able to land them. And it sounds like there's
some impressive tenants. We don't know what that means.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah, everybody wants to know what that mix is. And
it's hard to imagine. There's been so many different renditions
of this thing over the last ten years. Will be
fun to see what they end up with.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
And finally, I asked during the meeting, what about the
hideous marquee sign on the corner of seventy second and Dodge,
which is just embarrassing, And the developer said, yes, that
is not acceptable the way it looks, but he said
it's complicated. There are a lot of moving parts and pieces.
Even referenced a lawsuit involving that sign. What's interesting is

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a flag shaped live If you look at it's a long,
narrow strip, so they own the sign, not target. All right,
And with that, we are going to take our final
break of the hour, and when we come back, it'll
be the Perkins Chritzer Construction Lightning Round. Back in a
moment on news radio eleven ten kfab it's the Perkins
Chritzer Construction Lightning Round, in which we talk about a
lot of things really fast thank you to Perkins Chritzer

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Construction for making this possible. They are a class A
general contractor here in Omaha. And I was over in
the office this week talking with Dave Kreutzer himself, and
I said, Dave, what are you working on these days?
And he's like, and he points to this stack of blueprints.
They're about as tall as Trenton. There are a lot

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of blueprints there and he starts going through and we're
doing this project, We're doing that project. And Perkins Kreutzer
does so many of them because they do a great job.
They do it for the right price, and they do
it at the right timeline, and they keep their clients
informed when they're outstanding communication. And one of the cool
things that Perkins Chritzer is working on right now that

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fits in quite well at this segment is La Chime.
It is a locally owned ice cream shop that will
operate in a sixteen hundred square foot space in the
Stockyards Plaza in South Omaha near thirty third in L Street.
It's right next to Davida Dialysis and they will be

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opening by the end of this year. The local franchisees
are the same people who own e is La del Mar.
They're also the same people that own Cone Asukar, which
is a coffee shop, and Perkins Schreischer is building another
one of those right there in the same center Stockyards
Plaza near thirty third and now so Perkins Chretzer Construction

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really really.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Does it all.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
So we have Collet's Mercado, a concept from the owners
of Dirty Birds. It's going to open at five hundred
South eighteenth Street Downtown.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
That is in the.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Old Law Building which is being renovated into apartments, so
this will take the ground floor space. They'll special as
an Italian sandwiches, retail, wine and beer housemade bread and
cured meats, anticipated opening next spring. Yeah, and that we
also have Fifth House. Fifth House is a startup vegan restaurant.

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It just opened on Halloween and the former get Real
Sandwiches space thirty ninth and Farnham Street and the Blackstone District.
The restaurant's tagline is the vegan joint of your dreams.
I don't know if I've ever dripped. I don't know
if if I dream of a vegan joint, it's a nightmare.

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But for you people who love vegan restaurants, I am
told this place is very good.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Wait, it's taking the place with a place.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Called Real Get real sandwiches, okay, well get vegan foods
quite real. Okay, Yeah, it's just plant based. Actually, in
all honesty, we like to tease vegans every once in
a while. But I have had a lot of good
vegan dishes in my life.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Oh sure I have.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
I prefer a car carnivorous food, but I've had some
good ones.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
I have a lot of friends vegans.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
You're o King opened at second location November third, twenty two,
eleven Cape Hert Road in Bellevue, Mediterranean European fusion restaurant's
original location is six thirty two North Saddle Creek. Veno
Moss will open a second location in the Shops of
Legacy at twenty eight thirty five South one hundred and
seventieth Plaza. This is the former Cellar forty four.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Space one place.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah, you and I went there with our wives one time,
had a good time. Not going to go there again
now if you go there after it opens is Vino Moss.
You can buy wine, okay, and maybe wine related things.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Better than stealing it. Ladies, gentlemen, this is really cool.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Tea Box is a new indoor golf franchise. They are
They're based in Utah. They have ten locations in Utah
and Idaho, and they're going to build their first Midwestern,
first location outside of Utah or Idaho in Miracle Hills Plaza.
They are going to be just north of the recently
opened Funny Bone. That center also recently landed a Draft

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Cade and Hawaiian Brothers, so some cool stuff going on there.
And then we have speaking of golf build out underway
for the future Golf Galaxy store in El Street Marketplace.
It is located between World Market and Ross Dress for Less.
We also have two Valvelene instant oil change locations that

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have been approved for construction. One will be at one
hundred ninety second in Center and the second one at
seventy second in Crown Point in Sorenson Park Plaza. And
with that, trenton the music is playing, and you know
what that means. Our time is finished. But just for
this week, it's been great spending the hour with you.
I'm Jeff Beils and I'm Trent and Maggott. You've been

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