Grow Omaha 2-15-2025

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 k Baby.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Thank well, good morning, and welcome to the show. Jeff
Beils here at your service. We are brought to you
by Dingman's Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics. Thank you
for joining us. This is the only show in the
metro area that talks about business expansion, real estate, construction,
new restaurants, new retailers, really anything related to Omaha becoming

(00:37):
more vibrant and more prosperous. Without any further ado, it's
time to bring on my co host, a man who
is a legendary real estate deal maker and all around
legend in the flesh, Trenton Maggot.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Good morning, Joe, Well, good morning. And did you have
a difficult drive into the studio this morning?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Now we're supposed to get one did you inches? According
to our fine newsman, one.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
To two inches, that is correct.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
And when we already have some though I mean there
was some this morning, it was a little bit snowy
driving into the studio this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, it wasn't bad. It wasn't slipper like last night.
It was a little slick on the sidewalks.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
You know. We made it all the way till about
what was it February eleventh or February twelfth or something
like that before we got our first snow of the season,
which is great, but now we're really kidding it all
at once. So I feel for those snow contractors, know
that they were losing all that money. Yeah, and some
apartment owners and commercial property owners.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
What they do is they'll have a contract, they'll share
the risks. So they'll say to the vendor saying, hey,
you got all these trucks and everything, we'll pay you
this much a month or this month for the season,
and whether snows or not. If there's huge blizzards, the
contractor loses and the apartment owners win. But if there's

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no snow, the apartment contractors or the apartment owners could
have done a lot better.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, not to change the subject, but here goes. We've
got a restaurant review this week. Our restaurant reviews are
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even over in Des Moines, Iowa at any rate. This week,

(02:29):
Chris Corey reviews Blue Sushi. This is the Blue Sushi
that used to be called Baby Blue and the legacy
area southwest of one hundred and sixty eighth in Center.
They recently took down two thousand square feet of space
in the neighboring bay made it a bunch much bigger restaurant.
As they like to say, Baby Blue is all growed

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up now and it's a blue sushi, full full blue,
full blue. Anyway, really good. I was actually there Saturday
night with some friends and really really enjoyed it. We
sat at the bar. They've got an awesome mural on
the east side of the wall that's that depicts Godzilla
attacking downtown Omaha, among other things. It's not really attacking it,

(03:15):
but he's kind of got that look in his eye
like I'm gonna do to you what I once did
to Tokyo.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, I hear you, And that is my U. If
if they had a Blue Sushi in each parish as
some people call the different parts of Omaha that would
be my parish parish.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Isn't that kind of like a Louisiana thing their word
for county county, But.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
In Omaha, in the Catholic community at least, don't they
talk about what parish you live in? Oh?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, yeah, I was a Mary or a queen guy myself.
But anyway, not to digress too much. You can find
all of our restaurant reviews, including the most recent one
that Chris wrote about Blue Sushi, by going to grow
Omaha dot com and clicking on reviews on the navigation bar.
All right, let's get into our news of the week.
We have basically the whole show is going to be

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a lot of news today. We're going to have news
on I'm pretty much all four segments. So the first
news of the week is brought to you by Egle
Mortgage Eagle Mortgage Company dot com. It is operated by
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(04:24):
Mortgage to find the best lending solution for you, so
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they can find for you. They sit down with you
explain the process. And then of course, now that we're
getting into house buying season, now that we're in the
second half of February, thank god, a lot of people

(04:48):
are starting to look at houses and you want to
get that pre approval letter from Eagle Mortgage. It's like
having a sword in a shield when you go into
the home buying competition process. Right well, without any further
do let's get into it. The first news item Trenton
has to do with Eppley Airfield. Come Monday, February seventeenth,

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the entire central portion of the terminal will be closed
for quite a period of time, including Level two which
is currently open. So basically the terminal is split in half.
And the reason for this is the middle parts all
got to go because it's going to be rebuilt as
the central pavilion. When that central pavilion opens in a

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year or two, it will contain the combined TSA security
checkpoint as well as what's going to be kind of
like a miniature shopping mall food court area where they'll
have you know, Starbucks and all sorts of retailers and
all that sort of thing. So this is basically a
price to progress. But just so people understand, Trenton, you've

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got to know which one of the two terminals your
airline is in. So if you're flying on Southwest, United
or Allegiant, go to the north terminal. If you're flying
on American Delta, Alaska or Frontier Airlines, go to the south.
Once you're in the terminal, you won't be able to
cross over.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
I've got a great way for people to remember that
how USA United Southwest and Allegiance good is on the
north side the north and American Delta what else we
got over there? Alaska in front or so you don't
even remember. Yeah, but the whole reason you're saying this
and help people remember. Yeah, good point, But.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yours, your USA one for the north is great, but
you got to work on your south terminal.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, and you got to know that Allegiant is north
and it's not Alaska.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's true. Yeah, But other than that, I think your
little trick for remembering that is great.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Or if you fly at Southwest and United a lot,
just remember us.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
There you go. This is a price of progress, though,
like I say, so as you're going there, it's it's
a little bit of a pain in the butt, there's
no there's no doubt about that. But just remember this
is the price of progress. It's going to be awesome.
The whole full blown expansion and modernization won't be done
till twenty twenty eight, but it's my understanding we'll be
using parts of the new terminal as early as twenty

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twenty six, So bear with it. It's going to be
awesome when it's done. It's going to be a little
tricky while it's underway.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
And I think they've done a good job with sign
sign edge and wayfinding and dropping people off as well
as picking people up.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know, another thing they've been good at is the
speed of the project so far. They are moving fast
and they're doing this well keeping open an airport that
runs five and a half million passengers a year through it.
It's pretty impressive. You've got to give the airport authority
and their contractors a lot of credit for the job
that they're doing well. Demolition is now underway on the

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old park Fair Mall at sixteenth and Douglas Street. And
if you don't know what the park Fair Mall is,
or you're thinking yourself, i've never heard of this park
Fair now successful. I was just going to say it
means you're young. But if you're if you're about forty
or above, you probably have an idea what the park
Fair Mall it was. It was actually an enclosed shopping

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mall that for a short period of time had all
of the the name brand retailers of the day back
in the nineteen eighties, Name one or two, whatever the
retailers were of the day back in the nineteen eighties,
I don't remember what they were, but they didn't have
any It was never.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Anch we're in junior high in high school.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Then, correct, It was never anchored though. It was always
just like if you compare it to the West Roads,
it would it would be like a bunch of shops
in the middle, not the not the anchors on the end.
But it was when it first opened, the occupancy, if
I remember correctly, was pretty close to full. But toward

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the end, I think the only thing that was open
was a Runza in the basement food court and the
Walgreens on the other side, and then they turned it
into indoor parking for many years, and it was really
a very inefficient indoor parking space because it was an
old mall. You can only put so many cars in it.
But now it's coming down being torn down. In its

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place will be a ten to twelve story building. I
say ten to twelve because if you're on the south
side of that block, it'll look like ten, if you're
on the north side, will look like twelve because of
a grade change. The bottom seven levels will be a
City of Omaha owned parking garage. The top five levels

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will be apartment unit its one hundred and fifty of
them in total, and they will be part of the
overall duo, which is a seven hundred apartment unit which
includes the twin towers attached to it toward the east.
So it's all part of the duo. But you got
to get rid of this park Fair mall in order
to build this ten to twelve story building.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
It'll be interesting to see what the views are at
those apartments.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Probably not a ton of them, because to the east
you'll have the taller twin towers to the west, you've
got the Brandeize Building, the historic New York Life Building
that's now occupied by Kutak Rock, and then just beyond
that the Woodman Tower. So you'll be able to see
some but it's not like you're gonna.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
See you're in the city.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, it'll be a very urban view, not sweeping vistas
or vistas. But if you're in the Twin Towers, some
of the views there will be sweeping. Unless you're an
east face. You'll be right up against the Mutual Vomaha Tar.
But like you say, it'll be an urban feel if
you're looking. If you're going for that urban look, you'll
have that all right. Next up, we have topping out

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taking place. Topping out is when the final steel beam
is installed on a building, whether it be an office building,
you know, a hospital or something like that. Well, topping
out took place recently at the University of Nebraska Medical
Center's CORE Building that stands for Campus Operations and Research
Excellence Core Building. And this is one hundred and five

(10:58):
million dollar project on the southwest corner of Farnham Street
and Saddle Creek Road. It is part of the Edge District.
Thirty acres unmc's new thirty acre West campus west of
Saddle Creek Road. This core building will open in mid
twenty twenty six six stories. It's looking great. I've been

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told Trenton that we can expect to hear more announcements
about projects on unmc's Edge District campus very soon.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
We love that we're going to stop covering any project
that's less than one hundred million dollars on this show.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
You know what we could, we could cover only one
hundred million dollar projects and we would have stuff to
talk about every week.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
But we're not going to do that.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
No, we still we talk about little projects because some
little projects actually have an outsized impact on the city
and on the built environmental question about it, all right?
And finally, developers are planning a mixed use subdivision southwest
of one hundred ninety second and West Maple Road. The
Planning Board approved a preliminary plat that would divide what

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is currently an undeveloped greenfield site into twelve lots for
commercial development and then twenty acres for multifamily development. And
so if you're trying to pick here, all right, one
hundred and ninety second West Maple Road, if you're there.
On the southeast corner is a holiday inn and a
nice retail area. This would be the southwest corner, so

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just west of that, if I remember correctly, if I'm
picturing it right, there's some pretty steep grades. Some the
land is a little steep in there, so I'm sure
they'll have plenty of grading to do. But twenty or
rather twelve commercial development lots and twenty acres of apartments,
so that area is filling in nicely. And with that

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we conclude your News of the week, brought to you
by Eagle Mortgage. The good news is there's a lot
more news to share with you. There's so much going
on this week that we're pretty much just going to
pack the entire show with a bunch of news stories.
But we'll make sure Trenton gives you his opinions on
all of them. I might throw mine in there as well.
You're listening to grow Omaha. It's brought to you by

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Dingman's Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics. And we'll be
back soon on News Radio eleven ten Kfaby and welcome
back to the show. Jeff Beale sitting next to Trenton maggot.
We're brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center along with
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All right, well, we still have a lot of news
to share with you today, so we're going to kind

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of do a News of the week part two, and
let's just kind of pick up with where we left off,
and that is we've got more development coming to Heartwood Preserve.
Heartwood Preserve is the five hundred acre development that is
on the old Boystown West Farm and the old DeMarco Farm.

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It is west of one hundred and forty four Street,
starts at Dodge and goes south to about Pine. I
think it is several blocks south of Pacific.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
And that it goes right past and surrounds Miller North.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, And so what we're talking about now
would be south of Miller North, so the southwest corner
of one hundred and forty fourth and Pacific at that point,
and that area developers are seeking approval to build another
part of Hartwood Preserve. There would be two medical office

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buildings totaling one hundred and eighty thousand square feet, as
well as six standalone retail buildings, a fifty five hundred
square foot restaurant, and a two story, one hundred and
twenty thousand square foot mixed use building that would have
ground floor retail, a parking garage, and multifamily units on
the second floor. So this is already a huge development

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area Trenton. It's about ready to become more huge. And
this would be very close to the Applied Underwriters headquarters
that is still under construction. By the way, sometimes people
ask us as out all the time, does that project
still go. Yes, it is. It's my understanding that it
is so complicated and so beautiful and so top notch

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that it's just taking from I just talk to someone
this week about it.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
And they are five years or something.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
And part of that was they shifted it with COVID.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, they completely changed a lot and they had to
reevaluate once the pandemic hit.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
So and when you have eleven hundred parking stalls, oh underground,
that's different.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
So at any rate, this project on the southwest corner
of one hundred and forty fourth and Pacific Heartwood Preserve
keeps growing and growing.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
And what's interesting about the southwest corner is there's a
big meandering sidewalk and kind of a ravine if you will,
and then it kind of goes up. There'll be a
lot of grating there as well. Oh yeah, yeah, it's uh.
And the and the DeMarco's houses. I don't know if
they've taken that down.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
You have it. They did take that down, finally take
it out. That thing stayed up.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Their part of the deal was I think that they
could stay in that house like till the very end,
which they they probably did.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
And when the scrapers are right outside your back, Whendo,
it might be time.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
After we remove your driveway.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Saint Cecilia Cathedral is embarking on a campaign to construct
an outdoor plaza and memorial garden. It's an eight point
two million dollar project and actually it fulfills the original
vision of the renowned architect and designer Thomas Kimball, who
died in nineteen thirty four and did not live to
see the cathedral's completion. So fundraising is underway and construction

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will hopefully begin this summer.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
I wonder what the budget was for the original building.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
A lot less than eight point two million dollars. I
can guarantee you that all right, big story coming out
of the University of Nebraska, the system, which is the
four campuses UNL, UNO, un K, and un MC released
the results of an economic impact study went on for
several months, very in depth, very thorough. Turns out the

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INU system generates six point four billion dollars annually and
supports one in every twenty Nebraska jobs. The university produces
eleven thousand graduates each year, with one in seven working
age Nebraskans holding a degree from one of the four campuses. Now,

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let's talk a little specifically about this because we have
two of the four campuses here in Omaha. Ill also
want to say that the INU system is responsible for
fifty two thousand jobs, So it's a big, big part
of what we do around here on a per campus basis.
University of Nebraska Lincoln, the flagship campus, my alma mater,
three point one billion dollar impact. UNO a one billion

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dollar impact. You and Carney a four hundred and forty
seven million dollar impact. Now let's look at UNMC. If
you look at just UNMC, the university one point six
billion dollars, which is very impressive and very significant. However,
UNMC is interwovened and tightly connected to Nebraska Medicine. Nebraska

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Medicine by itself has a five point five billion dollar
economic impact. Put UNMC and its clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine together,
and we're talking about out here in Omaha, a seven
point one billion dollar impact on top of the billion
that comes from you and O.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
And a billion impact on the city of Omaha. The
state of Nebraska just its.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Impact, which would primarily be the state of Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Okay, did they get any in depth as far as
like the graduates that that stay in Nebraska versus they.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Leave somewhat because the study. The study was pretty lengthy
and and it's all available online. But yeah, you know,
we we do. We do export a lot of our graduates.
But on the other hand too, with the thing we
have to keep in mind, we pull in so many people. Yeah,
I think I think I mentioned this to you recently.

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But about two weeks ago, I had a meeting with
a young guy who does marketing for a company. They
were interested in advertising on one of our gro Omaha platforms,
and I met him for coffee and sharp guy, good guy.
He was from Illinois and he had just graduated from Lincoln,
you and University of Nebraska Lincoln, and was talking to him.
I said, hey, hey, how how did Illinois guy end

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up at UNL? And he's like, you know, it was
actually cheaper for me to pay out of state tuition
at UNL than it was at the University of Illinois
and Champagne, Urbana in state tuition. Yeah, And he's like,
I wanted to like, maybe try something new, so I
decided to come out here. A great experience, and now
he's living in Omaha state here and he goes, Oh,
by the way, my girlfriend is from Minnesota. Same story. Uh,

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came here because it was a better deal than going
to the you in Minneapolis, and now she's staying in Omaha.
So there's an example of the university bringing in a
lot of talent that sticks around, even though we are
known for exporting some of our homegrown talent.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Somebody said that if you go to the if you're
from Nebraska or Kansas, they have reciprocal agreements for in
state tuition for the KU. It was this somebody, Well,
I don't know if it's factual, so don't don't tell
your child that, and don't take that to the bank.
So do your own research. But that would be I'd
be surprised. I know they have certain things with certain places.

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I mean, you and know not too terrible. It's based
on grade point or something like that. Yeah, I didn't
you and O do a thing terrible with Western Iowa
or something like that. Yeah, there are various types of
arrangements that they have that will give certain people good
deals inside other universities or other states universities. At any rate,

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that's what we've got for right now. But we're just
getting warmed up. Still a lot of things to discuss
on today's show, but we've got a break for the
news and when we come back, we have our Nodel
Companies Commercial real Estate Development Spotlight of the Week. We're
also going to talk to you about Girl Omaha's visit
to the new Behavioral Health Hospital at Children's Nebraska. So
many things coming stay with us. You're listening to the

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show brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center and Cheer Athletics.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Back in a moment on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
and welcome back to the showf Meals and Trenton Magget
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in beautiful downtown Dundee effect it's the Penthouse Studio. Nevertheless,
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that's time for your Not All Companies Commercial real Estate
development Spotlight of the Week. This is when Trenton and

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I talk about projects happening in or near one of
the many Not All Companies projects in town. And you
should know that Noel Companies has a lot of them.
Xarbon Village Builders District in north Downtown, River's Edge and
Council Bluffs, Steel Ridge, and Pavilion Gretna, the Village Point
West Medical Campus, and of course they're famous for building

(23:23):
headquarters buildings, Valmont HDR, so many others you know, and
for many years they were doing shopping centers. Not All
Companies is really one of the true premier commercial real
estate and residential real estate developers in America. Well, today
we talk about one of their projects that you've definitely

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heard of Xarbon Village perhaps their most high profile Omaha project.
And in Xarbon got a couple news items for you.
First of all, the Grove is opening a new location
at InterRail Food Hall. InterRail Food Hall is east of
the HDR headquarters. If you haven't been there, you need

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to get there.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's awesome right under covered parking right at the door.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Fr ee free too. No charge for parking at Exarbon
Village and in the InterRail they bring a lot of
restaurants in and out. It's kind of like an incubator
of restaurants, maybe where a startup will try things, or
an existing restaurant tour will test a new concept, such
as All American Burger.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
All American Burger. Alex Harrington, who has eight Pickleman's restaurants,
knows how to run a restaurant, and I would like
this maybe even better than a shake shack. If some
of you who travel but they have unbelievab burgers and fries.
Hopefully they got the shake machine in. I'm not sure
if they do or not, but these burgers, the bread

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I think comes from New York. The whole thing. You
can get great cheeseburgers, double burgers, whatever, it's fast quality,
but try All American Burger is tasty, tell them, Jeff
mccoley saying.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
And with that, the Grove is opening a new location
inside the InterRail Food Hall. We know that the opening
will be in March. The Grove is a local cold
pressed juice and wellness cafe. They do have an existing
location downtown Omaha twenty four to oh one Farnham Street.
So keep your eye out for a Grove when you

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go today and try All American Burger. And that's your
not A Companies Commercial real Estate Development Spotlight of the Week.
You can learn more about Nodel by going too not
ale Companies dot com. Well Omaha is hosting a massive
volleyball tournament right now. It started Thursday. It goes through Monday.
It's called the A six President's Day Classic Volleyball Tournament,

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twenty first year here in Omaha, and this year sold
out five hundred and seventy teams registered from all over
the United States and Canada. Thirteen thousand attendees if you
can count the players and their family members. More than
ten one hundred hotel room nights have been booked and

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these players are competing in the chi Heu Center, Omaha
in the Union Bank and Trust Sports Complex and Elkhorn
and Iowa west Field House and Council Bluffs. So this
is truly Trenton, one of those city wide convention, citywide events,
and it goes to show you why we have to
keep having great facilities for youth sports, because there's a

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hell of a lot of money in youth sports.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
My guess is this was a lot smaller twenty one
years ago when they started it, and we've grown venues
as they've grown the event.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
That's a good point. And of course we are in
the volleyball capital of the planet, so my guess is
people probably our teams are even more excited about coming
here for a tournamy because this is volleyball central right
where we've We've got a city of one million people,
has two pro teams and basically it's not even basically

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it's clearly the nation's number one collegiate vaulleyball program in
Lincoln and nothing even comes.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Close even in college. You don't hear about sellouts in volleyball,
but Nebraska seems to sell it out down at the
Divany Center.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Well, the Harney Street reconstruction project has been delayed because
of the crappy weather this weekend. Demolition of the bridge
over Interstate four eighty was supposed to start last week,
but the start date keeps getting delayed. We've got the
weather today, it's supposed to be ferociously cold in the
next few days, and so basically this is on a

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little bit of a temporary hold. But the deal here
is the Harney Street Bridge has got to come down.
It's over sixty years old, and it needs to be sturdier,
a little more stout to accommodate streetcar traffic because it
will be one of the bridges that carries the street
car over the interstate. Next year, the same thing will
happen to the Farnham Street Bridge because Farnam will carry

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westbound street car traffic and Harney will carry eastbound street
car traffic. Anyway, that demo should go fast. It sounds
like they should have the bridge down really in a
few days, but of course the construction will take all
of the year to rebuild the new Harney Street Bridge.
And then, also speaking of the street car, at the
February meeting, the Omaha street Car Authority discussed some additional

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work that needs to be done. Looks like we're getting
close to the vehicle maintenance facility construction starting. The Authority
also did a thirty month lease with the property owner
of an undeveloped site at the northeast corner of fortieth
and Harney to be used as a lay down yard.
That's basically where they'll store equipment and supplies to build

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the street car. This is right on the south side
of the Blackstone District, Like the main part of the
Blackstone District is Farnham, so this would be fortieth and Harney.
I want people to know this because if you're driving
by and you're saying, oh my gosh, they're going to
finally build something on that lot there, well not for
another thirty months, because that's going to be outdoor storage

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and staging area for street car construction. Hopefully after that though,
they'll build a building on that site because it desperately
needs it. Together, all right, ladies and gentlemen, we have
reached that point in the show, the moment that you've
all been waiting for, and that is a commercial break. Well,
after the commercial break, we're going to have the Perkins
Chritzer Construction Lightning Round, in which we talk about a
lot of things in a very short period of time.

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And it's a very good list, so stay with us,
you don't want to miss any of it. You're listening
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and Cheer Athletics. Trenton and I will be back in
a moment on news Radio eleven ten kfab and welcome
back to the show, Jeff Beils and Trenton Maggot at
your service. And this is the Perkins Chretzer Construction Lightning

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Round in which we talk about a lot of things
in a very short period of time. And we are
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They serve the entire area, not just the metro, but
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That's PDSHC Construction dot com. Well, Brad Williams, who works

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with us a lot here on GROMHA, renowned photography photographer,
he took a tour a media sneak peak day at
the Children's Behavioral Health Hospital. It's coming along great, this
one hundred and fourteen million dollar project near eighty fifth
and West Dodge Road. It's essential to Omaha's future because
of our mental health crisis that we're dealing with, especially

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in kids and adolescents. If you want to see some
of those pictures, Brad has posted thirteen of them on
the Groamaha facebook page. Just go to the Gromaha facebook page,
scroll down a little bit and you can see Brad's
photos inside and out. As construction proceeds on the Behavioral
Health Center at Children's Nebraska. Well, we have a new
restaurant coming to midtown crossing. Believe it or not, it

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is Maza Middle Eastern cuisine. Maza m Azza, Maza Middle
Eastern Cuisine going into the former Sofa Kitchen space at
two twenty South thirty first Avenue and looks like that'll
be opening an early summer. No word on whether they
have inexplicably cold eggs there, moving right, altt never got

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to try that the the silfra.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah, I never got to. So hopefully this will be better.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
You weren't there the day we did the live remote,
were you? Nope, that's right, you were out of town
that day. Okay. At any rate, Nectar Juice Bar plans
to open its first Nebraska location in the former Phoenix
Pool and Spa space at fourteen oh five South two
hundred and fourth Street. Shannon and Jeff Salem will be
the local franchisees. Now Nectar is based in California. It's

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an award winning juice bar concept. No, of course, they
have the smoothies and Thesie bowls, healthy snacks. Two hundred
locations nationwide. The company was founded in twenty twenty. The
closest existing locations are in Kansas City and Sioux Falls,
South Dakota.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
A lot of juice concepts.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
People love that now, I mean the juice, the smoothies,
the sugar and that stuff. Do you think I would
think a lot of it. But I think if some
people that really do the healthy juices, like they make
that their meal. See the problem with me? If I
go to those places, it's an ad on to the
lunch I'm going to eat anyway. But if you make it,

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if you make it your meal, though you're you're probably
it's probably very healthy to go to those places. So
this is an interesting choice for a restaurant name. It's
called No Good Yeah k in W. The name yeah
k n ow good so, which means it's probably very good,
you know good, and we know it's good because it's
a concept from the owner of Sweet Magnolia's Bake Shop,

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and they're going to open this spring at thirty five
twenty eight Center Street. This is the former Sunnyside on
Center restaurant, and they're referring to the restaurant as a brunchette.
I like that word, a brunchette. And it has operated
full time at Archetype Coffee and Little Bohemia since January
of twenty three and we'll continue there after opening the

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thirty fifth and Center location, but it'll have bagels, sandwich
and a small cafe.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Maybe I wonder they'll have like a singer for like
Sunday Brunches and they'll sing in the Brunchetto.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Or maybe they'll call the singers the Brunchettes. I like it,
and hopefully have backup singers as well, because if you
have a band called the Brunchettes, you need like three
backup singers all singing in the same microphone to Gambino's
Pizza has opened in Gretna one hundred and seventeen seventeen
Bryan Street translated in English, that's just off highways thirty

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six and or six and thirty one rather and so
it's open now. And then there's another Gambino's Pizza coming
to thirty twenty South thirty second Street in the former
Lo sole Mio banquet space. Gambino's Pizza has locations in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma,
and in Nebraska. They have them in Fremont, Carney, Via Never.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, I'll check it out.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
We'll have to go check it out. It's open, right,
not endorse it right now. Yeah, we're not endorsing. Uh
nor are we criticizing because we've never tried it? Okay,
Home Goods, Sierra Trading Post, and Ross Dress for Less
are going into a building at Manawa Power Center and
Council Bluffs. The building had been occupied on one side

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by Gordman's, on the other by Toys r Us. This
building is located between an existing Walmart and home Depot.
The spaces are under renovation. Home Goods and Sierra are
part of the same company that also has TJ Max,
Ross Dress for Less, I believe is separately owned and
at any rate, these will be new for Council Bluffs.
They all have locations in Omaha, but these will be

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the first of their kind in Council Bluffs. All Right, Trent,
and we have Joe Anne Fabrics closings a lot of
their stores nationwide and a couple in the metro.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
It's definitely changing the fabric of Omaha.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
And the stores closing are a Council in Bellvue, Yeah,
Council Bluffs in Bellevue. The one in Omaha at one
hundred and thirty Second and Center will stay open. Now.
It's a rough week for the owners of Crush Ultra
Lounge formerly known as Throwback Arcade Lounge fourteenth and Howard Downtown.
Omaha City Council this week voted six to nothing to

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recommend revocation of their liquor license following fights shooting, so
they got some issues. No final decision has been made
because that rests with the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission. Crush
plans to appeal the city Council's discisions.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
A cool space. I remember going into it before and
it was a couple different stories, big outdoor patio.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Nole's Pizzeria will close its Regency location inside Blue Sky
Bar and Patio one hundred and seventh Pacific part of
Regency Landing. However, they will stay open at a Sarbon
and Blackstone District. The music is playing, which means that
we are finito. Hope everyone has a great weekend. I'm
Jeff Beils and I'm Trenton Maggot. You've been listening to

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