Grow Omaha 3-1-2025

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 bab.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, Good morning, and welcome to the show. Jeff Beal's
at your service. Thank you to our sponsors, which are
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and Dingman's Collision Center for metro area locations. This is
the only show in the metro area that talks about
real estate, construction development, economic development, business expansion, really anything

(00:39):
related to Omaha becoming more vibrant, more prosperous. Happy first
day of March. The old saying is if March comes
in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb,
or vice versa. Today it kind of seems like neither.
It's kind of like an in between the lion and
the lambs. So we'll see what that means for the
end of the month. But without any further ado, it's

(01:01):
time to introduce my co host, a man who is
known so widely and broadly in Omaha that he can
just go by his first name in the same way
Cher does trenton your.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Two kind Jeff. You know, people will say that we're
Omaha famous.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's true, and we appreciate that. And the reason for
that is because we have a lot of very loyal
listeners who have been with this show for twenty one years.
And it's also because we have restaurant reviews at Omaha,
and we do one every week. Chris Corey is our
restaurant reviewer. Every other did I say every week?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh gosh, every other week.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Instant fact checking, leadies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
And this week it was Dante, which recently celebrated its
fifteenth anniversary. Dante, of course, is the very popular Neapolitan
pizza restaurant southwest of one hundred and sixty eighth and
West Cner Road, very famous for its collection of Italian wines.
It's one of the wood fired pizza places and as
you might imagine, it's very positive review A lot of

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you have tried Dante, but yeah, since it was this
fifteen year anniversary, it was a good time to review it.
You can read it by going to grow Omaha dot
com and clicking on review in the navigation bar, and
when you read the review, there's also a little bit
of breaking news in there as well. Dante has purchased

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a food truck to allow the restaurant to do more
pop ups and catering and community events. Now they've had
the mobile wood fired oven. Oh yeah, and I've seen that. Yeah,
it's really cool. And I've and I've seen that they've
been at events. But this is this is more of
a full blown food truck that will allow them to
have other menu items as opposed to just things just

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things that would be in a wood fired onion oven.
What what was that.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
They have a rotisserie in there or something? How'd you
know that I.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Read the review?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
You actually read the review? No, I just to oh, yes,
it does have a ro trissary. It does have a
rotisseriy inside the new food trick. But yes, like I said,
you can see that and all of our reviews on
gromha dot com. Thank you to All Makes, the world
famous office furniture and office technology store that has locations

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in Omaha, Lincoln, Des Moines, Iowa, and several other smaller
communities in the area for sponsoring gro Omaha Eats Gromha
Eats by All Makes Office Equipment written by Chris Corey.
Let's go into our News of the week, which is
brought to you by Eagle Mortgage. Last week we had
Holly Schneidewin on the show, and she is the head owner,

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president CEO of Eagle Mortgage and knows that industry so well,
and she was talking to us about what's new and
home financing, reverse mortgages, market trends well. Holly is a
wealth of knowledge, not just broadly when she comes here
and talks on the show, but also on an individual,
one on one basis. You're thinking about buying a house,

(04:01):
go talk to Holly or one of her team members
and we'll discuss your You know that you'll discuss their
your situation with them and get a customized solution. Because
Holly and Egle Mortgage they're not a bank, they're a
mortgage broker. They work with a variety of banks and
can shop the market and find out what is best
for you. Their office is located at one hundred and

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fourteenth in Davenport, and you can find them online at
Egle Mortgage Company dot com. Well, before we get into
the news, though, we have another person here who is
going to help us report it and his name is
Brad Williams. Brad has been part of the Grohamaha team
for fourteen years, and when he's not doing that, he
is the owner of Brad Williams Photography and a key

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employee at e Anda Consulting civil engineering firm. Brad, welcome back.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Hey, good morning, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, last time you were here, you are hosting the
whole damn Show.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yeah, that was quite the experience. Yeah, thanks for that.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
We appreciate because Trenton and I and our wives and
another couple we were in Mexico having a great time
while you were here working and and keeping the show afloat,
and that was awesome.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I was a
nervous wreck, but I did A couple of days later,
I went back and rewatched the show and it came
awful lot better than I thought it did. So it
was a good time.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
And while you were doing that show, you were also
suffering from the ravages of influenza.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
I just had gotten over it a couple of days
before that, and I was I was a mess, but
it was a good time.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
We were listening internationally this sounded good.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
You were texting me from Mexico. Tell me I'm doing
a good job. So that was awesome.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I like say this, No, don't say that.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
No, you guys gave me complete freedom to do whatever
I wanted to do. It's awesome that you trust me
to do that.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
And the show is still here.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
The show is still here in kfab still has the
FCC license. But good job, Brad. We appreciate it. All right, fellas,
let's get into this news. Our first story has to
do with tax increment financing and ladies and gentlemen. Before
you fall asleep and turn the channel, No, this is
really important stuff because tiff. Tax increment financing drives so

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much of the real estate development that we talk about,
at least that which occurs predominantly east of seventy second Street,
and so tax increment financing very unfortunately has become an
issue in the mayoral campaign lately, and there's been a
lot of misinformation about it and a lot of accusations

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thrown about for political purposes. That happens in political campaigns.
We get it, but it's unfortunate. Well, the city commissioned
an out of town CPA firm, you know that does
all this sort of consulting to come in and do
a thorough study of the use of tax increment financing
in Omahon. We use it a lot. It's our primary

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financing tool to make urban projects happen that otherwise might
not be financially feasible. You see, we do a lot
of these programs so that we can build cool things
in the city instead of knocking over more agricultural land
on the far flung reaches of the suburban frontier. At
any rate, this company is called for forvist Maziars Masers,

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m a z Ars. How would you pronounce that, just
like you did forvist Mazers like it sounds anyway. They
said that basically everything the city is doing in terms
of its use of TIFF is consistent and compliant with
Nebraska state loss. So that's good. That kind of They

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found two small administrative items that had to be fixed,
but they were like, you know, how you communicate or
post something on a website, and the city took care
of that, which is which is fortunate. So as part
of the process, the consulting firm randomly chose five TIFF
projects from twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. One

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of those was the mutual of Omaha Headquarters six hundred
million dollar project at fifteenth in Fdam. That's going to
be the tallest building in the city. And any rate,
things looked really good. It's being used properly, and there's
no reason to really worry about Omaha using tiff. I
want to say one other thing, because a lot of
people they don't really understand. They think, okay, this is

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just giving money. But the way tax financing works is
that if I'm going to develop a property in a
qualified area, which is usually very urban, I can go
ahead and get private loans and then I can use,
over the course of say fifteen years, revenue from the

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increased value of that property to pay back part or
all of these loans. The thing we have to realize, though,
is that whatever the value of the property was at
the time the tiff was granted, that amount of property
tax always is paid, so the city never stays in
the money, never loses money. And then fifteen years, when

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the tiff loans expire, then the city can start taxing
that property owner on the new value. So you never
lose what you had, but you gain a lot more,
and most importantly, you get projects that otherwise probably would
have gone to the suburbs instead of the heart of.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Omaha, and that property number one wouldn't be developed and
it would just continue to get older and probably a
lot less attractive than what's there. The other thing is
what they do is they do the cash flows on
that fifteen years of incremental tax, and the developer goes

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to a bank or a lender and can monetize that,
and that way they can get that money up front
in order to.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Work on the project.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
The other thing is that if you look back at
the number of TIFF projects the city has had over
the last ten years, it's a big number. It's really
led to a lot of investment. Since twenty fifteen, the
City of Omaha has approved one hundred and ninety six
TIFF applications. The resulting total investment from those projects four

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point six billion dollars, many of which either wouldn't have happened,
or would have happened at a smaller scale, or they
would have gone to the suburbs.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
And their safeguard city. You know, they have to be
built obviously, or that it's not created. There have been
times where the city, if they take too long, the
city will revoke their approved application and they let's rually
have to reapply or someone else gets the project.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
And that's the nice thing about TIFF is it almost
has that failsafe of it's on future valuation of the building.
So if they don't build it, I mean, it's not
like they're losing anything.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
And I just want to let the Gromaha listeners know
you're going to hear and this has been going on
for years and years and years. People will use the
lack of information that the average voter has about TIFF
as a weapon against them, and there could be a
lot of different motivations politically for that. You know, maybe
it's a campaign thing, Maybe it's because they don't believe

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in something, Maybe they have some other agenda that they're
they're trying to put forth, or an extra grind whatever.
When you hear a lot of negative things about TIFF
or tax RECMMIT financing, be suspicious because the data show
that it's not only well managed, it's just a really
healthy way of making sure we get cool, blockbuster, big

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projects in the middle of the city.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
You know, if you read our girl Omaha Facebook comments,
you would think the mayor is just walking on the
street with bags full of cash just handing it out
left and right to developers, which is totally not true. Well,
think about it.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Think about an Omaha without the one serious vehicle taxing
crement financing for projects in these urban areas. If we
got rid of that or it gets abused or whatever,
we don't have a lot of incentives.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, you'd you'd pretty much have a hollow shell in
the middle of downtown. And as opposed to the progresser making.
And I think finally, last thing I'd like to say
about this issue. It's an important issue. A lot of
times the people that live on the more far flung
suburban parts of the city of Omaha say, well, why
do I care if good things are happening downtown. Study

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after study and actual results from real cities across the
country have proven over and over, as the core of
the city goes, so goes the whole city when it
comes to economic health. If you want to have a
great city with a lot of jobs, a lot of entertainment,
a lot of recreation, a lot of retail and restaurant,

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and a lot of ability to recruit and retain young
people to your city, you've got to have a strong core.
If the core rots, eventually the whole city goes away.
Look at Detroit. It all started in the center and
eventually the whole city went to hell. Look at Saint Louis.
Same problem. To keep the core of your city strong,

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even if you live in the suburban part of the city.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
And the city's doing a good job with that, and
with the master planning and the approved projects down there,
and all the apartments that are going up down their multifamily.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
A couple other quick stories also related to the City
of Omaha. More than one hundred and fifty lane miles
of City of Omaha streets will be resurfaced or replaced
this year as part of Omaha's Street Preservation Fund. Now,
this was the program that started when the voters approved
a two hundred million dollars bond issue in twenty twenty,
and so basically this bond issue was the first thing

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we had in a long long time that actually covered
a substantial amount of repair and resurfacing. Before that, what
we were mostly doing with the streets were just widening
projects or patching potholes. So now we're getting to the
point where I think it is you guys might remember this,
but I think the plan is that once every twenty years,
every street in the city gets resurfaced or repaired like

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that was replaced, which is pretty ambitious at any rate.
The twenty twenty five programs, our fifth year of this,
has a total of forty one projects, including twenty one
major street resurfacing projects, ten residential project areas, and a
lot of these residential neighborhoods that are going next street
after street within a subdivision that they're resurfacing or repairing,

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and then a bunch of others. They're even doing the
two brick street repair projects, one of which is a
stretch of the old Lincoln Highway. So as usual, you
will see a lot of roadblocks this year, but that's
good because we gotta fix these streets that have been long,
long neglected. And finally, guys, The onma A Sports Commission

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this week announced that Olah is the newest host for
the USA crit National Cycling Race. It'll be held in
the Exarbon area on May seventeenth. It'll be known as
the Exarbon Turk TiRC, which is crit backwards and a
crit is short for Criterion, which is a short loop

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bike race on a closed road. Now, this thing is
expected to attract five hundred participating athletes and three thousand people,
so it'll be a nice thing and it's not a
one off. The Omaha Sports Commission is going to do
this every year.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
So this is our Formula one. Like Vegas has Formula one,
We're gonna have this.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
It's our Tour de fronts.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
See.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
All right, that's your news of the week, which is
brought to you by Eegle Mortgage EGO Mortgage Company dot com.
When we come back, we are going to take phone calls.
We do this about once every two or three months,
and we always have brad and to help us with that.
And so we want you to call four oh two
five five eight eleven ten. Four two five to five

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going on in Omaha. Like maybe you drive by someplace
and you think to yourself, what are they building there?
We'll call us, ask us and if we know, we'll
tell you. If we don't, we'll make up something. So
this is your chance. Four oh two five five eight
eleven ten. We are going to take our first break
of the hour, and when we come back from that,

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This is Jeff Beals telling you we'll be back right
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back to the show. It is the call in show

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Trenton Maggot is here as always, and I'm Jeff Beiles.
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nation's number one. All start cheer Jim for being our
sponsor as well. While going to the calls, it looks
like the first person in the queue is Cole who
has a question about trail systems. Good morning, Cole, and
welcome to grow Omaha. Go ahead, Cole.

Speaker 6 (17:19):
Is that me?

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, that's you, sir.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
Hey great. My name's Nick actually, and hi guys. This morning,
I am the vice president of the Bellevue Bike Club
and I heard you talk about the crit which I
was just glad to hear you promote that. I think
that's going to be a huge deal. I think there's
a one point one million dollar impact to that area.

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But I would really like to hear you guys talk
about the growth and promote the growth of the biking
trail system in Omaha. We rank and it's not fair,
but we rank forty eight out of fifty states in
the best bike trails in the state of Nebraska because

(18:08):
we really don't have any plan and so I'd love
to hear you guys talk about it. I love your show.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
You know, I don't know your stats that you're thrown out,
but I do know there are a lot of plans,
you know, in the newer parts of town for trails.
It's harder in some of the urban areas unless you
find an old railroad right away to get those trails in.
But out west, when they plan neighborhoods, there's a lot
of trails that are planned, but they don't go in

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right away when the neighborhood's being built. That's more of
something that comes in a few years down the road.
And then as far as the rest of the state,
I'm unaware of how that would go.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, outside of Omaha, and because I know Omahon Lincoln
have worked really hard on it, But outside of the state,
I'm not too terribly knowledge about it, knowledgeable about it.
Not a big biker myself, but I do know, you know,
it's like anything else, there's a cost, and you know,
and here in Nebraska we're pretty careful about debt and
these sorts of things, and so I think you will

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continue to see biommenities added, but I doubt you're going
to see a flurry of them that would be, you know,
substantially more than what you would see in other markets.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
How does the the users point is.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
The city needs to look at trails has more than
a recreational item. There are a lot of people who
commute to work, commute to the grocery store, and we
do have a lot of trails, and I enjoy a
lot of them, but it's you know, it's for pedestrians,
and it's for people in wheelchairs and it's for people walking,

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and we have a lot of trails, but they're just
not connected. There's a lot of disjointed areas, and there
have been some good improvements lightly, but I would really
love to see greater focus on that. So thanks a
lot for letting me mention that on the show.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
We appreciate that, Mick, and thanks for calling in. Now
we're going to go to Bond, who has a question
about the northwest corner of Highway three seventy and eighty
fourth Street. Good morning, Bond, Good morning.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
My name is actually Ron.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
I wish we co this.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
I wish we could get a producer around here that
could hear names.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
Well that's that's not as weld, I'm sure. But anyway, Yeah,
you know, there's been development there on the northwest corner
of the eighty fourth and three seventy some time, and
I noticed the first building that's popping up looks like
either a bank at drive in bank or a Starbucks

(20:54):
or something like that. I was wondering if if you
guys know what.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
That is, you're you're correct, it's Starbucks. The bank is
there is a local bank that will be popping up
there pretty soon. So you got both of them. Actually,
there's a National restaurant quick serve sandwich type restaurant going
up soon next to Starbucks, and then a lot more

(21:19):
stuff in the pipeline, but I don't think any of
the other items have really been announced yet.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, that area is being developed. The master developer is
a Jesse Calabretto calabre Bretto Building group that are doing
a good job. It's a big it's gonna be very
heavy residential over there in some boutique shops and things
like that. Also, Lockwood Development is purchasing at three or
four or five lots on ninetieth Street to the west,
so they're excited about getting those going as well. And

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that Tower District, it's been a long time coming, you know,
it's been tried before and Calabretto seemed to have figured
it out.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
And we call it the Tower District because it's in
the shadow of the iconic butterfly blazoned papilion water Tower.
Great question Ron formerly known as Bond And we are
going to take our break for the news today, but
when we come back, Jim stay with us. Jim has
a question about one hundred and forty four of Pacific.

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You'll be the first. You'll be the first one up
when we come back after the break, but there's room
for others because we only have Jim in the queue
right now. So just dial four oh two five five
eight eleven ten four oh two, five five, eight eleven
ten and we will take your call. So that's that's

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it for now. You're listening to John Beals and Brian
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At your service. It is the Call in Show, and
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Before we get to those calls, though, we do have
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They've been doing this and it doesn't matter whether you're
talking about a retail strip center or if you're talking
about a Class A office building or a whole entire
mixed use development. They do all of it. And Omaha
Nodel Companies is famous for exarbon village builders district in
North Downtown and so many others head quarters buildings. Well,
our news this week is about a new Nodel Company's

(24:05):
mixed use development. It's going to be part of the
Gretna Landing overall development. This will be a thirty one
acre portion of Gretna Landing, so it's northwest of one
hundred and ninety second and Highway three seventy. The project Novels.
Part of it will be anchored by one hundred and
thirty thousand square foot office building. Groundbreaking is expected to

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occur in the third quarter of this year, so not
far from now. And additionally, it'll include flexible space designed
for services as well as retail food and beverage space,
and a one hundred and seventy unit housing development.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Well, that area is blown up, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
It is, indeed, and that is your Nodle Company's commercial
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All right, Jim, you have waited a long time to
get in this call. We appreciate your pretience, your patients
and what that's our question today?

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Well, I tell you you shouldn't fire the producer. He
got my name right, It is Gym.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Well, well you know he is.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
There's nowhere for him to go but up.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
But go ahead, Okay, I have a question and a comment.
What is on the southwest corner of one hundred and
forty fourth in Pacific. It's a huge edifice, probably two
thousand feet west of the intersection.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
That is the future headquarters for Applied Underwriters, which is
a company that is generally headquartered in Omaha, although the
CEO spends a lot of time in San Francisco has
an office there. But it's my understanding he's here a
lot too. Anyway, that's going to be one of the
most architecturally significant and engineering marvelous headquarters in Omaha. And

(25:51):
it's taken a long time. But as I told some
other gro Omaha reader who is inquiring about it, it's
my understanding they're pulling out all the stops and it
is going to be one heck of a headquarters building.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
You've got eleven hundred parking stalls all underground, which wow, yeah,
it hasn't been done before.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
So Jimmy said, you have two questions.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, I have a comment. You oftentimes talk about places
like you just did the builders District in north Downtown,
and I have a hard time keeping track of those,
and so sometimes it'd be good if you could give
you a location until bounded by this street and that
street and so on.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Sure, the Builder's District good point is bounded roughly by
Charles schwab Field on the east, Creighton University on the west,
call it Cumming Street on the north, and maybe I
four eighty on the south roughly. But jim we appreciate
you calling in and for your patients. And now we

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go to David. Good morning, David, and welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Well, good morning, and thank you very much for the show.
My wife and I have enjoyed it for many years.
And she had a question that she asked me to ask,
and that has to do with several I don't know.
Some time ago you announced that Minards was going to
build something near Highway fifty and the three seventy and

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the Interstate exchanged there on the.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Way to Gretina.

Speaker 8 (27:23):
And we've not seen anything happened in Menard's back out
of there.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
No, they they're still in the land, I believe, don't
they brand that's so, I was just looking up. As
far as I know, they still do. But yeah, and
that's a Nodel development. We knew that when when they
bought the land, which is.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
South of or It is northwest of our northeast of
Interstate eighty and Highway three seventy.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, and the Steel Ridge development it's by H and H,
a bunch of car dealerships and stuff like that. It
was I think they bought the property, but for some
reason they've delayed construction.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
That's not terribly uncommon with a lot of these big
box retailers. Lately. You're seeing the same thing with Fleet Farm,
which has acquired lots on West Maple and further west
on Highway three seventy and it's taking forever.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, and like High V Zone the two and fourth
in Maple a lot for at least a decade now
Hill or Indian Creek.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yeah, So we haven't heard that Menards is not going there.
You never know, and you know, until it's open, you
never know. But I guess from what we understand, my
guess is they're probably still going there eventually.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
Anyway, that sounds good. Well, you mentioned the ding Ones
is located. There are new dean Ons and so I
reminded her of I wonder what happened to the Minards.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
So okay, thank you, Okay, Well, we appreciate that call, David,
and and thanks for the nice words about Girl Maha.
And we're going to go to our last caller of
today's show, and that is George. Good morning, George, and
welcome to the program.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Him.

Speaker 9 (29:01):
Hi, thanks for taking my call. And I just had
a quick question about a restaurant. I know you mentioned
farm our Fleet Farm. You mentioned a while back about
the restaurant Machine Shed also maybe going in and over there.
I wondered if you have heard anything more or knowing.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
More about this.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Actually it's the same company. It's Heart of America group,
the Wayland family. I texted my friend Mike Waylan to
see if he had an update, uh, and he just
hasn't gotten back to me. But we just sent him
a text. I'd imagine I'd build this year, but we
don't know that as a fact. But Burger Shed is
kind of a scaled down version of Machine Shed, I believe.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
So Machine Shed is a very thematic, large scale restaurant
with a couple locations in Iowa and elsewhere, and it
was it's kind of designed to be kind of an
homage to the American farmer. I've been to a couple
of them actually in my travels, and they're fun places
to go. The food's good theme restaurants, very large scale.

(30:05):
Like Trenton said, this will be Burger Shed, which won't
be as big as a Machine Shed, but same company,
same ownership, and we have no indication that they're not
moving forward. But this would be a little bit. So
there's a cluster where the Burger Detour and Chipotle and
Starbucks are. This would be kind of that cluster of
lots east of that closer to where there's a credit

(30:29):
union called Green Strait Green State Credit Union which is
under construction. It'll be, as I understand it, a little
closer to that, am I, Trenton and Brand look in
the map right now.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
I believe it's one hundred and eighty fifth in Maple, Okay,
just east of those restaurants you named like. Okay, you
appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, you bet well. We appreciate you calling in George
and being our grand finale caller of the day.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
And the map we were looking at is we were
still making sure that Minards owns the land and they
do still own the wad okay.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
So you guys are looking at the Sarpe County CIS
map okay. So yeah, so no reason to believe that
Minards isn't going there eventually because they're still on the land.
But then again, in neversless world, people buy and sell
land from time to time, so we'll have to wait
and see how that all plays out. Well, we're going
to take our final break of the hour and when
we come back, Trenton, Brad and I will go through

(31:23):
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talk about a lot of things in a very short
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(31:43):
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(32:47):
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construction dot com. All right, here we go. Brad drove
by ninetieth Street this morning and found that they are
putting in the foundation for Church's Chicken.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Yeah, the foundation, the forms for the port foundation. We're
all in the former Godfather's site ninetieth and Grant Street.
Qdoba will be replacing Oklahoma Joe's on the east side
of two hundred and fourth Street south of Pacific, and
that hasn't started yet. The old Oklahoma Joe's fixtures are

(33:26):
in there, so it'll probably be a little while before
it opens. We have Deli Coffee Bakery Los Chilenas. That's
a that's a mouthful for a restaurant Deli Coffee Bakery
Los chilenas good place though from what I hear.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
It's opened at eighty sixty four South eighty fourth Street
in Brentwood Square in La Vista. Grand opening celebration is
slated for March eighth. It is locally owned. The business
specializes in baked desserts, coffees, Chilean and panadas, homemade bread
do bladitas. I don't know what those are, dobladitas, and

(34:02):
another I bet they are at any rate, So try
that on March eighth. And then Fellas, we've been talking
about Medi's for a long time. They're out of Kansas
Regional restaurant chain. First Nebraska location is going to be
March sixteenth. We've been talking about, but now we know
it's going to be March sixteenth for the opening. This
is in the former Gunderson's Jewelry space at Village Point.

(34:26):
Sign me up, let's go. Because it's fast, casual Mediterranean food.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
We'll take that soft opening invitation.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, well, check our mailbox regularly until it arrives. The
Grove Juicery and Wellness Cafe has opened its third location
inside the Inner Rail Food Hall at a Sarbon Village.
The Local Juice Bar also operates at twenty fourth and
Farnham Downtown and one hundred and eighty first and Chicago
Street in West Omaha. Get Ready, ladies and gentlemen, because

(34:57):
one of the most popular restaurants on the planet is
Dairy Chef and Elkhorn. People love that place. Just always
see the throngs of people in the summer outside of
the show, and that's the story right here. Twenty twenty
five season starts Tuesday, March eleventh, at eleven o'clock am.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
I mean, people think the line at Coneflower Creamery is
long that Dairy Chef blows them out of the water.
There'll be one hundred people in line some nights.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Oh, it's like when you drive by sometimes you feel
like you're going by a carnival. It's so popular. But
I tell you, I have had I've had the ice
cream there a few times, and it's very very good,
So I get why people wait. Apparently they have good
food there as well, although I've only had the ice cream.
East La del Mar Restaurante will soon hold a grand
opening for its third location in Shadow Lake Town Center.

(35:47):
This is a Mexican and seafood sushi restaurant that has
locations near one hundred and thirty second and Center and
in South o at thirty sixth and Q area. They
are open for limited seating as part of their training
and soft opening right now, so if you go it's new,
you know it might take you a while because they're
still figuring things out. The Witchery Barber, which is a

(36:08):
highly thematic barber shop near Rockbrook Village, is going into
Warren Buffett's office building the Blackstone Plaza thirty fifth in Farnham.
It'll be close to the recently opened place called Homegrown,
which is a restaurant. And then a couple closings really
fast soft mock in the West Roads. The Omaha Bakery

(36:29):
and Elcorn, the Walgreen store at twenty fourth and L
in South oh and Mahalo Pokey Company in a Sarbon
area all have closed. So we hate to see those
businesses go, but we know others will rise up and
take their place. Brad, we always love having you on
the show. Thanks for helping us out today.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Hey, thanks for having me. I was enjoy doing it.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Brad's with Ena Consulting and you can check out his
photography by going to Bradwilliamsphotography dot com. We also have
a lot of his photos on grow Omaha dot com
as well. That's it for this week. I hope everyone
has a marveloust weekend, Happy first day of March. I'm
Jeff Beils.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
And I'm Trenton Maggot.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
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