Grow Omaha 3-9-2025

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.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Babe, Well, good morning and welcome to the show. Jeff
Bials here at your service. Glad you have joined us
for the only show in the metro area that talks
about real estate development, construction, business expansion, really anything related
to Omaha metropolitan area becoming more vibrant and more prosperous.
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it's time to bring on my co host, a man
who is a legendary real estate deal maker and all
around intriguing fellow, Trenton Maggot.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning, mister Bial's. Well,
good morning to you.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
And it's an exciting weekend, because well it's always an
exciting weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Creaton plays tonight, that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
And you and O has been having a great season.
Creighton's having a great season. People should tune into Gromha
Sports to learn more about it.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Tell us about that, Jeff.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
So, we started this a few weeks ago and Cole
Young is our writer, former football player at University Nebraska
at Carney, and we talk about local sports and you
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Speaker 3 (02:19):
There's no charge?

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Or people send you a link to some website and
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But grow Omaha, always free, always informative.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Always free, always will be all right with that, Let's
go into our news of the week. We have a
lot of it. It's brought to you by EGO Mortgage
Ego Mortgage Company dot com. That's the place you want
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Egle Mortgage is a mortgage brokerage firm, not a bank,
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construction has reached the second floor and higher at Creighton
University's future Sophomore Residence Hall, Trenton. This is a one

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hundred and fifty one thousand square foot five level building
that is at twenty first in Cuming Street. It's immediately
east of Creighton's School of Dentistry. It'll house four hundred students.
Completion plan for the fall of twenty twenty six. What's
also interesting about this though, it's one of four construction
projects Creighton University has underway or planned right there along

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Coming Street. The other one is going to be kind
of a maintenance storage building that's in the early phases.
The new varsity Softball Stadium is coming along nicely and
pretty soon. I believe this summer, if I'm not mistaken,
or this fall, they'll start work on the outdoor baseball
practice facility.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
It'll be interesting to see how the number of students
has it increased the what do you.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Call that enrollment? Yeah, nobody.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, Well, when I've looked at Creighton's enrollment, it looks
like it just kind of steadily rises. I don't get
the impression that they're aggressively trying to skyrocket the size
of that university, but I get the impression they're trying
to keep growing.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
I think they're done a good job their endowments and
people leaving the money and they put it to good
use and definitely increasing the amenities for their students as
well as Omaha.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
They've certainly done a good job with making the campus
bigger and more beautiful. I mean, these buildings that Creighton
keeps constructing look great. I mean all of them on
the east side have this nice red brick matching theme,
and it's the campus is really really looking good and
it's coming together. And basically the university from the west

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and the builders district from the east keep building and building,
and you're just going to see that whole area in
the not too distant future filled in with some pretty
cool projects that will really create a lot of economic activity.
In north Downtown Square apartments have opened on the southwest
corner of thirtieth and Elevenworth Street in midtown. This is

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a five level building, seventy three apartment units from studio
to two bedroom, and it's just part of what's becoming
very vibrant area. The Mill Coffee Shop is right there
in that area, and there are a bunch of rumors
floating around that the Mill might open a second location
in the heart of downtown Omaha. They're originally from Lincoln

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and so that but back to that thirtieth Elevenworth area,
just a lot of construction in that area. There's even
another apartment building a block or to the south that
is slated but has not started. So that's becoming a
pretty vibrant and walkable area. Visit Omaha, which is the
city's convention in Visitors Bureau, is upgrading the Omaha Visitors Center.

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This is at three ZHO six South tenth Street, which
is basically tenth and Farnham Southwest corner. Updates include accessibility
improvements as well as a new entrance clearer signage, and
there will be updated brochures and displays and retail shelves
so people can take a souvenir of Omaha Home with them.

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Nice interior buildout is progressing inside a twelve thousand square
foot space at shadow Lake town Center in Papillion that
will soon be a Barnes and Noble bookstore. Our sponsor,
Perkins Chritzer Construction is doing the construction work inside, but
crews last week. We're building shelves and store fixtures in there.

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The actual address is seventy nine to forty nine Town
Center Parkway and Papellion.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
It used to be a best buystore. What's interesting about
it's kind of back to the future. I was talking
to a guy who actually collects VHS tapes like movies,
and like if they're not open, even better.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
He loves.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
The old school VHS and I don't know if he's
going Beta Max or Laser disc. But it's pretty interesting
to think that we're going back to bookstores. So many
bookstores closed around the country, and Barnes and Noble out
at Oakview has hung on and now they're doing a
second one, and I think that's neat. Yeah, and the
metro area has lost a couple Bars and Nobles. I

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mean there was one at the Crossroads. I believe there
was one in Council Bluffs. Of course there was time
we had a.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Couple Borders Books, three Borders bookstores in town and that
whole entire chain has gone.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
I love going to bookstores. I'm glad to see they're
not going away. I want to congratulate another company that's
one of our sponsors. Bankers Trust, celebrated the grand opening
of its first full service location in Omaha on Wednesday,
just this past Wednesday. Nice ribbon cutting with the chamber.
But this is a beautiful two story building southwest of

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one hundred and ninety second and West Dodge Road. Bankers
Trust is a big deal in the state of Iowa,
and they're becoming a very big deal here in Omaha.
A lot of seasoned Omaha banking professionals who Trent and
I are friends with. Sam Ausin does a great job
over there. Yep, she's the Nebraska president and so we're

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just really happy for Bankers Trust. It's outstanding organization making
a huge commitment to Omaha and Nebraska, and we also
appreciate them being a GROWMAW sponsor.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
And one hundred and ninety second in Dodge Ten years ago,
you would have thought that was the edge of the universe,
but it's like.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
It's not that far out anymore now.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I mean, you think about so many development projects happening
in that area, and then of course you know to
a mile to the west of that is the two
hundred four Street Corridor, which is just bonkers and bananas.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
There's so much development.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
It'll be interesting to see what kind of retail. You know,
that's part of the Nebraska Good Life a Transformation Act,
one of the Good Life districts around there, and they're
only talking about two hundred and twenty five acres or
less or something like that. But in order to do that,
you got to have sales tax to make it work
to collect that two point seventy five percent of the
states share. So I haven't heard of any you know,

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they've talked about stadiums there, they've talked about some retail
and stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
But no names have really come up.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see who they end up
landing there. The visibility, the accessibility in the democrat grafics
in the area are well, the demographics are about as
good as it gets in the state of Nebraska. So
I'm sure you'll end up with some very cool stuff.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
As the time goes, you've always talking about, well we
need another Whole Foods or another Trader Joe's good.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
It would be interesting to see. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, Well, let's finish the news with a couple stories
from Bellevue. First of all, we have new car related
businesses that are planned for vacant land just west of
Woodhouse Chrysler Dodge Jeep dealership, which is not far from
twenty second and West Chandler Road. AutoZone is going to

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be right on the southeast corner of twenty second and
West Chandler Road. And then additionally, a new car dealership
will be sorry be built south of that store. And
that dealership is identified as Lux Automotive. It has a
used car dealership in existing location at sixty first.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
In El Street in Omaha.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
And then we've talked a little bit about this lately,
but there's a lot brewing with this big Bellevue Bay
water project. The City of Bellevue is rezoning land related
to that sixty million dollar development project. This is northwest
of Highway seventy five and Hidden Valley Drive. Hidden Valley

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Drive is a little offshoot off of Platte View Road,
and this is, like I said, going to be known
as the Bellevue Bay water Park. It'll anchor Bellvue's state
approved Good Life District, and according to Bellevue City planning documents,
the city will rezone the first of five lots of
that district two mixed use. The water park will be

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built as phase one of that overall development. Now Phase
two will include a few new hotels and parking. The
hotel brands have not been identified, but at least one
of them appears to have direct access to the planned
water park via covered walkway or skywalk. We also have

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dozens of new commercial development plans. Brian Thomas from our
office in AI. N P Dodge is going to be
leading the real estate brokerage work for that area. So
if you're interested in being that area, let us know
at NP Dodge. One other thing about that, Bellevue has
unsuccessfully so far petitioned for approval of a Bellevue Racino.

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A A racino is a racing track casino. Because the
state of Nebraska has already approved the maximum of five
of these establishments, but I know Bellvy would like to
have one, but there are five Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island
Columbus in South Siux City, but it sounds like Bellevue
still has its eyes on getting one of those eventually.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
So it has to have a racetrack in order to
have the casino. So it would be a part of
ho Chunk or I.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Don't know, but apparently, you know that warhorse thing that
we have on Q Street is a race sino because
they have horse racing there, Like what do they have
like five minutes of horse racing?

Speaker 4 (12:59):
They have the same thing, and you know it's affiliated
with the Native American casino. However they structure the legislation.
But I've done the research for the last twenty to
thirty years, Jeff, and I can tell you that gambling,
while it's fun and entertaining, is pretty much a tax
on the stupid.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
But wait a minute, you go gambling, Well that was
just for the research. Oh okay, so you're not saying
you're stupid.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well I wouldn't go that far.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Okay, Well, at any rate, that's your news of the week,
which is brought to you by Egle Mortgage Eego mortgage
company dot com. Going to take our first break of
the hour, and when we come back, we're going to
be talking about how you turn some old, vacant, decaying
grain elevators into a really cool apartment complex.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
That and more.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Stay with us. You're listening to grow Omaha, brought to
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Radio eleven ten KFAB and welcome.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Back to the show.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Jeff Beils and Trenton Maggot broadcasting live from the KFAB
Penthouse studio high above beautiful Underwood Avenue in downtown Dundee.
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Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well Trenton.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
You and I are both Omaha natives, and we've been
around a long time. And I can remember as a
little kid driving on Interstate eighty with my parents, and
you'd go around thirty fifth Street and you'd look up
to the north side of the freeway and there was
this hulking, haunting, imposing looking grain elevator. And I remember
a time thinking, I'm kind of embarrassed we have that there,

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because it makes Omaha look like a country place. Now
I realize it's a cool relic of our agg industrial past,
but there's one problem. It's been utterly vacant for a
long time.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Well do you remember when they widen Interstate eighty, how
they cut those.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Off of them?

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, that's a diamond blade right there. That was a
smooth just shaved that thing right off.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
So if you don't know what he's talking about, next
time you drive by those elevators at about thirty fifth
and I eighty, especially if you're westbound in the far
right lane, look over and you can see whether there
was another silo or more that was just shaved off
to make room for the expanded freeway. But you might
be wondering, why do we bring up these Grain elevators
that are vacant so long they're about ready to be

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redeveloped light development. I'm not familiar with that company, but
they're local. They plan to transform these into an apartment complex,
and the Omaha Planning Board this week reviewed it and basically,
here's the thing. They're going to keep some of the silos,
but not all of them. They're going to the silos

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in the middle. So the Grain elevator is a series
of long silos, right, So the silos in the middle
and the tall headhouse in the center, those are going
to be lopped off, and the foundation of those middle
silos will stay, and upon that foundation will be constructed
a one hundred and forty four unit apartment complex building.

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A couple of those lopped off silo bases will actually
be converted into the apartment complex's swimming pool, which is
incredibly cool. Now, the entire silos, a few of them
on the north end of the property and probably about
eight to ten of them on the south end of
the property, will stay and be kind of like conversation barriers.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Ah, maybe sound urier. It's a group.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Affiliated I don't know which partners, but with their friends
over at Oak Investments.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, so this thing, like I said, will be one
hundred and forty four units total. It's a four point
eight eight acre, so call it five acre site. And
so so, in addition to the part that the elevator
sits on, there's also some open land.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
This is immediately.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Adjacent to the Field Club bike trail, which will remain undisturbed,
and you'll have you'll have a few different buildings the
main there'll be one big building that rests on top
of these lopped off, planed off silos, another building with apartments,
and then there'll be some townhouses. But this thing is
going to have heavy amenities and is going to look

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really cool. And now there have been some cities where
developers have actually literally carved apartments into the grain silos.
That does not appear to be the plan here. Those
are tough windows to cut, but I think that you could,
and it's been tried before. There was one group I.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
Think that bought it in the interim from the time
it went dormant to now where they were trying to
figure out how to do rock climbing and things like that,
because it's a natural structure for that. Whether they want
the liability if they could do outdoors and maybe indoors
just light it up really well. But I could see
them trying to do part of that doing rock climbing

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in addition to the apartments.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Maybe because that brings up a good point Trenton.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Because the few silos on the north and the several
silos on the south they're going to keep, they have
to clean up. I went to the site Sunday afternoon
as part of my weekly grow Omaha driving tour, parked
the car, I got out, I walked up and down
the trail right next to it, and then I kind
of went around the fence line and really looked in there.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
It is rough.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
I mean, there is crumbling debris on the ground, so
there's got to be a lot of clean up in
the way.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
They had to lock it down and weld it shut
for a while because some kids got in there or
young adults and decided it was a good idea to
climb up it, and one girl really got hurt.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, so you know, like you say, because after a
while they did that repelling and rock climbing business in there,
but it didn't take or didn't stick. But this is
a great example of an urban infill project. And ladies
and gentlemen, if you're looking for signs that our economy
in Omaha is healthy, that our real estate market is healthy,

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that our population is growing, here's a sign for you
right there that project. Because if you can justify the
cost of tearing down grain silos that essentially can probably
stand up to some nuclear bombs. They're built so well,
just to get one hundred and forty four apartments into

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an urban infill area like that, you know the central
part of your city is healthy, and you can pat
yourself on the back because it means your business leaders,
your political leaders, your community leaders are really doing a
good job of making a healthy city.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
It's expensive to tear those things down as well. People
always talk about things like Oakview and what's the history
of Oakview, and if Crossroads is any indication on Crossroads
had a bunch of underground delivery.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Tunnels and things like that.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
So it's robaite more expensive, but it can easily be
five to seven million dollars to tear down one of
those malls, And so I can see why they try
to repurpose what they got.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
A couple other quick news items before we break for
the National International News on the half hour. A new
neighborhood market is planned for the South twenty fourth Street
business district. It's a corner commercial spot. The address is
forty three to twenty eight South twenty fourth Street. It
was the home of the Dross sturba insurance agency. It's

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a twelve hundred square foot space going to be renovated
for a business called ix Coy Market. Is that xcoy ixcoyixcoy,
I don't know, or maybe it's just Ixcoy Market. And finally,
Starbucks Coffee has plans for a new I know shocking
Starbucks would build a new location, but they have plans

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for a new location in the mocking Bird Hills area.
While starbucks more recent locations have been primarily new construction,
the coffee chain has plans to convert an old Wells
Fargo Bank building at forty seven oh seven South ninety
sixth Street. According to the filed permit for new tenant construction,

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the company will spend eight hundred thousand dollars to transform
the bank into a coffee shop with the drive through.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
They tore down the one at ninety six and l
right across from Anderson Convenient market.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
In fact, I was kind of thinking that's where this
one was, but this must be forty seven oh seven,
must be somewhere different.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
We need a Starbucks on every corner.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
We need a Starbucks, and we need a Starbucks on
two out of every four corners per intersection. And with
that we break for the Fox News on the half hour.
When we come back, we'll have our non companies commercial
real estate development spotlight and more news to share you.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
So stay with us.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
You're listening to Grow Omaha brought to you by Dingman's
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Trenton Maggot sitting with you. Glad you've joined us today.
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All Company's commercial real estate development Spotlight of the Week,

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brought to of course, by Nodel Companies. They are one
of the true premier developers in the United States of America,
headquartered right here in Omaha, but they do projects nationwide.
Just last week we talked about Nodel Companies doing a
very substantial mixed use project as part of the broader
Gretna Landing project, and that's an awesome thing that they're doing.

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And of course not Al Companies is famous for, you know,
the Builders District and Xarbon Village and many other developments
and corporate headquarters. Well, today's Nodel Companies project that we
focus on is x Sarbon Village, the legendary, awesome x
Sarbon Village.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
And here's the news.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Godega Market, a coffee shop and convenience market that is
located in the Old Market at four twenty three South
Eleventh Street, that's eleventh and Howard northeast corner. They have
filed a building permit for the remodel of a space
at nineteen seventeen South sixty seventh Street in x Sarbon Village.

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That's in the HDR headquarters building. And this is the
space that was previously occupied by the restaurant zoop zup
So Godega Market coming to x Harbon. We believe they're
going to continue to operate their existing location in the
old market. Have you ever been into that Godega Market?

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Actually about a bottle of line there? I think met
I've been in there too. It's really cool. What I
like about that location is you've got all the students,
you've got all the residents, you've got a ton of
apartments and it's making it. It's an area where it's
very walkable. And that's what it takes to have because
it's it's basically an upscale convenience store without gas.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
I'd imagine.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, it's a it's a very tasteful almost kind of
like a little you could call it meets and like
a gourmet convenience person. But no, I've we stopped in
there for a coffee once when Stephanie. I were downtown
and real really thought it was a pretty cool place.
The backside of its attached to the passageway gallery or
the passageway, not the gallery, and then any rate, so

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that'll be a great addition to Xarbon Village. You know
that that's really close to InterRail Food Hall, and that's
just such a fun place to hang out. And that
Ladies and Gentlemen is your novel company's commercial real estate
development spotlight of the week. A couple other news items
for you today. Hair Care in Beauty. Hair Care in Beauty,

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which calls itself h K n B just opened at
Oakview Mall, next to Torrid and across from Bath and
body Works. It's a woman owned salon caters to the
west Omaha market, offering custom wigs, hair weaves, makeup and
beauty supplies. I'm there and speaking of beauty supplies, Bissau

(25:52):
it's spelled b I s ou would that be Bissau
Bissau Bissau Bissau Nail Salon plans to open soon at
a hundred and eighty eighth and Oakmont Drive. That's just
a block north of Highway three seventy thirty three hundred
square foot nail salon. It'll be the first tenant in
a newly constructed retail strip immediately east of the world's

(26:15):
largest high V and amusement park. Interior finish on that
nail salon is underway, so that population of the Highway
three seventy cores with retail businesses continues to flourish.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
I wonder if that high V being so big. I
wonder if maul walker sometimes just go to Highve just
a walk around Highve.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Walkers they say, you know, I don't feel like driving
all the way from Gretna to West Roads, will just
walk the High Vey. Yeah, you're probably right. Joe Anne,
the troubled fabric and craft retail chain, announced in early
February that would close five hundred of its eight hundred stores,
including Council Bluffs in Bellevue. They were going to spare
the Omaha store at one hundred and thirty Second and Maple.

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Now there's no sparing of any store. All eight hundred
stores nationwide going away. Yet another major national retailer that
appears to be vanishing. They declared bankruptcy twice in less
than a year. Based in Hudson, Ohio, near Dayton, Ohio.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
I couldn't find a buyer, but I bet you they'll
have like some kind of online presence. I guess. I
guess though.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
I have talked to several people since this Joe Anne
news has been coming out who are really into sewing
or quilting or fabric hobbies or anything like that. And apparently,
from what I hear, there's gonna be a real void
because there are not a lot of other retailers who
provide that material.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
No pun intended, there's no question that you know it's
going to hurt the fabric of that industry.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Let's see what you did there.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
And finally, we want to congratulate both our local D
one basketball teams here in Omaha on a great, great season,
and as Trent mentioned at the beginning of the show,
we have our new Gromha sports section reported by Cole
Young on Thursday's news. Cole reported both of these first

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of all, UNO basketball head coach Chris Crutchfield was named
the Summit League Coach of the Year this week, and
that was after leading the Mavericks to an historic season.
You may not know this, but they were picked second
to last in the conference's preseason Pollo and they won
the regular season championship.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
That's a bad analysis, some.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Bad prognosticating on the part of the basketball prognosticator.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
I should have bankruptcy for Joanne. When do you think
the bankruptcyason be buttoned up?

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Okay, So now back to regularly scheduled program. The other
D one basketball program in town is Creighton University. Coach
Greg McDermott has now won twenty or more games for
the fourteenth time in fifteen years at Creighton, and the
last time the Blue Jays failed to win twenty games
was the twenty fourteen to fifteen season, right after Doug

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McDermott left to go to the NBA. So that's pretty impressive.
So you're in a good town watching for watching the
little round ball. And with that, we're going to take
our final break of the hour, and when we come back,
it will be your Perkins Chritzer Construction Lightning Round. That's
when we talk about a lot of things in a
very short period of time. I'm looking at the list

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and it's really long, so you don't want to miss
any of it. Perkins Chritcher Construction Lightning Round comes next.
You're listening to Jeff Beils and Trenton Maggot on Grow Omaha.
Brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center and Cheer Athletics
on News Radio eleven ten kfab. It's the Lightning Round,
brought to you by Perkins Chritzer Construction. They are an

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outstanding class a general contractor that does both projects large
and small and everything in between. Perkins Chritzer Construction has
an outstanding team. They're based here in Omaha, but they
work all over the region. You can go, you know,
up to Sious City, out to North Platte, deep into
Eye Perkins Chritzer Construction does all of that sort of thing,

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and hey, here's a cool project that they're working on.
They are just starting on a new Jersey Mike's location
in downtown Lincoln sixteenth and Q Street and Lincoln kind
of in the design finish and they'll open late summer.
And a lot of times we talk about the restaurants
that Perkins Kritzer Construction does because it's the Lightning Round

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and one of the things we love to talk about
our restaurants and retail here in Omaha. I said earlier
that Barnes and Noble under construction in Shadow Lake Town Center, Papelon,
Perkins Chritzer Construction. You got Hawaiian Brothers coming soon to
Merkele Hills. Can't wait for that. The Old Boston Market
Perkins Kritzer Construction. You can find out more about them

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simply by going to pdashcconstruction dot com p dashcconstruction dot com. Well,
let's get into it, Trenton. There's a lot of things
on this list. Who likes ice cream? We all like
ice cream. The second Betty Ray's ice Cream shop is
coming soon. It will be going to five ninety five

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North one hundred and fifty fifth Plaza that is part
of the Shops of Pepperwood. It's in kind of there's
there's a little second separate.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Building Jimmy John's, Yeah, and Karma Coffee is over there.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
It's going to be in that building and the space
is just being renovated right now, but they're actually going
to shoot to be open in April.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Is that the float space or something like that it
might have I think I think it was those didn't
work out with those tanks, Well you got to give
it a try anyway.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
The first Betty Raised ice Cream in Omaha is at
sixty three oh seven Center really close to Sarbon Village,
but they're originally out of Kansas City. Chubb Foods, located
at sixteenth and Locust Street, has temporarily closed in order
to be renovated and rebranded. It's going to reopen in

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the fall. It won't be called Chub Foods. This is
according to a news report by k ETV, and it'll
be a little bit more convenience store like in that
it'll have gas station pumps, but they told KTV that
they would still carry most of the same grocery items.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Like I said, reopening this fall.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Hate to see any sort of reduction of grocery available
in the Northwest quadrant because we're already a little short
of grocery stores in that part of town. But it
does sound like they will continue to have a pretty
significant grocery component, even though they're going to become a
little more convenience store oriented. Now, let's go out to
Oakview Mall. Kid Lovvy kid Lovvy spelled kid Lavie is

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a family park and restaurant. It'll open soon. Indoor park.
It'll open soon, first Nebraska location at Oakview Mall. It's
going to be in a twenty two thousand square foot
space on the second level near the former Rush Market,
which is a former Yonkers. It is signed for children
ages one to twelve. The Parkle feature shows workshops, escape rooms,

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dining options, a spa, and even a patisseriri. It was
founded in twenty twenty two. Overseas, I think Dubai definitely
not the United States. They only have twenty of these
things in the entire world, and only about five or
six of them either open or under development in the
United States. So Omaha is kind of on the front end.
Of course, the big question is oak Few maol is struggling.

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How will it do there? Will it be okay there
or will it pull in some traffic and help oke
you mool.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
They've better do a lot of social media advertising, That's
all I can say.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
And with that marketing advice, we go to Daly Oone's
Taco Rico, which assigned the lease for the former Amigos
King's Classic Space in Gretna. This is one to eighteen
fifty five South two hundred and sixteenth Street in Gretna,
right along you know the Highway thirty one Highway six.
There Daily Owns will start renovating the twenty two hundred

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square foot space right away. They're going to open pretty fast.
The spring ed Pecchi from Nai and p Dodge. Our
colleague did that deal, you know.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
With the proliferation of all these Mexican restaurants, restaurants popping up,
and they you know, they got four or five main ingredients. Uh,
they're just lucky that one of those ingredients isn't eggs.
We'd be in a lot of trouble.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Truer words have never been spoken. Blue Sky Patio and
Pickleball is bringing its food service in house. We've reported
lately that they ended their relationship with both Noley's and
Cheeseburgers to Omaha Restaurants, which had locations inside Blue Sky Pickleball.
They're in Regency Landing now they're going to have their

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own food service and they're going to offer several menu
items from the former sister business of theirs, the Blackstone Meatball.
So if you were a fan of the Blackstone Meatball,
some of those meatballs are coming back into the Pickleball place.
We have an update about poke Boba House. This is
an old market restaurant that had a real loyal following,

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but they closed on February twenty eighth. They were at
five ten South thirteenth Street. We got a lot of
people saying to Gramaha that they were quite disappointed about that.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Well, good news.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Restaurant is relocating to eighty third in Maple tentatively set
to open in two months and the new locational feature
and expanded menu also now with taraiaki and ramen specialties
on the menu, not just the poke boba stuff on there.
Kudoba plans to open in the former Oklahoma Joe's Barbecue

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space at fourteen oh five South two hundred and fourth Street.
That's just a little bit southeast of two hundred and
fourth and Pacific. Oklahoma Joe's closed that restaurant on December
thirty first. They do continue to have an Oklahoma Joe's
in Xarbon Village. We don't know the estimated opening date.
When we checked earlier this week, un turry renovations hadn't

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even started yet, so it'll be a little while. Kudoba
has ten existing Omaha locations. Council Bluff's only Runza has
been torn down temporarily closed for a full complete rebuild,
similar to what they did at seventy second in Pacific
in Omaha, and it is expected to reopen in August
brand new building.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
That's probably easier than just replacing the cooking oil.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Go Glow will open its first Nebraska location on March
twenty sixth at one hundred and forty fourth in Maple Area,
next to Massage Envy.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
This is an.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Airbrush tanning salon specializing in plant based, vegan friendly spray tans.
I know I only want vegan friendly tans.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
And with that, the.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Music is playing, which means we are finito. Hope everyone
has a great week. Don't worry, we'll be back with you.
But in the meantime, I'm Jeff Beils.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
And I'm Trenton Maggot.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
You've been listening to Grow Omaha, brought to you by
Dingman's Collision Center, Cheer Athletics, and Perkins Kreutzer Construction.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
We'll chat with you next week in.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
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