Grow Omaha 4-12-2025

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 kfab.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, and welcome to the Grow Omaha Show, brought
to you by Dingman's Closing Center and Sheer Athletics. Well,
this is Trenton maggot. You're used to hearing my voice
and our fearless leader, Jeff Beials has taken the weekend
off to spend with his family. However, I am pleased
to have one of our friends and very active grow

(00:36):
Omaha media contributors, Brad Williams, join me today. You know
Brad as the creator of Brad Williams Construction Update, Brad
Williams Photography, and a partner at E and a consulting group,
an engineering firm that's been around for a long time. Brad,
you're a busy boy. How you doing? Hey, good morning,
Thanks for having me back. You are a newly minted

(00:57):
forty seven year old. Yes yesterday, yesterday, it's my birthday.
So Brad Williams was an amazing shooter. He shoots wildlife
without a gun. Because it's with a camera and on
your birthday, was this at your house or where was
it that you saw these amazing, this amazing bald eagle
that was just posing for you.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
No, it was silver at Lake Manawa. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
So people can go to which website or which Facebook
page did you post it on?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's on my Brad Williams photographer facebook page, so or
Instagram or Twitter.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Check it out.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
If you could get him to do your family photos,
they'd be beautiful. He's more of a wildlife. He's more of
a sunset skylines. You do it all, but you run
a helicopter every once in a while. But this, these
bald eagle pictures, I mean he was wishing you a
happy birthday, There's no question about it.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well. I was kind of stalking it and I saw
some people with fishing rods walking towards the tree where
the bald eagle was, so I knew it was going
to happen, and I waited. As soon as he jumped,
I started taking pictures.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
It is clear like you're you're up up there in
the air with him. Well, happy passover to our Jewish friends.
And it's a high time with Easter coming around the
corner and it's good to be an Omaha. We got
a mayoral election coming up, we have a city council race,

(02:17):
and I think things will be pretty civil in this one. Yeah,
it seems like the heated election was the primary and
now we'll have the general election next month, and it
seems like it's going to be between two candidates that
have a lot of experience here in Omaha. Absolutely, Omaha's
on a great track. And well, ladies and gentlemen, you
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(02:39):
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Not only do you learn the kids learn about tumbling
and becoming more steady on the feet, they also learned confidence,
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for it. And plus it kind of gets the family
together and works with your athletes. So the grow Omaha

(03:28):
Weekly Market Report has another restaurant review, the latest restaurant
review by Chris Corey, who I'm staring in the face
right now because he's behind the camera. The restaurant review
as always sponsored by All Makes Office Equipment at about
twenty fifth in Farnum. But Chris almost got that far.
He went to sixteenth, sixteen and eleven Farnum and checked

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out Block sixteen. Have you been to Block sixteen?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh? Yeah, I get there on there quite often.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
So in the newsletter you can read the review. I
would say it's a very positive review. I've only been
there and so I can't tell you much about it,
but I can tell you that on social media people
love to dog out that. Most people say fabulous things
about this guy. This Block sixteen has like worldwide recognition.

(04:16):
They've got a lot of national awards. They're very creative.
It's a couple that owns it. And do you have
a favorite thing to eat there?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
No, they have every day they have a different special
and I always steer towards the special because it's usually
what drives me in down there.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
They start with a euro machine, but they've they've they've
stepped up to one of the world's best hamburgers and
and people fly in for it. So I need to
get to Block sixteen and check out Chris Corey's review
on the Weekly Market Report that came out on Thursday.
And if you don't get it, it's pretty easy. It's
free be one of twenty three thousand people that get
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(04:55):
send you one email on Thursday afternoons and it doesn't
cost any just like all of our offerings. Thank you
to our fabulous sponsors such as All Makes Well. It's
time for the developed News of the Week, sponsored by
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which differs than a bank or a credit union. Where

(05:18):
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Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh yeah, we did not have a We did not
use them at first, and we were stuck to one
bank and it actually bid us. The seller did not
want to use our bank, so we had to shop
around at after that. It was interesting.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
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refinances and they will treat you well. First off, on
the economic development news of the week. The On August fourth,

(06:22):
last year, twenty twenty four, contributing Gromha writer Isaiah Aang
published a story on our website titled planned med Center
building could be four hundred feet tall.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Do you remember that?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, And it described an estimated two point one nine
billion with a bee as a beautiful project to replace
an aging and antiquated medical facilities and add additional needed
space to meet the modern medical facility standards. Well, Jeff Beals,
in addition to not being here, he still did his

(06:54):
homework and yesterday the day before, he saw some huge
drilling equipment that's been on that side. Back in the story,
it talked about the application that indicated a total gross
footage would be about almost one point three million square
feet and would house five hundred and fifty six hospital beds.

(07:16):
So this is I believe that this is the first phase,
and there's still I'm sure designing parts of it, but
it could be up to I think it was up
to like thirty stories that I remember correctly.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, there's no official announcement of what this construction equipment
is going to be working on, but the renderings of
that tower and that whole corner of Saddle Creek and
Farnham are just amazing. All the building that's going to
happen there in the next decade or so.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now, over the last five years, it was announced that
Omaha would be the first of five different cities to
work with Department of Homeland Security and it was going
to be about a five billion dollar project. Three to
five billion dollar project. Omaha was the first one. I mean,
Omaha is a place where they brought ebola patients in

(08:06):
from around the world and cured them of ebola. So
if we can do that and we have the lead
transplant center, uh, that midtown location, which we call the
urban core, is definitely going in the right direction, So
we will keep you update on the progress at UNMC
and Nebraska Medicine. Well, we have a new restaurant announcement,

(08:28):
a new ground up. I've been sitting on this for
a year and a half. A good friend of mine
who manages the building next door, direct message me and
asked me if this was going to happen, and I
couldn't respond to her because I was representing the tenants.
And so here is the news. Lisa, Wichita based three
B Lodge has broken ground on a Twin Peaks at

(08:52):
three to one three North one seventy ninth Street and
Village Point West. This is just immediately east of Home
two Suites Tavern oneint eighty. The eight thousand square foot
building will feature a large outdoor patio and it's planned
on opening in November twenty five, so they've got a

(09:14):
very aggressive build schedule. They've already broken ground. Although you
may recall that there was a Twin Peaks out on
one hundred and seventy third in West Center Road that
wasn't a real Twin Peaks. That was a converted Famous
Daves which had good food. But this place is going
to be the original Twin Peaks and before you you
scoff at it, go to the website check out their menu.

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The new location will be ground up, state of the
art Twin Peaks featuring made from scratch menu items and
daily drink specials. Three B Lodge already has eight existing
locations in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, so I was happy
to work with them. I found them the best location

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and it'll be excited to watch what's happening.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Do you remember that old restaurant.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
I remember it being there, but I never never went there.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
But I think there there.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I've been to it a couple different cities and their
menu is is awesome, So welcome to the market. Hopefully
we'll see them probably mid November, and more activity going
on at Village Point West, which will drive traffic.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
The Mutual Littmaha Tower, they're up to about thirty two
stories and they've got this big yellow box that helps
build the court.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Explain how that works on a building.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's basically a portable form, so they you know, form
up the concrete, they put the rebar in there, they
pour the concrete, and then when the concrete cures, the
forum basically raises itself up to the next floor, they
repeat the process. They put the rebar in poor the concrete,
raise it up. So it's been going up, you know,
it's moved up thirty one to thirty two times now.
But this last week and two weeks they've modified it

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for the top half of the tower.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
And they had to change a little bit and we're
even seeing glass. They're doing something what they call glazing.
I don't know if it's if it's just up there
so they see how it looks and see how it
reflects and things there.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
They've kept going with it, so there's pretty good distance
along the east side has glass on at least a
few floors, and then there's a couple sections that the
glass goes almost all the way the top of the
fifteen story parking garage already.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
And you've taken some great perspective shots and our it's
already transformed our skyline.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's cool when you can move around different parts of
town and see the tower. It just adds a lot
of different camera angles and stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Absolutely, and lastly for development news, the Nova apartments, I
believe it's a white lotus development. There are a lot
of projects around town, Twelfth and Nicholas a five story
building about seventy four units with about twenty thousand feet
of retail. You're seeing the wood go up on that one. Yeah,

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they have the first four framed in that. This is
just yet another building in that whole North Downtown area
that in all the buildings of the Dizney Mule that
are just about wrapping up. And then you got the
frame going up on the east side of that area.
It's about two years from now. That's going to be
a really cool, vibrant area. I remember when we sold
the added auction, we sold Mastercraft Furniture and it's sold

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to a neighbor and that whole area known as Milwork
Commons now has just really really taken off, and so
that is exciting. Well, that is your development news the week,
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Speaker 4 (12:43):
When we come back, we are.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Going to bring on one of our favorite auction company
owners and that's Tom Milly of the Auction Mill. And
you know him because if you go to our website
and you see what restaurants are opening and closing, he
sponsors the ones that are closing because he probably does
seventy five percent of the auction sales on that. So

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stay tuned with stay tuned to Cafe B. This is
Trenton Maggot and Brad Williams. Jeff Bials will be here
next week and we'll agree right back and welcome back
to the Gromaha Show, brought to you by Dingman's Collision
Center and Cheer Athletics. I am Trenton Maggot and filling
in for Jeff Bils is the very capable Brad Williams,

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photographer of the stars and a lot of different companies,
shareholder in Inna Consulting Group which keeps him very busy,
and he also does the gro Omaha Brad Williams construction updates.
So Brad, I'm excited to bring on a gentleman by
the name of Tom Milly and Omaha will recognize his

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company and if it's not just from sponsoring the restaurant
closing sections of our newsletter, it's the auctions that he
has done. Now to give you a quick background, Tom
Millie's been an auctioneer since August of nineteen ninety eight.
He worked for a lot of different companies as a
contract auctioneer. He also is an appraiser and he launched

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the auction mill nice Plan Words in April of twenty
eleven after closing his real estate appraisal firm. He's at
about two hundred and fifty business liquidation auctions in the
Omaha area and Nebraska. He concentrates used on a three
hundred mile radius, but he's done at Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,

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and California. Probably lost a bet for the Caliwornia, California.
But to Milly, thank you for your sponsorship and thank
you for coming on the air.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Oh, you're welcome, Thanks for having me. This is a very.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Joyful gentleman. Ladies and gentlemen. He probably sees a lot
of wild stuff. And so you've done everything from the
Civic Auditorium to the Bohemian Cafe, part so Peenie Park,
the Ruver City Star. Why don't you give us a
thirty thousand foot view of the auction mill and.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Where we're at.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
Sure when we first started, we were a basically a
consignment auction house. We would have a live auction every Thursday.
We did that for about ten years. It was a
great place to come and enjoy. We would always have food,
and we'd have a couple hundred people and never knew
what would come in each week, and we would just
sell whatever came through the doors.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
But in twenty fourteen we got a couple of big breaks.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
We did the Wollner's Grocery store in Xarbon and we
did a pretty decent job at that. We also did
the venice in for the Caniglias or the Canelias, depending
on who you are, and then we also got the
Civic Auditorium auction that year. So since then we really
took off in the business liquidation field.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
So as I have to sometimes limit myself if I
go to auctions or not, sometimes I have to put
myself in the do not visit auction. So I ended
up with the paramutual safe at the Exarbin auction. I
don't know if that was you or not, but no
I know who did it though. Okay, but what was
interesting is somebody was I was watching this auction.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
It went like three or four thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I'm like, I'm out, and the guy says, I wasn't
bidding on that safe. I was been on this thing
over here and one hundred and twenty five dollars later
on a Friday evening, I end up with a four
thousand pounds seventy nine inch safe that only one guy
in town would move it with wing dingers. I don't
know if he's still around or not, but no bank

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company would touch it or anything else. So I had
to remove a door my office. It cost me five
hundred dollars. Then I had to move it again when
we moved office was seven hundred dollars. And then I
also bought the Exarbin Colisseum sign and I found out
was sixteen feet long. I bought that for a few
hundred bucks, and I was like, I have no place
to put this, and so I gifted it to John Hoych,

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who loved it, and he put a couple thousand dollars
in there. So people go to auctions all the time.
I actually sold that sign, Oh yeah. John brought it
in I think in twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen to
one of our big antique auctions, and then we ended
up selling it. I could probably look up and see
where it is today if you want it back. But
that's kind of fun where you see all these idols.
What are some of the stranger items that you get? Well,

(17:12):
people often ask me like, what's the craziest thing you
ever sold? And there's a I used to have a
couple of stock answers, but one time I got in
trouble for saying it.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
Do it but people brought in the not on the show. Yeah,
so we brought in they brought in these Native American scalps. Okay,
And so I had promoted it and we had it
on the auction and then we got a nice call
from a special agent from the authorities and they said, yeah,
maybe that's not such a good idea.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Now were the Native American scalps or the white Man scalps?
Probably white man scalps. I was going to say, yeah,
that was, but we I don't know, you know, you'd
never know. It's for another show.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
And then I went to we sold a pile of
anewer one, so I thought that was kind of interesting.
But that really turned people off. Usually was that was
that fertilizer? Yeah, So now I just say it's the
riverboat from the River City. Star's my that's my go
to say answer. What do you want people to know
about the auction mill? And whether it's a restaurant, which
you know that's probably seventy five percent of our business.
But but you do all types of you do small items,

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do you sell, do you auction buildings?

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Off?

Speaker 4 (18:12):
We did.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
I had my real estate license for a long time.
It's one of my biggest regrets is not doing my
continuing need and losing it. So I'm in the works
of getting that back. I do refer that out. If
we get calls on real estate, I'll do that, but
primarily we do the personal property seventy five percent of
our business. I would say our business liquidations. It doesn't
have to be restaurants. It can be contractors and were

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We do launder mats all over the country. Now apparently
I'm the only launder mat auctioneer in the country, so
we get calls all over the country to do launder mats.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
What's the website for the auction mill? That's it. It's
the auction miill dot com. That works out pretty well.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, the uh Now, I've been a spotter for some
auctions before and what happens, especially charity auctions.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Scott Moore does lotos and it gets really expensive for me.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
I ended up I thought I was bringing it up
for it was a visit to the movie the premiere
of Nebraska with Alexander Payne, and they kept moving the
deadline and everything else. And then it was in Los
Angeles and I was I was in this crowd of
a lot of people that are bidding, and I think
I bid it was either three or five thousand dollars,
just thinking I and I was serious about buying it.

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I wasn't being you know, nefarious or anything. And nobody
bid against me. And my wife got a new custom
made dress. And it turns out they're like, okay, in
three days, you got to be in Los Angeles, and
I gave to friends of mine and Quentin Tarantino was
the MC and I would have flown out for that.
So so auctions are fun wadies and gentlemen, they're they're

(19:39):
very dangerous. And uh so, what is the state of
restaurants right now? When it comes to auctions. We're seeing
a ton of restaurant openings, but we also show all
the closings on the website.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
Yeah, it's it's interesting, and I think it's peaked lately.
We've had more seems to be the restaurant auctions are
getting busier and busier. I don't know why the last
two years. Every time we do it, I always sit
down with the owners and I ask them, you know,
what's the situation. A lot of times their lease is
coming up and they just can't stomach an increase in
the lease. Like for Sortinos, we're gonna be doing the

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Sortino's auction coming up, and for them, they're just tired
and worn out. In the family, the younger generation doesn't
want to take over the restaurant. But what's nice is
usually when one closes to open, so a lot of
our equipment will go towards Like a lot of new
restaurants in town have equipment from our auctions. So a
lot of our buyers all these stuff great stuff. Yeah,

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and we always educate them and tell them, you know,
this is this equipment's good, this one's got some issues.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
We try to do pretty so Sertino's. I believe the
buildings already sold and it's not going to be a restaurant.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
I'm told that's what I'm hearing.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I'll just say I used to work in the bars
and restaurants for a long time, and getting a good
piece of equipment was so much more affordable at the auction.
One of the bars I worked at, the owner he
was always buying, checking out the auctions and buying different equipment.
There's different civic groups in town two that have their
own like you know, Sons of Italy and places like

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that that are always looking for more equipment too, And
auctions are a great place to find some of that.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, And restaurant owners are just fun to talk to, period.
And when you now that I know most of them
in town, you know, if I walk in, people get scared.
They're like, oh crap, they're gonna go. You know, are
we going to have a business that's like, no, I
just came here to eat.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Well, Tom Milly, we appreciate you coming on the show.
We appreciate your sponsorship of the restaurant closing sections on
the website Gromaha dot com. And h is there one
more auction you.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Want to tell us about.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
We've got the Sortino's auction coming up on June first,
and Meatball in Blackstone is actually tomorrow it closes. There's
a lot of really good equipment on the on that
auction as well.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Did you do it online as well?

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah, ninety nine percent of our auctions are online now
since the pandemic, we really turned into an online auction company.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh excellent, Okay, the auction miill dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, Tom,
thanks for coming on.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
You're listening to Brad Williams and Tretton Maggot on the
Gromha Show right here on Cafe B. We'll be back
in a few minutes after the half show break, and
welcome back to the Gromha Show, brought to you by
Dingman's Clision Center and Cheer Athletics. I am Trenton Maggott
and Brad Williams was kind enough to fill in for
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Speaker 3 (23:32):
Imagine that you know that?

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, so you know not All Development from Exarvant Village,
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But a lot of people are asking what's going on
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Speaker 4 (24:16):
So, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you what's going
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Speaker 2 (24:20):
The fifth the Breakfast Club and the forty five hundred
square foot space on the end cap where Jones Brothers
Cupcakes was pretty much from the beginning of Exarbon Village
on sixty seventh Street. What makes the breakfast Club unique?
Go to the Breakfast Club USA dot com because it's
a breakfast in lunch place, which we see a lot

(24:42):
of those, but we don't see a lot of those
with full bars.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
No, that's you.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Maybe some Mimosas or Buddy Mary's, but not the full bar. Well,
not only do you get some wild drink specials, very
exotic drinks with funny names.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
The menu.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
If you go to the the website the Breakfast Club
USA dot com, check out the pictures.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
They have a creep flight.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Everything's a flight, whether it's a coffee flight, whether it's
a meatball flight, whatever it is, there's flights. And you're
a beer flight because you have a podcast called Beers
with Bread. Yeah, add it to your list of accomplishments
and expertise. They are s'morest pancakes, Dutch apple cheesecake, French toast,
and they even have some items on the lighter side.

(25:27):
And so I'm excited for that addition. If you live
in Exarbon Village and you can, you know, you might
have the hair of the dog and from the night
before or whatever. You can just keep it going for
breakfast or launch.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
You know, there's already four breakfast locations in that area
and they are all packed all week and long. I
mean you'll drive by first watch there on the corner
two o'clock in the afternoon, they'll still be people waiting outside.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
You gotta have Omaha foodies.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
And for whatever reason, people don't make eggs at home,
they go out and buy them.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
That's great for the economy.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Also at Exxarbon Village, don't forget Sunny's the airstream trailer
which has a bunch of drinks and light plates and
the great music. They'll either have DJs or live music.
It started up again and you can you can check
it out online for the schedule. But people are playing
corn hole, they're hanging out and lay you know, comfortable chairs,

(26:24):
laying on the grass, whatever they're doing. So that is
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at Exarbon Village. So this segment, I thought that we
would talk about the proliferation of sports of sports complexes.

(26:48):
For some reason, when you and I were younger, for
me it was Husker Raider.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Now I was not.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Even a one star athlete probably, and I didn't get
recruiters when I was in sixth grade or anything like that.
It was pretty much who whose mom brings the oranges
and whose dad brings the high sea. But now apparently
you train for three seasons of a year with your
with your your student athlete. And did you see the

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press release on the construction forty five million dollar complex
Levi Carter Park in north Omaha, right on the north
shore of.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Carter Lake.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, it's going to be a great addition, really great
for that north Omaha community. It looks beautiful and just
to have that's going to have one of the best
views of any of the sports complexes in the area.
You'll be looking right down Carl Lake at downtown Omaha,
right on the water. It's gonna be a great, great complex.
So this is almost one hundred and fifteen thousand square
foot building, which will include the largest basketball facility in

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Omaha with ten indoor courts that can be converted into
fourteen volleyball courts.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
So you have the for.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Profit around Omaha versus the not profit facilities, and apparently
we need all these because there's a lot more coming
that we'll mention. They're also going to have a computer lab,
classroom space, medical exam and telehealth rooms, community meeting spaces,
a fitness facility, and a wrestling room. And the complex

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is completely grant funded. In twenty twenty three, the city
applied for and received a thirty five million dollar Capital
Projects grant funded by the US Department of Treasury, which
as well as a ten million dollars from the State
of Nebraska's North and South Omaha Recovery Program. Both funds
were created to support communities following the pandemic with investments

(28:44):
and qualified census tracks. So this is great for North Omaha.
It'll be interesting to see how it goes, and it
will open in late twenty twenty six and one hundred
different community organizations have been invited to participate in planning
for the programs offered at the complex. At Levi Carter Park,

(29:05):
so it'll stay open and let's watch that. Okay, So
that's one. That's one project. There's also a big press
conference on Project Game On. It's a redevelopment initiative near
thirty fifth and Ames, also in North Omaha.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
It will include new.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Football stadium for Omaha North High School and Magnet School
and complete rebuild of the Butler gasst YMCAA building. After
years of community discussion anticipation, both YMCA and the stadium
will be ready for public in the summer twenty twenty seven.
The current YMCAA building will be torn down to accommodate

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the construction. The new one will be attached to the
future of football stadium. So congratulations to North High another
fine sports facility that I think it's very important for
high schools to have their own football stadium. It just
builds a sense of community. They can do all their
branding and then like I live right by West Sides
Football Stadium and that is used basically from sun up

(30:09):
or even sometimes before sun up until eleven o'clock at
night some nights between actual games. Kids from the different
sports just out there practicing and there's neighbors using it.
It's very important, I think for every neighborhood to have
a good field like that that people can use.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
JFK.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Junior would be proud of Omaha for all the active
students and adults and all of our trail systems and
everything that's going up. A couple of years ago, we
heard about the Tranquility Park project at one hundred and
twenty second in Maple.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
This thing.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
They're currently in the discovery emplmary design phase, which is
intended to progress in the future design and construction phase
in twenty twenty five through twenty twenty eight. Construction of
the soccer fields is expected to start this year, with
baseball and softball upgrades underway in twenty twenty six, and

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they expected completion date will be twenty twenty eight. But
this is gonna be an expansion and then Mohall's development
arm is working on a thing called Tranquility Commons and
they've they've already announced that they've already announced that Chicken
and Pickle kind of like a smash park is scheduled

(31:24):
to go there and this will be this will be
nice as well. They have a Starbucks there too. If
it's not already open, it looks like it's ready to
open soon. So yeah, Tranquility is the original sports complex
around here. Yeah, old enough that I actually played soccer there.
And we can't forget about the Elkhorn Athletic Association in
Valley is doing a facility first. Interstate Bank is sponsoring that.

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That's going to be a bunch of fields and all
kinds of stuff and they're working on that. And then
let's not forget about a piece of property that I
sold down in La Vista, which is the Chi Health
a sports complex which has twelve turfields, and that's getting going.
There's talk about doing up to a two hundred thousand
square foot field house, and then to top it off

(32:09):
and all this activity, let's see what happens in gret
Now they're talking about all kinds of sports relies. Well,
you are listening to Brad Williams and Trenton Maggot right
here on KFAB eleven, ten am, and we're gonna be
right back in two minutes with the with the Perkins
Kritser Lightning Round and there's all kinds of things to

(32:32):
talk about, So stay with us and we'll wrap it up.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Welcome back to.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
The home stretch.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
The Gromha Show. I'm Trenton Maggot.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Brad Williams is filling in for Jeff who will be
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and restaurants. So go to pdashcconstruction dot com and here
is the Lightning Round. Well Brad Flora Cafe a new
Mexican brunch restaurant. Speaking of brunch restaurants, we soon will
suit open a downtown at one zero zero nine Farnham Street,
just south of Jean Leahy Mall. That space was previously

(33:47):
occupied by Matsu SUSI. I had not been there, so
that's probably why. Flora Cafe is under the same ownership
as Sam's Leon Mexican Food, which is at five zero
one four South twentieth Street, and it will so. The
Flora Cafe will feature an outdoor patio and menu of
authentic dishes. An opening date has not been announced. Do

(34:10):
you frequent the Mexican restaurants in Omaha? They're hard to
keep up with. I say, there's a few, and not
that I don't. I just kind of get in the
habit of going to a few and that's yeah. It's
amazing what you can do with like four or five ingredients.
The char Chart is on a run. The Charred Burger
and Bar has officially opened its West Omaha location at

(34:32):
one hundred and eighty first in Chicago Street, which is
known as Broadmoor Hills, in the former Meatball space next
to First Watch, just west of Village Point. The grand
opening event is scheduled for April twelfth, which is today.
Charred has two existing locations and one in Lincoln. Freddy's
It's a Fabulous ice Cream will open in the Coventry

(34:55):
development near two un and fourth and Harrison Street. Just
south of ax Cinema twelve plus my favorite movie theater
and adjacent there's a taco bell that just opens. Speaking
in Mexican food, that's kind of where it starts and
it all goes up from there. The witness Wichtak based
fast food chain operates seven locations in the metro area.

(35:18):
Wheat Fields getting another location Wheatfields ten only set to
open an express location one hundred and eighty ninth in
Evans Street, which is really West Maple Road in Northwest
by the end of April. This second location will feature
a drive through lane an extensive self served grab and

(35:39):
go section. The store will offer key soup, sandwiches, and
bakery items. The existing wheat Fields is at one Pacific
Place at one hundred and third and Pacific Street. One
of my favorite restaurants is the Acadian Grill and Bar,
which is down one hundred and fourteenth in Dodge on
the east side northeast side. Fabulous people, Jennifer and Dan

(36:04):
O'Brien or the proprietors. They're opening up for breakfast, and
if their breakfast isn't even anywhere near their lunches, I'm
really excited that.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
I love their aggress do you ever go there?

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Oh? Yeah, we go there all the time. It's real
close to the office, so it's a great lunch spot.
But when I saw the posts that they were starting breakfast,
I got excited because I can't imagine what you have
for breakfast, but I just know it's going to be good.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
So they're closed Mondays, but Tuesdays through Friday from seven
thirty am to ten thirty am, and then they're going
to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And I'm so excited.
If you like Cajun food, it's not all spicy stuff.
It's just very flavorful. They're very consistent and they recently

(36:47):
were chosen as the third best seafood restaurant in Omaha
with a ton of reviews. And the first two were like,
didn't have many reviews. These guys are consistent. So uh,
the music is playing, which means Brad's going to start
singing for you don't want that now. I want to

(37:08):
thank Tom Milly from the Auction Meal go to the
Auction Meal dot com. Uh, he's a good friend and
a great sponsor. And I want to thank Brad Williams
for filling in.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Hey, thanks for having me. I always enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
All right, You're going to listen to Trenton and Jeff
next week, right here on eleven and ten. Thanks for listening,
See you next week.