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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is grow Omaha, the only radio show that talks
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things that make Omaha a great place to live or visit.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, good morning, and welcome to the aforementioned Grow Omaha
radio show. My name is Jeff Beals, your co host,
broadcasting live from the KFAB Penthouse Studio high above Underwood
Avenue and beautiful downtown Dundee. You're not going to find
another show in the metro area that discusses what we do,
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further ado, we're not going to bring on Trenton Maggot
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because we're giving him another week off. Got to keep
that guy fresh, So in his stead helping out this
week is a voice that you may remember from a while.
It's been over a year since he's been here. But
Brian Hartman, one of our colleagues at nai NP Dodge,
is back in the house. Brian, glad you're back on
the show.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yes, Jeff, thank you for having me. It's been a while,
but happy to be back and miss the studio.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, it's good to have you back. And now Brian
does a lot of commercial real estate brokerage, but it's
safe to say you specialize in sarp County or you
tend to focus a lot of your efforts in sarp County,
even though you will work all over the whole metro area. Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, ten fifteen years ago, I just recognized Sarpie County
as definitely a growing county and where there's going to
be a lot of action going forward, and our guests
will be able to speak about that as well, which
will be really interesting. So I focused on it and
got to know the farmers, got to know the stakeholders
in the city and county, city and county people. So yeah,
(02:02):
it's been a great county to work in.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, and as Brian just kind of hinted there later
in the program, we're going to be discussing some Sarpe
County growth and development issues and something very important that
is necessary in order for growth in Sarp County to happen.
So stay with us. But before we get to that,
we have a few things, and first of all, want
to give a shout out to our own Brad Williams.
You know Brad, he's on the show all the time,
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our official photographer. Brad is exhibiting this weekend at the
Countryside Village Art Fair that runs from ten am to
six pm today and from ten am to five pm tomorrow. Now,
it's going to be really easy to find Brad's booth
if you go there and true Brad Williams fashion. He
requested that his booth is right next door to the
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casual Pint. Brad is a big craft beer ficionado, so
it's a perfect place for him. But stop out and
see him. Truly his photography and it's not just Omaha shots,
which he's famous for, but a lot of wildlife shots.
He'll go out and take pictures in the Western States
and pretty cool stuff. Hey. I want to also give
a plug for Tera Goucha, a new Brazilian steakhouse that
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opened in the former Charleston's Restaurant building at one hundred
and thirty eighth and West Dodge Road. Had a chance
to preview it Thursday night ahead of its grand opening yesterday.
It's a fun place. It is a classic Brazilian steakhouse.
If you've ever been to one of those, you know
they have the cold bar, the hot bar. They bring
skewers of piping hot meat and they slice it for
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you right to your table. It's a lot of fun
this one, say you no, it's like maybe somewhat elevated
compared to maybe some of the Brazilian steakhouses I've been to.
So if you're into that, give it a try. Go
hungry though. It's very easy to overeat at these places,
and I can attest as I sat up sleeping on
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the couch for a while because I ate so much
of that stuff. All right, let's go into our news
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remember when we were kids, You and I both grew
up here. Do you remember Kitty Clover potato chips and
they had that commercial on TV says, come on over
to Kitty Clover, you're drawing a blank.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Until I was blank. But yeah, the jingle rings about.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It was a long time ago. It was a long
time ago. Well, they their office and potato chip factory
was on the northwest corner of twenty fourth and Martha.
The building's still there and a local businessman is converting
that to building into Clover twenty four. See what he
did there with a name Clover twenty four Venue for
artists and entrepreneurs. Clover twenty four will offer space for
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co working space for entrepreneurs and then I think studios
for artists. So sounds like kind of a cool urban
amenity in South o Well.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yes, now the Hot Shops is still operating on the
north side, Okay, and that was very successful and I'm
guessing it's still occupied and active with the same type
of concept.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes. Absolutely. In fact, it's my understanding that the Hot Shops.
And forgive me if I'm wrong, ladies and gentlemen, but
it's my understanding it's kind of hard to get in there.
There's so much at my thinking as well, yeah, that
something like this is maybe designed to take some of
the overflow, some of the extra demand that's out there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
With South Omha location.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, other side of downtown. So yeah, Hot Shops is
Brian indicated north side. It's in Millwork Commons. The actual
address would be thirteenth and Nicholas Southwest Corner. And it's
pretty cool place, all right. We had a ribbon cutting
this week in midtown. It was for the Catalyst, that
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is the first building to officially open on the University
of Dabaska Medical Center's New Edge district. This is a
really cool area on the west side of Saddle Creek Road. Now,
the Catalyst itself was a former steel factory that was built,
I believe in nineteen oh six. And this thing was
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a very important steel factory for many decades. I mean,
it contributed to the Allied war effort in World War II,
cranking out steel that was necessary to build weapons and
god knows what in order for us to win that war.
A very important place, but it had been vacant for why. Well,
as old steel plants do, they tend to become eye source. Well,
the Med Center is fixed it up. It's absolutely amazing.
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It was a project in coordination with Colbel and Company
and Greenslate Development, and it's really cool, one hundred and
seventy thousand square foot building. This is where they will
house those entities that take innovations at the university and
bring it to private industry. And it'll also be home
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to Big Grove Brewery, very impressive brewery out of Iowa
that is supposed to open here pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Well, another powerful economic generator for that part of town.
And the Med Center just keeps giving and giving in
many ways.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, it's just fun to see all the progress in
that area. And while we're on the topic of academic development,
the Biomechanics Research Building at Uno is getting a seventeen
point one million dollar edition. Groundbreaking was held this week.
The principal benefactor is Ruth Scott and the William and
Ruth Scott Family Foundation. This will be a three story
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edition that will add nineteen thousand square feet to the
east end of the existing building and then Brian our
final story for this week's segment. The City of Omaha
plans to add three thousand, five hundred and fifty eight
people to its population roles and fourteen hundred plus acres
of land as part of its twenty twenty five annexation package.
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A large majority of the annexation includes Flanagan Lake and
the surrounding areas northwest northwest, relatively new in our D Lake,
and a few subdivisions here and there. So the package
has to go through all the normal processes. But one
little interesting thing is it also includes the condominiums on
top of the a Loft Hotel at one hundred and
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eightieth and Dodge Area, So that's probably like what ten
people or something like eight, So that part of the
annexation is seven and a half people, but all together
it is a little over thirty five hundred people.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That seems like a large annexation package, you know, compared
to compared to previous years.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, lately, because the last couple of years, if I
remember correctly, the city of Omaha has not been very
aggressive with annexation at all, and I think they were
trying to catch up with some of the big annexations
they had done earlier there. You know, there have been
times where you see like fifteen twenty thousand people come
in with an annexation package, but the last couple of
years it's been pretty skinny.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So a good sign for health of sids, you know,
and allow those bonds and need to be in the
right place for a city to annex them. So that
modes well for the health of a lot of the
sids it's that have going that have been performing here
in the city.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, when the city feels that it's ready to take
them in and that, ladies and gentlemen, is your News
of the week, which is brought to you by Eagle
Mortgage g Gole Mortgage Company dot Com. Gonna take our
first break of the hour and when we come back,
we're going to talk about sewers. No, don't turn the channel.
You're gonna love hearing about this actually because you cannot
develop any part of our metropolitan area if you don't
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have the sewers planned out ahead of time. Think about it.
And so we are going to interview Dan. We've got
I'm sorry, Dan Hoynes and Don Kelly. Both of these
gentlemen have roles with the Sarpy County and Cities Wastewater Agency.
Sarpy County has been held back for development purposes for
a lot of years because of some natural topographical things
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that we're making sewers difficult. A lot of land is
opening up for development of Sarpy County and it's going
to be pretty impressive. So stay with us. This will
not be a crappy conversation. You are listening to Jeff
Beal's and Brian Hartman substituting for the vacationing Trenton Maggot
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(10:53):
and welcome back to the show. Jeff Beal sitting next
to Brian Hartman from nai NP Dodge Commercial real Estate.
He is substituting for Trenton Maggot, who has the weekend off.
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repair company with four metro area locations. Before we go
any further, I just want to say, why couldn't my
grandfather have purchased farm land on the south side of
the Sarpee County Ridge back in the day. We would
all be so rich. Because there's going to be so
much development coming to the south side of Sarpye County
and we're going to address that today. And as I
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said earlier, if you were with us before the break,
you can't build houses and office buildings unless you have
the sewer first. And we have two representatives today from
the Sarpee County and City's Wastewater Agency. That would include
the chairman of the organization, who happens to be Sarpie
County Commissioner Don Kelly, and then the administrator of that
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relatively new agency, Dans Dan and down. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Thank you, it's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Thank you. Good to have you guys with us. And
I think We're going to go ahead and start with
a lay of the land, so to speak. And we've
known that Sarpe County is consistently the or one of
the fastest growing counties in Nebraska, explosive growth. But we
also know that there's a lot of it that hasn't
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been touched and a lot of people wonder why, you know,
with all of the population growth, why why doesn't the
growth go further in Sarpy County? So why don't we
start with a background of the topographical ridge line and
why that causes issues for sewer construction and bring us
to where we are right now.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, sure, thanks. As you mentioned, there's a hydraulic ridge
line that runs across the county from the northwest to
the southeast. This sort of separates the county in half,
and when they originally started growth and development on the
northern half of the county, all that was sewered and
it ran into the Papio Watershed, the Papio Creek watershed
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and flowed down to the plant down on the Missouri River.
South of that ridge line, however, it was mostly acreages
and farms and rural areas. But as Sarpee County started
to develop out people. We discovered quite a while ago
that people want to live there because it's a high
quality of life. There's a lot of great amenities, great schools,
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and so what we saw happening in the southern half
of the county was people were developing acreages. And acreages
are great, they certainly are, but they don't provide enough
of a tax base to provide the infrastructure the need
to keep that quality of life present. So we looked
at some options beginning back in two thousand and five
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to actually sewer the southern half of the county. Those
didn't really gain any traction, although they were a multi
jurisdictional plan with all the cities in the county, and
it wasn't until about twenty fifteen where we said, if
we don't do something soon, we're going to lose this opportunity.
So we got together with the five cities and did
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some initial brainstorming, some crayons, summits, if you will, scoping
out a plan. And the first thing we realized is
we didn't have any political authority to do anything because
we were just six different entities, the five cities of
Sarpie County and the county itself. So we went down
to the legislature in twenty seventeen and asked for the
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permission to form this multi jurisdictional agency whose sole purpose
will be to put the sewer infrastructure in the part
of our county where it didn't exist. It was an
interesting set of hearings that we sat through and generally,
I would say the legislati leaders were very supportive, but
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they were very concerned that we were going to increase
property taxes, and as we all know, property taxes are
high enough as they are. But we were able to
lay out a plan form that convinced them that it
was a good idea, and by a unanimous vote, believe
it or not, they gave us the authority to form
this agency and that's what kicked it off in twenty seventeen.
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And here we are eight years later, finally cutting the
ribbon on the first phase of three phases for this project.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, this is Brian. One thing I wanted to say
is I was waiting for today's show, is thank you
for your leadership. That's we were talking in between the
breaks about all the different stakeholders that you are managing
to create a vision and perform on that vision. So
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thank you for that, and I'm guessing you don't maybe
get as many thank yous as you should get. And
then the other question I had is from my community,
the brokers that deal with land and developer. Could you
talk about where are we at physically with the completion
and where should we be focusing our efforts in a
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general sense to work with farmers as to where some
development projects should go to start start developing out this
new district area.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Thank you Brian and Jeff dan Hoynt, administrator for the agency.
That question could take the rest of the morning, so
I will try and be very very efficient with the response.
As Commissioner Kelly mentioned, Chairman Kelly Monday, we'll be doing
a formal ceremony although we started to flow in December,
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it just we're getting around to it this time of
year where we're going to formally recognize that the Governor
will be there center hole crop critical supporters in here.
But from a farmer land use development perspective, we have
this first phase completed Chairman mentioned, that opens up ten
five hundred acres that was not previously open for development.
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That equates with all of our our government math. If
you will too, we could accommodate sixty thousand more residents.
It's Ourpe County today just with that, just on that
Phase one line. Now it doesn't It's always not that
neat because there are different needs development. And one thing
we've really tried to emphasize as an organization is we
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don't really decide what's going to develop. It is the
development community, the people that are actually spend them money.
It's our job to partner with them. And so if
they want to go a different area. And I heard
the term reimbursement of lines, so you know, and the
commissioner had mentioned too. We made a promise to the legislators.
We've been able to hold that and will continue. This
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should not be tax supported. We've never used one penny
of tax property tax money. It's primarily supported by rates
and fees, and we we're one hundred and fifty million
in today and we've not not one penny of that.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Is a property tax dollar. I'll pause it. IM not
sure if I answered your question.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
No, that's no, that's great. What I do kind of
a follow it generally for phase and there's you have
really good literature and maps out there, but generally the
phase that's open now would be the phases around seventy
second K part where that residential development, did that get turned.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
On that, yes, they're connecting today.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And then highway the stuff on Highway fifty is part
of and are those two main areas.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
For data centers and all all the way east over
to bellfieon then, so it's basically from central Sarpey County
seventy second K parts south of Springfield and then east
over to the Missouri River.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And that's all going to be in phase one.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
If you look at that map on the website in there,
it's that we put in forty two miles a pipe
already's first phase. Now that that part of it's for
coldwater blowdown for data centers, but it's about half and
half okay, two total miles.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And so so when you talk about those forty two miles,
does that include every little finger of a sewer that
goes up and down every residential street or is that.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Just non agency subdivision only really is involved in the
trunk line, right, Okay, the individual members are still working
with development community to create the the Altfall sewers.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Okay, Okay, So we're talking with Dan Hoynes and Don Kelly,
representing Sarpee County and City's Wastewater Agency. And now that
the first phase, which could theoretically accommodate sixty thousand additional
people in Sarpie County, is ready to go. Are there
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developers they're cued up for this. Are there people who've
been kind of waiting in the wings for this to
become available and are now ready to pounce?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
We certainly hope. So I will tell you that the
first major development is already underway just south of kpe
Part and east southeast of seven second Street. So that's
that's very good. I don't know of any other economic
development initiative in the state this is going to be
as large as this and have such a great impact
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not only on the metropolitan area in Sarpy County, but
also on the state. Some of our analysis said that
we're going to this will add fifteen point fifteen points
seven billion dollars economic impact to the state in Nebraska.
And because of that, we've had a big fan and
a Governor Pillon. He's been very helpful to help us
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with some of the early financing and to get us
additional support that we needed. But it's just such an
interesting agency. You know, it's hard enough to get two
people to greet anything in politics, but can you imagine
having five mayors and a county board trying to agree
on what's best. I mean, they all have, for the
right reasons, their home goals and desires, but to come
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together and agree on what's best for the greater good,
that's pretty remarkable. And behind those mayors who and I
love the mayors. Don't get me wrong, they're great folks,
but they really don't control anything in their cities. Their
cities are controlled by their city councilmen. And there's probably
another almost fifty of those folks that have to be
on board with everything we're doing. Everything we do has
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to be approved by each city council and the county board.
And the fact that we've been doing this now for
since twenty seventeen and we've had consent. I'm not saying
there haven't been any disagreements or arguments, but we've always
come together. And now we're seeing the fruition of all
these efforts with the economic development that we've been hoping
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would come.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, we are going to take our middle of the
show break. But when we come back. We're going to
have a couple more questions for Dan Hoynes and Don
Kelly here today representing the Sarpy, County and Cities Wastewater Agency.
So the news is coming up next and then much
more to come after that. We've got Brian Hartman from
nai NP Dodge substituting for Trenton. I'm Jeff Beils and
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Well not All Companies dot com. We have with us today,
Dan Hoynes. He is the agency administrator of the Sarpie
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County and City's Wastewater Agency. He is accompanied by Don Kelly,
the chairman of that organization, who also happens to be
a Sarpie County Commissioner. Now, gentlemen, in the last segment,
we were talking about the critical importance of making development
possible in the southern two thirds, the southern and western
two thirds of Sarpee County. And Phase one of this
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new sewer has opened up ten thousand, five hundred acres
which we can now accommodate sixty thousand more people in
Sarpi County. What's next, because there's still a lot more
beyond that ten and a half thousand acres. What are
some of the coming phases and what impact might they
have on the future development of nebraska third largest county.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Thank you, Jeff, Brian, Dan Hoynts again. So last November,
the Wastewater Agency and again the membership of that's not
only Commissioner Kelly, but all five city mayors that are
the voting members, approved an agency master plan, and if
you're interested, it's sccwwa dot org agency master plan. But
in that master plan we project out the future phases
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of We refer to them as phase one bead designate
by blue, Phase two designate by Green, and then future
designated by red. But again we're about a third of
the way done there, but not using property tax dollars
were dependent on the develop the rate of development combined
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with the individual autonomy members saying we want that development.
So the way it happens, if you look at that map,
if if a city wants a member, city agency, member
county wants to develop the blue line, then they would
work with us to advance that and we would use
the fees. Very simply, it's more complex. The fees they pay,
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we would use as a reimbursement for them to advance it.
Jeff and Brian, So.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Just so I understand, if we fully build out the
area that is in the long term plan, we could
see someday three hundred and fifty thousand or more people
in the county.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Could we not that that projection numbers what we predicted
about five years ago after going through some exercises with
densities and our land use planning and everything, at about
three it would would cap out about three hundred and
fifty It's pretty significant growth.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
And that also this for the metro Omaha area opens
up a lot of availability just for the growth for
the City of Omaha versus you know, Omaha only has
so many places it can grow, and like Northwest Omaha
would be another alternative. But really that amount of land
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is not a huge sply land there too, So I
mean this by opening this up is really a benefit
for the entire city of Omaha for increased population growth.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yes, Brian, And again I think you talked about thank
you earlier. We probably haven't talked enough about the City
of Omaha and their partnership on this. They've always been
the sewer provider for Sarpee County for the most part,
but for them to partner with us when we go
back to the eighteen nineteen time frame, and we were
planning to build our own sewer plant now at Springfield,
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but Omaha came in about nineteen and said, let's partner.
Saved over one hundred million dollars and reduce the We
only needed one sewer pint instead of two, so the
whole economy and environment. But Omaha partnering with us, I
think was key and critical. They understand that development doesn't
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necessarily respect Harrison Street.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
It's going to go where it's going to go. And
I think the jurisdictions in this this whole metro area
have always done a pretty good job of getting along.
Oh sure, sometimes, you know, there can be differences of
opinions and different interests, but for the most part, we
seem to have pretty good partnerships in this region, and
I think it's one of our many strengths, both economically
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and otherwise. Yeah, I would agree, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I mean, our relationship with the cities is very collegial
and it's been a it's been a really great experience
for me personally. You know, I guess I could have
never envisioned that someday I'd be a quote unquote a
sewer sar if you.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Will, Hey, we all have our ambitions done.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
But I mean I was a career Air Force officer
flew in airplanes here at off At and other places,
and you know, when you've flown to B one at
three hundred feet off the desert floor, you know, evading
enemy air defenses and aircraft running a sewer system isn't
all that difficult. But no, it's been a great, great relationship.
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And you know, in addition to some of the folks
we've already spoke about, I think we would be remiss
if we didn't mention some of our partners on the
contractor side. Hawkins Construction was our primary contractor on the
initial Phase one and also HDR, so two great Omaha
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firms that are you know, and it just feels better
to work with local people who are invested in our
community and want to see us succeed. So it's been
a great, great partnership.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well, like we said earlier, the Sarpee County and City's
Wastewater Agency will have a ceremony commissioning this first phase,
which will open up a tremendous development in the county.
It is June ninth, so coming up pretty soon two
o'clock pm. Where's that going to be held?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
It'll be held just south of Springfield, I think two
miles of the addresses on there, I don't have it.
We have the address on the front there. It's at
the Springfield Lift Station. It's where our primary where we
lift stuff to go over two miles south on the
east side of the road.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
All right, Well, like we say, it's not sexy, it's
not glamorous, but sewers are the thing that drives development
all over the metro area and anywhere else. So gentlemen,
we thank you for all of the hard work that
you personally and all of your colleagues and team members
have put in since this got started in two thousand
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and five. We appreciate you joining us. Dan Hoynes Agency Administrator,
Don Kelly Chairman, and also Sarpy County Commissioner. Appreciate you
guys being here.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Thanks, thanks for having us. We really had a good time.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
All right, We're going to take our final break of
the hour, and when we come back, Brian and I
are are going to take you through the Perkins Chritzer
Construction Lightning Round in which we talk about a lot
of grow Omaha stories very very fast and there are
a lot of them. So this is going to be
your ammunition for the picnic or cocktail party you go
to tonight, so stay with us. Get your notepad out.
(30:57):
The Lightning Round is next on news Radekfab and welcome
back to Grow Amaha sponsored by Cheer Athletics and Dingman's
Collision Center. We have Brian Hartman from nai NP Dodge
with us today substituting for Trenton and it is time
for your Perkins Kreutzer Construction Lightning Round, which is brought
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to you by Perkins Kretzer Construction. Appropriately enough, Dave Kreutzer
and his team do such an outstanding job of delivering
great projects. They're famous for delivering projects on time and
on budget. And one of the things we love to
talk about, given that this is the Lightning Round when
we're discussing Perkins Chritschler Construction, is projects that they're doing well.
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They were the contractor that has built out the beautiful
redo of the Miracle Hills retail center on the west
side of one hundred and fourteenth north of Dodge, and
I am happy to report that one of the first
tenants in that place will officially open on June sixth,
Fannie Bone Comedy Funny Bone Comedy Club. I used to
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be there commercial at any rate. Nice to have Funnybone
Comedy Club coming in there. We've told you they were coming.
They've been working on it. Perkins Chrisler Construction worked very
hard out at June six as the official date. Now
they are going to be attached to Draft Kaid, which
is a really cool I'm not sure if they're opening
on the six or not, but I'm sure it'd be
around the same time. But Brian will have to go
check it out.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Oh yeah, how big is the Funny Bone going to be?
How big of space are they taking?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Substantially bigger than the Village Point location? Okay, good, Yeah,
I can't tell you. I'm thinking the Village Point seated
maybe two hundred or so. I think this one's gonna
have quite a few more seats and it'll be a
lot newer.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
And they've been around, Funnybone has succeeded for many years.
So that that's great, that's fantastic having Omaha.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Well, they're a chain in about fifteen other cities, a
lot of them in kind of that Upper Midwest east
to northeast. But that's pretty cool and that is so Yeah.
Thanks to Perkins Chritser Construction for making this possible. All right,
here we go. So Curry in a Hurry is opening
in the former Lutfees or Lutfeesish, I don't know how
to pronounce it, lutfi Apostrops Fried Fisher location. This is
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at twenty five twenty seven North seventy second Street. Kurry
in a Hurry had been at eighty third and Maple.
They closed on March thirtieth. People were devastated and they
had quite a loyal following, and so they found a
new spot in this Curry in a Hurry. They're not
open yet, but the signage is up and they've got
a food truck there, and that'll be a nice addition.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Who wouldn't want Curry in a Hurry?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
When I'm in the mood for curry, I want it fast.
Revival House, a cocktail bar owned by Omaha based Flagship
Restaurant Group, is set to open in mid to late
June at thirty seven thirty seven Farnham Street. This is
a brand new nine story building right in the heart
of the Blackstone District. Flagship has already opened up one
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of these Revival House locations in Des Moines, Iowa. And then,
like I said, Flagships based in Omaha. They have all
sorts of concepts, Memoir, Ghost, Donkey, Champong Lanes, Cleo, Blue Sushi, Roja,
many many others. Brian, do you like spicy chicken? Oh yeah, okay,
well then this is the place for you. Dave's Hot
Chicken will officially open a second Omaha. They did officially
(34:19):
open a second Omaha location yesterday. The exact address is
twenty six to fifteen South one hundred and eightieth Street
Translated into English, that's one hundred and eightieth in center.
It's four thousand squre foot building that was previously Voodoo Taco,
previously Jones Bro's Cupcakes, previously Sheridan's cup Custard. So hopefully
this one will be here for a long time. Dave's
(34:40):
Hot Chicken's pretty good product. They've got a location on
Saddle Creek down by the Med Center, and they are
based in Los Angeles, Nashville style Chicken locations in thirty
six states.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
That's a great location, that building, and so I'm anxious
to see someone that stay, thrive and be there a
long time because it's a fantastic me too.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I'm kind of perplexed that a lot of places haven't
lasted terribly long there. But you know you mentioned some
places didn't last, and so let's get some depressing news
out of the way. We do have three closings to report, well,
two closings and one for sale. First of all closings,
ConA Grill is the latest restaurant to go kaput at
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Village Point. They closed what seemed like rather suddenly middle
of the week. Been there, I believe, since Village Point
opened in the early two thousands. They joined Paradise Bakery, Cafe,
Johnny's Italian Steakhouse, Local Beer in Patio and Kitchen, and Bravo,
all of which have left Village Point. However, Village Point
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has attracted new restaurants, including Meddi's Early Bird, the soon
to open North Italia and the soon to open k Pot.
The other closing is get Real Sandwiches in the Blackstone District.
They will be closing June eighth at thirty ninth and
Far Street. And then this is not a closing as
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far as we know, but Burger Dtour has listed both
of their locations for sale, so if you want to
own Burger Detour you can have it. Apparently it is
available for sale. Ariot I don't know how you pronounce it.
It's a R I a T, so it's either ariat
or ariat.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
They plan to open a store at Nebraska Crossing and Gretna.
This will be in an eighty eight hundred square foot
space between Yetti and Athleta opening planned for mid July.
Looks like a really cool concept. Based out of San Leandro, California,
they are an apparel, footwear and accessories retailer focused on
equestrian and horse clothing, not for horses the people that
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ride them. But it's kind of like horse clothing gone mainstream.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, ariat is is that's a boot. That's
a that's a very popular popular brand, Cowboy boot manufacturer.
So that that'll that'll do well there.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
All right, Well, Brian, thanks for joining us. I always
appreciate it when you sub for us.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Thank you, it was a lot of fun. And don't
wait ayeen months next time.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Brian Hartman and AI and p Dodge Trent will be
back next week. Appreciate you joining us. I'm Jeff Beals.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, good morning, and welcome to the aforementioned Grow Omaha
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further ado, we're not going to bring on Trenton Maggot
(00:58):
because we're giving him another week off. Got to keep
that guy fresh, So in his stead helping out this
week is a voice that you may remember from a while.
It's been over a year since he's been here. But
Brian Hartman, one of our colleagues at nai NP Dodge,
is back in the house. Brian, glad you're back on
the show.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yes, Jeff, thank you for having me. It's been a while,
but happy to be back and miss the studio.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, it's good to have you back. And now Brian
does a lot of commercial real estate brokerage, but it's
safe to say you specialize in sarp County or you
tend to focus a lot of your efforts in sarp County,
even though you will work all over the whole metro area. Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, ten fifteen years ago, I just recognized Sarpie County
as definitely a growing county and where there's going to
be a lot of action going forward, and our guests
will be able to speak about that as well, which
will be really interesting. So I focused on it and
got to know the farmers, got to know the stakeholders
in the city and county, city and county people. So yeah,
(02:02):
it's been a great county to work in.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, and as Brian just kind of hinted there later
in the program, we're going to be discussing some Sarpe
County growth and development issues and something very important that
is necessary in order for growth in Sarp County to happen.
So stay with us. But before we get to that,
we have a few things, and first of all, want
to give a shout out to our own Brad Williams.
You know Brad, he's on the show all the time,
(02:25):
our official photographer. Brad is exhibiting this weekend at the
Countryside Village Art Fair that runs from ten am to
six pm today and from ten am to five pm tomorrow. Now,
it's going to be really easy to find Brad's booth
if you go there and true Brad Williams fashion. He
requested that his booth is right next door to the
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casual Pint. Brad is a big craft beer ficionado, so
it's a perfect place for him. But stop out and
see him. Truly his photography and it's not just Omaha shots,
which he's famous for, but a lot of wildlife shots.
He'll go out and take pictures in the Western States
and pretty cool stuff. Hey. I want to also give
a plug for Tera Goucha, a new Brazilian steakhouse that
(03:11):
opened in the former Charleston's Restaurant building at one hundred
and thirty eighth and West Dodge Road. Had a chance
to preview it Thursday night ahead of its grand opening yesterday.
It's a fun place. It is a classic Brazilian steakhouse.
If you've ever been to one of those, you know
they have the cold bar, the hot bar. They bring
skewers of piping hot meat and they slice it for
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you right to your table. It's a lot of fun
this one, say you no, it's like maybe somewhat elevated
compared to maybe some of the Brazilian steakhouses I've been to.
So if you're into that, give it a try. Go
hungry though. It's very easy to overeat at these places,
and I can attest as I sat up sleeping on
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the couch for a while because I ate so much
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remember when we were kids, You and I both grew
up here. Do you remember Kitty Clover potato chips and
they had that commercial on TV says, come on over
to Kitty Clover, you're drawing a blank.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Until I was blank. But yeah, the jingle rings about.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It was a long time ago. It was a long
time ago. Well, they their office and potato chip factory
was on the northwest corner of twenty fourth and Martha.
The building's still there and a local businessman is converting
that to building into Clover twenty four. See what he
did there with a name Clover twenty four Venue for
artists and entrepreneurs. Clover twenty four will offer space for
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co working space for entrepreneurs and then I think studios
for artists. So sounds like kind of a cool urban
amenity in South o Well.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yes, now the Hot Shops is still operating on the
north side, Okay, and that was very successful and I'm
guessing it's still occupied and active with the same type
of concept.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes. Absolutely. In fact, it's my understanding that the Hot Shops.
And forgive me if I'm wrong, ladies and gentlemen, but
it's my understanding it's kind of hard to get in there.
There's so much at my thinking as well, yeah, that
something like this is maybe designed to take some of
the overflow, some of the extra demand that's out there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
With South Omha location.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, other side of downtown. So yeah, Hot Shops is
Brian indicated north side. It's in Millwork Commons. The actual
address would be thirteenth and Nicholas Southwest Corner. And it's
pretty cool place, all right. We had a ribbon cutting
this week in midtown. It was for the Catalyst, that
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is the first building to officially open on the University
of Dabaska Medical Center's New Edge district. This is a
really cool area on the west side of Saddle Creek Road. Now,
the Catalyst itself was a former steel factory that was built,
I believe in nineteen oh six. And this thing was
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a very important steel factory for many decades. I mean,
it contributed to the Allied war effort in World War II,
cranking out steel that was necessary to build weapons and
god knows what in order for us to win that war.
A very important place, but it had been vacant for why. Well,
as old steel plants do, they tend to become eye source. Well,
the Med Center is fixed it up. It's absolutely amazing.
(07:07):
It was a project in coordination with Colbel and Company
and Greenslate Development, and it's really cool, one hundred and
seventy thousand square foot building. This is where they will
house those entities that take innovations at the university and
bring it to private industry. And it'll also be home
(07:27):
to Big Grove Brewery, very impressive brewery out of Iowa
that is supposed to open here pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Well, another powerful economic generator for that part of town.
And the Med Center just keeps giving and giving in
many ways.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, it's just fun to see all the progress in
that area. And while we're on the topic of academic development,
the Biomechanics Research Building at Uno is getting a seventeen
point one million dollar edition. Groundbreaking was held this week.
The principal benefactor is Ruth Scott and the William and
Ruth Scott Family Foundation. This will be a three story
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edition that will add nineteen thousand square feet to the
east end of the existing building and then Brian our
final story for this week's segment. The City of Omaha
plans to add three thousand, five hundred and fifty eight
people to its population roles and fourteen hundred plus acres
of land as part of its twenty twenty five annexation package.
(08:29):
A large majority of the annexation includes Flanagan Lake and
the surrounding areas northwest northwest, relatively new in our D Lake,
and a few subdivisions here and there. So the package
has to go through all the normal processes. But one
little interesting thing is it also includes the condominiums on
top of the a Loft Hotel at one hundred and
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eightieth and Dodge Area, So that's probably like what ten
people or something like eight, So that part of the
annexation is seven and a half people, but all together
it is a little over thirty five hundred people.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That seems like a large annexation package, you know, compared
to compared to previous years.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, lately, because the last couple of years, if I
remember correctly, the city of Omaha has not been very
aggressive with annexation at all, and I think they were
trying to catch up with some of the big annexations
they had done earlier there. You know, there have been
times where you see like fifteen twenty thousand people come
in with an annexation package, but the last couple of
years it's been pretty skinny.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So a good sign for health of sids, you know,
and allow those bonds and need to be in the
right place for a city to annex them. So that
modes well for the health of a lot of the
sids it's that have going that have been performing here
in the city.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, when the city feels that it's ready to take
them in and that, ladies and gentlemen, is your News
of the week, which is brought to you by Eagle
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first break of the hour and when we come back,
we're going to talk about sewers. No, don't turn the channel.
You're gonna love hearing about this actually because you cannot
develop any part of our metropolitan area if you don't
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have the sewers planned out ahead of time. Think about it.
And so we are going to interview Dan. We've got
I'm sorry, Dan Hoynes and Don Kelly. Both of these
gentlemen have roles with the Sarpy County and Cities Wastewater Agency.
Sarpy County has been held back for development purposes for
a lot of years because of some natural topographical things
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that we're making sewers difficult. A lot of land is
opening up for development of Sarpy County and it's going
to be pretty impressive. So stay with us. This will
not be a crappy conversation. You are listening to Jeff
Beal's and Brian Hartman substituting for the vacationing Trenton Maggot
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(10:53):
and welcome back to the show. Jeff Beal sitting next
to Brian Hartman from nai NP Dodge Commercial real Estate.
He is substituting for Trenton Maggot, who has the weekend off.
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repair company with four metro area locations. Before we go
any further, I just want to say, why couldn't my
grandfather have purchased farm land on the south side of
the Sarpee County Ridge back in the day. We would
all be so rich. Because there's going to be so
much development coming to the south side of Sarpye County
and we're going to address that today. And as I
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said earlier, if you were with us before the break,
you can't build houses and office buildings unless you have
the sewer first. And we have two representatives today from
the Sarpee County and City's Wastewater Agency. That would include
the chairman of the organization, who happens to be Sarpie
County Commissioner Don Kelly, and then the administrator of that
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relatively new agency, Dans Dan and down. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Thank you, it's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Thank you. Good to have you guys with us. And
I think We're going to go ahead and start with
a lay of the land, so to speak. And we've
known that Sarpe County is consistently the or one of
the fastest growing counties in Nebraska, explosive growth. But we
also know that there's a lot of it that hasn't
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been touched and a lot of people wonder why, you know,
with all of the population growth, why why doesn't the
growth go further in Sarpy County? So why don't we
start with a background of the topographical ridge line and
why that causes issues for sewer construction and bring us
to where we are right now.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, sure, thanks. As you mentioned, there's a hydraulic ridge
line that runs across the county from the northwest to
the southeast. This sort of separates the county in half,
and when they originally started growth and development on the
northern half of the county, all that was sewered and
it ran into the Papio Watershed, the Papio Creek watershed
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and flowed down to the plant down on the Missouri River.
South of that ridge line, however, it was mostly acreages
and farms and rural areas. But as Sarpee County started
to develop out people. We discovered quite a while ago
that people want to live there because it's a high
quality of life. There's a lot of great amenities, great schools,
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and so what we saw happening in the southern half
of the county was people were developing acreages. And acreages
are great, they certainly are, but they don't provide enough
of a tax base to provide the infrastructure the need
to keep that quality of life present. So we looked
at some options beginning back in two thousand and five
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to actually sewer the southern half of the county. Those
didn't really gain any traction, although they were a multi
jurisdictional plan with all the cities in the county, and
it wasn't until about twenty fifteen where we said, if
we don't do something soon, we're going to lose this opportunity.
So we got together with the five cities and did
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some initial brainstorming, some crayons, summits, if you will, scoping
out a plan. And the first thing we realized is
we didn't have any political authority to do anything because
we were just six different entities, the five cities of
Sarpie County and the county itself. So we went down
to the legislature in twenty seventeen and asked for the
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permission to form this multi jurisdictional agency whose sole purpose
will be to put the sewer infrastructure in the part
of our county where it didn't exist. It was an
interesting set of hearings that we sat through and generally,
I would say the legislati leaders were very supportive, but
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they were very concerned that we were going to increase
property taxes, and as we all know, property taxes are
high enough as they are. But we were able to
lay out a plan form that convinced them that it
was a good idea, and by a unanimous vote, believe
it or not, they gave us the authority to form
this agency and that's what kicked it off in twenty seventeen.
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And here we are eight years later, finally cutting the
ribbon on the first phase of three phases for this project.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, this is Brian. One thing I wanted to say
is I was waiting for today's show, is thank you
for your leadership. That's we were talking in between the
breaks about all the different stakeholders that you are managing
to create a vision and perform on that vision. So
(15:46):
thank you for that, and I'm guessing you don't maybe
get as many thank yous as you should get. And
then the other question I had is from my community,
the brokers that deal with land and developer. Could you
talk about where are we at physically with the completion
and where should we be focusing our efforts in a
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general sense to work with farmers as to where some
development projects should go to start start developing out this
new district area.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Thank you Brian and Jeff dan Hoynt, administrator for the agency.
That question could take the rest of the morning, so
I will try and be very very efficient with the response.
As Commissioner Kelly mentioned, Chairman Kelly Monday, we'll be doing
a formal ceremony although we started to flow in December,
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it just we're getting around to it this time of
year where we're going to formally recognize that the Governor
will be there center hole crop critical supporters in here.
But from a farmer land use development perspective, we have
this first phase completed Chairman mentioned, that opens up ten
five hundred acres that was not previously open for development.
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That equates with all of our our government math. If
you will too, we could accommodate sixty thousand more residents.
It's Ourpe County today just with that, just on that
Phase one line. Now it doesn't It's always not that
neat because there are different needs development. And one thing
we've really tried to emphasize as an organization is we
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don't really decide what's going to develop. It is the
development community, the people that are actually spend them money.
It's our job to partner with them. And so if
they want to go a different area. And I heard
the term reimbursement of lines, so you know, and the
commissioner had mentioned too. We made a promise to the legislators.
We've been able to hold that and will continue. This
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should not be tax supported. We've never used one penny
of tax property tax money. It's primarily supported by rates
and fees, and we we're one hundred and fifty million
in today and we've not not one penny of that.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Is a property tax dollar. I'll pause it. IM not
sure if I answered your question.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
No, that's no, that's great. What I do kind of
a follow it generally for phase and there's you have
really good literature and maps out there, but generally the
phase that's open now would be the phases around seventy
second K part where that residential development, did that get turned.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
On that, yes, they're connecting today.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And then highway the stuff on Highway fifty is part
of and are those two main areas.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
For data centers and all all the way east over
to bellfieon then, so it's basically from central Sarpey County
seventy second K parts south of Springfield and then east
over to the Missouri River.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And that's all going to be in phase one.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
If you look at that map on the website in there,
it's that we put in forty two miles a pipe
already's first phase. Now that that part of it's for
coldwater blowdown for data centers, but it's about half and
half okay, two total miles.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And so so when you talk about those forty two miles,
does that include every little finger of a sewer that
goes up and down every residential street or is that.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Just non agency subdivision only really is involved in the
trunk line, right, Okay, the individual members are still working
with development community to create the the Altfall sewers.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Okay, Okay, So we're talking with Dan Hoynes and Don Kelly,
representing Sarpee County and City's Wastewater Agency. And now that
the first phase, which could theoretically accommodate sixty thousand additional
people in Sarpie County, is ready to go. Are there
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developers they're cued up for this. Are there people who've
been kind of waiting in the wings for this to
become available and are now ready to pounce?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
We certainly hope. So I will tell you that the
first major development is already underway just south of kpe
Part and east southeast of seven second Street. So that's
that's very good. I don't know of any other economic
development initiative in the state this is going to be
as large as this and have such a great impact
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not only on the metropolitan area in Sarpy County, but
also on the state. Some of our analysis said that
we're going to this will add fifteen point fifteen points
seven billion dollars economic impact to the state in Nebraska.
And because of that, we've had a big fan and
a Governor Pillon. He's been very helpful to help us
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with some of the early financing and to get us
additional support that we needed. But it's just such an
interesting agency. You know, it's hard enough to get two
people to greet anything in politics, but can you imagine
having five mayors and a county board trying to agree
on what's best. I mean, they all have, for the
right reasons, their home goals and desires, but to come
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together and agree on what's best for the greater good,
that's pretty remarkable. And behind those mayors who and I
love the mayors. Don't get me wrong, they're great folks,
but they really don't control anything in their cities. Their
cities are controlled by their city councilmen. And there's probably
another almost fifty of those folks that have to be
on board with everything we're doing. Everything we do has
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to be approved by each city council and the county board.
And the fact that we've been doing this now for
since twenty seventeen and we've had consent. I'm not saying
there haven't been any disagreements or arguments, but we've always
come together. And now we're seeing the fruition of all
these efforts with the economic development that we've been hoping
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would come.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, we are going to take our middle of the
show break. But when we come back. We're going to
have a couple more questions for Dan Hoynes and Don
Kelly here today representing the Sarpy, County and Cities Wastewater Agency.
So the news is coming up next and then much
more to come after that. We've got Brian Hartman from
nai NP Dodge substituting for Trenton. I'm Jeff Beils and
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about that. Film Streams, which is in the Builders District
and Nodel Companies have announced a new outdoor movie series.
It's going to be scheduled every month for the next
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the brand new Builders Green in the Builders District. This
is a little urban pocket park. The actual address is
seven to twenty four North sixteenth Street. It's just kind
of that land between the Builders District and Creighton University
that is going to rapidly develop. It is three blocks
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Well not All Companies dot com. We have with us today,
Dan Hoynes. He is the agency administrator of the Sarpie
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County and City's Wastewater Agency. He is accompanied by Don Kelly,
the chairman of that organization, who also happens to be
a Sarpie County Commissioner. Now, gentlemen, in the last segment,
we were talking about the critical importance of making development
possible in the southern two thirds, the southern and western
two thirds of Sarpee County. And Phase one of this
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new sewer has opened up ten thousand, five hundred acres
which we can now accommodate sixty thousand more people in
Sarpi County. What's next, because there's still a lot more
beyond that ten and a half thousand acres. What are
some of the coming phases and what impact might they
have on the future development of nebraska third largest county.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Thank you, Jeff, Brian, Dan Hoynts again. So last November,
the Wastewater Agency and again the membership of that's not
only Commissioner Kelly, but all five city mayors that are
the voting members, approved an agency master plan, and if
you're interested, it's sccwwa dot org agency master plan. But
in that master plan we project out the future phases
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of We refer to them as phase one bead designate
by blue, Phase two designate by Green, and then future
designated by red. But again we're about a third of
the way done there, but not using property tax dollars
were dependent on the develop the rate of development combined
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with the individual autonomy members saying we want that development.
So the way it happens, if you look at that map,
if if a city wants a member, city agency, member
county wants to develop the blue line, then they would
work with us to advance that and we would use
the fees. Very simply, it's more complex. The fees they pay,
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we would use as a reimbursement for them to advance it.
Jeff and Brian, So.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Just so I understand, if we fully build out the
area that is in the long term plan, we could
see someday three hundred and fifty thousand or more people
in the county.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Could we not that that projection numbers what we predicted
about five years ago after going through some exercises with
densities and our land use planning and everything, at about
three it would would cap out about three hundred and
fifty It's pretty significant growth.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
And that also this for the metro Omaha area opens
up a lot of availability just for the growth for
the City of Omaha versus you know, Omaha only has
so many places it can grow, and like Northwest Omaha
would be another alternative. But really that amount of land
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is not a huge sply land there too, So I
mean this by opening this up is really a benefit
for the entire city of Omaha for increased population growth.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yes, Brian, And again I think you talked about thank
you earlier. We probably haven't talked enough about the City
of Omaha and their partnership on this. They've always been
the sewer provider for Sarpee County for the most part,
but for them to partner with us when we go
back to the eighteen nineteen time frame, and we were
planning to build our own sewer plant now at Springfield,
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but Omaha came in about nineteen and said, let's partner.
Saved over one hundred million dollars and reduce the We
only needed one sewer pint instead of two, so the
whole economy and environment. But Omaha partnering with us, I
think was key and critical. They understand that development doesn't
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necessarily respect Harrison Street.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
It's going to go where it's going to go. And
I think the jurisdictions in this this whole metro area
have always done a pretty good job of getting along.
Oh sure, sometimes, you know, there can be differences of
opinions and different interests, but for the most part, we
seem to have pretty good partnerships in this region, and
I think it's one of our many strengths, both economically
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and otherwise. Yeah, I would agree, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I mean, our relationship with the cities is very collegial
and it's been a it's been a really great experience
for me personally. You know, I guess I could have
never envisioned that someday I'd be a quote unquote a
sewer sar if you.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Will, Hey, we all have our ambitions done.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
But I mean I was a career Air Force officer
flew in airplanes here at off At and other places,
and you know, when you've flown to B one at
three hundred feet off the desert floor, you know, evading
enemy air defenses and aircraft running a sewer system isn't
all that difficult. But no, it's been a great, great relationship.
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And you know, in addition to some of the folks
we've already spoke about, I think we would be remiss
if we didn't mention some of our partners on the
contractor side. Hawkins Construction was our primary contractor on the
initial Phase one and also HDR, so two great Omaha
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firms that are you know, and it just feels better
to work with local people who are invested in our
community and want to see us succeed. So it's been
a great, great partnership.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well, like we said earlier, the Sarpee County and City's
Wastewater Agency will have a ceremony commissioning this first phase,
which will open up a tremendous development in the county.
It is June ninth, so coming up pretty soon two
o'clock pm. Where's that going to be held?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
It'll be held just south of Springfield, I think two
miles of the addresses on there, I don't have it.
We have the address on the front there. It's at
the Springfield Lift Station. It's where our primary where we
lift stuff to go over two miles south on the
east side of the road.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
All right, Well, like we say, it's not sexy, it's
not glamorous, but sewers are the thing that drives development
all over the metro area and anywhere else. So gentlemen,
we thank you for all of the hard work that
you personally and all of your colleagues and team members
have put in since this got started in two thousand
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and five. We appreciate you joining us. Dan Hoynes Agency Administrator,
Don Kelly Chairman, and also Sarpy County Commissioner. Appreciate you
guys being here.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Thanks, thanks for having us. We really had a good time.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
All right, We're going to take our final break of
the hour, and when we come back, Brian and I
are are going to take you through the Perkins Chritzer
Construction Lightning Round in which we talk about a lot
of grow Omaha stories very very fast and there are
a lot of them. So this is going to be
your ammunition for the picnic or cocktail party you go
to tonight, so stay with us. Get your notepad out.
(30:57):
The Lightning Round is next on news Radekfab and welcome
back to Grow Amaha sponsored by Cheer Athletics and Dingman's
Collision Center. We have Brian Hartman from nai NP Dodge
with us today substituting for Trenton and it is time
for your Perkins Kreutzer Construction Lightning Round, which is brought
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to you by Perkins Kretzer Construction. Appropriately enough, Dave Kreutzer
and his team do such an outstanding job of delivering
great projects. They're famous for delivering projects on time and
on budget. And one of the things we love to
talk about, given that this is the Lightning Round when
we're discussing Perkins Chritschler Construction, is projects that they're doing well.
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They were the contractor that has built out the beautiful
redo of the Miracle Hills retail center on the west
side of one hundred and fourteenth north of Dodge, and
I am happy to report that one of the first
tenants in that place will officially open on June sixth,
Fannie Bone Comedy Funny Bone Comedy Club. I used to
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be there commercial at any rate. Nice to have Funnybone
Comedy Club coming in there. We've told you they were coming.
They've been working on it. Perkins Chrisler Construction worked very
hard out at June six as the official date. Now
they are going to be attached to Draft Kaid, which
is a really cool I'm not sure if they're opening
on the six or not, but I'm sure it'd be
around the same time. But Brian will have to go
check it out.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Oh yeah, how big is the Funny Bone going to be?
How big of space are they taking?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Substantially bigger than the Village Point location? Okay, good, Yeah,
I can't tell you. I'm thinking the Village Point seated
maybe two hundred or so. I think this one's gonna
have quite a few more seats and it'll be a
lot newer.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
And they've been around, Funnybone has succeeded for many years.
So that that's great, that's fantastic having Omaha.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Well, they're a chain in about fifteen other cities, a
lot of them in kind of that Upper Midwest east
to northeast. But that's pretty cool and that is so Yeah.
Thanks to Perkins Chritser Construction for making this possible. All right,
here we go. So Curry in a Hurry is opening
in the former Lutfees or Lutfeesish, I don't know how
to pronounce it, lutfi Apostrops Fried Fisher location. This is
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at twenty five twenty seven North seventy second Street. Kurry
in a Hurry had been at eighty third and Maple.
They closed on March thirtieth. People were devastated and they
had quite a loyal following, and so they found a
new spot in this Curry in a Hurry. They're not
open yet, but the signage is up and they've got
a food truck there, and that'll be a nice addition.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Who wouldn't want Curry in a Hurry?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
When I'm in the mood for curry, I want it fast.
Revival House, a cocktail bar owned by Omaha based Flagship
Restaurant Group, is set to open in mid to late
June at thirty seven thirty seven Farnham Street. This is
a brand new nine story building right in the heart
of the Blackstone District. Flagship has already opened up one
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of these Revival House locations in Des Moines, Iowa. And then,
like I said, Flagships based in Omaha. They have all
sorts of concepts, Memoir, Ghost, Donkey, Champong Lanes, Cleo, Blue Sushi, Roja,
many many others. Brian, do you like spicy chicken? Oh yeah, okay,
well then this is the place for you. Dave's Hot
Chicken will officially open a second Omaha. They did officially
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open a second Omaha location yesterday. The exact address is
twenty six to fifteen South one hundred and eightieth Street
Translated into English, that's one hundred and eightieth in center.
It's four thousand squre foot building that was previously Voodoo Taco,
previously Jones Bro's Cupcakes, previously Sheridan's cup Custard. So hopefully
this one will be here for a long time. Dave's
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Hot Chicken's pretty good product. They've got a location on
Saddle Creek down by the Med Center, and they are
based in Los Angeles, Nashville style Chicken locations in thirty
six states.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
That's a great location, that building, and so I'm anxious
to see someone that stay, thrive and be there a
long time because it's a fantastic me too.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I'm kind of perplexed that a lot of places haven't
lasted terribly long there. But you know you mentioned some
places didn't last, and so let's get some depressing news
out of the way. We do have three closings to report, well,
two closings and one for sale. First of all closings,
ConA Grill is the latest restaurant to go kaput at
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Village Point. They closed what seemed like rather suddenly middle
of the week. Been there, I believe, since Village Point
opened in the early two thousands. They joined Paradise Bakery, Cafe,
Johnny's Italian Steakhouse, Local Beer in Patio and Kitchen, and Bravo,
all of which have left Village Point. However, Village Point
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has attracted new restaurants, including Meddi's Early Bird, the soon
to open North Italia and the soon to open k Pot.
The other closing is get Real Sandwiches in the Blackstone District.
They will be closing June eighth at thirty ninth and
Far Street. And then this is not a closing as
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far as we know, but Burger Dtour has listed both
of their locations for sale, so if you want to
own Burger Detour you can have it. Apparently it is
available for sale. Ariot I don't know how you pronounce it.
It's a R I a T, so it's either ariat
or ariat.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
They plan to open a store at Nebraska Crossing and Gretna.
This will be in an eighty eight hundred square foot
space between Yetti and Athleta opening planned for mid July.
Looks like a really cool concept. Based out of San Leandro, California,
they are an apparel, footwear and accessories retailer focused on
equestrian and horse clothing, not for horses the people that
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ride them. But it's kind of like horse clothing gone mainstream.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, ariat is is that's a boot. That's
a that's a very popular popular brand, Cowboy boot manufacturer.
So that that'll that'll do well there.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
All right, Well, Brian, thanks for joining us. I always
appreciate it when you sub for us.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Thank you, it was a lot of fun. And don't
wait ayeen months next time.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Brian Hartman and AI and p Dodge Trent will be
back next week. Appreciate you joining us. I'm Jeff Beals.
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