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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 show. Jeff Beal's
here at your service. We're broadcasting live from the KFAB
Penthouse Studio high above underwo Avenue and beautiful downtown Dundee.
This is the only show in the metro area that
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really anything related to Omaha becoming more vibrant, more prosperous.
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any further ado, it's time to bring on my co host,
a legendary real estate deal maker from nai NP Dodge, Trenton.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Maggot doesn't get any better than this, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
How So hanging out with you, all of our faithful
listeners and followers, we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We have been doing this a long time.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, thanks for saying that you like hanging out for me,
because I thought when you were saying it doesn't get
any better than this, I thought you were talking about
the College World Series Championship Finals happening tonight and tomorrow
you're going to go.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah what you are? Yes, I'm pretty excited about it. Okay,
I did. I didn't know you went to baseball games.
I do when it's air conditioned. Okay, Well, I will
be going to at least one of them.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I'm not sure if I'll be going to both of them,
but it is LSU versus Coastal Carolina game tonight at
Charles schwab Field, and then another one on Sunday tomorrow afternoon,
and then if necessary, a third one on Monday evening.
So Trenton. We have a Grohamaha Eats restaurant review this week.
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Chris Corey is our restaurant reviewer and he does a
great job of just scouring everything there is to know
about the restaurants he visits, and this week he went
to Tara goucha new Brazilian steakhouse. I too, have tried
Tara Goaucha and it's very, very good. You'll be impressed
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with Chris's review. It's positive. He enjoyed it, been there twice.
Like a lot of the Brazilian steakhouses, this is the
place where you go in and they have all of
the amazing assortment on the cold bar, and then they
bring the skewers of piping hot meat cook just the
way you like it to your table. It's a hell
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of a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I've been there and I thought it was delicious. You know,
they're not giving that stuff away, but it's quality. It's
worth it. A lot of the people, the manager and
the workers there are either Brazilian or South America, and
it's pretty cool because they know their products well. And
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it's an upscale Brazilian steakhouse, I guess you you would
call it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, And they're only a handful of these in the country.
Down They started in Florida, a couple down there, one
up in Connecticut, and then I think Indiana is either
coming soon or opening there and then and this so
it's a new concept. And as Chris writes in the review,
the owners go back to Fogo decell and kind of
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broke away from it and created something that they believe is.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Better and what's better too is immediately after those the
article came out, the review came out on gromhua dot com.
Corporate Terry Gotcha called or reached out to you and
asked if they could use several pictures that Chris and
Jen Corey took and they wanted for their marketing.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah. And if you want to read the review and
see any of our reviews, just simply go to grow
Omaha dot com. When you see the navigation bar, click
on reviews. There's a drop down you can choose between
eats and flicks. Flicks' his movie, eats, his restaurants, and
they're all available right there. Well, let's go into our
News of the week, which is brought to.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
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Speaker 2 (04:11):
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at Eagle Mortgage Company dot com. So big news this
week Trenton, the Omaha City Council voted to move forward
a final plant and subdivision agreement for the Civic Auditorium site. Now,
the Civic was demolished nine years ago now and then
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there have been different proposals. You know, it's four city blocks,
so it's a big deal. And there was some talk
and some thought that maybe a White Lotus, the company
that has it right now, local development firm, might not
be the one to move forward with it. But now
it appears that White Lotus is planning to move forward
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after getting the city council approval. White Lotus CEO arun Agerwal,
who we know and has been a guest on this
show before said that despite not seeing much progress since
his company took over the project nineteen months ago, required
planning and approvals are generally on track. Furthermore, White Lotus
is currently in the vertical design phase and are working
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closely with Creighton University to possibly serve as a type
of commercial extension for the university, if you will, He said,
maybe something like Aggieville is to Kansas State and Manhattan, Kansas,
or you know what Exarbon Village is to un O,
or the Haymarket is to UNL and so so that's
that leads us to where we are now. Apparently the
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plan with the civic Auditorium is a go. Well.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
If you look at several new sources, including Gromaha, these
designs are pretty cool and they're aggressive, and there's always
a concern that there's so many not for profit developments downhouse,
such as the Children's Museum, and that doesn't add to
the tax base if they're not if we're not collecting
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sales tax. So the fact that the fact that White
Lotus is being very aggressive and going vertically and tying
into Creighton, I think is a wonderful thing. Definitely a
complex project and I hope it works out, because we
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like to see things get completed.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, absolutely, and we'll definitely keep an eye on that.
Plans call for a last we saw mixed you swakable village,
if you will, apartments upstairs, retail on the downstairs type
of you know, the new urbanism stuff that we've been
doing a good job of with in Omaha in recent years. Well,
speaking of Creighton University, the Omaha City Council this week
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agreed to move forward with the university's pedestrian mall and
bikeway project. Under the agreement, the university will distribute one
point seventy five million dollars to the city, while then
the city will complete the construction of the pathway. The
university received those funds from a federal Community Project Funding grant. Now,
this project will transform Street between twentieth and twenty seventh
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into a pedestrian and bike only pathway, so it'll be
vacated as a street, some new landscaping and infrastructure coming
along with that. Upon completion, the university will maintain the pathway.
The project will be eight point seven five million dollars
and will begin in twenty twenty seven. Although part of
that Bert Street vacation has already taken place, because right
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now crews are very, very actively working on the future
baseball practice facility. This is going to be just a
little bit west of the Builders district, and this will
be the headquarters for Creighton baseball, and quite importantly, it
will also be the practice destination for the eight teams
that come to the College World Series every year. Creighton
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will not play their games there, but it will have
some seating. They'll continue to play their games at the Chuck,
but it will also be kind of an oppressive building there.
But wait, there's more to the west of that. The
university is almost done with the new softball stadium. Looks great,
It looks done. To the west of that, construction is
in a full throated progress on the Sophomore Residence Hall.
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So that area is kind of crazy. And I was
going to tell you, you know, Trenton and I had
this conference that we were a part of that took
place Tuesday in Creighton's Hyder School of Business building and
we were affiliated withnai Global through MP Dodge, and we
had people from Inni Global from all over the Midwest,
including the president of the company who lives in Nashville.
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And works in New York, and I was driving him
over to Cross Train afterwards for our post conference cocktail party,
and we were going through that Creighton University area and
all the construction of millwork commons, and he's.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Like, your whole city is under construction. He was impressed. Well,
not only is are we hearing that? People are impressed.
I had a longtime client from Chicago who has relatives here,
and he called me for the sole purposes. He said
he was in town for Berkshire Hathway. Maybe he wanted
to brag about that, but he really bragged about amazing
how the city of Omaha looks, how clean it was,
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all the new construction, the stuff that's completed, and it's amazing.
Since we started the show over twenty one years ago.
What downtown. You know, we talked about the city's core
and things like that, but you can even go out
west and just see the amount of investment and the
way people take care of stuff. And you hear about
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construction prices and land prices are so expensive, and shortage
of this and supply chain that. But look what we've
accomplished as a city as a whole, and the city's administrations,
the Planning Department, everything. Everybody's doing their part, the city, stakeholders,
private public partnerships. It's just great and we have to
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continue what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, well said, And if you don't mind, I might
go back to that conference we had on Tuesday sight
I drove the president of a Global over to cross Train,
had a great time, and then we had a bunch
of other people from other cities that were affiliated with
an AI Global there at this cocktail party at cross Train,
and there were three fellows that I know quite well
from Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Appleton, and Madison. So afterwards I gave
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away my game Teck and said we should go out
to dinner. So the four of us went to M's
Pub and they said the exact same thing. They couldn't
believe how vibrant and beautiful and nice and modern downtown
Omaha was. And we had a great dinner at M's Pub.
And then after M's Pub, they wanted to do one
thing in particular. They wanted one favor from me. They
wanted me to take them to one place in Omaha.
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Do you have any idea what it might be? You're
not that far off, they said, Can you show us
where Warren Buffett lives. So of course I showed him
where buff Warren Buffett lives. Everyone loves to come see
where Warren Buffett lives. Now, like, yeah, kind of, but
I got to tell you if Warren is listening or
any of his security detail, if there was a car
going around the block. But that was me ontoday. We
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were quite.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Harmless so many times, just once, but it was kind
of slow. Bring your friends to Omaha, show them around.
Everybody's doing their part.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well. Speaking of another project, Woodbury Corp. And w RK
Real Estate their partners. They broke ground on Gamescape by
Cinemark at the Crossroads Monday afternoon. We've told you this
was coming, but now the official groundbreaking took place. Of course,
the Crossroads Redevelopment eight hundred and fifty million dollars northwest
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of seventy second and Dodge Street. Construction will begin in
earnest like hammers and concrete and rebar and everything else,
in two maybe a month or two this summer, and
it's going to take two years before this thing opens.
It's going to be about one hundred thousand square feet,
part movie theater, part indoor entertainment. It'll be like just
one of those massive entertainment things, but also have a
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movie theater in it, only there's only one in the
country right now, and it's in El Paso, Texas, but
cinemas theaters everywhere. The other thing is also this summer.
Construction will begin on Block B. The Crossroads is broken
up into phases, and one of them is called Block
B and it includes an eight hundred stall underground parking
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garage along with two hundred multifamily apartment units with retail
on the ground floor. Block B will be located just
off Cass Street and should open at the exact same
time as Gamescape and then finally Trenton. They also unveiled
a new logo, but we still haven't gotten plans for
what the new monument signed on seventy second of Dodger
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because we have got to get rid of that like
burned out monument question. But can you imagine taking down
that parking garage on the corner. Yeah, and that's a
later phase, but yeah, that takes some doing. That's going
to take some money to take down to a big, stout,
well built parking garage. But that's not going to happen
for a while. It'll be there probably for a couple
of years. We should move it downtown. Good idea. And
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with that we conclude the News of the Week brought
to you by e Eagle Mortgage Egle Mortgage Company dot com.
Going to take our first break, and when we come back,
we're going to bring on doctor Andrea Niebel. She is
the president of Clarkson College, a health professions school at
forty second and Dodge Street, and they're going through a
lot of big changes that are going to completely change
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the look of forty second to Dodge. Exciting stuff. You're
going right to hear this, so stay with us. You're
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That's Caomaha dot com. We got some big construction and
renovation plans happening at Clarkson College, that is the Health
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Professions college located at forty second and Dodge Street, and
with us today as the President of Clarkson College, doctor
Andrea Niebel. Andrea, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Thank you, and thank you for having me what.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It's good to have you here, and this is pretty exciting.
I had the chance to attend your groundbreaking ceremony earlier
this month, and you guys are going to be renovating buildings,
doing some outdoor work and something that will be very
visible to people. I'd like to start with first, and
that is a big digital reader board right on the
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corner of forty second to Dodge. Talk to us about
that a little bit.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Yes, No, it's very exciting. It's an exciting time just
to be at Clarkson College right now. We are looking
at doing this large digital board just because we've been
talking a lot about our future really relies on visibility
and people drive down Dodge every day. One hundreds of
thousands of people and actually don't know where Clarkson College is,
and we've been Clarkson College has been in exist since.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Eighteen eighty eight.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
If you've been there, and it's been there, we've been
in that building since nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Okay, excellent, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
And so it's very exciting. We'll have it up probably
in the next year or two. It'll be a four
story board. It also has other signage that will happen
on the west side and or started the east side
and the north and south side of the building as well.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
So the college is a campus of a handful of buildings.
The main one that you probably noticed when you go
by forty second and Dodge is a six story black building.
But then there is a three story building right south
of that, and a lot of the construction plans that
you have Andrew, are going to occur in that building.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Yes, and you know, we're really doubling down on owning
our urban campus and being an urban campus. And so
the goal of connecting that south building, it'll actually be
linked physically linked to the main building, that big six
story black building on the corner, along then with our
resid cidence halls, just to the east of that, and
we already have a skywalk to the west than which
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was previous Family Medicine building, which is now also the
College Commons and Education Center. And so that south building
is really exciting because we'll really have a front door.
Then on that south side you'll have another sign there.
We hadn't been to the city Planning Board in thirty
years and so here we are and we're going to stay.
But we will have then our three D printing and
training center in there. People are surprised to know that
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we don't have that. We have community programming individuals that
learners that come. We have over fifty six hundred people
that come to Clarkston College every year.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
In our community programming is off classes, so it is.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
For learners that are not seeking degrees or credits, but
it's continued education. It's nurse aids, it's medical assistance, the
BLS and acls, any of those that kind of program phlebotomy,
and so it's really helping all those foundational roles we
need in healthcare. So that will be the second level
of that South building, and then the top floor we'll
get a renovation for our physical therapist assistant program as
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well as for our science and our PTA faculty.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I was when I was at the groundbreaking that
it sounded like the big new front door to the
college will be at the end of that south building,
and as I understand, there'll be some outdoor construction and
improvements as well.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Yes, no, thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
At the we'll have a welcome center and have that
true front door and have a welcome area for people
to be visitors will know where to park, and then
they'll have Forever Arch is what we're calling it, so
that you can enter into the campus and we have
a beautiful heritage garden and a campus of the center
of the campus, which then will be all enclosed.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
What's the student base as far as numbers and say
the age of students, Yes, I'm sure that's evolved over time.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It has.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
When I first started there in two thousand and three,
we had about six hundred students. Today we serve about
a little over eleven hundred degree seeking students. We're working
towards fifteen hundred. About half of those students are on
campus in our traditional programs radiography, the physical Therapist assistant program,
our traditional nursing program, and then our graduate nurse Santastesia
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program as well, and then the other half are in
our online programs so Healthcare Business and Healthcare Administration, and
our EDD program, our nurse practitioner programs, as well as
our community health and our psychology programs. And so we
cover eighty percent of our students are from Nebraska and
the other twenty percent we cover our twenty six state
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area well.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And the age of students have probably gone up a
little bit over the years.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
It has We've always been to a non traditional based
student We have most of our students ninety percent of
our students are transfer students, and so we do serve
a younger population in those traditional students around that you know,
eighteen to.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Twenty years from other schools, from other.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Schools, So Metro Community College a big partner uno Creighton.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
A lot of differenters.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
They spend a semessed or two and then they decide
they want to go into a health culture.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Happy to be one.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
In the sense that if they want to be in healthcare,
you want to come to Clarkson College. So we'll continue
to want to support them to do what they want
to do in the other areas those first semesters and
then come on the tradition of the average age of
those student is for undergrad is twenty six, so we
serve a lot of students that are picking. Also second
careers are again transferring and doing something else. But if
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you want to be in healthcare and you want to.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Come to Clark's College, it seems like there's been a
proliferation of healthcare at Omaha and across the country, especially
with kids. You know, the advent of the cell phone
and everything else. If you notice all the healthcare, not
just the education side of it, but the clinics, and
it seems like, I don't know if they've invented reasons
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for people to go to the doctor, to the nurse
or something like that, but it just seems like a
heck of a growing industry.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
There is definitely growth in programming, I would say, being
healthcare professionals, and we're in a cycle of shortage, so
that ebbs and flows, so we're in a cycle of shortage.
The main reason really is actually the aging population. Now, yes,
we have some mental health pieces that we're always trying
to put together, and we've seen that grow in the
last five years since the COVID.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Epidemic.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
But I would say that the main pieces is that
we are taking care, we're living longer, and so you
need people to be able to treat people a much
longer period of time.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
So with the construction project of the South building and
the skywalk and the outdoor stuff, what are you looking
for a completion date?
Speaker 6 (21:36):
We're hoping we have an aggressive completion date of really
the next year to eighteen months.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Okay, Well, we are talking with doctor Andrea Niebel, president
of Clarkson College. We're going to take our middle of
the show break for the news, and when we come back,
we're going to chat with Andrew a little bit about
the neighborhood in which Clarkson College sits because it's undergoing
so many changes. And you're going to and welcome back
to krow Omaha, Jeff Biels and Trenton Maggot. Here we're
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at the river front. The Mayor was there and all
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not ale companies, and all these other partners have come
together and they've built a model ADU. It's six hundred
square feet, one bedroom, one bathroom house with two patios.
Looks really nice, not big, really nice. But it will
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be on display now well into October and you can
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The city recently expanded zoning regulations to allow them in
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ADU at the Riverfront. Go check it out. We have
with us today doctor Andrea Niebel. She is president of
Clarkson College, the health professions college located at forty second
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and Dodge, and we were talking in the last segment
about the many, many projects happening on campus. But Andrew,
I'd like to chat with you a little bit about
the area around you. Clarkson College is not far from
the Blackstone District, stones throw from the booming med Center.
But if you look at Clarkson College, there are some
surface parking lots really close. What could happen and what
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would you like to see happen in the area around
Clarkson College.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Definitely right everybody, everybody.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
My dentist has pickle ball.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
We talked about it.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
We don't have sports at Clarkson College, so maybe pick
a ball would be perfect sport for Clarkson College as well.
You know, we're very for inestate in our location.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
For sure. We've been at this location since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Two where a hospital, the hospital affiliated college to Nebraska Medicine,
and Nebraska Medicine is a very supportive partner and extension
to what we do at Clarkson College and definitely a
workforce pipeline for the hospital as well.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
With Project Health.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Happening and those anchor points being, you know, the med
Center and the Edge District and us being a pipeline
for everything that's going to happen with Project Health. I've
shared many times with Mini leaders both and our Board
of Directors is very supportive as well and our leaders
on campus. We do not want to be an island.
Clarks And Colleges does not want to end up an island.
So as part of our strategic roadmap over the next
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three to five years is really to look at what's
the Clarkson district here between Blackstone and the Edge District
as well as then being able to serve Project Health.
Some exciting things that are happening around that are some
of the planning, is it. I heard you last week
talk about a grocery store in the area and the
urban core. Where do we need a grocery store? Should
we think about early childhood development services? What about community services?
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The whys and all of the things that could be
really helpful to our community as well as multi generational
living and on and on. But we'll be doing focus
groups throughout the next three to six months and really
meeting with the community. Our board, our faculty and staff
are amazing on campus. They'll be giving input as well
and really seeing what does this start to look like.
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It's land owned by clerksro Regia Health Services and so
they're obviously a big part of that and part of
our board as well.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
What an exciting time to lead Clerks Cow.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
It's very excited.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I've been at Clarkson College for twenty two years and
I have to say it's a special art.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
As a student, No, I was not actually a student.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I started there as an adjunct faculty member and then
served in a director role for our physical therapists assistant department.
I'm a physical therapist by profession and graduated from Creighton
University and that's what brought us here. My husband and
I raised two great kids here and we thought we'd
be in Omaha for three years and that was in
nineteen ninety nine and here we are twenty six years later.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
You like that, you know, you talked about the potential
for development around the existing Clarkson College campus. When it
comes to the new public transit stuff, you're right in
the middle of it all. On the north side of
the building is the bus rapid transit system what we
call a BIT and then to the south the streetcar
is going to be very close. And of course now
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there's a lot of talk about the med Center being
involved in expanding it for the west, which could bring
it even closer to the college. So talk to us
a little bit about how the college might be able
to capitalize on that streetcar presence.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Yeah, absolutely, yes, right now, I believe it stops right
kind of about fortieth and Farnham, and if we could
see that all, you know, go all the way down
to south of Crete, that's just great for the community
as well, to be able to have access to the
clinic of course, the college and services and anything that
we can provide there that the community needs. So I
think if we stay student focused and patient focused, it
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will be it will be huge for all.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
A lot of students that live downtown in the core
can ride the bus, yes, right, bus or the street car.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
How awesome is that?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Well, when we do free bus passes for our students
as well.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Oh really, car students can be down there and have
free services to be able to be on the bus
and come on down to school.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
So when you look into your crystal ball down down
the road, what what are the big things that Clarkson
College needs to and wants to accomplish, you know, in
the in the longer future, longer future.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Well, we definitely want to see ourselves one hundred more
years forward, one hundred and thirty seven years, you know
more forward. We are built on a foundation of service,
and so the best thing that we can do is
continue to provide excellent healthcare education and be able to
see that future of healthcare.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Workers, you know.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
And we're when we think of the future for Clarkson
College as well, it's it is going to be foundational
roles in those community learners. It is going to be
degree seeking students from associates degrees to doctoral degrees in
nursing and all of the allied health services. And I really,
really truly believe we don't think about healthcare until you
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need it, and when you need it, you want the best.
I'm biased, but Clarkson College has the best healthcare providers.
We have great outcomes and we're going to need healthcare
professionals and so that takes decades to build. And so however,
we can continue to encourage young people a second career people,
third career people, health professions.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
It's a really really it is a.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Calling a learning facts or information that you want out
there about Clarkston College that you said that some people
don't even know the buildings there. Yeah, and you've been
there since ninety two. Yeah, And so is there anything
that Omahon should know, whether they're interested in an education
or something that they know about Clarkson College that you
just want to kind of clear the air and let
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people know.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Well, I really is a great question, and the best
things that we have. We can enroll students three times
a year and we graduate students three times a year.
So come down to Clarkson College anytime and we are
going to be able to enroll and get involved in
some way.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Well, Andrea, we appreciate you joining us and we look
forward to seeing all these improvements come to fruition at
forty second.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
To Dodge, thank you and thank you for doing a
show like this for so many years and sharing our
story and so many stories that are happening to Omaha.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
It's exciting time our pleasure.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Doctor Andrea Nebel, President of Clarkson College, going to take
our final break of the hour, and when we come back,
it'll be your Perkins Chritzer Construction Lightning Round in which
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dot com. All right, here we go. Seven Brew Coffee
is coming to the metro area. The first Omaha location
will be in a to be constructed building at one
hundred and eighty second in West Maple Road, next to
a currently under construction Chase Bank branch. A lot of
new stuff out there that according to our friends at
Access Commercial Real Estate Company, now their Fremont location is
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very close to There's also going to be a Council
Bluff's location slated for a former US Bank space on
West Broadway. Now. Seven Brew is based in Fayetteville, Arkansas,
has more than four hundred drive through locations around the country.
They are late to Omaha. In fact, they already have
stores in Grand Island, Carney, Lincoln, Norfolk, North Platte, Nebraska,
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a lot of them in Ioa, South Dakota. So a
lot of Omahon's have been clamoring for this. They're finally coming.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
We have a lot of coffee brands.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
We have more coming. We don't have Black Rifle yet.
There's other brands that are looking at Omaha. And I
guess everybody's going to have their own coffee kiosk.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
No reason to go uncaffeinated in Omaha. There are plenty
of coffee choices like there are in every city. Santiago's
Mexican Foods Soft opened earlier this week June sixteenth, inside
the Blue Skybar and Patio at one hundred and seventh
and Pacific Street. Now Santiago's is a family owned food
truck which launched in twenty twenty two based near thirty
(34:02):
six then Jefferson Street. Now, the truck will continue to
operate for events only while the company is settling into
its new Blue Sky kitchen, and then eventually the full
truck service will resume along with the restaurant. But they
replaced there were a couple other places that were in
there previously, no Ley's and another one that I can't remember. You.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I've always said we don't have enough coffee shops, we
don't have enough Mexican restaurants.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Circo, an Italian inspired restaurant and wine bar at one
hundred ninety First in Q, is now open for lunch
in addition to dinner. Flora Cafe is a new concept
from the owners of Sam's Leone Mexican Food. It's set
to open very soon at one nine tenth in Farnham,
one nine Farnham Street, just south of Jean Leahy Mal.
(34:49):
They're taking over the former Matsu Sushi space. This restaurant
will serve authentic Mexican brunch that sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Was that the original location of the Farewell was that
the Fairwall or the Great Wall? It was never that great,
but was that building? Is that what it was built for?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I think the Great Wall was the space to the
west because there is an Indian restaurant in that space.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
There's one called Toons and Scribbles.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, Screons Toons. Screons Toons is in what is becoming
Flora Cafe.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Scribbles was on a different Street.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Okay, all right, my Thai Omaha and x Sarbon Village
is switching ownership. The Thai restaurant, located at twenty two
seventy nine South sixty seventh Street is temporarily closed. The
new ownership plans to renovate the space, reopening for business
in August. That right there in a Sarbon Village, we
got some bad news. We have a closing Elva Yarta,
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Mexican restaurant one hundred and twenty fourth in West Center
Road in Westwood Plaza, closing July second.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
There's only about a year. I think they were in
under construction for a long time, not terrible. And that's
where Calisters was and then Hooters before that, right.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, so they're rotating through their restaurant's there.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
And it was originally of McDonald's there wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
That was torn down though, yeah, and rebuilt into a
different space. So Ashland Brewing Company opened for business earlier
this week. They are located at eight ten South ninth
Avenue in Ashland. That's basically the confluence of Highways six
and sixty six Trent. And you'll be happy to know
that in addition to having all sorts of food and
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beverage and other attractions. This eleven thousand square foot space
has four pickleball courts, so you'll basic off there. Construction
is underway on a McDonald's location at one hundred and
sixty eighth in State, so there's your proof that Omaha
is growing to the northwest. First Round will hold a
grand opening Saturday, June twenty first. That's today for It's
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West Omaha sports bar inside the former Cops Pizza building
at twenty eight twenty nine South one hundred and eighty first,
just southwest of one hundred and eightieth and Center. The
existing First Round remains open at thirty ninth and Farnham
in the Blackstone District. And finally, the Butique will hold
its grand opening June twenty eighth at one hundred and
(37:06):
twenty first in Pacific. It's going into a former podiatrist office.
This is a salon in boutique that offers curated retail,
handmade goods and beauty services in a whimsical setting. It's
very cool setting. I actually toured it yesterday, real neat place.
And that is your Perkins Kritzer construction Lightning round for
the week. And why that's your whole show for the
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week as well. Music's playing, which means we are done.
I'm Jeff Bils and I'm Trented.
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Speaker 3 (00:57):
Maggot doesn't get any better than this, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
How So hanging out with you, all of our faithful
listeners and followers, we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We have been doing this a long time.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, thanks for saying that you like hanging out for me,
because I thought when you were saying it doesn't get
any better than this, I thought you were talking about
the College World Series Championship Finals happening tonight and tomorrow
you're going to go.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah what you are? Yes, I'm pretty excited about it. Okay,
I did. I didn't know you went to baseball games.
I do when it's air conditioned. Okay, Well, I will
be going to at least one of them.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I'm not sure if I'll be going to both of them,
but it is LSU versus Coastal Carolina game tonight at
Charles schwab Field, and then another one on Sunday tomorrow afternoon,
and then if necessary, a third one on Monday evening.
So Trenton. We have a Grohamaha Eats restaurant review this week.
(01:56):
Chris Corey is our restaurant reviewer and he does a
great job of just scouring everything there is to know
about the restaurants he visits, and this week he went
to Tara goucha new Brazilian steakhouse. I too, have tried
Tara Goaucha and it's very, very good. You'll be impressed
(02:17):
with Chris's review. It's positive. He enjoyed it, been there twice.
Like a lot of the Brazilian steakhouses, this is the
place where you go in and they have all of
the amazing assortment on the cold bar, and then they
bring the skewers of piping hot meat cook just the
way you like it to your table. It's a hell
(02:38):
of a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I've been there and I thought it was delicious. You know,
they're not giving that stuff away, but it's quality. It's
worth it. A lot of the people, the manager and
the workers there are either Brazilian or South America, and
it's pretty cool because they know their products well. And
(03:00):
it's an upscale Brazilian steakhouse, I guess you you would
call it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, And they're only a handful of these in the country.
Down They started in Florida, a couple down there, one
up in Connecticut, and then I think Indiana is either
coming soon or opening there and then and this so
it's a new concept. And as Chris writes in the review,
the owners go back to Fogo decell and kind of
(03:25):
broke away from it and created something that they believe is.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Better and what's better too is immediately after those the
article came out, the review came out on gromhua dot com.
Corporate Terry Gotcha called or reached out to you and
asked if they could use several pictures that Chris and
Jen Corey took and they wanted for their marketing.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah. And if you want to read the review and
see any of our reviews, just simply go to grow
Omaha dot com. When you see the navigation bar, click
on reviews. There's a drop down you can choose between
eats and flicks. Flicks' his movie, eats, his restaurants, and
they're all available right there. Well, let's go into our
News of the week, which is brought to.
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at Eagle Mortgage Company dot com. So big news this
week Trenton, the Omaha City Council voted to move forward
a final plant and subdivision agreement for the Civic Auditorium site. Now,
the Civic was demolished nine years ago now and then
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there have been different proposals. You know, it's four city blocks,
so it's a big deal. And there was some talk
and some thought that maybe a White Lotus, the company
that has it right now, local development firm, might not
be the one to move forward with it. But now
it appears that White Lotus is planning to move forward
(05:41):
after getting the city council approval. White Lotus CEO arun Agerwal,
who we know and has been a guest on this
show before said that despite not seeing much progress since
his company took over the project nineteen months ago, required
planning and approvals are generally on track. Furthermore, White Lotus
is currently in the vertical design phase and are working
(06:05):
closely with Creighton University to possibly serve as a type
of commercial extension for the university, if you will, He said,
maybe something like Aggieville is to Kansas State and Manhattan, Kansas,
or you know what Exarbon Village is to un O,
or the Haymarket is to UNL and so so that's
that leads us to where we are now. Apparently the
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plan with the civic Auditorium is a go. Well.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
If you look at several new sources, including Gromaha, these
designs are pretty cool and they're aggressive, and there's always
a concern that there's so many not for profit developments downhouse,
such as the Children's Museum, and that doesn't add to
the tax base if they're not if we're not collecting
(06:52):
sales tax. So the fact that the fact that White
Lotus is being very aggressive and going vertically and tying
into Creighton, I think is a wonderful thing. Definitely a
complex project and I hope it works out, because we
(07:15):
like to see things get completed.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, absolutely, and we'll definitely keep an eye on that.
Plans call for a last we saw mixed you swakable village,
if you will, apartments upstairs, retail on the downstairs type
of you know, the new urbanism stuff that we've been
doing a good job of with in Omaha in recent years. Well,
speaking of Creighton University, the Omaha City Council this week
(07:38):
agreed to move forward with the university's pedestrian mall and
bikeway project. Under the agreement, the university will distribute one
point seventy five million dollars to the city, while then
the city will complete the construction of the pathway. The
university received those funds from a federal Community Project Funding grant. Now,
this project will transform Street between twentieth and twenty seventh
(08:02):
into a pedestrian and bike only pathway, so it'll be
vacated as a street, some new landscaping and infrastructure coming
along with that. Upon completion, the university will maintain the pathway.
The project will be eight point seven five million dollars
and will begin in twenty twenty seven. Although part of
that Bert Street vacation has already taken place, because right
(08:26):
now crews are very, very actively working on the future
baseball practice facility. This is going to be just a
little bit west of the Builders district, and this will
be the headquarters for Creighton baseball, and quite importantly, it
will also be the practice destination for the eight teams
that come to the College World Series every year. Creighton
(08:49):
will not play their games there, but it will have
some seating. They'll continue to play their games at the Chuck,
but it will also be kind of an oppressive building there.
But wait, there's more to the west of that. The
university is almost done with the new softball stadium. Looks great,
It looks done. To the west of that, construction is
in a full throated progress on the Sophomore Residence Hall.
(09:13):
So that area is kind of crazy. And I was
going to tell you, you know, Trenton and I had
this conference that we were a part of that took
place Tuesday in Creighton's Hyder School of Business building and
we were affiliated withnai Global through MP Dodge, and we
had people from Inni Global from all over the Midwest,
including the president of the company who lives in Nashville.
(09:35):
And works in New York, and I was driving him
over to Cross Train afterwards for our post conference cocktail party,
and we were going through that Creighton University area and
all the construction of millwork commons, and he's.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Like, your whole city is under construction. He was impressed. Well,
not only is are we hearing that? People are impressed.
I had a longtime client from Chicago who has relatives here,
and he called me for the sole purposes. He said
he was in town for Berkshire Hathway. Maybe he wanted
to brag about that, but he really bragged about amazing
how the city of Omaha looks, how clean it was,
(10:11):
all the new construction, the stuff that's completed, and it's amazing.
Since we started the show over twenty one years ago.
What downtown. You know, we talked about the city's core
and things like that, but you can even go out
west and just see the amount of investment and the
way people take care of stuff. And you hear about
(10:31):
construction prices and land prices are so expensive, and shortage
of this and supply chain that. But look what we've
accomplished as a city as a whole, and the city's administrations,
the Planning Department, everything. Everybody's doing their part, the city, stakeholders,
private public partnerships. It's just great and we have to
(10:51):
continue what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, well said, And if you don't mind, I might
go back to that conference we had on Tuesday sight
I drove the president of a Global over to cross Train,
had a great time, and then we had a bunch
of other people from other cities that were affiliated with
an AI Global there at this cocktail party at cross Train,
and there were three fellows that I know quite well
from Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Appleton, and Madison. So afterwards I gave
(11:16):
away my game Teck and said we should go out
to dinner. So the four of us went to M's
Pub and they said the exact same thing. They couldn't
believe how vibrant and beautiful and nice and modern downtown
Omaha was. And we had a great dinner at M's Pub.
And then after M's Pub, they wanted to do one
thing in particular. They wanted one favor from me. They
wanted me to take them to one place in Omaha.
(11:38):
Do you have any idea what it might be? You're
not that far off, they said, Can you show us
where Warren Buffett lives. So of course I showed him
where buff Warren Buffett lives. Everyone loves to come see
where Warren Buffett lives. Now, like, yeah, kind of, but
I got to tell you if Warren is listening or
any of his security detail, if there was a car
going around the block. But that was me ontoday. We
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were quite.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Harmless so many times, just once, but it was kind
of slow. Bring your friends to Omaha, show them around.
Everybody's doing their part.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well. Speaking of another project, Woodbury Corp. And w RK
Real Estate their partners. They broke ground on Gamescape by
Cinemark at the Crossroads Monday afternoon. We've told you this
was coming, but now the official groundbreaking took place. Of course,
the Crossroads Redevelopment eight hundred and fifty million dollars northwest
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of seventy second and Dodge Street. Construction will begin in
earnest like hammers and concrete and rebar and everything else,
in two maybe a month or two this summer, and
it's going to take two years before this thing opens.
It's going to be about one hundred thousand square feet,
part movie theater, part indoor entertainment. It'll be like just
one of those massive entertainment things, but also have a
(12:53):
movie theater in it, only there's only one in the
country right now, and it's in El Paso, Texas, but
cinemas theaters everywhere. The other thing is also this summer.
Construction will begin on Block B. The Crossroads is broken
up into phases, and one of them is called Block
B and it includes an eight hundred stall underground parking
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garage along with two hundred multifamily apartment units with retail
on the ground floor. Block B will be located just
off Cass Street and should open at the exact same
time as Gamescape and then finally Trenton. They also unveiled
a new logo, but we still haven't gotten plans for
what the new monument signed on seventy second of Dodger
(13:35):
because we have got to get rid of that like
burned out monument question. But can you imagine taking down
that parking garage on the corner. Yeah, and that's a
later phase, but yeah, that takes some doing. That's going
to take some money to take down to a big, stout,
well built parking garage. But that's not going to happen
for a while. It'll be there probably for a couple
of years. We should move it downtown. Good idea. And
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with that we conclude the News of the Week brought
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Going to take our first break, and when we come back,
we're going to bring on doctor Andrea Niebel. She is
the president of Clarkson College, a health professions school at
forty second and Dodge Street, and they're going through a
lot of big changes that are going to completely change
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the look of forty second to Dodge. Exciting stuff. You're
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renovation plans happening at Clarkson College, that is the Health
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Professions college located at forty second and Dodge Street, and
with us today as the President of Clarkson College, doctor
Andrea Niebel. Andrea, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Thank you, and thank you for having me what.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It's good to have you here, and this is pretty exciting.
I had the chance to attend your groundbreaking ceremony earlier
this month, and you guys are going to be renovating buildings,
doing some outdoor work and something that will be very
visible to people. I'd like to start with first, and
that is a big digital reader board right on the
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corner of forty second to Dodge. Talk to us about
that a little bit.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Yes, No, it's very exciting. It's an exciting time just
to be at Clarkson College right now. We are looking
at doing this large digital board just because we've been
talking a lot about our future really relies on visibility
and people drive down Dodge every day. One hundreds of
thousands of people and actually don't know where Clarkson College is,
and we've been Clarkson College has been in exist since.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Eighteen eighty eight.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
If you've been there, and it's been there, we've been
in that building since nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Okay, excellent, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
And so it's very exciting. We'll have it up probably
in the next year or two. It'll be a four
story board. It also has other signage that will happen
on the west side and or started the east side
and the north and south side of the building as well.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
So the college is a campus of a handful of buildings.
The main one that you probably noticed when you go
by forty second and Dodge is a six story black building.
But then there is a three story building right south
of that, and a lot of the construction plans that
you have Andrew, are going to occur in that building.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Yes, and you know, we're really doubling down on owning
our urban campus and being an urban campus. And so
the goal of connecting that south building, it'll actually be
linked physically linked to the main building, that big six
story black building on the corner, along then with our
resid cidence halls, just to the east of that, and
we already have a skywalk to the west than which
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was previous Family Medicine building, which is now also the
College Commons and Education Center. And so that south building
is really exciting because we'll really have a front door.
Then on that south side you'll have another sign there.
We hadn't been to the city Planning Board in thirty
years and so here we are and we're going to stay.
But we will have then our three D printing and
training center in there. People are surprised to know that
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we don't have that. We have community programming individuals that
learners that come. We have over fifty six hundred people
that come to Clarkston College every year.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
In our community programming is off classes, so it is.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
For learners that are not seeking degrees or credits, but
it's continued education. It's nurse aids, it's medical assistance, the
BLS and acls, any of those that kind of program phlebotomy,
and so it's really helping all those foundational roles we
need in healthcare. So that will be the second level
of that South building, and then the top floor we'll
get a renovation for our physical therapist assistant program as
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well as for our science and our PTA faculty.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I was when I was at the groundbreaking that
it sounded like the big new front door to the
college will be at the end of that south building,
and as I understand, there'll be some outdoor construction and
improvements as well.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Yes, no, thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
At the we'll have a welcome center and have that
true front door and have a welcome area for people
to be visitors will know where to park, and then
they'll have Forever Arch is what we're calling it, so
that you can enter into the campus and we have
a beautiful heritage garden and a campus of the center
of the campus, which then will be all enclosed.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
What's the student base as far as numbers and say
the age of students, Yes, I'm sure that's evolved over time.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It has.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
When I first started there in two thousand and three,
we had about six hundred students. Today we serve about
a little over eleven hundred degree seeking students. We're working
towards fifteen hundred. About half of those students are on
campus in our traditional programs radiography, the physical Therapist assistant program,
our traditional nursing program, and then our graduate nurse Santastesia
(19:11):
program as well, and then the other half are in
our online programs so Healthcare Business and Healthcare Administration, and
our EDD program, our nurse practitioner programs, as well as
our community health and our psychology programs. And so we
cover eighty percent of our students are from Nebraska and
the other twenty percent we cover our twenty six state
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area well.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And the age of students have probably gone up a
little bit over the years.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
It has We've always been to a non traditional based
student We have most of our students ninety percent of
our students are transfer students, and so we do serve
a younger population in those traditional students around that you know,
eighteen to.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Twenty years from other schools, from other.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Schools, So Metro Community College a big partner uno Creighton.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
A lot of differenters.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
They spend a semessed or two and then they decide
they want to go into a health culture.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Happy to be one.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
In the sense that if they want to be in healthcare,
you want to come to Clarkson College. So we'll continue
to want to support them to do what they want
to do in the other areas those first semesters and
then come on the tradition of the average age of
those student is for undergrad is twenty six, so we
serve a lot of students that are picking. Also second
careers are again transferring and doing something else. But if
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you want to be in healthcare and you want to.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Come to Clark's College, it seems like there's been a
proliferation of healthcare at Omaha and across the country, especially
with kids. You know, the advent of the cell phone
and everything else. If you notice all the healthcare, not
just the education side of it, but the clinics, and
it seems like, I don't know if they've invented reasons
(20:50):
for people to go to the doctor, to the nurse
or something like that, but it just seems like a
heck of a growing industry.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
There is definitely growth in programming, I would say, being
healthcare professionals, and we're in a cycle of shortage, so
that ebbs and flows, so we're in a cycle of shortage.
The main reason really is actually the aging population. Now, yes,
we have some mental health pieces that we're always trying
to put together, and we've seen that grow in the
last five years since the COVID.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Epidemic.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
But I would say that the main pieces is that
we are taking care, we're living longer, and so you
need people to be able to treat people a much
longer period of time.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
So with the construction project of the South building and
the skywalk and the outdoor stuff, what are you looking
for a completion date?
Speaker 6 (21:36):
We're hoping we have an aggressive completion date of really
the next year to eighteen months.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Okay, Well, we are talking with doctor Andrea Niebel, president
of Clarkson College. We're going to take our middle of
the show break for the news, and when we come back,
we're going to chat with Andrew a little bit about
the neighborhood in which Clarkson College sits because it's undergoing
so many changes. And you're going to and welcome back
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(23:31):
at the river front. The Mayor was there and all
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not ale companies, and all these other partners have come
together and they've built a model ADU. It's six hundred
square feet, one bedroom, one bathroom house with two patios.
Looks really nice, not big, really nice. But it will
(23:51):
be on display now well into October and you can
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where you can go inside it and you can see
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the city is encouraging people in certain parts of the
city to consider building an accessory dwelling unit in their backyard.
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The city recently expanded zoning regulations to allow them in
single family yards in more areas of the city. The
whole idea is to help with the affordable housing crisis,
find a way to add housing quickly, not at a
lot of expense. Sometimes people refer to these things as
mother in law cottages or a place where your kid
(24:34):
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with us today doctor Andrea Niebel. She is president of
Clarkson College, the health professions college located at forty second
(24:54):
and Dodge, and we were talking in the last segment
about the many, many projects happening on campus. But Andrew,
I'd like to chat with you a little bit about
the area around you. Clarkson College is not far from
the Blackstone District, stones throw from the booming med Center.
But if you look at Clarkson College, there are some
surface parking lots really close. What could happen and what
(25:18):
would you like to see happen in the area around
Clarkson College.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Definitely right everybody, everybody.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
My dentist has pickle ball.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
We talked about it.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
We don't have sports at Clarkson College, so maybe pick
a ball would be perfect sport for Clarkson College as well.
You know, we're very for inestate in our location.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
For sure. We've been at this location since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Two where a hospital, the hospital affiliated college to Nebraska Medicine,
and Nebraska Medicine is a very supportive partner and extension
to what we do at Clarkson College and definitely a
workforce pipeline for the hospital as well.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
With Project Health.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Happening and those anchor points being, you know, the med
Center and the Edge District and us being a pipeline
for everything that's going to happen with Project Health. I've
shared many times with Mini leaders both and our Board
of Directors is very supportive as well and our leaders
on campus. We do not want to be an island.
Clarks And Colleges does not want to end up an island.
So as part of our strategic roadmap over the next
(26:17):
three to five years is really to look at what's
the Clarkson district here between Blackstone and the Edge District
as well as then being able to serve Project Health.
Some exciting things that are happening around that are some
of the planning, is it. I heard you last week
talk about a grocery store in the area and the
urban core. Where do we need a grocery store? Should
we think about early childhood development services? What about community services?
(26:41):
The whys and all of the things that could be
really helpful to our community as well as multi generational
living and on and on. But we'll be doing focus
groups throughout the next three to six months and really
meeting with the community. Our board, our faculty and staff
are amazing on campus. They'll be giving input as well
and really seeing what does this start to look like.
(27:02):
It's land owned by clerksro Regia Health Services and so
they're obviously a big part of that and part of
our board as well.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
What an exciting time to lead Clerks Cow.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
It's very excited.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I've been at Clarkson College for twenty two years and
I have to say it's a special art.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
As a student, No, I was not actually a student.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I started there as an adjunct faculty member and then
served in a director role for our physical therapists assistant department.
I'm a physical therapist by profession and graduated from Creighton
University and that's what brought us here. My husband and
I raised two great kids here and we thought we'd
be in Omaha for three years and that was in
nineteen ninety nine and here we are twenty six years later.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
You like that, you know, you talked about the potential
for development around the existing Clarkson College campus. When it
comes to the new public transit stuff, you're right in
the middle of it all. On the north side of
the building is the bus rapid transit system what we
call a BIT and then to the south the streetcar
is going to be very close. And of course now
(28:05):
there's a lot of talk about the med Center being
involved in expanding it for the west, which could bring
it even closer to the college. So talk to us
a little bit about how the college might be able
to capitalize on that streetcar presence.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Yeah, absolutely, yes, right now, I believe it stops right
kind of about fortieth and Farnham, and if we could
see that all, you know, go all the way down
to south of Crete, that's just great for the community
as well, to be able to have access to the
clinic of course, the college and services and anything that
we can provide there that the community needs. So I
think if we stay student focused and patient focused, it
(28:38):
will be it will be huge for all.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
A lot of students that live downtown in the core
can ride the bus, yes, right, bus or the street car.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
How awesome is that?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Well, when we do free bus passes for our students
as well.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Oh really, car students can be down there and have
free services to be able to be on the bus
and come on down to school.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
So when you look into your crystal ball down down
the road, what what are the big things that Clarkson
College needs to and wants to accomplish, you know, in
the in the longer future, longer future.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Well, we definitely want to see ourselves one hundred more
years forward, one hundred and thirty seven years, you know
more forward. We are built on a foundation of service,
and so the best thing that we can do is
continue to provide excellent healthcare education and be able to
see that future of healthcare.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Workers, you know.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
And we're when we think of the future for Clarkson
College as well, it's it is going to be foundational
roles in those community learners. It is going to be
degree seeking students from associates degrees to doctoral degrees in
nursing and all of the allied health services. And I really,
really truly believe we don't think about healthcare until you
(29:50):
need it, and when you need it, you want the best.
I'm biased, but Clarkson College has the best healthcare providers.
We have great outcomes and we're going to need healthcare
professionals and so that takes decades to build. And so however,
we can continue to encourage young people a second career people,
third career people, health professions.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
It's a really really it is a.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Calling a learning facts or information that you want out
there about Clarkston College that you said that some people
don't even know the buildings there. Yeah, and you've been
there since ninety two. Yeah, And so is there anything
that Omahon should know, whether they're interested in an education
or something that they know about Clarkson College that you
just want to kind of clear the air and let
(30:33):
people know.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Well, I really is a great question, and the best
things that we have. We can enroll students three times
a year and we graduate students three times a year.
So come down to Clarkson College anytime and we are
going to be able to enroll and get involved in
some way.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Well, Andrea, we appreciate you joining us and we look
forward to seeing all these improvements come to fruition at
forty second.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
To Dodge, thank you and thank you for doing a
show like this for so many years and sharing our
story and so many stories that are happening to Omaha.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
It's exciting time our pleasure.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Doctor Andrea Nebel, President of Clarkson College, going to take
our final break of the hour, and when we come back,
it'll be your Perkins Chritzer Construction Lightning Round in which
we talk about a lot of things really fast. So
stay with us. You're listening to Grow Omaha, brought to
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Construction on News Radio eleven ten KFAB and it's time
(31:29):
for your Perkins Chritzer Construction Lightning Round in which we
talk about a lot of things really fast. Thanks to
Perkins Chritzer Construction for making this possible. They are a
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of work in Omaha, but they'll you know, they venture
out to North Platte, Nebraska or up to Norfolk or
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Dave Kreutzer is in charge over there. We talked to
Dave regularly keeps us up to date with a lot
of Perkins Kreuzer's projects, and those projects will range from
building a shopping center or an office from the ground
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then smaller things like building out retail spaces or restaurant spaces,
and so many times over the last year we've shared
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(32:37):
dot com. All right, here we go. Seven Brew Coffee
is coming to the metro area. The first Omaha location
will be in a to be constructed building at one
hundred and eighty second in West Maple Road, next to
a currently under construction Chase Bank branch. A lot of
new stuff out there that according to our friends at
Access Commercial Real Estate Company, now their Fremont location is
(32:59):
very close to There's also going to be a Council
Bluff's location slated for a former US Bank space on
West Broadway. Now. Seven Brew is based in Fayetteville, Arkansas,
has more than four hundred drive through locations around the country.
They are late to Omaha. In fact, they already have
stores in Grand Island, Carney, Lincoln, Norfolk, North Platte, Nebraska,
(33:21):
a lot of them in Ioa, South Dakota. So a
lot of Omahon's have been clamoring for this. They're finally coming.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
We have a lot of coffee brands.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
We have more coming. We don't have Black Rifle yet.
There's other brands that are looking at Omaha. And I
guess everybody's going to have their own coffee kiosk.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
No reason to go uncaffeinated in Omaha. There are plenty
of coffee choices like there are in every city. Santiago's
Mexican Foods Soft opened earlier this week June sixteenth, inside
the Blue Skybar and Patio at one hundred and seventh
and Pacific Street. Now Santiago's is a family owned food
truck which launched in twenty twenty two based near thirty
(34:02):
six then Jefferson Street. Now, the truck will continue to
operate for events only while the company is settling into
its new Blue Sky kitchen, and then eventually the full
truck service will resume along with the restaurant. But they
replaced there were a couple other places that were in
there previously, no Ley's and another one that I can't remember. You.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I've always said we don't have enough coffee shops, we
don't have enough Mexican restaurants.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Circo, an Italian inspired restaurant and wine bar at one
hundred ninety First in Q, is now open for lunch
in addition to dinner. Flora Cafe is a new concept
from the owners of Sam's Leone Mexican Food. It's set
to open very soon at one nine tenth in Farnham,
one nine Farnham Street, just south of Jean Leahy Mal.
(34:49):
They're taking over the former Matsu Sushi space. This restaurant
will serve authentic Mexican brunch that sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Was that the original location of the Farewell was that
the Fairwall or the Great Wall? It was never that great,
but was that building? Is that what it was built for?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I think the Great Wall was the space to the
west because there is an Indian restaurant in that space.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
There's one called Toons and Scribbles.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, Screons Toons. Screons Toons is in what is becoming
Flora Cafe.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Scribbles was on a different Street.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Okay, all right, my Thai Omaha and x Sarbon Village
is switching ownership. The Thai restaurant, located at twenty two
seventy nine South sixty seventh Street is temporarily closed. The
new ownership plans to renovate the space, reopening for business
in August. That right there in a Sarbon Village, we
got some bad news. We have a closing Elva Yarta,
(35:45):
Mexican restaurant one hundred and twenty fourth in West Center
Road in Westwood Plaza, closing July second.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
There's only about a year. I think they were in
under construction for a long time, not terrible. And that's
where Calisters was and then Hooters before that, right.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, so they're rotating through their restaurant's there.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
And it was originally of McDonald's there wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
That was torn down though, yeah, and rebuilt into a
different space. So Ashland Brewing Company opened for business earlier
this week. They are located at eight ten South ninth
Avenue in Ashland. That's basically the confluence of Highways six
and sixty six Trent. And you'll be happy to know
that in addition to having all sorts of food and
(36:23):
beverage and other attractions. This eleven thousand square foot space
has four pickleball courts, so you'll basic off there. Construction
is underway on a McDonald's location at one hundred and
sixty eighth in State, so there's your proof that Omaha
is growing to the northwest. First Round will hold a
grand opening Saturday, June twenty first. That's today for It's
(36:46):
West Omaha sports bar inside the former Cops Pizza building
at twenty eight twenty nine South one hundred and eighty first,
just southwest of one hundred and eightieth and Center. The
existing First Round remains open at thirty ninth and Farnham
in the Blackstone District. And finally, the Butique will hold
its grand opening June twenty eighth at one hundred and
(37:06):
twenty first in Pacific. It's going into a former podiatrist office.
This is a salon in boutique that offers curated retail,
handmade goods and beauty services in a whimsical setting. It's
very cool setting. I actually toured it yesterday, real neat place.
And that is your Perkins Kritzer construction Lightning round for
the week. And why that's your whole show for the
(37:28):
week as well. Music's playing, which means we are done.
I'm Jeff Bils and I'm Trented.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Maggie.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
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