Grow Omaha 9-28-2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is grow Omaha, the only radio show that talks
about economic development, construction, business expansion, and all of those
things that make Omaha a great place to live or visit.
Grow Omaha on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning and welcome to the Grow Omaha Show. Jeff
Beals at your service, GUIDs you have joined us today.
This is the only show in the area that talks
about business expansion, real estate, construction, economic development, really anything
related to Omaha becoming more vibrant, more prosperous. Thank you
to our sponsors, Dingman's Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics

(00:39):
for making all of this possible. And without any further ado,
it is time to bring on my co host, a
man who is a legendary real estate deal maker and
all around good guy, famous guy in town. He's one
of those people to whom you can refer by only
his first name and everyone knows who you're talking about.

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So I'll do it the same way. Ladies and gentlemen, Trenton,
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you Jeff for that
kind introduction. There we go, your microphone goes off. Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen, and thank you Jeff for that Kaid introduction.
It's a beautiful Saturday morning high above Underwood Avenue in
the kfab Penthouse Studios, and we have a restaurant review

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for you today. This week, our reviewer Chris Corey reviews
Dolce Fine Dining restaurant on the southwest corner of one
hundred and twentieth and Maple. You can read that and
all of our grow Omaha Eats restaurant reviews simply by
going to grow Omaha dot com on the navigation bar.

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your way to keep up with the news and the
happenings when we are not on the air, and we
keep it brief. Ladies and gentlemen. It's just the good content.
You can dig further if you want to, but there's
plenty of things going on, and it is fresh from
grow O Maha. And with that, we're going to give
you a lot more content right now with our News

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of the week, which is brought to you by Egle Mortgage.
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will stand with you. Thank you, okay, So our first
news item today is the Omaha Stormchasers. They are changing

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ownership currently owned by Alliance Sports. This is the company
that is run by Gary Green from New York City.
Gary and his partner Larry Bottel have owned the Stormchasers
for a dozen years, done a great job, and they
are the same people who are behind Union Omaha. Now

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you know from previous gro Omaha episodes that Union Omaha
has been playing at Warner Park where the storm Chasers
are playing. They're in the process of moving downtown, going
to build a big development, their brand new stadium. This
is kind of like groundwork to make that happen. So
Alliance Sports selling the storm Chasers to Diamond Baseball Holdings.

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This is a relatively new company out of California that
owns like almost every minor league team in America. It's
something like thirty minor league baseball teams that they've purchased.
We've got some big California money behind them, and so
that their model is to buy up all of these
minor lea baseball teams and they're doing it, and the

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Alliance Sports people say, hey, we believing these guys are
doing a great job and they're going to take care
of the team and grow it and development. And if
you're worried, all indications are that the Omaha Stormchasers will
stay continue playing in We're Park. Marti Cordero, who's been
the longtime president of the storm Chasers, is going to

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remain the president even after the sale, but he's also
part of Union not anymore after the sale goes through.
It's my understanding that he'll just be focused on the
storm Chasers and Alliance Sports Gary Green's team. They are
going to be all in on Union Omaha Trent and
so as we've reported in the past, plans call for

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a three hundred million dollars eighteen acre development on the
Grassy Lawn between the Gallup headquarters and Abbott Drive, just
northeast of Charles Schwab Field. That's where this is going
to be. The stadium itself will seed about seven thousand people,
not huge, but super high on design and on amenities.

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And if you've seen some of the renderings, like I
have beautiful, beautiful stadium. But what's cool is they just
Alliance Sports brought on Hines Development Company out of Houston,
which is the same company that's doing the Mercantile in
the northern part of the Kannagra campus, so big, big
time developer there. And so overall for this three hundred

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million dollar development, including the stadium, we're talking about three
hundred residences, one hundred and forty room hotel, lots of retail,
you know, food, beverage, that sort of thing. Trenton them
This this is a step a lot of people have
been thinking, Hey, as you and Omaha are really going
to build this thing, this is a step that basically
tells me, yeah, this is for real. Well, they can

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only hope that the streetcar gets extended to that, which
would be a natural along the line of going to
the airport. Yeah, that'll be interesting to see where that
street car eventually does extend. Because when you think about
what streetcars do, and we've talked with our transit expert
Eric Miller about this, it does not make sense to

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extend it to the airport because streetcars do well when
there's tons of development around all parts of the track,
and if you go to the airport, there's like a
mile and a half two miles of very little to nothing,
and so financially, it doesn't make sense to build a
street car to the airport along Abbot Drive. However, it

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would be nice if it at least went up to
this development and there'd be a lot of tif to
dollars on a three hundred million dollars development, I would
think right there, Yeah, yeah, next to Gallup. It'll be
very interesting to see. The initial renderings for this thing
also showed a pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks connecting
this new development to Lot D of the Chi Center.

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So because you know, if you get seven thousand people there,
you're going to need more parking than what they have,
and so they would then presumably use Lot D and
it'll be interesting to see if that pedestrian bridge happens.
I mean, shoot, the whole process of building the Baby
Bob has taken years. By the way. That's most open
next month. That'll be cool, and it should open. I

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can't wait for it. But what'll be really interesting to
see how people get excited about soccer in Omaha because
we really haven't proven it yet. Yeah, I think they will.
I mean, Union Omaha has done well given the fact
that it's out in papillion shoehorned into a baseball stadium.
I think when you have a true soccer stadium and development.

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And let's face it, there's there's a bigger percentage of
the population in the eastern third of Omaha that's into
soccer than in the western third. And you know, you've
got you've got a lot more young professionals and gen zers,
You've got a lot more Latinos in the eastern third
of Omaha. So I think you'll you'll have a bigger
soccer crowd there. And then once you here's what's going

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to happen though too. I mean, once you build a
cool venue like this and it's really special and it's
very soccer specific, you have people like me, I couldn't
care less about soccer, but all still go to a
game or two every year just because it'll be a
fun place to be And and you know what, if
you show up, you might get into it. That's true,

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you might find yourself suddenly getting into it. So one,
I'm still trying to figure out how one team, one
company can own like thirty minor league baseball clubs. Well,
first of all, you start with a lot of money. Yeah,
but it's weird about it. So all their teams play
it themselves, well, you know, they play each other and
the other teams so basically there are what three level

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three or four levels of minor league baseball per major
league team, and so what are there thirty two major
League Baseball teams or something like that. So if that's true,
then there'd be thirty two Triple A, thirty two Double A.
Then they have like High A, Low A or something.
So no matter who owns the teams, the thirty Triple

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A teams or the thirty two Triple A teams, they
play each other. And that I mean that's and then
but a good chunk of those are owned by this
company that I think, like the Iowa Cubs out of
Des Moines, there one of them that the idea is
for them to be feeders for major league. Oh yeah,
none of that changes, it's just the ownership of the
there's one company that just owns a heck of a
lot of these minor league teams. But my guess is

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they were probably people who loved baseball or sports and
found some sort of model that they believe can be
profitable by owning minor league sports teams. Will be interesting
to see. Well, anyway, a couple other news items for you.
Heartwood Preserve, which is the five hundred acre development west
of Boys Town and goes all the way south of

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Pacific Street up to Dodge and a lot of things there.
It's been under development for several years now, but interestingly,
just within the last week, several new signs have appeared
on buildings. So the five story building right on the
corner of one hundred and forty fourth in Dodge that
is anchored by Union Bank now has PayPal signs on it.

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And you'll recall Trenton that had a very large building
in Southport. Two of them left. Those they've gone mostly virtually.
I know a couple of people that work for PayPal.
They're just virtual, but apparently they want some office presence
because there's a signage on that building. Also in Hertwood Preserve,
signage has gone up on a building for Gundersen Jewelry

(11:20):
for their flagship location. And for thirty Hop, a beer
oriented restaurant. Absolutely and it's kind of fun and then thanks, well,
I'll put Peoria. I get the name wrong, but above
thirty Hop is a is a membership club basically that
has a big, beautiful patio. I went up there. Nice bars,

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comfortable chairs and everything. You have to be a member
to bring your friends and all that kind of stuff,
and it's actually pretty swinky. Have you gotten a membership?
I have not, but it's better. It's like a pickup truck.
You would rather have a friend of a pickup truck
or a boat, and I get full privileges through my friend.
That's a good point. Yeah, it's sometimes a pickup truck
is necess sometimes a boat is fun. But I sure

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as hell don't want to own either one of them.
Vasa Fitness plans to open and take over the former
No Frills supermarket space on Fort Crook Road in Bellevue,
just south of the South Roads. This was originally going
to be part of Marathon Equity. There was going to

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be you know, they're going to use kind of that
coffee roasting stuff that they have down there, and that's
all changed and so Vasa is going to go in there.
Vasa is wildly popular. It is based in Orum, Utah.
They opened their first Nebraska gym, what earlier this year
or late last year if I don't quite recall, but

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in part of the former shop Go space at one
hundred and forty fourth in West Center Road, And so anyway,
if you go buy it, there are tons of cars there.
It's very popular. Yeah, but I still prefer Blue Boom
Fitness and Billumom Fitness is already open in Bellevue and
they just extended their lease for several years. The old
Nose Frills shopping center and Harlan Drive or Harlan I

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think it's Harlan Drive, take your word for it. Yeah,
But so Bloom and Fitness, they've upped all their locations
so they're ready, and they were women's only section, so
check it out. And finally, the almost City Council formally
approved the latest proposal to redo the crossroads at seventy

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second and Dodge Street. Salt Lake City, Utah based Woodbury Corporation,
the new developer, plans to invest eight one hundred and
sixty two million dollars to convert the site into a
massive mixed use development. We've talked about this before, but
it's now official. The city council approved it. The city
will own part of the land, they're going to be

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a partnership there, if you will, And part of it
is the city's going to own three parking garages. This
is a new model the city started doing a few
years ago that has turned out to be profitable for
the city with this whole new park Alma system, and
so they're going to carry that there. And it looks
like with Woodbury, the first building should start to go

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vertical next spring. Do they say what food group, as
far as apartments, retail office goes first? Pretty much, yes, yes,
is the answer to that. But there's going to be phases.
So the first phase will have kind of all of that,
but then other phases will have more of that true
mixed use development, and it's going to be a very

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very special project. We get a lot of people sending
us notes at grow Omaha saying that he would cross
roads or people like that is never going to happen.
I think people just need to take a deep breath
knowing that it's nearly a billion dollars and you know,
like one of the owners died a few years ago.
I mean, the things sometimes happened well, so folks need

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to chill out and be excited for the crossroads. He
was ninety seven years old, maybe ninety eight, Frank crachi
but he built a lot of Omaha but Lockwood Development
and Century Development that Frank Crachie had did all the infrastructure,
all the stuff in the ground, everything is pretty much done,
and then it's ready for Woodbury to come and start

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going vertical. And so they made a new deal with
the city and everything else. So I think it'll be
a great development right across from this beautiful multimillion dollar
library that it's going to be really cool. You see
the parking garage going up, It's awesome. And that is
your news of the week, brought to you by Eagle Mortgage.
Eagle Mortgage Company dot com. Going to take our first

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break of the hour, and when we come back, we're
going to bring on Douglas County Election Commissioner Brian Cruz
onto the show. Why because we have an election on
November fifth, and we want to make sure you're ready
for it. So you're listening to Jeff and Trenton on
grow Omaha, brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center along
with Cheer Athletics on news radio eleven KFAB. We have

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with us Brian Cruz, who is the Douglas County Election Commissioner. Brian,
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, thanks for having me. You've probably heard there's an election.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's showtime. It's showtime. Can we just like, can you
throw a little bit of weight around and make the
election this Tuesday, so I don't have to go through
the next few weeks of being bludgeoned with campaign commercials.
Can we just move it up texts.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
You wouldn't hurt my feelings.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
At any rate. I hurt your job, you might be
a little trouble anyway, We asked Commissioner Cruse to be
with us today just to kind of make sure that
all Gromaha listeners are are ready for this election coming up. So, yeah,
we know we've got the whole presidential thing at our throats,
but what else are we dealing with on November fifth?

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Sure, this is an unprecedented ballot. Really in Douglas County,
you're going to have the president. Of course, we've got
two senators, a two year term senator and a six
year term senator. Because of the way Senators SaaS resigned
and the appointment was made, you got the congressman. Of course,
You've got a bunch of other down ballot candidates as

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oppd natural resource districts, you're going to have judges, and
then if you live in the City of Omaha, you
will have fifteen issues to vote on between the City
of Omaha and the state of Nebraska. Wow, so yeah,
really the messages be an informed voter and those issues

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on the ballot are the ones that your average voter
and frankly sometimes Jeff Beial's, will get to the ballot
and really don't know what they are.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
How do you go about preparing yourself so that you
know what you're voting for with all these state and
city issues.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
The easiest way is to go to our website vote
douglascounty dot com. Right up in the left hand corner,
it says find your voting information. If you put a
little bit of information in there, it will give you
a sample ballot of exactly who and what you will
be voting on. So if you like to vote by mail,

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that's simple. You consider at your kitchen table once you
get the ballot and do your research from there. If
you're going to the polling place, we highly recommend you
look at this ahead of time because if you walk in,
it's literally going to take you fifteen minutes to read
all these issues without doing any research.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
You know.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Probably the best way to research these issues for the
state ones, you can go to the Secretary of States website.
They have pamphlets on there, about them, the pro and
the con. For the city ones, you could google them.
The city ones are fairly straightforward. They're mostly bond issues.

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They're two city charter amendments and a good Life Economic District.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Okay, so we have with us Brian Cruz, Douglas County
Election Commissioner and Brian for for decades. Election day for
me was a was a ritual and I always kind
of enjoyed it. But then I decided, in either twenty
eighteen or twenty twenty, I'm doing mail in with my schedule,
it was just easier just to get it done and
all that sort of thing. So, so, how many people

(19:22):
are doing mail in now? Who's still going to the polls?
And give us a little overview of what how that
works if someone is still trying to decide which method
they're going to use this year.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Sure, So when Douglas County we're about fifty to fifty
fifty percent of our voters to early voting, fifty percent
will show up at the polling place on election day.
Ballots begin to be mailed out Monday. So between Monday
and Tuesday will mail out about eighty five thousand ballots
and Douglas.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Cats only from people that are sent in those cards earlier. Correct,
that's right.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
To get an early voting by mail, you have to
request a ballot. So if you got one of our
green cards, uh.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
And you still have break card, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Perfect, that's great. If you still have that, fill that
out and send it in. If you if you don't
have it, you can go to our website vote Douglas
County dot com. Go under the envelope icon and there's
a form there that you can use to fill that out.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
And that way you can actually get your ballot at home.
And it's basically an open book test. You can do
your research and go to your website. You can you
can read about all the issues. That's right.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
That's exactly right. And you know that's the number one
reason we hear now people like to vote early by
mail so they can study the issue, but.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Not often ladies and gentlemen. That's illegal. Yeah, that's right.
But I'll tell you, Brian, that's that's the biggest reason
why I did it, was was I actually had more
time to figure out to understand what I was actually
voting for. And I was always worry what if I
get called out of tow on you right before election day.
I don't want to miss it. But speaking well, actually,
let's do let's talk about security a little bit. That
was a big issue that came up in twenty twenty.

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Uh some people are still scout to call about, oh
maybe the safety or integrity of mail in voting And
we've got these drop boxes. Is it okay to use
these drop boxes? What do you have to say about
the integrity of elections right now in Douglas County?

Speaker 3 (21:16):
You know, I would just say that they are safe,
they are secured, they're accurate, and they're fair. Voters should
be assured and reassured that there's no issues here. We
have numerous checks and balances in place. Our drop boxes
are great tool. We have thirteen around the county. All
of them have cameras on them now twenty four to seven.

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We have concrete ballards around them. The drive up ones.
The slot is very narrow to put so you can
only put one or two envelopes in at a time.
And this year we've actually added fire suppression systems to them.
Dry fire suppression systems really inside. Yeah, it'd be highly,
highly unlikely somebody would try something.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
They work, ladies, you don't have to please.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Don't test them on behalf of the Omaha Fire Department
of myself, please do not test them.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
So let's uh, let's fast forward to eight o'clock PM,
November fifth, uh, and people are anxiously awaiting to see
how their candidates did. What's what's what? Tell us what's
going to happen. Uh, not who's gonna win, but what's
going to happen after the post close on election night.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Absolutely, so right at eight o'clock we release results. The
reason we can do that is because state law allows
us to count early voting ballots on Monday before the election.
We don't. We don't look at the results or anything
like that until Tuesday evening, right before we put them
out to the public. So if you're an early voter,

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yours is the first voice that will be heard on
election night. And then we go eight forty eleven, forty five,
et cetera.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
And the since the since the polling places already closed,
you can't. But are there some votes that get counted later?

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yes, that's a great question. So first of all, all
ballots have to be in our possession by eight PM
on election night. Postmarks do not count in Nebraska. But yes,
military everything. Every ballot has to be in our possession
by eight pm. We do count some ballots the Friday

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after the election. Those are early voting ballots that are
turned in on election day. So just real quickly here.
We do not find ballots. We do not find ballots
in car trunks and closets, in Douglas County baskets, laundry baskets.
They're all accounted for, but we don't get those in

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until eight o'clock on election night from the drop boxes.
If there's ten twelve thousand, we have to verify those
signatures and do the election integrity process on the Wednesday
and Thursday after the election, and then we count those
on Friday.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Okay, so we just have to We have got to
wrap it up, Brian, but really fast. Three thousand election workers, yep,
you got them all, or do you still need volunteers.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
We've got them all for this election. Two hundred and
seven neighborhood polling places. Three thousand election workers. So if
you're an election worker and you're listening, thank you, thank
you very much. We couldn't do it without you.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And one more time, the website for the Election Commission.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Vote Douglascounty dot Com.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
All right, that's Brian Cruz, your Douglas County Election Commissioner.
Appreciate you being with us, Brian, and I wish everyone
a happy into the campaign season over the next month.
All right, we're going to take our break for the news.
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it's time for your commercial real estate development Spotlight of
the Week, brought to you by Nodle Companies, in which
we highlight activity and news at one of the many

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Nodal Companies developments in town. Now you should know that
Not All Companies is one of the premier real estate
developers in the country and certainly in the Midwest, headquartered
here in Omaha. Have been here for decades. Big big, big,
big projects, you know, like a Sarbon village and Builders
District downtown They're also famous for creating a lot of

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headquarters buildings, you know Valmont's headquarters, HDRS headquarters, many others.
Famous for creating spaces and places and a Sarbon village.
You know, they were the ones that got behind that
whole cool area that is anchored by the Sunnys airstream bar.
Not all park. Yeah, they just make places that are
special and they do such a good job with all

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their buildings. So thanks to Nodal Companies for doing this.
And this week's not All Companies property that will be
of focus is a Sarbon Village. Couple news items coming
out of the Xarbon Village area. First of all, the
x Sarbon Farmers Market was just named the number one

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farmer's market in Nebraska and this takes place every Sunday
from nine am to one pm. Now, if you haven't
been to it, go check it out. Farmers markets are
a lot of fun even if you don't want to
buy a lot of produce because there are other things.
There might have corn, dogs, they have corn, and I
love going to farmers market. There's definitely corn and there

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are we'll be dogs there. I don't know about corn dogs.
I sometimes I sometimes will hit both the Downtown Old
Market farmers Market and the x Sarbon farmers Market in
the same weekend. Not often to be candid, but sometimes
I do. Other news coming out of k Sarbon area.
Total Wine is getting very, very close. This is another

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one of those liquor souitp stores national chain. You know.
Right now, we've got Boosrus in the former Toys r
Us Boos are US, and we've got wall to wall
that's a high V. And we have Macadoodles. Okay, but
those are regional. They're great, but they're regional brands. This
Total Wine is a true national liquor superstore. Drove by

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just this morning as part of show prep, looked in
the window and looks like palettes full of stuff are
in there. So opening can't be too far. On my
prediction of the next year. You're also going to have
another one called Willa Liquors out of North Dakota. Right, Yeah,
they've got a couple of big stores. Well, when Trenton
makes predictions, usually they come. When Trenton makes predictions, I

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recommend you listen. Yes, he knows what he's talking about,
and that Ladies and Gentlemen is your nonel company's commercial
real estate development Spotlight of the week. Hey, this is
kind of a cool business. Back nine Golf is opening
soon at seventy seven to seventy five Olson Drive in Papillion.
Basically that's Shadow Laketown Center. Shadow Laketown Center is southwest

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of seventy second and a Highway three seventy anyway. Back
nine Golf is an indoor golf simulator. There is an
existing one in Regency Landing which is near six't eighty
and Pacific, and then Back nine Golf has locations now
in thirteen states. You're seeing a lot of these, the
freestanding small golf simulators, and you can play any course

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you know virtually, like Swing three sixty five has one
at one hundred and eightieth in Harrison. I believe there's
We're going to check into this, but I believe there's
one of those or something like it going by Church's
Chicken near one hundred and sixty eighth then Maple along
with the scooters. Possibly we have to check into that
and verify that. Hopefully we'll have that for you next week.
And then we also want to remind you before we

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take our final break of the hour, don't forget our
our restaurant lists. If you go to Gromaha dot com
on the navigation bar, you'll see the word lists la
sts and there are five restaurant lists, happy hour specials,
coffee shops, daily restaurant specials, restaurants with party rooms. They
even have one for birthday party ideas. These lists are

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getting thousands and thousands of views a week, and so
get on there. If you're if you're ever with your
significant other or your kids or your parents and you're
in the car and everyone's like, where do you want
to go? I don't know? Where do you want to go?
I don't know? You decide? I decided last time, Well
you decide this time again. Just go to these lists
and it'll help you make a decision where you're going

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to go dot com. And with that, it is time
to take our final break of the hour. And you
know what that means. When we come back, it's your
Perkins chritz Er Construction Lightning Round, in which we talk
about a lot of things in a very short period
of time. I've got the list right in front of
me and it's a long one, so you don't want
to miss this. Stay with us. You're listening to Grow Omaha,

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under the reliable, steady, and highly qualified leadership of Dave Kreitzer,
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up into other parts of Iowa, so the broader greater
Omaha area, and they can do anything from office buildings

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and strip centers to healthcare clinics. And we've talked, we
talk a lot about a lot of the restaurants they do.
Like last week we talked about the Boba Fi Bubble
tea place that they just opened at one hundred and
sixty eighth and Maple. The week before that, we talked
about Perkins Kretzer Construction starting work on the Hawaiian Brothers
that will replace Boston Market. So they do it all,

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and they do a great job. Thanks to Perkins Kreutzer Construction.
You can find out more about them by going to
p dashcconstruction dot com. All right, here we go Trenton
Big Breath, Bring It Tracks Lounge, which is located just
east of Xarbon on sixtieth Street, famous for their fried chicken.
Second location in the works. This one will be at

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one hundred and eighty first and Q Street. And this
is a big deal. Williamsburg Pizza and Story's Coffee going
into a building under construction just a little bit northeast
of one hundred and fifty six and Maple. Yeah, this
is I think it's Spaulding. It's the Yep's Baulding. It's
where Hollywood Diner was. I sold that building in that

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land way back when It's changed hands a few times.
But it'll be good. Williamsburg Pizza is open and active
at one hundred and sixty eighth and Harrison, and it'll
be welcomed over on Mabel Corridor. The Stories is kind
of blown up as well. A lot of locations for
Stories now, especially after this one opens. There's a lot

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of the construction yet to go on that, so it's
not going to be overnight, but coming fairly soon. Unfortunately,
we have some closing news sunny Side on Center A
breakfast place at thirty five twenty eighth Center Street is
closing on October sixth. For a short while, they had
a west location in the Elk Corn area along two
hundred fourth Street, but that closed several months ago, maybe

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even last year if I remember correctly. McDonald's has a
couple new locations. A McDonald's just opened yesterday in Gretna
at one hundred ninety fourth and Highway three seventy. Another
new McDonald's is under construction right now at twenty fifth
and Cape Hert Road in Bellevue. We have a fitness

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business opening in the Elk Corn area two hundred fourth
in Blondo. Pure Bear. It's pure b a RRI. Would
you say bar or Bear? Pure Bear? Pure Bear? Pure Bear?
How do we know? I don't know. I don't go
to fitness clubs very often. Might not be surprised to
hear that, but pure Bear. I don't like when people
just go there to watch opening. It's frowned upon. Pure

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Bear opening new location two and fourth in Blondo Parkway.
It is described as a full body workout gym that'd
be good for you. Trenton two existing Omaha locations. This
will be the third. All right, Sip and Spice. That
is hard to say if you've got a lisp. Sip
and Spice that is a Tay Food and Boba Tea

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restaurant plans to open soon in a retail strip center
in cap space at near one hundred and sixty eighth
then Harrison. This has been like a lot of restaurants.
Most recently it was Cheeseburger's, a takeout joint. There was
a hot dog place there once, there was a barbecue
place there once. So hopefully this one does better. Ty

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Food and Boba Tea restaurant the exact address sixty six
ten South one hundred and sixty eighth Street. Frosted pinew
a coastally inspired coffee concept, will open September thirtieth. That's
coming up here pretty much, and you we're missing something
in our coffee twenty seven to one East Canesville Boulevard,

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near Bombgar's store in Council Bluffs. It is branded as
a Taste of Seattle, Washington in Council Bluffs, Iowa. A
veteran owned drive through stand roasts through Dilano's Coffee Roasters
in Washington and sources bake goods from Wendy's, not the
Wendy's you're thinking of. Wendy's, a local bakery in Council Bluffs. Well.

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Speaking of sweet treats, Blue Jays ice Cream and Candy
plans to open in downtown Ashland and this opening date
looking like October November time frame. The shop will feature
forty four unique ice cream flavors, including gluten free and
dairy free. Dairy free, I just don't get this whole

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dairy free ice cream at any rate if you have
a lactose in tolerance. So it's probably a good thing.
That's going to be nice downtown Ashland. If you've not better,
it is a cool place, and it's getting better and
better all the time. We have. Interior renovations are now
underway on a future Wingstop restaurant at one hundred and
seventy six and Welch Plaza. That's the Hawthcorn Sharp Hawthcorn

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Court shopping center anchored by High V one hundred and
eightieth and Q. Dallas based Wingstop has seven Omaha area locations.
The music's plans that means we're just going to cut
it off right now. I hope everyone has a great weekend.
I'm Jeff Beils and I'm Trented Maggot. You've been listening
to Grow Albaha, brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center,

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