Grow Omaha 8-3-2024

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 KF Baby.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, good morning, and welcome to the show. Jeff Beal's
here at your service. We are brought to you by
Cheer Athletics, the nation's number one all star cheer Jim,
along with Dingman's Collision Center for metro area locations and
a frequent Best of Omaha award winner. My name is
Jeff Beials, your co host. Glad you've decided to join us.

(00:36):
You're not going to find another show in the metro
area that talks about what we talk about, and that's
the growth and development of your favorite city. But before
we do that, I want to bring on my co
host a man who is a legendary real estate deal
maker and all around good albeit sometimes controversial guy, Trenton Maggot.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning Jeff.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, good morning to you, and it's a midsummer day.
We've we had a bit of a weather tragedy this week,
but yeah, I got to give Omaha people credit. They're
coming together getting things cleaned up.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I tell you what.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Here in the Dundee area a lot of mature trees
kind of sickening to see them on the ground side.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
And we had to take an alternate route on Underwood.
They're getting a lot of work done. I didn't know
the city had so many trees. Yeah, tru cleaning up
and I've heard. I mean it's this thing was far
and wide. It wasn't just a swath like the tornado.
This thing just seems like it was wide. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I was at the office when it hit. I was
I was getting ready to go home and received a
call from my household, which was way further southwest than
the office, saying don't come home. I've been waiting for
that call. It finally came. Don't come home, but so
I didn't. And wow, it was impressive. It was impressive.

(01:54):
But it's been rough. I mean, so many people are
still without power and so so all of you Gromha
listeners be tough out there. Feel for you if you're
still dealing without the electricity. I know a lot of
you have had some pretty serious damage too. I've seen
a lot of trees on cars and roofs and everything
else hanging there, and we'll get through it like we

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do with anything else. Rough year for weather, I mean
it was just a few years. A few weeks ago
Trenton Interstate twenty nine was underwater from Missouri River flooding.
We had the tornado in late April, Yeah, on ourbor day. Yeah,
that was going a little ironic. Well, for happier news,
we do have a grow Omaha Eats restaurant review written

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by our good friend Chris Corey, who does all of
our restaurant reviews. He also does movie reviews as well.
Pe are thinking about going to watch a movie this summer,
go check grow oha dot com and look up our
movie reviews. But he did a restaurant review as he
does every two weeks, and this week it was Via Farina,

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which is the Italian restaurant in Little Italy, not too
far from tenth in Pacific and Blue Bar in Theater
yeah right, yeah, right to the southeast of it in
Box Card ten. And this review is very positive, and
I mean I've heard so much good about Via Farina.
I'm not sure I've ever had it. I've had it

(03:19):
a handful of times. It's been a while so, I'm
glad Chris did it. Chris is getting so prolific with reviews.
He called me up the other day and just told
me what he thought of me. I was a little
bit I was taken back.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Was it a positive review? Mixed results? It wasn't as
positive as some of these restaurants he's been reviewing wetter
than some of the movies he's been reviewing, though that's true.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
He's he tends to be a little harder on the
movies than the restaurants, and that's because we typically choose
very good, very popular, or new restaurants that are making
a splash on the scene.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Anyway, what I like about Chris's reviews, unlike some others,
is that Chris well well, certainly he goes into depth
and it gives you angles you haven't thought about. But
he also acknowledges that everybody has different tastes, So if
he doesn't like something, he doesn't excoriate the restaurant. You know,
there's service issues and things like that that obviously he'll

(04:13):
point out, but if it's a taste issue, some people
like more salt, some people like more sauce, and so
I think he's been very fair Well.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
You can read that review of via Farina, as well
as every other review we've ever done in the grow
Omaha Eats Restaurant series by going to grow Omaha dot
com and clicking on reviews and the navigation bar. It'll
have a drop down menu and you can do the
movies or the eats restaurant reviews. All right, let's get

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at Eagle Mortgage Company dot com. Trying a couple big
stories we're in the World Herald this week that deserve
a little bit of analysis from you and me. And
the first one is the Nebraska Department of Economic Development

(05:47):
is reviewing an application from an unidentified developer. We think
we might know who it is, but we don't know
for sure. And this developer wants to create a one
point seven billion dollar good life district in Papillion. It
would create nearly three thousand jobs. Now, these good life districts,
people have heard us talking about them a lot in

(06:08):
the last year. These are a new economic development tool
that the state of Nebraska created. They're designed to develop
premier attractions, premier real estate developments that would appeal to
and attract a lot of out of state visitors. Now,
the most famous good life district approved so far as

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Nebraska Crossing in Gretna, but Bellevue has had one approved
that will be where the new water park is going.
Grand Island has one approved, and then one hundred ninety
second West Dodge.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Road approved a Good Life district.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Before we get into the good Life districts Trenton, I
want you to kind of give us your thoughts on
what would this one point seven billion dollar thing in
Papillion be.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, Papillion is a big swap bear David Black does
a great job. Over there are there's some really prolific developers.
And you've got sixty acres right next to the storm
Chasers Park Warner Park at about one hundred and twenty
at one hundred and twenty six and Highway three seventy
on the north side. I can imagine that being included

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in it. There's a lot of keep in mind that
they can do up to two thousand acres and I
don't know how do they have to be contiguous. I
think it can be loosely contiguous. I don't know that
as a fact, but I believe from right aways and
things like that. But you know, for Instant Bhi and
Birchwood Holmes, Jerry Torson, who's a prolific developer all over

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the metro's been doing it a long time. I could
see him being involved in it. I don't know that
it's him. You've got Jesse Calibretto Calibretto Building Group. They're
doing the tower district at eighty fourth and three seventy.
Now it doesn't have to be just one developer. For instance,
in Gretna, there are several large development pieces owned by

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different groups and companies. So it's basically the way I
understand and nebrask Good Life Transformation Act is right now,
there's only five allowed. So if this one gets approved,
unless they increase the number of Good Life districts, this
would be the last one. Now if one falls out

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and they don't get a vote, there's a couple different
ways to do what I understand, and I know that
Gretna has postponed their vote by request I think from
the applicant in the Department of Economic Development one hundred
ninety second and West Dodge Road to put together two
thousand acres and not just two thousand acres. You have

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all this development, and you can have mixed juice, you
can have entertainment, you can have multifamily, you can have
single family, all this kind of stuff. But it's all
about the sales text. Because the state of Nebraska, instead
of collecting five point five percent of that sales tax,
they would forego two point seventy five percent, and there's

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gonna be some kind of like in Gretna. There's a
quasi governmental group that will collect that two point seventy
five and then the applicant and other developers can apply
for it if you will. And they have to make
so much development. Now, what's interesting is they have to

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it's got within ten years. They have to build seventy
five percent of a minimum threshold of new construction. So
Nebraska Crossing already exists, and that generates a lot of
sales tax. Okay, but you got to imagine having a
lot of sales tax at one hundred and eety second
and West Dodge Road, and that has to be a

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billion dollars worth of new development over ten years, and
they have to complete seventy five percent of it or
they lose that designation.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, we'll keep our eye on that one. And then
you would think one point seven billion dollar project would
be the biggest news of the week.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
It is not.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
The University of Nebraska Medical Center is seeking approval from
the Border Regents at their August eighth meeting what's known
as a program statement outlining initial plans for the new
two point one nine billion dollar hospital clinical Learning center. Basically,
they're looking for authorization to spend fifty million dollars in

(10:24):
existing philanthropic funds for doing the design work. This is
not terribly new and that we knew this was coming.
We knew the Mediciner was planning a two point two
billion dollar new hospital. It's the first phase of what
we've been knowing and calling Project Next, but this is
moving it a little bit forward now. The World Herald

(10:46):
had a very interesting article about this just yesterday or
the day before, and one of the things that stood
out that is new about it. First of all, it'll
be over one point two million square feet, not a
small building. And the thing that was rather shocking is
that un MC's associate vice chancellor is quoted in the

(11:10):
World Herald article saying the building could be as tall
as four hundred feet. Now, to give you a little
reference here, she's saying that would be fifteen floors that
would be above ground. Typically when we talk about building height,
we talk about what's above ground. Maybe they're counting the

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handful of floors it would be below ground. But if
it were to reach three hundred eighty to four hundred
feet as just depicted in the World Herald. That would
make it currently the third tallest building in the city
and fourth tallest after the mutual of Omaha Tower is done.
The other thing that's kind of weird is those would
be some really tall floors, because if you take three

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hundred and eighty feet and divide it by fifteen stories,
that would be twenty five feet per floor. I mean,
we know hospital floors typically these days are taller than
office building floors, but wow, could this building really be
three hundred and eighty to four hundred feet tall?

Speaker 3 (12:10):
I think that it'll be something less And you and
I have talked about this, and I think three hundred
feet would be a wonderful thing we're talking about. Is
it Farnham or what's that on Saddle Creek.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, it's located on the southeast corner of Farnham and
Saddle Creek where the old Monroe Meyer used to be
and was torn down about a year or two ago.
And it's seven acres and this has been designated for
the med Center expansion for a long long time. Say,
none of this is new, except for some of these
specifications of the building being so tall. We've talked over
the years, probably five years that Nebraska is what is

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the first of five locations around the country that Department
of Defense Homeland Security. This next project, which the Border
Regents and the state legislature and City of Omaha have
all waight in on to have a self contained teaching hospital,
but also to cure infectious diseases and things like that,

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that's still yet to come, right, Yeah, this is this
two point two billion dollars is the hospital component. It
really does not include what the center hopes to do
with the federal government, which I believe is Department of
Defense and Department of Homeland Security and maybe a few
other things. That's all yet to come. But anyway, we're
going to go ahead and wrap up the news of
the day right now. Two very very big projects. A

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lot of other news things to talk about later in
the hour, but I have to tell you that for
the next segment, we're going to talk about a very
cool entertainment option coming to Omaha. It's called the Folding Warehouse.
Folding is spelled fowlng foling warehouse. If you don't know
what foling is, well you're out of it and you're

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not with the times. But stick with us, because we're
going to define it in a little bit when we
bring on our good friend Mark Wolf, owner of the
Foling Warehouse. But for now we're going to take our
first break of the hour. You're listening to Jeff and
Trenton on grow Omaha, brought to you by Dingman's Collision
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Speaker 4 (14:10):
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Speaker 3 (14:20):
Welcome back to the show.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Jeff Beal's and Trenton magad at your service were brought
to you by Dingman's Collision Center and Cheer Athletics. Now,
you know, speaking of cheer athletics, a couple weeks ago,
we had the owner of cheer Athletics, Craig Wolf on
the show, a good friend of ours, Trent and I
graduated from high school with him, very loyal sponsor of

(14:42):
a gro Omaha. We have his brother on today. So
we had Craig Wolf before, now we have Mark Wolf,
Mark Wolf. Good morning and welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Gentlemen, Good morning, Good morning Omaha.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Well there's a you know, Other than the fact that
I've known Mark since he was in pre school, the
real reason why we have Mark Wolf on the show
is he is the owner of a brand new business
which is going to make a big impression in the
Omaha entertainment scene. It's called Folding Warehouse.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
First of all, congratulations on the new business. Understand you
just opened.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
Thanks Jeff. Yeah, we opened on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
So tell us what is folding?

Speaker 6 (15:19):
You know, that's it might be hard to believe, but
that's the That's the number one question I get is
what is foling? So you can imagine it's a hybrid
game between football and bowling, okay, with a corn with
a corner hole type setup. So on a corn hole game,
you have thirty five feet apart, and instead of on
the pin deck with holes, we put bowling pins. And

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instead of throwing bean bags into the hole, you're throwing
a football at the bowling pins. Set again thirty five
feet apart. Now, inside of our facility, each lane is
ten feet apart, so you can have up to ten
people on a lane or one hundred people over ten lanes.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Now, where is Folding Warehouse located?

Speaker 6 (16:00):
Fifty five eighty five North ninetieth were two blocks north
of ninetieth and fort on the east side, right next
to the Altitude Trampoline Park.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
And you've got a great mix that we're talking about
that during the break is You've got Baker's is over there,
Planet Fitness, and so you're a good mix. You're right
on the ninetieth Street corridor. You're not too far from
Nebraska Humane Society. But you don't allow paths, I assume correct, right, excellently,
you had two full bars. It's but it's really also

(16:31):
Mark Wolf. It's it's it's an event space as much
as it is a new sport that people have to
learn about.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
That's correct. We have a three prong approach. One is
families and friends, number two is businesses, and number three
is full anthropy philanthropy nice. So back to the business part.
When in my previous life, we would do a lot
of company outings for the couple hundred employees we had,
and come to find out we would hold a meeting somewhere,
but then we would have groups peel off from locations

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because there wasn't an activity in Omaha that could accommodate
all of us, So some would go swing a golf club,
or some would go to a bar, or some would
go bowling or anything like that. So when we were
designing the Falling Warehouse, it was important to me that
we carve out a section of the space for a
dedicated meeting space, and then after the meeting, speaker events,

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whatever the case, you can actually do the activity.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
And how many people can that hold?

Speaker 6 (17:26):
We have an occupacy of twelve hundred people we can
actually have We have thirty lanes of falling. Each lane
can accommodate ten people, and so we can have three
hundred people falling one time, and then on the wings
we could have people waiting in that.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Sort of thing. Now, how many pickleball courts do you have?

Speaker 5 (17:41):
Zero?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
You know, there's Dennis's office in this town with pickle
ball cart. You're nothing. If you don't have pick up
ball carts.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
We must be nothing. So try it.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
So Mark with Foling Warehouse, we understand it. You know,
So is this a franchise because we know there's folding
warehouses around the country?

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Right, it is correct?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Where did it start?

Speaker 2 (18:02):
And where are some other folding warehouse and aware locations nearby?

Speaker 7 (18:07):
Right?

Speaker 6 (18:08):
That's the second most question I get. So after we
sold our business in twenty nineteen. After the pandemic, I
found myself missing, you know, being part of something, missing
the team, missing the high fives, the harahz, the congrats.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
And all that.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
So I wanted to start a business that was that
had two concepts, simple and fun.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Uh huh okay.

Speaker 6 (18:27):
And so I did a lot of research and research
and research, and I stumbled upon this business in Detroit, Michigan,
called the Folling Warehouse. And it was funny because I
thought they misspelled their website. I thought it was supposed
to be Bowling Warehouse. So I was about to call
them and say, do you know your website's misspelled? So
I called a relative of lived in Detroit, and I
asked him, have you ever heard of the Folling Warehouse.

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He goes, yeah, man, it's an awesome place. And so
I called the owners and asked if they're expanding, and
they said, as a matter of fact, we just built
our Indianapolis store. And so I flew up there the
next week and met with the owners. And as soon
as I walked in, I felt this was a place
for Omaha. Omaha needs something like this, a climate controlled

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indoor entertainment venue that could host families, businesses, philanthropy, all
sorts of people. When I walked in, it was amazing.
They had all sorts of different people from all walks
of life, had one common goal knocked down pins with
a football, and it was a great fun environment. So
it took us about four years to find find a space,

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developed design, and so here we are. We're the ninth
store in the United States. The other stores include again Detroit,
Indianapolis and Arbor, Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City,
and now we're Omaha.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
That is fantastic And for those that aren't aware, your
family built it was cutting edge pioneers basically in the
medical staffing business called CNA industry. And you were big
on the training side of it.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Big on the training side of the correct.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, but it was not a small company. Ladies and
gentlemen and most of the you know, it's it's well
known that Omaha is maybe the birthplace of a lot
of medical staffing firms, but pretty much all of them
came out of CNA industries. Kathy Woolf, your mother, and

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Larry Larry Kurtnich Sorry Larry, who really built a business
in You and Craig and a lot of other people
came in and built a very sizable business and you
left your mark on that industry about four or five
years ago.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
Yeah, we've been blessed. We've been blessed. Hats off to
the hundreds of employees who made that happen.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, and so then mark with the Folding Warehouse. If
people want to come out to it, it's near ninetieth
and Maple. Do you just show up? Do you have
to make a reservation? How does this work?

Speaker 6 (20:54):
Everybody that comes in has to have a waiver signed
for accidents. The best way to find outo process is
just go to our website that's fooling Omaha dot com.
On there you'll understand. You'll read about the processes. You're
able to sign and fill out and sign an online waiver.
You can make lane reservations as well. We do offer
a segment five lanes of walk in and this is

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for groups under four, so anybody under four groups can
come in for people pay fifteen dollars and stay as
long as you want, full as long as you want.
And it's type of pool hall setup, so the winner
keeps playing and the loser comes out and you exchange
the game and.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
That sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Before I turn it over to Trenton to wrap it up,
I do want to ask a question for a friend. Okay,
and maybe this friend is Trenton. Let's say you're not
a very good quarterback. How hard is this?

Speaker 5 (21:48):
It's not easy. It's challenging.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
In fact, everybody comes in that tries it says, you know,
this is a lot harder than it looks because you're
throwing down in an object rather than across your typical
football pattern in receiver, whatever the case.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Because when Trenton was playing carback, he was used to hitting.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
Them right in the numbers, right on the numbers, right
usually about the helmet, with the helmet the face guard
down the way. Yeah, so it's it's not easy.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
It's a challenge.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
But uh, what we do I have to mention this too,
is it's called a bunk. So the number five pin
in the middle is a red pin. You knock that
red pin down, it falls off the pin deck by itself.
It's called a bank big train horn inside of the facility.
Neighbors might get a little upset. We're not sure yet,
but we have a bank celebration.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
It's a good thing. It's a great it's not in
the eight ball too soon.

Speaker 6 (22:37):
Correct, and we get about ten a month.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
We will be getting about ten a month.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
I heard you think about it and knocked down any
of the other pins. It's got to be just that one, just.

Speaker 6 (22:45):
The middle five pin, which sounds almost impossible, doesn't it.
But these are the locations that happens about fifteen times
a month.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Wow. All right? Yeah, So my last question is can
I bring my own foling shoes? Now?

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Leave the cleats at home, Trenton, he might slide around
little bit. Ok Yeah, bring your own foling shoes. We
do not serve food, buyof bring your own food outside.
Beverages are prohibited. We have two full bars within the.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Facility, so bring your own food, but bring your thirst. Seriously, like,
would you recommend wearing tennis shoes? Probably not sandals, tennis shoes,
something comfortable. They have rubber solsk.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay, that's a good idea for you. Okay, Mark Wolf,
thank you for sharing this information with us. Best to success,
and also thank you for bringing a cool entertainment business
to ol Maha. You know we're trying to become a
funds a fun more fun city that has so many
entertainment options.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
This is a really nice addition, so so kudos to
you and good luck to you and your team at
Folding Warehouse.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
Thank you, Thank you, gentlemen, appreciate the time.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Our friend Mark Wolf from Folding Warehouse going to take
our middle of the show break. Can we come back,
Trent and are gonna have a few little news items
to share with you that we didn't have time to
share in the first part, so you don't want to
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Speaker 2 (24:21):
And welcome back to the show, Jeff Beal sitting next
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because they've developed so many blockbuster premiere projects in the
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all right, So what do we have today? First of all,
Betty Ray's ice Cream will open its first Nebraska location
just outside Sarbon Village. It'll be at sixty three to
seven Center Street, opening as planned for early September. This
is supposed to be a really good place. It's out
of the Kansas City area. It's become popular fast. They

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have twenty six core flavors plus some specialty flavors. Are
going to have a Nebraska themed ice cream to be
revealed soon. All of their flavors are handmade and hand scooped,
ward winning. They have five existing locations in Kansas City.
This will be the first one outside of Kansasity. Okay,
so that's coming to Sarbon Village area just outside now

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inside it Sarbon Village in the Inner Rail Food Hall
roll in Suites, which is one of those rolled ice
cream places. They're opening an express location. Well, they've opened
an express location, I believe so, and then lem that
the young guy, the super young guy. Okay, that's what

(26:56):
I thought anyway, So they have opened an express location
inside the Inner Rail Food Hall and Xcarment Village. And
then finally we'll get some more details about this, but
I just happened to notice when I was doing my
grow Omaha tour yesterday. A River's Edge, which is the
Nottel Company's development right along the Missouri River at the

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foot of the Bobcarey Missouri River Pedestrian Bridge. We've got
like four or five multi family buildings all under construction
at once, which looks like they're going to basically complete
the eastern part of that River's Edge. Now, River's Edge
still has one big spot in the middle that we
have been told as kind of long term reserved for

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a high rise, but that project's really coming along at
the foot of the of the River bridge.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Waiting for the Mid American tower that has the all
kinds of climbing devices and even slide down like a
steel windy rod, it seems like with a harness and
then simulated caves and lookout points and stuff like that.
Hopefully that still gets outter away.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah, it'll be a rate project. Part of are kind
of like on the northwest corner of River's Edge that
the City of Council Bluffs is putting in. We expect
construction on that to start fairly soon, perhaps any time.
And that is your Nodel Company's Commercial Commercial real Estate
Development Spotlight of the Week, brought to you, of course

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by Nodele Companies dot Com. Well, we've got a couple
of other news items to share with you today. First
of all, we anticipate the tower crane at the Mutual
of Omaha construction site fourteenth in Farnham to be extended
another one hundred and fifty feet sometime really soon. It
looks like part of the contraption they use to extend

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these tower cranes has been applied to said tower crane,
and we know if you look at the concrete core
it's almost to the level of the tower crane. So
we're going to see some more visual progress there. And
then another thing we wanted to point out while we
have the chance, got a new multifamily development coming to

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an area just southeast of two hundred and fourth and Dodge.
It'll actually be two hundred and fourth in Farnham. It's going
to be called the Alcove Apartments, one hundred and seventy
thousand square foot building, ninety eight unit apartment building, four
stories on top of basement level parking. So that's kind
of one of the urban style apartment projects we're seeing

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so many of an Omaha, but way out on two
hundred four Street.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Absolutely a lot of multifamily going up.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
All right, we're going to take our final break of
the hour, and when we come back, it'll be time
for the Perkins Kreutzer Construction Lightning Round. I'm looking at
the list and there are so many things on there
that you're going to want to hear about, so don't
go away. Lots of news in a short period of time.
Coming right up. You're listening to Grow Omaha, brought to

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you by Dingman's Collision Center and Cheer Athletics on News
Radio eleven ten KFAB and welcome back to the show,
Jeff Biels and Trenton Maggot at your service. Brought to
you by Cheer Athletics and Dingman's Collision Center. It's time

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for our Perkins Kreutzer Construction Lightning Round, appropriately brought to
you by Perkins Chritser Construction. They are a full service
class a general contractor based right here in Omaha, serving
this metro ay but also Lincoln, Grand Island, Norfolk, Carney,
North Platte who City the region if you will, And
we've got some Perkins Chreiser Construction News today. They are

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the contractor for the new Ziggy's Coffee building. No Ziggy's Coffee.
This is out of Colorado. It's a coffee chain that
has gone national. They do have a couple of Nebraska
locations already, one in Lincoln and one in Fairbury. This
first Omaha location will be at two hundred first and

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Q Street and the building isn't closed. It's like one
of those those smaller looks like a drive through only
or drive through primarily coffee shop, but it's supposed to
be really good Ziggy's Coffee coming. That's a Perkins Kretzer
Construction project.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Trendon.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Did you want to say something about that? You looked
like you were about ready to go? Uh No, okay,
But you can learn more about Perkins Kretzer Construction by
checking them out online. If you go to their website,
just do PC Construction pdash construction dot com. They do
that for short sometimes, but if you're looking for a
contractor for your project, they do a great job. We've

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had Dave Kreutzer, one of the owners and the guy
who runs it here in the studio and you may
have caught that episode They do a fantastic job. Perkins
Kretzer Construction. All right, a few things on the dockets,
some cool stuff. The Vault Craft Cocktails, a new speakeasy
themed bar, will open soon inside the collective. This is

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at Regency Landing, one hundred and seventh in Pacific Street.
It'll be down below. It's kind of you know, it's speakeasy,
so it's supposed to be very secret. Yes, and the
bar features original wood detailing and tribute to the former
Omaha National Bank. So I can't wait to go try
that bit in space. But it wasn't done yet. We'll
have to go check it out. Burger Detour plans to

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open a or rather hold a grand opening Monday this
coming Monday, for its second location southeast of two hundred
and fourth and Pacific. The original Burger Detour opened earlier
this year at one hundred and eighty third and Maple.
I've not tried it yet. I've tried it. It's pretty good.
I have to get out there and try it. Maybe
I'll just skip the first location and go to the
second and make that one my first.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Jaws and Len Art Museum has selected Omaha based Clean
Slate Food Company as its partner in the on site
Durham Cafe. Now the museum has been closed for two
years because of a massive renovation and ex ansin, but
it reopens on September tenth. The new dining area features
seasonal outdoor seating at a coffee bar serving archetype coffee

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from Omaha. A cafe will be open for breakfast, lunch,
and dinner, but dinner only on those nights when the
museum is open late.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
I'm excited to go back to the museum. It's been
so long in two years without it a long time.
And clean Slate, I'm a little bit nervous about that.
It sounds like where you go to get a cleanse,
you know.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
I don't know if that's necessarily the intention, but I
suspect it's probably going to be healthy, and I agree
with you it's probably better do that than to go
to Taco Bell to go to cleanse. And I agree
with you that it's going to be exciting to go
back to Joslyn because it has been a long time,
and not just to see the parts we know and love.
But this new addition is from the outside is an
absolutely beautiful building. Well, going from clean Slate food company

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to something on the other end of the spectrum. A
new McDonald's restaurant is under construction in the in a
landing development one hundred and ninety fifth and Highway three seventy.
That's the development where we believe Fleet Farm will be going.
An apartment complex has gone vertical and several retail pad
sites are under construction or already open in that area.

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Ruhlman's Steakhouse has now officially opened in Ashland, Trent and
I know you had Willie Theesen and executive chef John
Benton on the show a few weeks ago talking about it,
but it is now open. This is part of this
new development in Ashland that also features a Brian Health
Clinic and Arnza and it's called ox Bow Crossing. Now

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Here in Dundee because KFAB broadcast live from the Penthouse
studio high above Underwood Avenue and beautiful downtown Dundee. Here
in Dundee, La Beau, which is a bodega, will open
soon below the newish Oude Lali restaurant forty ninth in
Underwood that used to be called Mars Marks. The business

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will offer small bites wine cocktails to go a soft
opening will begin next week with a temporary opening yesterday,
I believe. Anyway, got to go check this out. It'd
be cool to have a little bodega right here in Dundee.
I'm sure it'll do well. Nail Nirvana Beauty Spa recently

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opened in Westwood Plaza near one hundred and twenty third
and West Center Road. And then this is kind of cool.
Everyone loves Valas right, and we're not that far away
from Vallas season. Okay, some people like Valas and we're
not that far away from Valas season. The Orchard will
host two adults only events this season at Vallas Pumpkin Patch.

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One's called Sunset Orchard Cider Tasting and Valas Orchard Farm
to Table Dinner. The events will include apple picking, guided tastings,
and a live fire hog roast described as meat theater
by the Pumpkin Patch on social media. So all of
you who are not a bunch of fun haters like
the guy sitting next to me, can go out there

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to Vallas and have a good time and enjoy that
this fall, Trenton, maybe this is something that will make
you happier. Yes, Starting August sixth, the runs that will
offer seventy five cent burgers every Tuesday throughout the month
in celebration of its seventy fifth anniversary.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Is that more of your speed? Instead of talking about
does that include the pretzel bud? I don't know. Do
you like the pretzel bud? The pretzel all right?

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Can we throw in a couple of other things here?
The Omaha City Council approved the liquor license applications submitted
by the operators of the future Champong and Ghost Donkey.
These are food and entertainment destinations coming to the Brickline
in the Mercantile district north side of the ConAgra Campus,
so Tenth and Harney area. Really cool new building there.

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Champong first opened in Phoenix and combines duck pin bowling
as opposed to folding, also drinks and small plate food options.
And then Oh Donkey, which has locations in Denver, Las Vegas,
and Phoenix, will open right there in that area. They
have a mace call and tequila focused cocktail menu and
these openings are both planned for mid September. I've poked

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my head and both spaces are coming along nicely and
both of them are owned by Omaha based flagship restaurant group.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
They do a great job, and I'm going to hold
out for miniature Foling.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Well, I don't think you need to wait table top Foling,
just go straight for the real stuff. We've got a
Foling warehouse at ninetieth and Maple.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
That paper football used to play.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Three million people have visited the renovated Riverfront Parks since
the gene Leahy Mall reopened a little over a year ago.
Three million people. That's fantastic. Keep using our beautiful new
downtown facilities and keep using and enjoying everything that our
city has to offer, folks. That's it for this week.
That is your Perkins Chritzer Construction, Lightning Round and the
Whole Dog On Show.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
I'm Jeff Beils and I'm Trenton Maggot.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
You've been listening to Grow Omaha, brought to you by
Dingman's Collision Center, Cheer At Lax, and Perkins Chritzer Construction.
We'll chat with you next week at nine o'clock right
here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB