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This is the only show in the metro area that focuses on growth and development, real estate, construction, economic development. Really, anything related to Omaha becoming bigger, more vibrant, more prosperous. Without any further ado, it's time to bring on my co-host, a man who is a legendary real estate dealmaker and all around great guy, Trenton Magad. Your kind, Jeff. Happy 5th of July, everyone. Happy 6th of July, I think it is today, actually. Oh, absolutely. You may have got your numbers mixed up there. Oh, I'm sorry about that. Well, I do hope everyone's having a great Independence Day weekend. The nice thing about having the 4th of July on a Thursday is that you get a 4-day weekend, or at least a lot of people do. Yeah, I think that there's not a lot of people that worked on Friday. So on what was it, Wednesday, I was downtown, and I heard this music, this beautiful music, it turns out that the symphony was having a rehearsal preparing for their 4th of July performance that was going on before the fireworks on Thursday night. So it was kind of cool. I didn't have a chance to get downtown to see that. It looked like it was going to be awesome, I'm sure it was. Big crowd and all that stuff. Great weather. Yeah, but anyway, hope everyone has a great Independence Day weekend. Continue the fun and let's all get to Monday with all of our fingers intact and unburned. So let's talk about food. We have another Grow Omaha Eats restaurant review written by Chris Corey. This week, Chris reviewed Clio in the old market. Clio is the new Mediterranean restaurant that is in the former wheat field space, northwest corner of 12th and Howard. Have you tried it yet, Trenton? I have not, and we've been talking about going with Chris's review. They, I'm sure it's harder to get into, but they take reservations and it's a great location. It's definitely a step up from what was there before wheat fields and right across the street from Plank and other flagship restaurant group offering. But I was looking on their Facebook page or actually their website and there is like 20 blues, which is one of their concepts around the country. Another four scheduled for this year. And so with that memoir, what's the other one they have down in the merchant tile? In the mercantile, they're going to have a ghost donkey in Shampong or champagne. It's going to be a duck pin bowling. But as Trenton's indicating this restaurant, Clio is part of Omaha based flagship restaurant group and yeah, Trenton, a lot of those flagship restaurants are not in Omaha. They're in Arizona and other places now. Yeah, absolutely. So they have a great following and a great reputation. So Nick Hogan and the group over there, big team of people. Very impressive. Anyway, if you want to learn about Clio spelled C-L-I-O, you can go to growomahod.com and click on reviews on the navigation bar. And then there's a drop down and you click on E-A-T-S-Eats. You can see all of our reviews there going back to when we started doing restaurant reviews a few years ago. But it didn't rate Clio, Chris Corey, our reviewer really liked it a great deal. Just kind of had nothing but positives to say about the place. So something that you may want to put on your list. I know I'm going to just like Trenton get down there and try it myself here at some point in time, 12th and Howard. By the way, we have a new sponsor for our Grow Omaha Eats restaurant reviews. And that is a name you know well, All Makes. All Makes, of course, is the business furniture and equipment store. Been in Omaha for multiple generations and All Makes had been sponsoring our George Morgan Wall Street Week article in our weekly newsletter. But they're now also sponsoring our restaurant reviews. And Trenton, you and I have known the Cavitch family that runs All Makes for a long, long time. Yeah, Amy and Jeff and Larry, who's passed and laser his father. Great family grew up in the same neighborhood, the mean streets of West Omaha. And just a fabulous group of people. And so we're excited to have the partnership with All Makes. All Makes on the west end of downtown along Farnham Street. And it is the place that you want to have in mind if you want to redo the office. And they have so many different options. Whether you have the open office plan or you have a lot of private offices, All Makes can take care of all of that. I know in my career and Trenton's career, I can't tell you how many times we've been to All Makes and have picked out new furniture for a new office or replacement equipment. And they always do such a good job. So very happy to have All Makes on board as the sponsor of your Grow Omaha Eats. Restaurant reviews written by Chris Corey. Well, Trenton, let's go into our news of the week because we have quite a few things to talk about. Our news is brought to you by Eagle Mortgage, Eagle Mortgage Company.com online. Their office, 114th in Davenport, just south of 114th and Dodge. Whether you call them, text them, stop in the office or find them online. One thing is for sure and one thing is the same and that is great customer service. Helping you get the best possible loan for your situation, your circumstances. Eagle Mortgage, not a bank. They are a mortgage broker. So they can shop the market and match home buyers and borrowers with the best bank solution for them. Holly Schneider when runs the place has done a great job with it. They've been around for over 30 years and we highly recommend Eagle Mortgage Company.com. Well, Trenton, the big story to come out of this week is in Council Bluffs and that is Google has decided to invest even more money into their Council Bluffs operations. An additional $1 billion coming to that data center campus. This is on the east side of Interstate 29, just north of what eventually turns into highway 370 going into Bellevue and Google has 1,000 acres there. Only 1,000 acres I thought they grew. I believe it's 1,000 acres. 1,000 acres a lot. I could be off on that. Yeah, basically a mile and a half square, right? But they started and this is hard to believe that they've been around there for 15 years now. Holy moly. And in fact, I remember us talking about that when it was just getting started. And their initial investment was only $600 million. They've now... I remember it at $600 million was a lot of money, Jeff. It actually counted for something. Now they've invested more than $5.5 billion with another billion coming. That's amazing. I remember when Google was a highway 275 there, in Council of Law, there's those two spec buildings that some group on a can city or somewhere, built some warehouses 15, 20 years ago. And they just took those over like it was nothing. Yeah. And they filled those up so fast. And that still is a Google data center campus there on highway 275. Then they did the 1,000 acre one. And then they did one in Papillion, which is still not 100% complete. They're still working on it. It's like a mile or something there. I think I know how we can figure out how much land they have in Council of Law. How? Well, Google it. There you go. But I was also going to tell you that they have yet a fourth one in the metro area under development. They're 114th and state, kind of state in Blair High Road. And then they just started one in North Lincoln along Interstate 80. That's a big one too. So anyway, this Google campus in Council Bluffs, according to Google itself, is going to be, if not the definitely one of the single largest data center campuses on planet Earth. Not only that, but don't we believe that if you combine all the Google facilities in the metro Omaha area, it's the largest concentration of Google facilities, right? Yeah, that is our understanding that it is the largest concentration of Google facilities in the area. And so Trent and a couple other quick story bits. And then we'll move on after that. Got some development projects, clarity development company plans to build a five story, 194 unit apartment building southeast of 27th and Leavenworth. And this was rezoning for it was approved by the planning board just this past week, or actually this week. And it's going to be a transit oriented designation. A lot of these new developments in downtown because of the streetcar and because of orbit are becoming transit oriented, meaning you don't have to have as many parking stalls as you would traditionally have because a certain percentage of the people will primarily or maybe in some cases always use mass transit. At any rate, it's going to be a nice project, big project right there on the corner of 27th and Leavenworth. And then just a little bit to the west, my friend, about nine blocks to be exact 36th and Leavenworth. Plans call to take down a vacant dollar, a family dollar store and Parkway development company is going to build a five story 86 unit apartment building there. It's actually on the northeast corner of 36th and Leavenworth, like I said. And that too will be a transit oriented development. They're going to have 58 designated indoor parking garage stalls for that, really close to the Med Center there. I think the big story though is that the Leavenworth corridor, when you consider that several other apartment projects have been announced or underway, is becoming a huge concentration of density. And we've talked about this before, but this ladies and gentlemen is how the street car is getting financed, is it 15 or 25% of the incremental taxes for these projects for a number of years will go towards the construction of the street car. And Leavenworth, it wasn't too long ago where you would probably lock your doors or roll up the windows and be concerned about going downtown via Leavenworth. Now it's a great address. And ladies and gentlemen, that is your news of the week brought to you by Eagle Mortgage, Eagle Mortgage Company.com. I'm going to take our first break of the morning and when we come back, Trent and I are going to be talking about a few things. We're going to talk about the commercial real estate market and what's happening there and a couple other news items as well. You're listening to Grow Omaha brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics on News Radio, 1110K FAB. And welcome back to Grow Omaha. There is only show that focuses on the growth and development of your favorite city. I'm Jeff Wiel sitting next to Trenton Magad. We are brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center along with Cheer Athletics. And that is the nation's number one all-star cheer gym. They've got locations in major cities across the United States. But the one we really care about is right here in Omaha, just southwest of highways 50 and 370 in Pavilion. And I'll tell you what, if you have an athlete at home, kiddo, grand kiddo, niece or a nephew, and you want them to get more athletic and get more confident and learn to compete and learn all sorts of life skills, you definitely want to check out Cheer Athletics. They have the best coaches in the region to help you develop your tumbling and performance skills. And all-star cheer is where it's at. It's a great form of competition. And a lot of fun and families really enjoy getting involved with it as well. Cheer Athletics offers novice, regional and national co-ed teams that compete with the best teams in the country. Like we said, stopped by located just southwest of highways, 370 and 50. So Trenton, we had a cool event that allowed us to extend our usage of Charles Schwabfield, according to visit Omaha. Shortly after the NCAA men's college world series ended, we had the high school baseball national championship series in downtown Omaha. We had teams from 12 states from as far away as Hawaii, California, Florida and Massachusetts. They arrived in Omaha on Wednesday, June 26th. They played through Sunday, June 30th, so just under a week ago. And the championship game took place at Charles Schwabfield was broadcast nationally on ESPNU. Team California beat Oklahoma 10 to nothing if you're keeping track at home. The four-day event was estimated to bring in over a million dollars of visitors spending into the community. So another nice way to add on great what a great thing for aspiring high school baseball players. I mean, just the feeling of playing in the big leagues and, or I should say in college, but that's a great add-on because isn't slump busters a huge thing for younger kids to that pounds of bluffs and everywhere else. And that doesn't get hardly any play during the college world series. Yeah. And really, I mean, everyone talks about how you can't get a hotel room very easily during the college world series. The biggest reason for it are all the youth sports teams that are in town for the slump busters. So Omaha, definitely a big baseball mecca. Last Saturday evening, my son and I were in Kansas City and we were in a sports bar. And one of the things they had on the TV was the high school baseball national championship live from Charles Schwabfield in Omaha, Nebraska. Now, unfortunately, there's pretty much no one there when you're used to seeing it on TV when it was the college world series. It was hardly anyone there. But the stadium looked cool and the kids looked like they were having a blast. A lot less Jell-O shots at Rocos. Yeah. I think team Oklahoma probably had like no shots and team California had no Jell-O shots probably. Who knows? Maybe they do. Maybe high school kids get into that. So let's talk a little bit about the real estate market. Once a quarter NAINP Dodge with which Trenton and I are happily affiliated. Once a quarter NAINP Dodge does a market report update and they look at the office retail and industrial markets and kind of assess how is it doing? And our latest one is just coming out and I'm going to share a few things, pieces of information with you and then Trenton as a legendary real estate deal maker can tell us what all this means. Fair? Yep. Okay. So here we go. Office market. There are 49 million square feet of office space in the Omaha market. Vacancy is 7%. What do you think? I think it's admirable. I don't think it's it's wonderful. Of all the three segments that we're going to talk about industrial office and retail office is the one we're most concerned about and and Omaha traditionally doesn't overbuild. However, as we've been talking about for the last four years on the show at the start of COVID is what's going to happen to the office market and with with employees going home during COVID and all these alternative workspaces and flex time. There's a lot of concern, especially like larger companies that say have I heard a story about one guy who manages a pretty sizable office, you know, 50 to 75,000 square foot office and he wants to bring the company culture back in where his employees aren't hanging out at home. It's not, you know, it might be that they're not working as hard but newer employees for the company culture. It's really a tough gig when your employee employee base is spread out. So he wants to bring everybody back into the office and corporate nationally in these bigger markets and stuff in San Francisco and New York and Philadelphia. They're saying, no, they can stay home two or three days a week. And I think you're you're it's unfortunately it's coming to fruition. The things that we've talked about Jeff on the show is there's going to be unfortunately, I think a lot of it is permanent that people are going to be demand to be able to work remotely. What do you think? Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see. I mean, a lot of the people love remote work, but we also know that in general, having the majority of your employees in a place where they can collaborate with one another tends to work a little bit better. Zoom just doesn't do it. It doesn't for me. I mean, I mean, I'm on there a lot, but I much rather have an in-person conversation. Interestingly, 1.3 million square feet of office space is currently under construction at this time. My guess is about 800,000 of it is one particular skyscraper downtown that we talk about. Yeah, most of that new stuff is spoken for. And then you've got some second and third generation. What's nice about having that vacancy though, number one, we need it not for the landlords that may not be getting rent, but when companies are growing in Omaha, that second and third generation space is more affordable. A lot of it has build out. So it helps everybody. We can attract new growth at Omaha without having available space because new space is probably about twice as much to build than existing. Well, Omaha's 66 million square foot retail real estate market is doing pretty darn well. Trenton Vacancy for retail space in the second quarter this year, 4.4%. Yeah, and that's kind of a shining spot that people didn't think about retail. The smaller spaces are pretty much filled up. There are some new strip centers. How much news coming on board? Construction right now looks like we have 434,000 square feet under construction. So that's pretty conservative. It means that developers aren't going crazy building a bunch of spec retail space, but you're also seeing vacant growth stories and things like that being repurposed to sports related things and amusement related things. But retail overall is healthy. Prices are staying up there for the landlords and we're good on retail. And then there's industrial. The total industrial market in Omaha metro area adds up to 107 million square feet and additional four and a half million square feet of industrial spaces currently under construction. So getting bigger and bigger. But this is the interesting thing that I have to share with you, Trenton, Maggie, industrial vacancy is only 3% in the Omaha area, but that's actually higher than it's been last quarter, which was higher than it was the quarter before that. I would say that it's negligible. And what you're probably looking at is we're getting more functional space. There's a lot of functional obsolescences, what they call it, older buildings. They might have, you know, 14 to 16 foot ceilings where new companies that are warehousing and want to rack a lot of buildings are being built at, you know, 26 to 32 feet high and the column widths are wider. So the older warehouse is what that vacancy represents. And then there's some new stuff coming on board that may not have signed leases on it yet, but but they will. I'm not worried about the industrial market. Okay, this is interesting to me rental rates for industrial space, or at least the asking rates are averaging $8.15 per square foot. I can remember when I first got in the commercial real estate industry, it was only a couple of few bucks. Yeah. And I remember, I remember it at $4 a foot, but I've been in the business for 30 years. And we've seen increases over the last three years that have really shot up. And it's a number of factors. It's scarcity. It's the cost of building these. It's the cost of land and the proximity to the market. Sometimes you've got farther to build these things and the taxes are higher. So the tenants are paying for it. And it's a healthy market. Our location geographically in the country helps us. There's some big users. There's a lot of third party logistics, try hard logistics, which John Meyer and I work with the guy who's is an amazing operator, Jim Kunkel, try hard logistics keeps growing and growing and growing. We need to find him those spaces to fill up. Hey, a couple before we break for the news, a couple other quick news stories. I want to work in here. First of all, the Gretna City Council this week devoted again to delay setting a January 2025 date for a special election for funding the Good Life District. The council has until November 22nd to approve a resolution if they're going to hold a special election in Gretna in January. And so there's a lot of talk that they want to hold this thing in January. They don't really want to hold it in November because they don't want it to be over shadowed by the presidential election and everything else we're voting for in November. God help us. But the Good Life District is a 2000 acre area located around and including Nebraska Crossing. It was created by an act of the legislature a little over a year ago with the intention of attracting tourist oriented business. So basically Trent, we're at a point right now where we're like, okay, how's this all going to play out? It's one thing to announce a massive project. It's one thing to have the legislature approve some business incentives for it. But this is a big, big thing to pull off. Absolutely. What's interesting about it, Jeff, is I believe, I think it isn't a may one that the 2.75% which is half of the state's portion of the tax of the 5.5 tax that the state was getting right now. If you go to the optimal, I believe that you're paying 2.75% less than taxes. And instead of coming back or sitting in a pot waiting for this vote to happen next year, it's just vanishing in thin air. So the developers in this Good Life District, which has already been approved, they're not going to get that until this gets approved and they figure it out. And really fast, Holy Name Housing Corporation is planning a nearly $4 million housing project in North Omaha. Plans call for 13 single family houses south of Lake Street near John A. Creighton Boulevard. Each house will have three beds, two baths be listed for $250,000. Construction should start this fall and be complete in May of 2025. Nice example of an infill development there. Time for our middle of the show break. When we come back, we're going to be sharing a variety of different items that we want you to consider on this Independence Day weekend. But in the meantime, you're listening to Jeff and Trenton on Grow Omaha brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center and cheer athletics on news radio 1110 KFAB. And welcome back to Grow Omaha. There is only show dedicated to the growth and development of your favorite city, Jeff Beals and Trenton maggot here in the KFAB studio and beautiful downtown Dundee are brought to you by cheer athletics along with Dingman's Collision Center. Dingmans has four metro area locations and is the constant frequent always best of Omaha winter when it comes to auto body and collision repair because they are just so good. Not only is the workmanship superior, but they also have outstanding customer service for metro area locations. Northwest Omaha, Southwest Omaha, Papillion and Saddle Creek Road in Midtown Dingmans Collision Center. It's time for your Nodel companies commercial real estate development spotlight, which is brought to you by Nodel companies. Trenton, what do you know about Nodel companies? Nodel company is the premier developer, not only in Nebraska and Iowa, but also they venture out to Colorado. Many other states, they've built a lot of Walgreens over the years. They are one to third generation now and Exarbon Village, the river's edge, just a number of amazing projects that Nodel companies has done. And now they're really venturing into multifamily, whether it's condos or apartments. And I think we're going to hear some major announcements for Nodel on the residential side at Exarbon Village in the next few weeks. Well, this Nodel companies featured project is in the builders district, which is that area of North downtown, just west of Charles Schwab Field, including and surrounding the kiwit world headquarters. We have a fitness company called Fly Fitness. Fly as an FLY, Fly Fitness plans to open this fall inside the four story mass timber building at 1501 Mike Fahey Street, right there in the builders district, like I said, Fly Fitness is headquartered in Lincoln and has two locations in Lincoln, two in Fargo, North Dakota, one in Loveland, Colorado, part of Northern Colorado area. And then this fall will be this one in downtown Omaha in the 1501 Mike Fahey Street. So that's a good sign, you know, downtown is really growing as a residential area. And now you're starting to get more fitness clubs and service businesses. It's exciting what it means for downtown. Absolutely. And with that, we have your Nodel companies, commercial real estate development spotlight of the week. You can learn more about Nodel companies by going to appropriately enough, Nodel companies.com. Well, Trenton, a couple other things we want to mention, Costco, the third Costco at 180th and West Maple Road, Southeast corner, getting very, very close to July 17th, right? I think last I heard was the 12th. It looks great. Yeah, I went, we, we post projects on the Grow Omaha website. And so periodically, I'm driving around, I'll shoot some pictures. And I, I took a photograph a few days ago of that Costco and the employees were all in there, getting things set up, trucks were dropping off merchandise. So that's pretty cool. And of course, the best thing about that Costco is God willing, it will decrease traffic on that horrific Dodge frontage road at around 123rd Street, at least we can, at least we can help. So I want to talk a little bit about transportation. It's very important to be able to move around and get around. And we're very proud to let you know, if you didn't know this already, that Grow Omaha has a new transportation reporter, a transportation writer, if you will. And his name is Eric Miller. Eric is a senior transit planner, works here in Omaha. And for many years, he was part of the RTD regional transportation district in Denver. Denver has done a lot with mass transit, but Eric was is an Omaha native and decided to move back to Omaha after 19 years of working on transit in Denver. So he's here in Omaha, and he's going to be writing periodic, periodic articles about transit for us here on Grow Omaha. And his first article, like I said, is available on our website. The headline is, what is the right transit service to Epley? And and he chose to write this because there's been a lot of talk about, you know, where do we go with the streetcar next? We know that the streetcar is going to connect that 10th and capital area down to the Harnie Farnham corridor, which we like to call the Farnie corridor. And then out to close to the Med Center, we believe the first extension will be just a few more blocks west into the heart of the Med Center. There's talk about Council Bluffs hooking on to the streetcar system. But there's been some talk about, should we go north? Should we go south? Should we go to the airport? And Eric in his article says, while the streetcars have awesome potential for moving people around in a dense urban area, and awesome potential for real estate development, he says, be careful about making it go to Epley, because streetcars work when they're in a very densified area and make a lot of stops. And that's not necessarily what you would want. If you're going to Epley, the cost to build five miles of track between downtown and Epley would be an awful lot when you consider there wouldn't be a lot of excuses to stop there and not a lot of places for collateral real estate development. Absolutely. And having just got back from Switzerland and Milan, still not trying to brag about that trip. But I'll tell you what, when the train stations from hotels, when you, when you can fly into an airport, in this case, Zurich, we were able to get on a go to the train station that's attached to the airport, go down to the old city, and our hotel is a block from the train station. It makes it a lot easier. Folks, I was gone last week. I was out of town. But if Trenton spent half of the show talking about his trip to Switzerland, I just want to sincerely apologize. But he's excited. He was excited to go and he wanted to know he was there. And I don't travel very much. So it was a big. Hardly at all. Yeah. Hardly at all. But no, I think that it's a good point, because if you had an express streetcar to the airport from downtown, that kind of defeats the purpose of the collateral buildings, as you said, and activity. But it would be pretty slick. Yeah, it would be pretty slick. Maybe we just make a moving walkway. My, or a canal, wasn't it, Lormont? Lormont, yeah. Between downtown of the airport. We could float our way to the airport. But in all honesty, or skate in winter. Yeah, there's been a lot of talk about putting a spur into North Omaha, which might make sense someday. But I think the best place, at least on the Omaha side, for a route extension would be that 10th and 13th corridor, where there's enough density and all that sort of thing. But who knows? Time will tell. You know what's funny is when we talk about the streetcar, if we had rubber tire, just a transport from the streetcar, you go to the streetcar with your bags, you get on a short bus and you go right to the airport back and forth, that'd be sweet. Trenton is interested in short buses, but let's make our final break of the hour. And when we come back, it'll be time for your Turner construction lightning round. I'm looking at the list and it's a pretty packed full one. You're listening to Grow Omaha brought to you by Dingman's Collision Center and Cheer Athletics on News Radio 1110K FAB. And welcome back to the Grow Omaha show. It is time for your Perkins Kreitzer construction lightning round, in which we talk about a lot of things in a short period of time. Thank you to Perkins Kreitzer construction for making this possible. And it's kind of interesting that we talk a lot about a lot of restaurant and retail during the Perkins Kreitzer construction lightning round, because PC construction does a lot of those projects. But guess what? They don't just do that. They can do office buildings. They can do industrial buildings. They can do institutional buildings, all sorts of things. Even healthcare projects, education projects, full service, class A, general contractor, based here in Omaha, that serves not only the metro area, but as far out as Grand Island, Norfolk, North Platte, Carney, Sioux City. Really, the region is the Perkins Kreitzer construction territory, if you will. And Dave Kreitzer was on the show a couple of weeks ago. He's a good friend of ours, does a good job of leading the team. And Perkins Kreitzer construction is famous for not only quality workmanship, but great customer service. You'll enjoy working with him as countless other people have. So if you're thinking about building a building, if you're thinking about renovating, give Perkins Kreitzer construction a call, you'll be happy that you did. All right, Trenton, our first story is a really cool restaurant is being planned. The Jam's Legacy, which is the West Omaha Jam's location, at 170th and Western Road, closed just about a week ago. Now, it's been announced that Legacy Chop House, which has been described as a modern rustic steakhouse concept, is slated to open October 1st. This is going to be a big restaurant, 10,000 square feet. And one of the cool things about it is it has ties to a very popular restaurant in Omaha, the Drover. Absolutely. Daryl Liza, a guy I've known for about, I don't know, 25 years plus, has been in some other businesses as well. And he is broken out and he is going to have a, he wants to do an upscale steakhouse called Legacy Chop House. It's a very cool building. If you remember, this building was built for the upstream brewery. And it was just way too big. It was very expensive rent and everything else. And so it lasted a while, but it, but it couldn't be maintained. And then, uh, Lanahan development bought it, put some offices in there. I'm part of it. And then Jam's came in and then Alice, which is a really cool, um, what do you call those? Cocktail bar, like a speakeasy, like a speakeasy cocktail bar that that's staying in the, in the lower level. And then Daryl Liza will build, um, will build out and I think it'll be open, probably have a soft opening at the end of September, then be open to the public like, uh, October 1st. And so we look forward to that. I think it's a great location for it. It's, it's away from a lot of other, there's not a lot of upscale restaurants in that area. A company called Shammi's Pub and Grill. Shammi's Pub and Grill has registered with the state of Nebraska to establish a restaurant at 414 South 10th street. That's in the former Gate 10 location. Previously before that, it was the stadium club. Basically, it's a bar spot in the old market just west of the embassy suites. Jamba has opened its first Nebraska location in the former Scarlet highway space at Nebraska crossing. Jamba shares the space with Antian's pretzels. Now Antian's had been in Nebraska crossing, but they've moved into this different bay along with Jamba. Jamba sells fruit and vegetable smoothies. That's what they're famous for. They also have some food items as well. The chain is based in Atlanta, has 764 stores in 36 states. The closest existing locations are in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. There's one in Iowa City, Iowa, and another one in Wichita, Kansas. But people love this stuff. I'm a big fan. And I know it is Jamba Juice. I'm sure it's the same company. And sometimes you'll see them in airports and things like that. And you can get peanut butter in them. You can get, I think you can get oatmeal and some of them. I really like them. Yeah. And Jamba and Jamba Juice are the same company about a year ago. The firm changed its name. They dropped the juice. Hey, they did. Construction is underway on a 2,600 square foot building for Panda Express at Lavista Southport. That's the area right by Cabela's and Embassy Suites. So it's yet the latest restaurant entertainment business to go there. Recently Starbucks, charred burger and bar, dirty dough and smash park have opened to that area. Panda Express under construction. Four seasons, a golf simulator in Sports Lounge is opening its first Omaha area location in a 4,500 square foot space near 192nd and Pacific Street. Basically, this is like a, you know, simulated golf thing. You go in there, you swing the clubs, you hit the ball. But because of video, it looks like you're on a famous PGA course. In fact, they have 285 PGA courses from which you can choose. Trenton, here's something cool. Wine Spectator magazine's 2024 restaurant awards have recognized five Omaha restaurants for outstanding wine selection and wine programs. And the local restaurants are Spencer's for steaks and chops, V. Mertz, dynamite wood fired grill, 8-1 Chop House and Sullivan Steakhouse. Every single one of them, downtown. Yeah, I think that's fascinating. I don't know if they do that by the amount of wine that they sell and, you know, purchase and the quality of their wine. 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