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Omaha Farmers Market vendor officially retires after more than 30 years
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - At exactly 1 p.m. Sunday, Donna Welchert looked at her husband, Ed, and confirmed what they’d been building toward all season. “So it is officially one o’clock?” we asked. “Yes,” Donna said. It was the moment Ed Welchert’s farming career came to...
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Baldwin Supply Opens First Nebraska Branch
Baldwin Supply today announced the opening of its first Nebraska branch in Omaha, extending the company’s presence in the central Midwest. The expansion follows Baldwin’s acquisition of Construction & Aggregate Products (CAP) late last year, which included locations in Des Moines, Iowa, and Lenexa, Kansas. With the Omaha opening, Baldwin now has 14 locations across the Midwest.
WOWT
Plan to replace building with affordable housing
In its place, the proposal calls for new apartments and townhomes, including nearly 200 affordable housing units.
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City of Omaha, chamber launch initiative asking employers to help attract and keep workers
The city of Omaha and the Greater Omaha Chamber are asking local employers to sign on to a new initiative aimed at attracting and keeping workers in the region. All In Omaha was announced Thursday at the chamber’s POWER Conference at CHI Health Center Omaha. According to the initiative’s...
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Omaha Public Market Renderings Revealed
Since news of a public market broke last year, it’s one of the projects I am most excited about. Plans for a public market like those in Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and Milwaukee date back to at least 2015 when there was a failed attempt to open one at 10th and Pierce Streets.
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Oak View Mall could 'bring back the mall' with a new two-story adventure park in west Omaha
WEST OMAHA, NE. — NRG Adventure Park is in talks to build a two-story entertainment district in the old Younkers space at Oak View Mall in west Omaha, as the mall takes a creative approach to filling its vacant spaces. Oak View Mall General Manager Stephanie Goodrich said the...
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Bellevue Weighs Zoning Fix That Could Open City to CO2 Pipeline Traffic
Bellevue city leaders are considering changing zoning rules to let private companies plug into the region's carbon dioxide pipeline network, a change that could reshape how the city's industrial land is used for years to come. The proposal, now before the Bellevue City Council, would allow private firms to connect to existing CO2 infrastructure running through the area.
WOWT
New public market plans unveiled for downtown Omaha
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Plans for Omaha’s first year-round, indoor, non-profit public market were unveiled Tuesday for a site at 8th and Farnam in downtown Omaha. The rendering shows a three-story, 50,000-square-foot building overlooking Heartland of America Park. Project details. The market is planned along Conagra Lake. The space...
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Tower District Papillion Moves into Next Phase as More Businesses Take Shape
Construction is picking up at the Tower District in Papillion as the 120-acre mixed-use development moves into a new phase focused on neighborhood retail and other businesses. The development northwest of 84th & Highway 370 has seen several businesses open, while housing continues to fill in across the site. Jesse...
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This Nebraska Candy Store Has Retro Sweets, 150+ Sodas, a Pinball Arcade, and a Movie Theater Under One Roof
A candy store with its own movie theater sounds like a daydream, but it is real. Somewhere in Nebraska, a red brick building hides a pinball arcade, a wall of fizzy bottles, and a diner that plays old records. There is even a basement that turns scary every fall. I...
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Meat Pods could be a processing option for rural communities, producers
A group of ranchers in Nebraska is working on bringing meat processing and sales back to local communities in order to improve profitability on the family ranch. Through their new project Meat Pods the Nebraska Farmers Network is offering ranchers an opportunity to have an on-site beef processing station, a Meat Pod, that would allow them to process their beef into wholes, halves and quarters before being sent to a regional packing house.
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Lundgren: power, REAP, and a case for open — not open-ended — developmen
Ben Lundgren, on KCSI this week, caught listeners up after a skipped month. The Red Oak native, who took over as MCDC executive director in August 2025, spent the visit on three threads: a revived county REAP committee, a Southwest Iowa Rural Summit in Oakland, and the organization’s newly adopted stance on economic development.
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Omaha’s planned indoor public market names first director
Organizers of Omaha’s planned year-round, indoor public market introduced its first executive director Tuesday and unveiled designs for the building, which is expected to open in summer 2028. Jerrica Marshall was introduced as the nonprofit market’s inaugural executive director at an event overlooking the future site at Eighth and...