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Omaha vendors brace for slow season as temperatures drop
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Colder months starting mean the start of a challenging season for many Omaha small businesses. Vendors who make their living at farmers markets, festivals and pop-up events say things get a lot harder once events thin out. Rose Schneider has spent nearly 20 years building her...
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Werner backs autonomous trucks, but economic and liability hurdles remain
Werner Enterprises is working with several autonomous trucking developers and brokering freight to them, CFO Christopher Wikoff said at Morgan Stanley’s Laguna Conference Sept. 15. In most cases, those runs operate with a safety driver behind the wheel and an engineer in the jump seat to collect data. Werner’s...
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Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy to acquire GreenAmerica Biofuels Ord to strengthen growth strategy
Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC, a farmer-owned ethanol producer, announced it has acquired GreenAmerica Biofuels Ord LLC, a subsidiary of Pilot Travel Centers LLC. GreenAmerica Biofuels Ord LLC owns and operates an approximately 70 million-gallon-per-year ethanol plant in Ord, Nebraska. The acquisition is a direct step in SIRE's stated growth...
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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.
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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.
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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...