Health-focused Fresh Thyme – now open on West Maple – plans to be a ‘game changer’
By Barbara Soderlin / World-Herald staff writer Customers began lining up at 2 a.m. Wednesday to be among the first inside Omaha’s newest competitor in the ever-hotter grocery game. Fast-growing Illinois chain Fresh Thyme opened its 40th store, the first in Omaha, Wednesday at 150th Street and West Maple Road. Two other west Omaha stores…
Gordmans to open new Omaha store at end of April
By Paige Yowell / World-Herald staff writer Gordmans will open a new store in Omaha at the end of this month. The new 50,000-square-foot store will be at 14933 Evans Plaza, just south of West Maple Road in the new West Grayhawk Shopping Center, and will open April 28. Gordmans, founded in Omaha, has five…
Grayhawk development near 144th and West Maple — launched 15 years ago — is almost complete
POSTED: MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2016 12:30 AM | UPDATED: 11:20 AM, MON JAN 11, 2016. By Cindy Gonzalez / World-Herald staff writer Launched 15 years ago, the Grayhawk development in northwest Omaha again is soaring, and about to complete its final leg. It was in 2001 that city officials approved the plan to bring new life to a…
She.la moving into Sterling Ridge development
By Paige Yowell / World-Herald staff writer She.la will reopen in its new space at Sterling Ridge development on Nov. 24. The boutique will close its store at Countryside Village, where it has been for 18 years, on Wednesday, owner Sheila Christ said. Christ has said she planned the move to Sterling Ridge, a new…
Northstar Financial Services Group LLC Expands Omaha Corporate Campus, Breaks Ground on New $6.3 Million Facility
OMAHA, NE–(Marketwired – August 25, 2015) – Omaha-based holding company breaks ground on second building on corporate campus after hiring more than 300 new employees since January 2014; NorthStar Financial Services Group, LLC services over $325 billion in assets under management and administration and is currently home to 709 employees; Newly developed space will include…
Omaha's Countryside church votes to join tri-faith site
By Michael O’Connor / World-Herald staff writer Kris Hess joined Countryside Community Church because of its strong children’s ministry and uplifting preaching. But now she has a new reason to be happy she signed up six years ago. The congregation voted Sunday to relocate to a planned interfaith site for Christians, Muslims and Jews in…
Major projects are changing the Omaha-area landscape
By Cindy Gonzalez / World-Herald Staff Writer *This article features our Sterling Ridge (132nd & Pacific) & West Grayhawk (147th & West Maple) Developments! From the new Lumberyard District in old downtown Millard to north downtown’s so-called Innovation District, clusters of commercial and residential construction projects are expected to change the Omaha-area landscape…
Sanders lauds city’s financial gains
By Eugene Curtin / Leader Associate Editor Rita Sanders, who will seek a second term as mayor of Bellevue Nov. 4, does not dance around the issue of taxes. She has said repeatedly the city has done all it can to cut spending. It has eliminated positions and cut hours, she said, and the result…
Omaha's first stand-alone Chick-fil-A opens Thursday
By Barbara Soderlin / World-Herald staff writer Papillion has one. Bellevue has one. Now Omaha will too. The city’s first stand-alone Chick-fil-A restaurant is set to open Thursday, the company announced. The first 100 adults in line by 6 a.m. Thursday at 17501 West Center Road in Legacy Village will each receive a gift card…
New tenant coming to American Interstate Place!
Union Pizzeria heads west; Sporting News Grill on deck By Sarah Baker Hansen / World-Herald staff writer Union Pizzeria has closed its north downtown location and has plans to relocate to 156th and West Maple Road. The restaurant and bar was at 14th and Cuming Streets, inside the Holiday Inn. The restaurant will be…
