Omaha growth, block by block.
Grow Omaha is a weekly Omaha notebook for development watchers, business owners, restaurant followers, and locals who care what is being built next. It moves from projects and business expansion to old landmarks, food reviews, interviews, and neighborhood memory without losing its civic-growth focus.
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Grow Omaha is a local business and development show with its eyes on Omaha’s next visible change. It cares about what is being built. It also cares where, by whom, how big, what used to be there, and why the move might matter to the city’s future. Episodes move quickly through construction updates, restaurant reviews, commercial real estate notes, history articles, and interviews tied to Omaha-area growth. The result is a Saturday-morning city notebook with permits, jokes, addresses, and civic optimism all sharing the same lane. Jeff Beals and Trenton Magid give the show its recurring conversational shape. Their exchanges are loose but specific, often moving from a personal memory into a development detail without much pause. A segment on the Mid-American Energy Adventure Tower becomes a walk-through of location, height, levels, access, and the Tree Tops Walkway. A restaurant item can turn into a memory of what used to occupy the same storefront. Grow Omaha Eats brings in Chris Corey’s restaurant reviews, covering places like Barocco Wine Bar, the Committee Chophouse, and new concessions at Warner Park. The history thread adds another layer, with Patrick Wyman’s pieces connecting current Omaha to places like the Paxton Hotel. Interviews broaden the frame beyond commentary. Guests discuss small-business ownership, parking area maintenance, Bellevue Bay Indoor Water Park, Mattel branding, and urban-core real estate work. The show is openly positive about Omaha, but its best texture comes from the particulars: 14th and Farnham, 1516 Jones Street, 605 North 98th Street, Blackstone, Dundee, Papillion, Bellevue, and old market blocks that keep changing. It is not a national business podcast with Omaha examples. It is Omaha first, down to the intersections.
Made for: For Omaha-area listeners who want practical, specific updates on development, restaurants, retail, construction, and neighborhood change. It also suits business owners, real estate watchers, and civic-minded locals tracking what is opening or moving next.
What sets it apart: Grow Omaha stands out through its mix of development reporting, local memory, restaurant coverage, and exact street-level detail. It treats Omaha growth as a living map rather than a press-release feed.
Grow Omaha, 9-10 a.m. each Saturday on NewsRadio 1110 KFAB, features economic development in the Omaha area.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns Omaha's permits, tenant moves and development interviews into a clear account of how a city's business landscape changes.
Grow Omaha follows business activity at street level, where a tenant announcement, construction permit or redevelopment plan can signal how a city is changing.
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A local growth roundup where permits, moves, and history all fit the same frame.
Grow Omaha keeps its attention on the city’s growth story, moving from construction and business expansion to restaurant and retail news with a steady sense of what is at stake.
A loose Omaha business hour that still delivers useful local development detail.
Grow Omaha sits comfortably at the intersection of local business talk and development reporting. Jeff Beals and Trenton Magid begin with weather and daylight-saving time chatter, then shift into a guest segment with a former Army officer who bought a parking-area maintenance…
A Bellevue water park becomes a focused look at how construction, branding, and nearby acreage could shape a visitor economy.
Grow Omaha centers on Bellevue Bay Indoor Water Park as its clearest business story: a roughly 10-acre attraction with at least seven pool systems and a bigger development plan around it.
A grounded Omaha growth update linking an arts center, Tanaska's local role, and new metro storefronts.
Grow Omaha frames the metro's growth as a series of connected local bets, moving from the Tanaska Center for Arts Engagement to the restaurant and fitness openings filling out the commercial map.
A brisk local tour of Omaha buildouts, openings, and a former CVS planned for AutoZone.
Grow Omaha turns a Valentine's Day check-in into a grounded tour of Omaha's commercial pipeline. Jeff Beals and Trenton Magid stay close to the street, with activity around 67th Street leading the way: Red Door Grill building out about 7,000 square feet on Center Street, Grand…
A grounded Omaha update on the streetcar delay, buried infrastructure and Camp Blackstone's closure.
Omaha's growth comes through as a run of practical choices. Brad Williams joins as co-host after working downtown on the next construction update, while Steve Jensen explains why the streetcar's opening target has shifted to Labor Day 2028.
Omaha's building boom gets tested against the harder question of whether job growth is keeping up.
Grow Omaha turns Omaha's construction boom into a sharper business question: is all that visible activity producing enough job growth? Jeff Beals and guest co-host Brad Williams press the mayor on that gap, and she frames the work around four priorities: keeping existing…
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This episode of Grow Omaha discusses economic development in Omaha, including the progress of Epley Airfield's billion-dollar terminal expansion and the start of the spring home buying season.
Jeff Beals hosts Grow Omaha with guest Brad Williams, covering local economic development news.
This episode of Grow Omaha covers economic development news in the Omaha area, hosted by Trenton Magid with guest co-host Brad Williams.
This episode of Grow Omaha discusses local economic development, features a restaurant review of the Boiler Room, and includes sponsor acknowledgments.
This episode of Grow Omaha introduces the show's focus on economic development and business in Omaha, promotes its free newsletter and sports section, and features co-hosts discussing local topics.
This episode of Grow Omaha is a radio show discussing economic development, construction, and business expansion in the Omaha metropolitan area, featuring hosts Jeff Beals and Trenton Magid.
This episode of Grow Omaha discusses local economic development, construction, and business expansion in Omaha during the College World Series weekend, featuring hosts Jeff Beals and Trenton Maggie.
This episode of Grow Omaha discusses the upcoming Mid-American Energy Adventure Tower and Charles Lakin Pier in Omaha, highlighting their construction, features, and role in the city's economic development.
This episode of Grow Omaha discusses economic development in Omaha, featuring a restaurant review of Barocco Wine Bar and insights from co-host Trenton Magid on real estate and local business.
This episode of Grow Omaha discusses economic development in Omaha and features a bonus review of new concessions offerings at Warner Park during Storm Chasers games.
This episode of Grow Omaha discusses economic development, business expansion, and real estate in Omaha, including announcements about a restaurant review and local sponsors.
This episode of Grow Omaha discusses economic development in Omaha, featuring a history article about the Paxton Hotel and its transformation into upscale condos and restaurants.
Grow Omaha opens like a quick city notebook.
It starts with the weather.
Jeff Beals and Trenton Magid steer the growth-and-development conversation to Bellevue Bay Indoor Water Park.
Omaha gets a growth report with an arts opening right at the center.
Jay Noddle says Exarbon Village is nearly full, with only one major land parcel left west of Stinson Park.