Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:05 am
I drove past Summer Kitchen at 6 pm and I could not see a single empty parking spot.
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Now this is a great example of where a quality locally-owned independent restaurant can put down its roots and succeed where otherwise it would be just Yet Another {fill in a chain restaurant}.Coyote wrote:I drove past Summer Kitchen at 6 pm and I could not see a single empty parking spot.
I did my part and ate at the Millard Roadhouse on Saturday.Omababe wrote:We need to support things like this!
Their Friday Night Beef Stroganoff is incredible... I love Summer Kitchen.Omababe wrote:Now this is a great example of where a quality locally-owned independent restaurant can put down its roots and succeed where otherwise it would be just Yet Another {fill in a chain restaurant}.Coyote wrote:I drove past Summer Kitchen at 6 pm and I could not see a single empty parking spot.
We need to support things like this!
CHRISTINE LAUE WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:The developers who brought Cabela's to La Vista at Interstate 80 and Giles Road plan to fill the rest of Southport West with a retail/entertainment district and a business park, possibly connected by a trolley.
They said they are close to leasing one building to a "large corporate tenant," which they declined to name but said was not Yahoo.
"People will not only come here for a day but for the weekend," said Dennis Hoth, who is developing Southport West with fellow CB Richard Ellis/MEGA broker Dean Hokanson. "It's not your neighborhood shopping center. This is a regional destination."
Hoth said he hoped the large corporate tenant would announce its plans in about 30 days when the lease is finalized.
A person close to Gov. Dave Heineman has confirmed that state and local officials are negotiating with Yahoo, a major Internet search engine, to build a data center in the Omaha metropolitan area. A spokesman for Yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has declined to say whether it is talking to Nebraska officials.
"It's not that big," Hoth said of the corporate prospect Southport West is courting, "but it's a really, really great tenant."
Hoth said the company would occupy the first floor of a three-story building to be constructed on 2.4 acres northwest of Cabela's and visible from I-80.
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Let me guess... it never crossed anyone's mind to not see how far away they could build everything from everything in the first place?The developers who brought Cabela's to La Vista at Interstate 80 and Giles Road plan to fill the rest of Southport West with a retail/entertainment district and a business park, possibly connected by a trolley.
There is about 50 Feet of difference between the Embassy Suits Lot and the business park lotCoyote wrote:Remember however, the Business Park is on much lower elevated land than where Embassy Suites is.
Paypal greeters. Â it's the new thing.Coyote wrote:And not everyone was from Paypal unless they hire retired couples.
Plans for parking lot expansion under way.Coyote wrote:I drove past Summer Kitchen at 6 pm and I could not see a single empty parking spot.
This has got to be for the sole reason that there is really no competition within miles for a sit-down restaurant in that area. Â Things hopefully will change soon in that respect.wheel wrote:Plans for parking lot expansion under way.Coyote wrote:I drove past Summer Kitchen at 6 pm and I could not see a single empty parking spot.
A few miles, but just over at Shadow Lake is Wheatfields, Red Robin, and Texas Roadhouse... Â an easy jaunt...nativeomahan wrote:This has got to be for the sole reason that there is really no competition within miles for a sit-down restaurant in that area. Things hopefully will change soon in that respect.wheel wrote:Plans for parking lot expansion under way.Coyote wrote:I drove past Summer Kitchen at 6 pm and I could not see a single empty parking spot.
Most importantly, Old Chicago!dandr1229 wrote:A few miles, but just over at Shadow Lake is Wheatfields, Red Robin, and Texas Roadhouse... an easy jaunt...
I would hate to walk it. It is about 7-8 miles as the car drives from 126th and Harrison to 72nd and 370. Â Aksarben Village is about the same distance.dandr1229 wrote:A few miles, but just over at Shadow Lake is Wheatfields, Red Robin, and Texas Roadhouse... an easy jaunt...nativeomahan wrote:This has got to be for the sole reason that there is really no competition within miles for a sit-down restaurant in that area. Things hopefully will change soon in that respect.wheel wrote:Plans for parking lot expansion under way.Coyote wrote:I drove past Summer Kitchen at 6 pm and I could not see a single empty parking spot.
LEIA BAEZ WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Thanks to a new business in Southport, near 120th Street and Giles Road, golf enthusiasts won’t have to put their clubs away for the winter — or fret about the weather.
Beyond Golf, a sports bar scheduled for a grand opening in February, is one of the first businesses in Nebraska to offer golf leagues, lessons and clinics via high-definition golf simulators.
I think its a Mutual of Omaha Bank.nativeomahan wrote:What is the multi-level steel structure going up west of the Courtyard by Marriott going to be?
They own Lot 2, SPW replat 4 (South East Corner)Stargazer wrote:At one time I was thinking this was supposed to be where a movie theater was to go... but I never heard whether those plans were definitive or not.
John Keenan, OWH wrote:La Vista business and community leaders were on hand Wednesday when John Q. Hammons Hotels & Resorts held a ribbon-cutting celebration to announce the official grand opening of Courtyard by Marriott Omaha-LaVista.
The 246-room hotel is the final piece in John Q. Hammons' La Vista Complex, which also includes the 100,000-square-foot La Vista Conference Center and 257-suite Embassy Suites Omaha-LaVista, which opened in July 2008.
La Vista Mayor Doug Kindig said the grand opening was the last piece in the project, which made it the “largest hotel-connected conference center project in the state of Nebraska.
“The obvious benefits are the revenue sources, the sales tax dollars, the hotel occupation tax that we'll receive,” he said. ‘But the benefits beyond that — I think we're starting to see the vision that the city counicl and myself have had in making this a destination point.
I wonder why they stopped after they built Cabela's. I heard so much was coming from it and then it all went quiet.Been There wrote:Last thing I recall is they were waiting to see what Nebraska Crossing was going to do. That, and probably Shadow Lake, would be their biggest competition.
Nebraska Crossing since then has begun an ambitious overhaul. The original structures are pretty much demolished as of last month.