Lots of new development projects under way in West Omaha

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - There appears to be no end in sight for the expansion of West Omaha. It seems everywhere you look, another new business is opening.

Jerimiah Watters is general manager of D1 Training that recently opened near 192nd and Blondo streets.

“There’s obviously good and bad both right. There’s a lot of competition; but it’s also a really good area — a lot of really good people out here,” he said.

Watters said West Omaha is hard to beat for a good location.

Watters said, “The opportunity for athletics are pretty high out here. Obviously with Elkhorn schools, and Bennington is not very far from here, and not being too terribly far from Millard. For us, we felt like it was a good location to get athletes to come in.”

Watters isn’t alone.

Part of a building at 192nd and Pacific streets will be transformed into 4,500 square-foot space where people can grab a drink and golf nearly 300 simulated PGA courses.

For a night cap, they can head over to Let it Fly Sports Bar, the former site of Barrell & Vine. Or they grab a burger at the new Burger Detour.

But it isn’t all fun and games.

Children’s Hospital and Medical Center is building a new 60,000 square-foot pediatric outpatient center at 204th and Harrison streets. A new church is going up near 192nd Street and West Maple Road, along with a new bank near 138th and Maple.

One of the most anticipated openings is set for July 12, the grand opening of a new Costco at 180th Street and West Maple Road.

Logan Frost of Omaha said, “I’m pretty excited. My family is on the bigger side. Including myself there are six of us so we buy in bulk when we buy groceries. "

Frost said the new location will be more convenient.

“We’re right there. So now, instead of being once a week, it’s going to be easier to make smaller trips to Costco,” he said.

With new homes under construction, available plots nearly everywhere, and new roads being built, Omaha’s westward crawl isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

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