Bed Bath & Beyond will once again have a brick-and-mortar retail presence in Omaha by combining with The Container Store at Westroads Mall. The Container Store, which has been a junior anchor at Westroads for nine years, is clearing out 30 percent of its existing inventory to make room for Bed Bath & Beyond merchandise, which is expected to arrive in the store early this summer. To liquidate existing merchandise, The Container Store is advertising a “STORE CHANGING” sale, offering discounts and declaring that “almost” everything must go. Bed, Bath & Beyond filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023 and closed all its brick-and-mortar stores, including local stores at Village Pointe and at The Shoppes of Aksarben southeast of 72nd & Pacific Street. The retailer was known for selling home goods especially kitchenware and bedding. Though Bed Bath & Beyond closed its physical locations, the brand never truly went away. Its intellectual property was purchased by...

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents yesterday approved next steps for constructing an Infectious Diseases Air Transport Training (IDAT) facility on the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Omaha campus, expanding university’s role in national defense preparedness. The board approved intermediate design review for the free-standing, $17.4 million facility that will extend programs offered by the United States Air Force Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (C-STARS) Omaha Unit stationed at UNMC. The facility also will house air transport modules and an aircraft fuselage for training military health personnel on transporting highly infectious patients from overseas. “The IDAT facility will fill a critical national gap and extend UNMC’s record of partnering with the U.S. Department of War and other federal agencies,” said UNMC interim chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD. “Currently, there is no training facility for biocontainment air transport of infectious...