The March 28th News of the Week

This week’s Grow Omaha News of the Week highlights several major stories shaping the metro. Jeff Beals and Trenton Magid discuss the former FNBO tower at 16th and Dodge, which is moving forward as a 300-unit apartment conversion, along with new census estimates showing that the Omaha metro continued to grow at a strong pace over the past year.

The segment also covers Penn Entertainment’s plan to replace Ameristar with a new Hollywood Casino in Council Bluffs and Mutual of Omaha’s topping-out ceremony on its new downtown headquarters tower. Taken together, the stories offer a sharp snapshot of Omaha’s current momentum in housing, population growth, large-scale development and regional investment.