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Local Highlights: A List of Great Businesses Near Cedar Heights

If you ever see some of our posts from Facebook, we like to take a look at various businesses around our community. Whether it is great food or drink, the chance at a niche items for sale or incredible customer service, we try to highlight the places that we think our residents and guests should visit. Take a look through a sampling of some of our favorite places around the best place in all of Omaha: Cedar Heights Apartments.

  • Andy’s Shoe Repair: This store does a variety of repairs for all sorts of shoes, belts and other leather goods. Prices are good and turnaround time is great. One of our sister communities has a staff member that has done repairs on a pair of her boots and had a very positive experience!
  • El Churro Truck: While this was originally a food truck, but recently they located to a retail space on 50th and Saddle Creek. Reviews are incredibly favorable and we are wishing them all the best of luck in their new store!
  • Re-CYCLE Bike Shop: Another store that we have mentioned before! This is a bike shop that sells new and used bikes, including used parts from bikes that they have had donated to them. Good for the person looking to add a personal touch to a bike they currently have, or is trying to make a bike from scratch with recycled parts. Definitely a quality endeavor!
  • Weird Wild Stuff Vintage Clothes and Gifts: This one is a favorite hidden treasure for the Cedar Heights Staff! Just off 49th and Leavenworth, this retro clothing and gift shop offers a ton of incredibly vintage and unique items, both for costume events and just for something to jazz up your wardrobe or living space. A truly one-of-a-kind business!
  • Three Happiness Express: Not far from Weird Wild Stuff, this Chinese restaurant serves all the items you would come to expect from such a place. With that, we have found that their offerings are amazing and at affordable prices. If you have not tried it already, YOU NEED TO GET ON THAT.

 

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Chaos is Coming! Preparing for Construction on 78th Street

Many of our residents here are very familiar with 78th street. If you want to quickly exit the property and head down towards the hospital, escape the rush of Pacific St or visit our neighbors at Villa Vinee, you take 78th. If you live on Pierce St, and want the quickest way out of the community, you go down 78th. Also, and unfortunately so, if you want to drag race down a street, you pull off from 78th and head on down to Pierce St, whizzing through with reckless abandon (this is not advised).

 

It is no secret that this street is an important thoroughfare for our residents and drivers alike. It is a wonderful side street that allows a little bit of overflow to avoid the major traffic on streets like Mercy or Pacific. However, there are ominous murmurs in the distance that…

 

CONSTRUCTION

 

… is on the way.

*Gasp*

How will we all ever make it through? What will that mean for the community? Who would ever do something so heinous?

For now, our office can tell you that work will start around the 27th of January. At that time, northbound lanes on 78th will be closed as MUD works on gas and water lines that run down the length of the road from Bergen to the end of Pacific Gardens. This work is expected to be ongoing into the Spring, but an end date has not yet been confirmed. We also know that work will be conducted by the city to build a sidewalk that spans the length of the previous work. Along with this, new retaining walls will be erected on the west side of the property. However, this will be taking over even more of the street, and will be lasting from Spring to late Summer (again, no official end date to say).

For us here in the community, we will be losing the garages West 17-43. This is incredibly unfortunate, although there is some good news to come out of this. With their removal, we will be replacing them with some standard outside parking, and new electric garages! All of this is very tentative for now, as we are still waiting for a greater idea on the schedule of this work, but for now, their is some good, and some bad, that is heading this way.

We ask that everyone in the community, as well as our neighbors nearby, be vigilant when using 78th for the next few months. It makes us very sad to see this happen, but also overjoyed to hear that we will be getting a new sidewalk, and some fun renovations to our already beautiful property. Please hang in there with us, and we will continue to try to make all of our residents/guests lives as smooth and convenient as possible while this work is on-going.

For more information, please continue to check in here. Thank you all for being our wonderful residents. We are all in this together, and once it is all done, 78th and our community will be even better than they were before!