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KCUR 89.3 Willa Robinson s book store operates out of 1734 E. 63rd Street. Clarity Development Company purchased the building in December.
An Omaha developer purchased an office building that serves as an incubator for Black-owned businesses, but no one has told those business owners what to expect.
Willa Robinson will probably need to relocate her store, Willa’s Books and Vinyl, which she’s operated out of the Citadel Office Building at 1734 E. 63
rd Street since 2015. She’s heard a rumor that the building will be torn down in the fall.
Neither the new developer, Clarity Development Company of Omaha, Nebraska, or the former local owner, John Barbieri, has mentioned the possibility of dislocation to her or the other 150 mostly Black tenants in the building. However, a recent article in the