The program is designed to make it easier to open new businesses downtown by making it more feasible and less daunting, said ...

Vollman, 39, who got involved in the Metro program while on a work detail at the Community Corrections Center-Omaha, gives personal testimony to the program’s effectiveness.

The Vollman/Hobrla home on Bassett Lane is another example of reinventing a space to reflect empty-nesters, rather than discarding the place where more than 25 years of family memories were made.