DOWNTOWN STORY
“ T ” Omaha
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12 november/december 2009 | the encounter
Coronado’s Quest Cibola Adds a Second Omaha Location story by David Williams photos by minorwhitestudios.com
he name may be mythical, but there is nothing imagined about the growing success of Cibola of Omaha, the Old Market purveyor of jewelry and art that dwells at the nexus of Native American-meets-contemporary. Owner Bob Welsh, an Omaha native who operates Cibola of Scottsdale and another store in the Phoenix metroplex, opened his Old Market venture just in time for the Thanksgiving rush in 2005. And like a harried cook directing the precision-timed choreography of a big stuff-roast-baste dance number, Welsh is at it again in racing the clock to ready his