The Limelight (16th and Harney)

Post by **Coyote** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 10:47 am

guitarguy wrote:That view looks straight out Manhattan! Beautiful

I was thinking the same thing!

schumatt · Post by **schumatt** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 3:25 pm

Just got an email announcing that The Limelight is having an open house this Friday, June 27, 4 - 6 PM. The email does ask for an RSVP, and the contact info is the same as listed on their website. Looks like the site has been updated with photos and floorplans since the last time I saw it.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:12 am

‘Really hot’ urban market: Limelight at 16th, Harney will join expanding downtown apartment scene

Total number of units (under construction or proposed): 1,419

Number of downtown-area units under construction or proposed*
1501 Jackson, 15th and Jackson Streets, 75

Jones13, 13th and Jones Streets, 100

Limelight, 16th and Harney Streets, 39

Spaces, Park and Dewey Avenues, 154

The Wire, 100 S. 19th St., 290

9th and Jones, Ninth and Jones Streets, 125

Flatiron building, 1722 St. Mary’s Ave., 30

Capitol District, 10th Street and Capitol Avenue, up to 226

Midtown Triangle, near St. Mary’s Avenue and 30th Street, 178

The State, 528 S. 29th St., 21

Ekard Court, 617 S. 31st St., 36

Harney Street Apartments, 3327 Harney St., 32

Travers Row, 26th and St. Mary’s Ave. (24 row houses)

31-33 Marcy-Mason, 31st and Marcy Streets (one duplex, nine townhomes and 12 apartments)

Nichol Flats, 1015 N. 16th St., 67

Post by **Brad** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:06 am

Awesome. I can use that list to update the index!

Post by **Brad** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 2:22 pm

Photo Update

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Post by **Coyote** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:29 am

Limelight is 35% leased and the first tenant has moved in. The place was lit up last night...

Post by **Brad** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:38 am

Coyote wrote:Limelight is 35% leased and the first tenant has moved in. The place was lit up last night...

Heard all that on Grow Omaha this morning with Ted Seldin.

I took a bunch of photos of the model, Dicon put about 5 of them on their FB Page.
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iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 9:13 pm

Coyote wrote:Limelight is 35% leased and the first tenant has moved in. The place was lit up last night...

Glad to see it filling up, wouldn't be surprised to see it ramp up once that mess on 16th gets done.

Post by **Coyote** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 9:55 pm

iamjacobm wrote:
Coyote wrote:Limelight is 35% leased and the first tenant has moved in. The place was lit up last night...
Glad to see it filling up, wouldn't be surprised to see it ramp up once that mess on 16th gets done.

I hear that the 16th St project slowed down, once they found out how much is underground in that area...

Post by **Brad** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 10:04 am

Coyote wrote:I hear that the 16th St project slowed down, once they found out how much is underground in that area...

Here is some discussion about it.
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Post by **Brad** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 4:39 pm

New restaurant announcement in 5 min!

Post by **Brad** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 4:46 pm

Kyle and Rose Anderson are opening a restaurant in the retail space on the ground floor. Kyle was once the executive chef at V Mertz. They haves lived in Berkely California for the past several years but are returning to Omaha to open this new restaurant. It will be a locally sourced upscale restaurant with a full bar.

Yet to be named.

Also the apartments are already 50% leased!

Post by **Brad** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:17 pm

If you were wondering by source on that information, I was at the limelight grand opening party tonight, and that was announced during the grand opening festivities.

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:20 pm

This is a pretty huge deal! Feels like Omaha is done playing the we wish we were more like the big cities and as a community making it happen. Love the energy in the city lately.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:03 pm

guitarguy wrote:This is a pretty huge deal! Feels like Omaha is done playing the we wish we were more like the big cities and as a community making it happen. Love the energy in the city lately.

Couldn't agree more!

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:03 pm

That could be huge for 16th Street.

NEDodger · Post by **NEDodger** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:48 pm

iamjacobm wrote:That could be huge for 16th Street.

No doubt. Between this development and getting rid of the "dark alleyway of trees", I'm pretty optimistic about 16th street.

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 6:31 pm

Disagree totally on the tree canopy. It is/was beautiful. It will take decades to replace.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:18 pm

nativeomahan wrote:Disagree totally on the tree canopy. It is/was beautiful. It will take decades to replace.

I agree, I thought the tree canopy looked great, especially for that block. I also liked the old decorative bus stops that were there as well. I think that both of those things gave the block some extra character. It didn't look like a generic block you would see elsewhere in the city. Just too bad so many people would hang out down there causing the area to not look as nice.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:20 pm

The tree canopy looked beautiful as seen in this pic Dicon took this spring:

NEDodger · Post by **NEDodger** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:04 pm

It looked nice from above, yes. But at street level this was not the most inviting street.

Omaha_Gabe · Post by **Omaha_Gabe** » Tue Sep 23, 2014 11:06 pm

NEDodger wrote:It looked nice from above, yes. But at street level this was not the most inviting street.

Agreed, I will miss the trees, however, to grow the area and attract people, it was something that had to be done. A major factor was indeed the bums and unattractiveness of the area. we can all agree that it was not the ideal area to attract a business. With the changes made i feel that it will revitalize the area (however i would like to see some sort of green space, whether trees or bushes in planters)

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:24 pm

A nice recap video of the project.

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guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:58 pm

at the guy using the jack hammer!

Post by **Brad** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:31 am

guitarguy wrote: at the guy using the jack hammer!

I don't think that slab of concrete was meant to break that easy...

ItsAllAboutMe · Post by **ItsAllAboutMe** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:04 am

Plans for the restaurant & donut shop have fallen through.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:09 am

ItsAllAboutMe wrote:Plans for the restaurant & donut shop have fallen through.

That's too bad. Hopefully something moves into that space. I walk by here all the time during the work week and if something decent would move in, it would probably do well with OPPD, First National, Woodmen, UP HQ's all so close by.

Depending on what it would be, it may even do well on the weeknights and weekends with the Orpheum only a block to the south.

Post by **Coyote** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:13 am

ItsAllAboutMe wrote:Plans for the restaurant & donut shop have fallen through.

I saw a new post in this thread and before reading it I thought about the new restaurant here, Trento Magid was teasing the place a few months ago... Wasn't this bay more or less designed for a restaurant? It shouldn't be too hard to find a replacement... I hope.

ItsAllAboutMe · Post by **ItsAllAboutMe** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:33 am

I hope I'm wrong, my source is very reliable.

OmahaChef · Post by **OmahaChef** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:51 pm

I would say your source is accurate. I noticed this morning that all of the window advertising for the space on the first floor has been put back up.

Post by **Coyote** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:01 am

New rumor: a high end Bar/Lounge is going to locate in the Limelight.

daveoma · Post by **daveoma** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:09 pm

Coyote wrote:New rumor: a high end Bar/Lounge is going to locate in the Limelight.

Rooftop lounge would be awesome.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:54 pm

daveoma wrote:
Coyote wrote:New rumor: a high end Bar/Lounge is going to locate in the Limelight.
Rooftop lounge would be awesome.

I don't think that's possible with the residential units, it will be in the empty bay.

ItsAllAboutMe · Post by **ItsAllAboutMe** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:05 pm

Sign in the window says "Coming Soon"
Mercury.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:02 pm

I noticed some people taking a tour of the south bay earlier this week.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:51 am

Mercury craft bar: a shot of vitality on 16th Street

Bartenders Clark Ross and Colin Breen, alumni of the Boiler Room Restaurant in the Old Market and Nite Owl in the Blackstone District, hope to open the new bar this winter. It will be called Mercury.

Mercury will fill about 2,300 square feet of commercial space on the ground level of the Limelight Urban Apartment Lofts at 16th and Harney Streets.
About 1,600 square feet of commercial space remains....

The bar will serve cocktails, wine and small plates of food on the ground level of the Limelight. Eventually, the owners plan for the bar to have an outdoor patio.

The owners plan to keep original elements of the space, including a tile floor from the 1940s and a vault used to hold diamonds in the spot’s former life as a Brodkey’s jewelry store. Ross said the vault eventually will become the wine cellar.

The owners also have plans to install a Clinebell ice machine that makes 300-pound blocks of ice; Ross said Mercury will be the first bar in Nebraska to have one.
When the bar opens, bartenders will shave different shapes of ice to order off the large block.

Here is the vault that will become the wine cellar:

Post by **Coyote** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:56 am

I need a vault like that for my beer cellar!

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:39 am

This Wicked Rabbit and Wilson & Washburn make a nice little collection of higher end bars around the Orpheum and Hotel Deco.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:32 am

http://www.omaha.com/money/downtown-lim ... c1937.html

He said that Omaha’s Himalayan Java will be the first U.S. site in a chain launched in 1999 in Nepal.

Gurung, himself a native of Nepal, said he spent high school and college years in the Omaha area and chose to return to the city after living elsewhere in the U.S. Now 35 and working as an IT consultant, he hoped to open a business that meshed his love for his home country and coffee.

He said he persuaded the company founders, also his friends, to take a shot on Omaha. There are 17 stores in Nepal and four outside of the country, he said.

Post by **Coyote** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:42 am

That could be cool. I will have to check it out when it opens...