Official: Patrick's Market (1416 Howard)

[Swift]

Well then as a vegetarian, I'm SOL.

[the1wags]

Announcement soon?

From the Omaha World Herald...

"Dan Emanuel, the building's owner, said negotiations have resulted in a signed lease on the 8,712-square-foot building at 1416 Howard St., but he cannot yet disclose the tenant's name or the building's use."

"And the parking lot that originally drew his attention to the building will be used for the tenant's customers, he said. It is on the building's west side."

Link to the full Omaha W-H article.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1 ... d=10085965

[Greg S]

Wohlner's?

Greg[/i]

[OmahaChef]

The main things missing from Cubby's is meats, fish and seafood, and decent produce.  If this does become a grocery and they have all three departments, I'd be a real happy downtowner!

[Guest]

Hope it is a grocery



Refurbished property will get new tenant
BY CHRISTINE LAUE
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER



After an art deco exterior facelift two years ago, a vacant 100-year-old building in downtown Omaha is getting a new interior and, eventually, a tenant.



Exterior remodeling built on art deco details of the building at 1416 Howard St.Dan Emanuel, the building's owner, said negotiations have resulted in a signed lease on the 8,712-square-foot building at 1416 Howard St., but he cannot yet disclose the tenant's name or the building's use.

"But it's going to be good," he said. "I'm very excited about what this building is going to bring to this part of downtown."

The one-story brick building most recently was a La Petite Academy day care center.

Emanuel bought the property for $470,000 in January 2004. He was looking for additional parking for offices and two apartments in the nearby Medlar Building, the historic three-story red-brick building at 416 S. 14th St. that he bought in 1985.

While the parking lot attracted him, the building - called the Harris Building for the words engraved on it - also caught his eye.

"It needed considerable work," he said. "I completely gutted the inside of the building and removed the old roof and put a new roof on."

As part of the $80,000 exterior remodeling, he also replaced the storefront with a custom steel door and window system using materials from his company, Emanuel Construction Specialties, a distributor of architectural building products.

Emanuel painted the brick building mustard yellow and used green window frames styled to replicate the building's other art deco features.

"The building kind of dictated that," he said. "It has art deco influences, so I tried to respect that when I designed the windows."

Now that Emanuel has finalized a lease agreement, crews will begin construction inside to fit the space to the new use.

And the parking lot that originally drew his attention to the building will be used for the tenant's customers, he said. It is on the building's west side.

The Harris Building at one time served as a parking garage and at another time as a garage offering washing and lube services, Emanuel said.

Dean Hokanson, senior vice president of CB Richard Ellis/MEGA, had inherited the property after his father's death in 1992 and sold it to Emanuel. The building had housed his father's neckware business, Hokanson Manufacturing Co., in the late 1970s, followed by the Omaha Ballet's studio and ticket office, and finally the day care center, Hokanson said.

[nativeomahan]

My money is on another restaurant or club of some sort.

[Brad]

From Grow Omaha last weekend:

15th and Howard, 8000 or 9000 SF, owner to be on Grow Omaha this weekend.

[Ben]

From Grow Omaha last weekend:

15th and Howard, 8000 or 9000 SF, owner to be on Grow Omaha this weekend.

did anyone listen?  What was said?  That's one heck of a tease....  now I've got to scan through an hour of talk radio to figure this out....

[Brad]

From Grow Omaha last weekend:

15th and Howard, 8000 or 9000 SF, owner to be on Grow Omaha this weekend.

did anyone listen?  What was said?  That's one heck of a tease....  now I've got to scan through an hour of talk radio to figure this out....

Don't scan until next weekend....

[OmahaJaysCU]

It's official!

Downtown Omaha's limited supply of grocery items will grow this fall, when the owners of a small-town Nebraska grocery store open a full-service "urban" grocery store in a sleekly remodeled art-deco building at 1416 Howard Street.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1 ... d=10093189

[icejammer]

Looks like someone came pretty close to nailing this one down, other than the size of building...

Personally, I would envision something a little more specialty perhaps, someone carrying strictly organic produce, along with specialty bakery items, cut-to-order meat items, more of what I would call a "boutique" grocery store, somewhere closer to 15000 sq. ft.

The independent grocer will offer fresh produce, organic products, cut-to-order meat, a delicatessen, liquor, beer and wine from the 8,712-square-foot store, which has 18 stalls in the parking lot west of the building.

[Big E]

But but but...

Are they going to carry pencils and paper?  :;):

Looks like you can move downtown this fall, Jeff!  I'll even sell you my SoMa unit.

-Big E

[StreetsOfOmaha]

My money is on another restaurant or club of some sort.

Ok, so who collects?  :;):

And, Big E, what's all this "pencil and paper" business?  Did I miss something?

[Big E]

And, Big E, what's all this "pencil and paper" business?  Did I miss something?

It was just one of Jeff's barbs that I've fixated on for the last few days.  I don't even remember which rant/thread it was in.  He'll say another one in a cople of days and I'll fixate on that for awhile until a new one comes along, and the circle of life will be completed until the boomers destroy the planet.  ;)

-Big E

[nebport5]

I don't know if I more excited for the grocery store or that two back to back World Herald articles on DT development didn't use the disgusting four letter word.  :)

Ok, seriously, this is great for DT for now and will fill a much needed niche.  And yet in the future as the DT population continues to grow there will still be room for a larger full service grocery (20,000 plus sq ft) store.  

I'm very curious to see what their hours will be.  Also, did everyone notice the e-mail address in the article for store suggestions?

info@patricksmarket.com

[DTO Luv]

So it looks like this place will be smaller than Cubby's. Still a great addition to DT though.

[Big E]

So it looks like this place will be smaller than Cubby's. Still a great addition to DT though.

I think I'd rather have three or four competing 8000 sqft stores instead of one 20K mega store telling me what kind of food I like.

-Big E

[the1wags]

D'Shawn you might want to go back to school.

"The store will have 8,712 square feet...."

"Cubby's, an Omaha-based chain of convenience and grocery stores, opened an 8,000- square-foot store...."

Just messing with ya.

I'm happy because competition is always good. Also, this is right on the way home.

[DTO Luv]

I'm all for the smaller stores. That's what I've been saying is going to happen all along. Smaller not bigger.

[OmahaChef]

Just one word from me.....Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[DTO Luv]

Now that I work DT and walk by this place everyday it's going to be horribly convenient shopping here. On the way home tonight Channel 7 was out there so I'm guessing there will be a story on it sometime tonight.

[Stargazer]

Looks like you can move downtown this fall, Jeff!  I'll even sell you my SoMa unit.

No doubt, another great addition for downtown! ... but I couldn't afford your place, even on my non-'upscale' grocery budget.

I've pretty well resigned to moving to the other end of the spectrum... a dark sky acreage in Cass County.  Maybe I can at least buy your hybrid when you finally get that downtown job on your trek to 'No Impact Man' status.

[Brad]

Photo Update:

[Coyote]

"Patrick's Market" plans to have their Grand Opening on November 1st.

[DTO Luv]

I could see they were installing the HVAC stuff on the roof today from work. This place is really moving right along.

[Big E]

"Patrick's Market" plans to have their Grand Opening on November 1st.

I missed this for two weeks.  Where did you get this info?

-Big E

[Brad]

Page 2 of this thread, it was in the OWH.

[Coyote]

I missed this for two weeks.  Where did you get this info?

Actually it was from an article that the Blair Enterprise did on the store.

[Big E]

I missed this for two weeks.  Where did you get this info?

Actually it was from an article that the Blair Enterprise did on the store.

OK. I thought I was nuts because I read that article again and couldn't find that date to save my life.

-Big E

[Coyote]

Grocer expands to Omaha

P.J. said he hopes to have his grand opening November 1.

[DTO Luv]

I was walking by today and the plumbers were in installing the plumming...I guess.

[Ben]

P.J. said he hopes to have his grand opening November 1.

I'm not so sure they're going to hit that date unless they work at warp speed over the next month.    The concrete floor has been repoured, after it was excavated to lay plumbing and utilities, the HVAC is in, and they've started framing out the deli and other area in the back of the store (storage?  a cafe area?), but besides that, its really not looking like much as happened recently.  I know some of this utility work is what takes the most time, and that essentially all they'll need to do is drop in some shelving to make the isles, but it doesn't look like there's been much work completed to the naked eye....

I hope that there have been things going on behind the scenes, and that I'm wrong about it not looking good for an Nov 1 opening, but I've got my doubts....

[nativeomahan]

I predict it will be open, and have sold over a million dollars of merchandise, before the P.E. Iler building has one tenant.  I also predict that most of the forum users here will have walked back and forth across the riverfront pedestrian bridge before the P.E. Iler building has its first tenant.  Heck, Wall Street Tower may be up and running before then as well.

[OmahaChef]

[DTO Luv]

I walked by there today after work to see how things were coming along but with the way the sun was I couldn't see into the building and I didn't want to stick my face up there if they're were people inside. I'll swing by in the morning and see what I can see.

[DTO Luv]

I walked by a few days ago and the their were guys working at night time on this place getting it shelled out looking.

I went past again today and they have the windows covered with "PATRICK'S COMING SOON" signs. There was some smaller writing but I couldn't read it from across the street.

In other Downtown Grocery news....Cubbies will now be offering an expanded meat and fish selection. I think they're building a new section for it in the store.

[adam186]

In other Downtown Grocery news....Cubbies will now be offering an expanded meat and fish selection. I think they're building a new section for it in the store.

Gotta love competition!

[OmahaJaysCU]

In other Downtown Grocery news....Cubbies will now be offering an expanded meat and fish selection. I think they're building a new section for it in the store.

Gotta love competition!

A nice grocer at Wallstreet Tower would be sure to spice things up too!

[DTO Luv]

It looked like they had anoter crane out today putting more stuff on the roof. With the windows closed up now I can't tell how the inside is coming along.