Hotel Deco (15th & Harney) Former Redick Hotel

OmahaChef · Post by **OmahaChef** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:40 pm

So far all they have done is ripped out all the interior room carpeting and took down all the window coverings.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:58 pm

demo is still ongoing here. Looking through the upper windows, it looks like they've got everything removed, down to the concrete support structure. It even looks like they may have opened up the space some - not individual rooms, but 1 open space on the floor.

Someone's spending decent money here to do all this work, can't believe we haven't seen anything on who it is, or what their plans for the space are.

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 7:27 pm

Ben wrote:demo is still ongoing here. Looking through the upper windows, it looks like they've got everything removed, down to the concrete support structure. It even looks like they may have opened up the space some - not individual rooms, but 1 open space on the floor.

Not saying work isn't going on, but you could see concrete support on upper floors in there before. If it's to the north side, its the parking garage. Brad, go get a pic for a guy, would ya? :)

Omababe · Post by **Omababe** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:28 am

I thought they renovated that thing quite thoroughly, ca. 1995 or so.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:31 pm

As I was driving by today, the lights were on, doors open, and there were several workers rolling out wheelbarrows of trash, and filling a dumpster there on 15th st.

Anyone have any idea what's going on here? There have been several reports of sporadic work going on over the last 6 months or so, but no announcements or anything of the sort. Are there plans to reopen this hotel? Under what label?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:28 pm

Ben wrote: Anyone have any idea what's going on here? ..... Are there plans to reopen this hotel? Under what label?

I'll answer my own question here. Can't believe news as big as this got 4th billing in the "dining notes" of the OWH

http://omaha.com/article/20110204/GO/70 ... pcake-wars

Restaurant will be run by Ryan Gish, of Ryan's bistro. Restaurant to open by May. Hotel likely to be called "Hotel Deco" and target for re-opening is June. Nice to see this key location finally back in use.

This will do tons to help clean up that area, and bring it back to life. With more and more opening to the west of the Old Market, you're really seeing it merge with the downtown core, instead of a couple of scary blocks of nothingness...

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:36 pm

Cool news!

justnick · Post by **justnick** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:21 pm

Awesome.
What was it being used for before this latest renovation? I know it was renovated once in the late eighties/early nineties, and had seen people coming in and out over the past couple of years?

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:54 pm

Ryan Gish, chef-owner of Ryan's Bistro and co-owner of WingIts, plans to launch a new bistro downtown in the restaurant space inside the former Redick Plaza Hotel at 1504 Harney St.

Gish said Arun Agarwal, majority owner of the hotel and the as-yet-unnamed restaurant, is renovating the 1930 Art Deco building and plans to reopen it as a luxury boutique-style hotel.

Hello! Had anybody mentioned this yet? What a wonderful development!

And I completely agree that this is just one more jewel in the necklace connecting the Old Market to the Downtown core.

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:56 pm

Uhh.... look a few posts up....

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:35 pm

Right, that's what I was referring to. I just can't believe that the news was broken as an afterthought in the dining notes section.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:36 pm

justnick wrote:Awesome.
What was it being used for before this latest renovation? I know it was renovated once in the late eighties/early nineties, and had seen people coming in and out over the past couple of years?

You just described Elton John.

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 2:52 pm

Sweet. Hopefully they have success with it. I think it should with the high end boutique hotel model ala the Magnolia.

justnick · Post by **justnick** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:54 pm

Big E wrote:
justnick wrote:Awesome.
What was it being used for before this latest renovation? I know it was renovated once in the late eighties/early nineties, and had seen people coming in and out over the past couple of years?
You just described Elton John.

And now I feel dirty! Not for possible double entendres, but because he's just a terrible human.

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:41 pm

Big E wrote:
justnick wrote:Awesome.
What was it being used for before this latest renovation? I know it was renovated once in the late eighties/early nineties, and had seen people coming in and out over the past couple of years?
You just described Elton John.

:;):

Post by **Brad** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:12 pm

Grow Omaha Radio Show wrote:The former Redick Hotel at 15th & Harney Street will become Hotel Deco, an upscale boutique hotel, which will be part of the Preferred Hotel Group, a chain of 700 properties world wide. Grand opening is scheduled for June 1st. Hotel Deco will include The Zin Room, a restaurant operated by the owner of Ryan's Bistro.

ItsAllAboutMe · Post by **ItsAllAboutMe** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:45 am

I walk by here here everyday....it's going to be awesome

Bosco55David · Post by **Bosco55David** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:56 pm

Wish they would have kept the name, but that's a fairly small gripe I guess.

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:08 pm

Omaha needs boutique hotels, and this should help fill the bill nicely.

justnick · Post by **justnick** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:31 pm

from craigslist:

The Hotel Deco, a new luxury boutique hotel and The Zin Room, a fine dining restaurant, are to be opening soon in downtown Omaha and are currently hiring. The Hotel and restaurant are hosting a Job Fair on Thursday, March 24th from 8:00 A.M. until 8:00 P.M. It will take place at the new Hotel Deco at 1504 Harney Street in downtown Omaha. All positions are currently available. The job fair is designed to acquaint interested persons with the positions available and the new property. For more information on the job fair and application process, please contact The Hotel Deco at (402)-991-4981 or email [email protected].

The website works and has interesting mockups of new signage (at least I think it's a mock up, as I don't remember seeing it when I was down there last weekend.)

(I wonder where the name the Zin Room came from. Brings up rather hilarious Rocky Horror connotations to those in the know.)[/quote]

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:51 pm

A melding of zen and zinfandel perhaps.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:25 pm

Well, people often shorten "zinfandel" to just "zin" (which I find kind of annoying...but I don't mind it so much in the restaurant name), so it's not necessarily a melding of any other word, like "zen"... I'm sure they're aware of that connotation, though, and considered that in choosing the name.

Yeah, I love the mock-ups on the website, too! Although, they need to not say "Omaha's Historic Luxury Hotel". Hello! Magnolia might have something to say about that!

Speaking of historic luxury hotels, I'd really love to see the Blackstone made back into a boutique hotel and/or residential.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:42 am

http://www.hoteldecoomaha.com/

http://www.facebook.com/OmahaHotelDecoXV?ref=ts&sk=wall

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:59 pm

So have they done anything to the outside of the building? Power wash the brick, new windows, etc? I'm hoping they are doing more than new wallpaper and carpet and saying "Look, we are luxury now!" Brad, do a drive by shooting, non ghetto style. :;):

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:23 pm

I also hope this project has a positive effect on the prospects of the Barker Building to the North, and the other building (or at LEAST the land) to the West.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:34 am

Hotel has serious swank

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110413/M ... ious-swank

Michaela Saunders WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Developers of Hotel Deco, an 89-room luxury boutique hotel, want to ensure the building's interior experience matches its exterior significance. They hope it will become the area's third Four Diamond hotel and bring an uncommon level of luxury. The hotel may open April 28, in time for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, but has a fallback opening date of May 13.

Tornado · Post by **Tornado** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:58 pm

I've always loved this building so this project really excites me. How about the year 1930 in Omaha! Union Station, Joslyn Museum, and the Redick building all completed or nearly completed that year. It's neat to think that three of the most significant structures in downtown were built more than eighty years ago and are still as glorious as the day they were built. The Durham is holding an Art Deco tour this summer with inside and out tours of Durham and Josyln which should be really cool.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:40 am

This is SO exciting, and a really symbolically huge development for Downtown--another luxury boutique hotel right in the core of the CBD, in a historic, beautiful art deco building, further linking the business core of downtown to the Old Market and contributing to the emergence of a "necklace" of continual, walkable, vibrant urbanity stretching from the CBD to the Old Market to North Downtown.

I love that this will have it's own restaurant, but that the restaurant will also have a "street identity".

And they've really done good planning by looking to open in time for Berkshire Hathaway and the CWS. I think the potential for growth in the hotel market downtown is only beginning to be recognized.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:31 am

Zachary Z. Zoul, Managing Director of Hotel Deco was the first guest on Grow Omaha this past Saturday.

Hotel and and Zin Room Open 5/19/2011
They are looking for a small "Up Scale" salon for the retail space.

Hawkeye · Post by **Hawkeye** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:29 pm

Brad wrote:Zachary Z. Zoul, Managing Director of Hotel Deco was the first guest on Grow Omaha this past Saturday.

Hotel and and Zin Room Open 5/19/2011
They are looking for a small "Up Scale" salon for the retail space.

Don't you mean zmall, up zcale zalon for the retail zpace?

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:44 pm

Hawkeye wrote:
Brad wrote:Zachary Z. Zoul, Managing Director of Hotel Deco was the first guest on Grow Omaha this past Saturday.

Hotel and and Zin Room Open 5/19/2011
They are looking for a small "Up Scale" salon for the retail space.
Don't you mean zmall, up zcale zalon for the retail zpace?

Zootalore!!

ItsAllAboutMe · Post by **ItsAllAboutMe** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:09 am

the new signage is up and looks great!.

I still don't see how they are going to open in a few weeks. They are working hard but looks like a lot of finish work left for the lobby.

the Zin room looks amazing

Post by **Brad** » Tue May 03, 2011 12:11 pm

Here is a Quick cell phone pic from Saturday:

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Tue May 03, 2011 2:52 pm

I haven't seen that sign in person but anything is better then the old purple Best Western sign they used to have. Barf.

Post by **Brad** » Tue May 03, 2011 3:02 pm

DTO Luv wrote:I haven't seen that sign in person but anything is better then the old purple Best Western sign they used to have. Barf.

The Barf blue awning is still up! I can't wait for that to go.

TitosBuritoBarn · Post by **TitosBuritoBarn** » Tue May 03, 2011 4:29 pm

Brad wrote:
DTO Luv wrote:I haven't seen that sign in person but anything is better then the old purple Best Western sign they used to have. Barf.
The Barf blue awning is still up! I can't wait for that to go.

???

I can't say I've ever barfed up anything blue.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Tue May 03, 2011 5:12 pm

TitosBuritoBarn wrote:
Brad wrote:
DTO Luv wrote:I haven't seen that sign in person but anything is better then the old purple Best Western sign they used to have. Barf.
The Barf blue awning is still up! I can't wait for that to go.
???

I can't say I've ever barfed up anything blue.

Obviously never drank UV Blue...

Post by **Brad** » Tue May 03, 2011 5:24 pm

Haha, I have never barfed blue, just talking about the ugly awning on that building...

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Wed May 04, 2011 2:47 pm

It looks great! Anyone know if it will be neon-illuminated at night?

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Wed May 04, 2011 7:45 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:It looks great! Anyone know if it will be neon-illuminated at night?

From what I could see it doesn't look like it will be neon-illuminated but spotlights could be placed on it. This is just from driving by though I could be wrong.