By Joe Dejka, Omaha World Herald The old South Omaha Library will become a hub for helping disadvantaged youths under a 10-year, $1.12 million lease agreement approved Thursday night by the Learning Community Council. The educational cooperative also took separate action to commit $500,000 to support intensive preschools at two high-poverty schools in north Omaha through a partnership with the …
By Maggie Obrien, Omaha World Herald The former Redick hotel, empty three years ago, now is poised to challenge the Hilton Omaha in attracting well-heeled travelers to Nebraska. The AAA travel club has rated the Redick’s replacement, the year-old Hotel Deco XV, as a four-diamond hotel. That’s an honor only 3 to 4 percent of hotels earn nationally. Until …
By Michaela Saunders, Omaha World Herald The Hotel Deco soon will breathe new life into a historic building in the heart of downtown Omaha that has been closed since 2009. The Redick Tower at 15th and Harney Streets has had many lives before — as an office building with street-level retail in the 1930s, as a Radisson Hotel considered …