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The Old Market is a neighborhood located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, United States, and is bordered by South 10th Street to the east, 13th Street to the west, Farnam Street to the north and Jackson Street to the South. The neighborhood has many restaurants, art galleries and upscale shopping.
In 1976, Mark Mercer began working to establish historic Old Market neighborhood as a landmark. He also worked to have the old warehouse buildings occupied by local businesses. [1] [4] [5] In 1994, Mercer, in collaboration with his father, wrote The Old Market of Omaha. [6]
Aside from the Old Market, other attractions in Downtown Omaha include the historic Orpheum Theater, which was built by influential Omaha philanthropist John A. Creighton, whose family also built the city's Creighton University. Along with the Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center, this is the oldest theater left in downtown.
The first comprehensive preservation ordinance in Nebraska was adopted by the Omaha City Council in 1977. [11] The commission was created after the demolition of the Old Post Office, when the pro-preservation organization Landmarks, Inc. advocated its creation.
In 1997 the Union Station underwent a renovation that included a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m 2) addition and new climate controls for the museum, [11] and today the building is a contributing property to the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District, bordering the Old Market Historic District and Omaha's Little Italy.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts was founded by artists Jun Kaneko, Tony Hepburn, Lorne Falke and Ree Schonlau in 1981. [2] In 1984, Ree Schonlau established a consortium consisting of the City of Omaha, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, private and corporate foundations and the Mercer family, who owned the vacant 170,000-square-foot (16,000 m 2) Bemis Bag Building.
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The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, just east of Omaha's Old Market Historic District, was founded in the early 1980s and hosts artists from all over the world. It is one of the nation's premier artists' colonies, [ 9 ] founded by Ree Schonlau (Kaneko), wife of Japanese artist Jun Kaneko , who lives in Omaha and opened Museum Kaneko in 2007.