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Omni Hotels & Resorts Breaks Ground on Louisville Property

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (January 29, 2016) — Executives from Omni Hotels & Resorts along with Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, the Metro Council, leaders from the Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau, and the Louisville Downtown Partnership broke ground today on the Omni Louisville Hotel. The 30-story luxurious property will reflect Louisville’s warmth and hospitality, while embracing and celebrating the city’s authentic quality and charm. The hotel will be the luxury brand’s first property in Kentucky.

Set to open in early 2018, the Omni Louisville will be a catalyst to the city’s growth and urban development. Considered the tallest hotel in Louisville and located at Liberty and 2nd Street, one block from the Kentucky International Convention Center, the hotel will be the cornerstone in the city’s most exclusive entertainment, retail and office district, “Fourth Street Live!” The hotel will feature 612 finely appointed guestrooms and suites topped by 225 luxury apartments. Other hotel highlights include:
Food & Beverage: The culinary experiences at Omni Louisville will include an all-day dining venue, lobby lounge, rooftop pool bar and grill, as well as an iconic Bob’s Steak & Chop House as the hotel’s fine-dining establishment serving traditional, American prime cut steaks.

Meetings & Events: The hotel will offer approximately 70,000 square-feet of flexible meeting and event space. Meeting and convention attendees will have access to an additional 300,000 square-feet of meeting and exhibit space at the Kentucky International Convention Center.

Lifestyle: Guests will have access to an urban rooftop pool deck, fitness center, a Mokara signature spa, lobby art gallery and a Speakeasy with a bowling alley.

Grocer: A dynamic, modern urban lifestyle market will connect to the hotel’s lobby. Transforming Liberty Street into a pedestrian thoroughfare, the market will serve as a community gateway for hotel guests, residents and locals alike.

The $289 million public/private project is estimated to create 765 construction jobs — with 20 percent minority and five percent woman-owned business participation — and 320 permanent jobs. Omni is paying 52 percent of the development costs ($150 million) and the city and state providing 48 percent ($139 million), which includes a rebate of taxes generated by the project, $17 million for a parking garage to be constructed and owned by the Parking Authority of River City (PARC) and $17 million, the value of the land.

Omni Hotel Ground Breaking by Louisville Images, on Flickr

[le_brew]

Been looking for anything on this for quite a while but decided to post since Louisville is one of the, if not THE most overlooked city on this site. (it's my new temporarily home)

Mods, please add pics, etc. if so inclined.http://www.wlky.com/news/groundbreak...oject/37704998

[Urbannizer]

There's an existing topic for this one. Threads merged.

[le_brew]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

There's an existing topic for this one. Threads merged.

so move it back to UC. . . .ground has been broken

thx

[Urbannizer]

This can move on to the U/C section once work on the foundation begins. Everything beforehand such as demolishing a structure, clearing the site, digging, etc is recognized as site prep.

[The Lurker]

Nice addition for Louisville's skyline. The podium is atrocious however.

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Construction activity picks up at the Omni Louisville Hotel site

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Omni Louisville releases a virtual tour of the $320 million hotel

We're finally getting a look inside Louisville's $320 million Omni Hotel, although it's not finished yet.

Construction crews are currently working on the 12th out of 30 floors. There’s not much to see inside the building yet, but Omni released a virtual tour of the hotel.

“We now welcome 24 million tourist visits a year, and that's going to grow even more," Mayor Fischer said. "That's one of the reasons Omni was interested in locating to Louisville."

The Omni revealed the name of the urban marketplace. It will be called Falls City Market.

“Of course, the Falls of the Ohio River is where we are founded as a city,” Omni director of sales and marketing, Eamon O’Brien said.

There will be a Heine Brother’s coffee shop and two full-service restaurants; the Iron Quarter that serves pizza and beer and Bob's Steak and Chop House.

There will be a bowling alley and speakeasy, a spa and a rooftop pool. There will be one pool for hotel visitors and one for the people who live in the 225 luxury rental apartments.

“We have over 42,000 [hotel] rooms booked through 2023,” O’Brien said. “Right now, we don't have [apartment] floor plans or pricing yet. We're on pace to have those by about q3 or q4 in 2017.”

Even without a model floor plan yet, people are still signing up on the wait list for an apartment in the hotel.

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Via SSC

Originally Posted by Soulbrotha

The 30 story hotel is currently at 25 stories. Here are some photos I took yesterday.

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Fifteen percent of the luxury apartments in the 30-story Omni Louisville Hotel are leased, and tenants are expected to start moving in by mid-May.

Local media outlets were invited in for the first time Wednesday afternoon to capture images of the apartments in The Residences at Omni Louisville, a 225-unit complex that is part of the 30-story Omni hotel in downtown Louisville. The complex offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units across several floor plans with sweeping views of downtown Louisville and the Ohio River.