2026 City Center Award
TO RECOGNIZE OUTSTANDING EFFORT IN MAINTAINING THE VITALITY OF LINCOLN’S URBAN CORE.
Citylight Lincoln Church
For the restoration of the former Ford Dealership Building by Architectural Design Associates
1800 O Street
Previous City Center award winners
2025: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI at UNL)
2024: Open Harvest Co-Op Grocery at 330 S. 21st Street #104
2023: The Mill, Dan and Tamara Sloan, Locations in Historic Haymarket, College View Neighborhood, Telegraph District, and Nebraska Innovation Campus
2020: Zoo Bar, 136 N 14th Street
2019: Canopy Street Market, Jill Moline & Mark Whitehead, Business Owners & Speedway Properties/Nelnet, Property Developer
2018: Nebraska Sesquicentennial Salute to the Good Life Spectacular September 22, 2017 on Centennial Mall
2017: City of Lincoln, Ivanna Cone, & Anne Burkholder, Gallery Alley Pedestrian Way
2016: St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church & Newman Center & Clark Architects Collaborative 3 (16th & Q Streets)
2015: Lied Center for Performing Arts (12th & R Streets)
2014: LeBaron-Duncan LLC & Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture, Assemblage Building (1828 N Street)
2013: Leon’s & Ideal Grocery Stores
2012: Bennett Martin Public Library & Lincoln City Libraries
2011: First Friday Art Walk
2010: City of Lincoln & The Schemmer Assoc., Harris Overpass Redesign
2009: Star City Parade
2008: Jazz in June
2007: The Lincoln Children’s Museum
2006: Sunken Gardens
2005: The Farmers' Market
2004: Lincoln Community Foundation, Foundation Garden
2002: Rococo Threatre, 13th & P
2001: National Research Corporation, revitalization of the Nebraska Buick Building, 1245 Que Street
2000: Updowntowners
1999: Bill & Beverly Livengood, Green Gateau
1998: Lazlo, Inc.
1997: Anne Burkholder, Burkholder Project
1996: Yia-Yia’s on O Street
1995: Dale Nordyke, The Mill
1994: Gale & Susie Sup, Post & Nickel