Thinking about skyscrapers at Lexington and Grinstead
Three towers have been proposed to rise in a woebegone patch of asphalt scattered with several local businesses where three Louisville neighborhoods meet. Jefferson Development Group (JDG), headed by...
View ArticleConstruction Watch: Apartments shape up, change name on East Broadway
The apartment complex rising on the former Mercy Academy site at 1172 East Broadway is beginning to look like a real building. On a recent visit, crews were busy framing the four-story, wooden...
View ArticleNulu’s first hotel makes serious progress, and a second ready to break ground
Construction in Nulu will be more active than ever as two hotels will both soon be under construction. We’ve known about both hotel projects for a while now—a Home2Suites Hotel by Weyland Associates...
View ArticleSmoketown lands a Family Wellness Center in the beautifully restored former...
Smoketown has undergone a major transformation, thanks in large part to a HOPE VI development that remade the barracks-style Sheppard Square Homes into a New Urbanist vision of a historic cityscape....
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Group leads push for grocery at Old Louisville’s vacant Winn Dixie...
Old Louisville is a lot of amazing things. It’s America’s largest collection of Victorian homes. It’s the city’s densest neighborhood. The American Planning Association named it one of the nation’s...
View ArticlePortland lands a tech startup with ambitious renovation plans
Unless you’ve gone out of your way to explore what lies steps west of the Ninth Street Divide, you may never have seen it. An ancient complex of two-story buildings and weathered brick walls at Rowan...
View ArticleHyland Glass contemplates future of its Butchertown front lot
A couple years ago, walking down Washington Street in Butchertown led you past unkempt empty lots, a handful of historic structures, and a blank warehouses, and a metal scrapyard filled to the brim...
View ArticleTransformation of Old Louisville’s Rudyard Kipling making rapid progress
Oak Street through Old Louisville hasn’t been the same since the closure of the Rudyard Kipling almost two years ago. Known to locals as The Rud, the bar-restaurant-venue occupied the 422 West Oak...
View ArticleRetail, restaurant, office space proposed at Nulu’s historic DeHart Paint...
Waiting for something to happen to the 19th century structure at the corner of Campbell Street and East Main Street has been, well, like watching paint dry. It’s been around a decade since we heard...
View ArticleDual hotel tower a grand exclamation point for Whiskey Row’s final development
In a lot of ways, modern Downtown Louisville can be summed up in one block: Whiskey Row. Abandoned only a few years ago, the block will soon be completely transformed. It’s got a diverse set of...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....