Southern Indiana’s Clark’s Landing Rendered

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 by Broken Sidewalk.
Walking Around Clarks Landing

Walking Around Clark's Landing



The Clark’s Landing project, a proposed $500 million mixed-use neighborhood to be created around the old Colgate factory and clock, won approval from the Clarsville Town Council this week and will be rezoned, block by block to accomodate a new vibrant community of condos, apartments, retail, offices, a hotel, and convention space.


The city has been working with the Estopinal Group, an architecture firm in Jeffersonville, to create a vision for what the area could potentially become.  The concept plan will later guide a master plan that will be put together over the next year or so.


In the mean-time, Clarksville and TEG have given us some development eye-candy to keep us excited in the project.  While they represent only the vision of the project, we can see from the renderings that the new town center will keep a traditional aesthetic that brings to mind Norton Commons in suburban Louisville.


The project seeks to maximize views of the river and the Louisville skyline, so buildings diminish in height to the south.  The investors also hope to maximize profit, so we could potentially see the 2 to 3 story buildings grow to 3 to 4 (or even 5?) levels.  We think the opportunity to create as dense a project as possible so close to the river and epicenter of the metropolitan region is best.  Regardless, taller structures including condo towers and a hotel behind the Colgate clock will rise to heights that create Southern Indiana’s own skyline.


Fox 41 News also reports that a sewage treatment plant located behind the Colgate plant may be relocated to avoid a potential stench lingering in the area.  Clarksville is currently working with Marathon / Ashland Oil to remove the storage tanks near the Ohio River.



Looking toward the Colgate Clock

Looking toward the Colgate Clock






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Walking Around Clarks Landing

Walking Around Clark's Landing

Aerial View of Clarks Landing

Aerial View of Clark's Landing

Thunder Over Louisville at Clarks Landing

Thunder Over Louisville at Clark's Landing

Redevelopment: Existing Conditions

Redevelopment: Existing Conditions

Redevelopment: First Phase

Redevelopment: First Phase

Redevelopment: Final Phase

Redevelopment: Final Phase

3 Comments. Now we're talking!
  1. Dr. Glenn Riggs

    November 21st, 2008

    9:54 am

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    Fantastic redevelopment opportunity – “If you build it they will come”

  2. William Riggs

    November 21st, 2008

    1:41 pm

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    The vision is a good fist start but there needs greater focus on sustainability issues and land-use transportation connections. The site has a unique regional place, in that could be a catalyst for transit-oriented development – tying into existing bus corridors and (potentially) future light rail spine. Unless a less auto-oriented vision can be articulated it may end up have the same jobs-to-housing balance and livability issues that many places in Southern Indiana currently have.

  3. Dianna Casey

    December 29th, 2008

    12:47 pm

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    I am concerned about the traffic flow through the old neighborhoods that surround this development area…

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