Original Highlands

Original Highlands

Plans to build 200 apartments on former Mercy Campus clear final...

Plans to build a 200-unit, $25-million residential development on the former campus of Mercy Academy on the Original Highlands side of East Broadway have...

Here’s what the apartment complex at the Mercy Academy site will...

On Tuesday, we detailed a Columbus, Ohio, company's plan to bring 195 upscale apartments to the former Mercy Academy site at 1172–1176 East Broadway....

Vacant nearly a decade, former Mercy Academy property in the Original...

A stately stone-and-brick classroom building has stood watch over East Broadway for 114 years, but when it was built for the Sisters of Mercy in 1901,...

ISCO Industries is moving downtown, but what does that mean for...

Louisville's ISCO Industries makes high-density polyethylene piping, an alternative to traditional PVC products, and its headquarters is located right in the middle of the Highlands. The...

#NabeDerby Round One: Cast your vote in these four epic neighborhood...

It's finally here—the first round of voting for the 2015 Broken Sidewalk Neighborhood Derby. To begin, we have four match-ups of top-seed neighborhoods. Reigning...

How this corner at Broadway and Baxter is redeveloped will shape...

Looks like we just dodged two development bullets on one of Louisville's most important underutilized urban properties. The old Bader's Food Mart and gas station...

Let’s take another look at this proposal for a placemaking roundabout...

The Circle at Broadway and Baxter Avenue concept has been one of my more popular Urban Compositions since it first appeared on Broken Sidewalk...

New Loans to Bring Renovations Across City

The Louisville Metropolitan Business Development Corporation (METCO) has awarded its latest round of loans totaling $337,767 to six local businesses, and four of them will...

Imagining Louisville: Circle at Baxter and Broadway

I took the opportunity over the holiday break to examine the design possibilities of a traffic circle, or roundabout, at the intersection of Baxter...