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Portland 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...

How typography can reveal the culture of a place

This city is just your type. Typography is all around us, hiding in plain sight. The color and precise fonts used for street signs has...

Quote of the Day: ISA principal Brian Phillips on Tactical Urbanism

A couple weeks ago, we took a look at the public art installation to be built beneath the Ninth Street interchange of Interstate 64. Designed...

The Louisville Knot: An art installation hopes to mend a torn...

Short of demolishing the tangled steel and concrete megalith hovering over Main Street between Ninth and Tenth streets, we're stuck with the so-called Ninth Street...

Louisville’s first parklet debuts at IdeaFestival, headed for Portland restaurant

On Friday, September 16, the world celebrated Park(ing) Day 2016, a single day where individuals and groups take over parallel parking spaces, transforming them...

Demo Watch: 112 North 26th Street in Portland

(Note: The Demo Watch section of Broken Sidewalk highlights properties eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places that are slated for...

Preservation Louisville’s proposed Portland #SaveOurShotguns house could be demolished

While going through a batch of proposed demolitions recently, I had to give one house a second look. Hadn't I seen that one before?...

Demo Watch: 2407 Rowan Street in Portland

(Note: The Demo Watch section of Broken Sidewalk highlights properties eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places that are slated for...

Louisville Grows to begin construction on its Healthy House headquarters

One of the most ambitious of Gill Holland's development goals for the Portland neighborhood is the 21st Century Shotgun Project, in which he enlisted...