Smoketown

Smoketown

Breaking! MSD pushes to build a park-topped Logan Street CSO Basin...

Call it a win for the Smoketown neighborhood. Mayor Greg Fischer and Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) Executive Director Tony Parrott have confirmed that the...

At MSD’s Logan Street CSO Basin redesign meeting, 100 people walk...

Smoketown’s efforts to advocate for a change in the basin design of the Logan CSO Interceptor Project took major steps forward last week. For...

De Leon & Primmer to work with Smoketown residents on redesigning...

Mark your calendars for a very important meeting on Wednesday, March 16. Currently under construction in Smoketown, the Metropolitan Sewer District's (MSD) Logan Street CSO...

Fate of two historic structures uncertain after major hotel announcement on...

We've known for a while that the Connection nightclub in Downtown Louisville was moving down Floyd Street to a new venue at owners George Stinson and...

Smoketown residents voice concerns over MSD’s Logan Street CSO Basin

The people of Smoketown have been ignored. As one of twelve neighborhoods scheduled to receive a combined sewer overflow (CSO) basin, the Metropolitan Sewer...

It’s time for MSD to reinvest the $4 million it skimmed...

As far as I can tell, Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) owes Smoketown at least four million dollars. Let me tell you why. On November 16,...

Good enough shouldn’t be: What’s going on with the Vu Guesthouse...

Everyone knows the orange and bronze, the mirror ball, and the flags, at the corner of Market Street and Floyd Street in the Haymarket district in...

An inside tour of Smoketown’s haunting Merchants’ Ice Tower

  In Louisville, Kentucky's Smoketown neighborhood, on the corner of Logan Street and Lampton Street, sits the historic building known best as the Merchants' Ice...

Cold Case: It’s time these buildings in Smoketown got another chance...

A small slice of Louisville beer history is now in the landfill. At the beginning of August, wrecking crews began razing a four-story brick...