Finzer Street

Finzer Street

Digging into the legendary origins of Hillerich & Bradsby’s Louisville Slugger...

  Colonel Sanders definitely started Kentucky Fried Chicken; George Garvin Brown definitely began bottling bourbon in bottles; and David Jones and Wendell Cherry definitely founded Humana. There...

Community Foundation to transform Hillerich & Bradsby’s old Smoketown factory-turned-parking lot

This week, we detailed the history of Hillerich & Bradsby's old Smoketown home—a block bound by Preston Street, Finzer Street, Jackson Street, and Jacob...

Smoking out the original site of Hillerich & Bradsby’s Louisville Slugger...

We all know the home of Hillerich & Bradsby on West Main Street by the skyline-punctuating Louisville Slugger baseball bat tilted against its headquarters....

Beargrass Boulevard: A Proposal For Smoketown & Beyond

As the Louisville Metro Housing Authority is planning to replace the barracks-style Sheppard Square housing projects into a mixed-use, mixed-income Hope VI development, we...