Washington Street

Washington Street

Dual hotel tower a grand exclamation point for Whiskey Row’s final...

In a lot of ways, modern Downtown Louisville can be summed up in one block: Whiskey Row. Abandoned only a few years ago, the...

Hyland Glass contemplates future of its Butchertown front lot

A couple years ago, walking down Washington Street in Butchertown led you past unkempt empty lots, a handful of historic structures, and a blank...

Story Avenue Park and Butchertown’s quest for meaningful public space

When you look down from a mile up, it's unmistakable: Butchertown has been, well, butchered, sliced, and laid out on a charcuterie board. Over...

As steel structure goes up, scaffolding coming down at 111 Whiskey...

Those giant diagonal supports propping up the burned-out facades of 111 Whiskey Row on West Main Street have become a familiar site, either as a...

Making Place: How Louisville is using tactical urbanism to rebuild civic...

"You can have a space, and even though it's vacant at the time, it can still have a life. It's still part of the...

Andy Blieden’s Butcher Block shows the strength of small-scale economic development

On the edge of Butchertown, East Main Street bends to become Story Avenue. On this block, a row of sorry looking shotgun houses and boarded...

Fetzer Building slated to become the Hughes Lofts on East Main...

East Main Street is hot right now. This week, we broke the news that the block-long Service Tanks property is now under contract between...

Old Forester shows off the charred aesthetic of its Main Street...

The inside of a freshly charred oak barrel must be a dark and moody place. It's within these grey, crackled walls, a clear spirit...

Four developers discuss details behind Louisville’s apartment boom

Louisville's in the midst of an apartment boom, with thousands of new units going up or planned in Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods. But what's...