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Bank Street Brewhouse Named Best Business Of The Year
Bank Street Brewhouse (Image from NA Confidential)
Congratulations to New Albany’s Bank Street Brewhouse for being named Indiana Main Street‘s Best Business of the Year. The award was presented last Friday by Indiana Lt. Governor Becky Skillman along with awards for Develop New Albany Board Member Daniel Chandler and Jeffersonville Main Street, Inc.‘s special events efforts.
The Bank Street Brewhouse is the vision of Roger Baylor, co-owner of the New Albanian Brewing Company, and opened in March winning praise for its food selection. That’s to be expected as the Brewhouse is more than just a bar, its officially a gastropub, a bar with emphasis on high quality food.
An official grand opening began this week and festivities are planned through Sunday. The structure housing the business at 415 Bank Street has undergone quite a transformation thanks to Baylor’s urban-minded vision for revitalizing downtown New Albany and with the help of architect Mose Putney. Once a bread store with an unappealing wooden canopy and vacant for years, the renovated structure features a dramatic trellised patio, large doors opening to sidewalk dining, and could eventually incorporate a second floor office and green roof.
Here’s a bit of information from the N & T:
“Bank Street Brewhouse was selected as business of the year based on criteria that judges business innovation and marketing strategies as they impact downtown revitalization efforts.
“The New Albany business beat about 20 other applicants for the award.
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“Chandler pushed the Brewhouse application because of the alternative menu featured at the restaurant — which includes a variety of soups, sandwiches and specialty entrees such as mussels and scallops.”
[ Image Credits: Photo from Harvest Homecoming Parade via NA Confidential and rendering by architect Mose Putney from NA Confidential. ]
Bank Street Brewhouse Rendering (Image from NA Confidential)
PrintCreation Gardens Plans East Market Expansion
Concept of Creation Gardens project on the Service Welding Block (rendering courtesy Village Solutions)
[ Editor's Note: To avoid confusion, I replaced the full block concept plan with a zoomed in version of the Creation Gardens' site. This rendering does not portray what Creation Gardens will build, just a vision for incorporating the facility on the site and how the block can be redeveloped putting the pedestrian first. You can see the full rendering of the Service Welding block after the click. ]
Faced with the uncertain future of its current location in the path of the planned Spaghetti Junction expansion and looking for room to expand, Creation Gardens, a local distributor of wholesale produce and gourmet foods, plans to relocate its facilities into the heart of the East Market Street – Nulu corridor.
Creation Gardens owners Ron and Mollie Turnier have placed three parcels on East Market between Clay and Shelby Streets under contract and plan to build a state-of-the-art retail and commercial distribution center on the corner of Market and Shelby Streets. The land is currently occupied by the Neurath & Underwood Funeral Home and a gravel lot used to store tanks for the adjacent Service Tanks business which will to continue to operate at its current location.
Plans call for a new 27,000 square foot facility that will offer fresh produce, gourmet food products, baked goods, meats, seafood, and chicken. The market will be open to wholesale buyers and the general public. About 17,000 square feet will house a “fresh-to-the-chef” distribution center and the remaining 10,000 square feet will contain a market open to the public. Also planned is a chef member’s lounge and resource library and a new restaurant could also be located at the facility.
The site of Creation Gardens’ expansion was once a food market years ago. First Link Supermarket, now located on East Liberty Street at Jackson Street, once operated a grocery store on the corner. (Check out some photos of the operation from 1980 after the click.) Now, the corner and surrounding region are gaining a reputation as a food hot-spot in Louisville again. Besides the Creation Gardens announcement, Gill Holland and a group of investors plan a public market across the street stretching to Jefferson Street and a restaurant row is already well established.
Ron Turnier tells us that he hopes to create a “forward looking” building that respects the neighborhood’s existing cityscape. He has brought K. Norman Berry Architects of West Main Street to assist with the design. Turnier says he’s been meeting with the architects frequently to work out the final design challenges such as loading dock access to the facility. Creation Gardens will have a booth at this weekend’s Nulu East Market Festival to share his ideas with the public and display new renderings of the facility.
Creation Gardens is working with Village Solutions, a real estate consulting firm based in Anchorage, to help with the success of the project. President of Village Solutions Rick Hill says he has worked with Service Welding and Machine Company owners Carl and Earl Grier to develop a concept plan demonstrating how their entire site, nearly three-quarters of the block, could one day be redeveloped. (See Village Solutions’ rendering above and full rendering after the click.)
Rick Hill explains that while Service Tanks will continue to operate at its current site for now, some day the property will be redeveloped into a thriving pedestrian environment. The rendering isn’t meant to suggest what will eventually be built, but is “a long-term vision of what could happen one day.” Hill says the Griers have an excellent urban sensibility and want to see the site used to its fullest potential including preservation of existing historic structures and the Billy Goat Strut alley corridor. There’s currently no timeline for redeveloping the rest of the block.
Ron Turnier expects to attract over 200 chefs a week to the new Creation Gardens facility and anticipates that to draw the public as well. ”Our new facility will be the shop where the chef’s shop and will be unlike any other market in the region,” Turnier explains. Creation Gardens will certainly help to anchor the East Market corridor as a center for food and art all the while providing for a grander long-term vision that could spread waves of redevelopment into surrounding properties and blocks. (Be sure to check out their booth at the Nulu Festival Saturday.)
- Creation Gardens (Official Site)
- Village Solutions (Official Site)
Click through for site context photos, currrent and circa 1980.
Initial Phase of $40 Million Riverview Park To Begin
Riverview Park Master Plan (Courtesy Metro Louisville)
Construction of the first phase of Riverview Park is set to begin in the Spring of 2010 in Southwestern Louisville near Pleasure Ridge Park. Mayor Abramson and Councilman Rick Blackwell made the announcement yesterday about the project that will include $1.9 million in upgrades.
Located at the corner of Greenwood Road and Cane Run Road, the 87-acre park will take several years to complete, built in phases and overseen by the Waterfront Development Corporation just like Waterfront Park. Plans for the first phase include building a new boat ramp, improving parking areas, and constructing a new play- and sprayground with $300,000 donated by Humana Founder Mr. and Mrs. David A. Jones.
Riverview Park isn’t new, and in terms of landscape architecture, isn’t currently anything special. The new master plan, devised by local landscape architecture firm Carman of Clay Street will change a grassy lawn and smattering of forest into one of the best parks in the city with a final price tag estimated at $30 to $40 million.
Mayor Abramson waxes poetic about the new park:
“The natural beauty of this landscape — with its dense tree canopy, the lapping water of the Ohio River and the view of lush greenery of Southern Indiana — will create a lasting legacy for generations to come… It’s another example of our plan to transform Louisville into a City of Parks.”
Situated on both sides of a levee, the new Riverview Park helps to bridge what could have otherwise been a visually and physically daunting barrier. The new plan provides for a gradual earthen ramp on each side of the levee to meet with the Levee Trail, part of a planned 100-plus-mile Louisville Loop. The new splash park will be located alongside this new ramp on the Ohio River side of the levee.
Landscapes are manipulated in a similarly geometric fashion as Hargreaves Associates’ Waterfront Park, allowing for dramatic ridges and swales all generally conforming to a circular path to inform the spatial layout of the park. Several iconic spaces will surely become as familiar as the Great Lawn Downtown. Features include a terraced lawn with a set of grand stairs, several overlooks, an amphitheater, a grand promenade, and various playing fields.
Among the most interesting planned features are a series of meandering footpaths transporting the visitor through a succession of landscapes. Walking through the southern edge of the park, one will progress from the more formal promenade into a meadowland followed by a savannah intermixed with woodlands. At the end of the journey lies a grand earthen observation hill and a ramp from which the park-goer can gaze up and down the Ohio River.
Click through to see more of the master plan and the current state of Riverview Park.
Construction Watch: The Other Giant UofL Sports Project
Construction at Papa Johns'' Cardinal Stadium
We’ve been covering the new arena Downtown since before it was even a hole in the ground, but we haven’t checked in with construction of that other mega-sports-project at the University of Louisville. Now, with football season coming online, we thought it was about time for a look at construction of the Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium expansion.
We stopped by recently to check out how the site is progressing and found a mammoth concrete and steel skeleton rising over Floyd Street. Here are quite a few photos from Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. Just over a decade ago, the 42,000 seat stadium was built for $63 million. Work is well underway on the latest addition of 21,600 seats and a massive southern terrace. The new addition will also cost $63 million.
Construction actually started last December, but it took a while for the thing to go airborne. Now, there’s quite a bit to look at as the project enters its final year of construction. The new Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium is expected to be complete next fall for the 2010-2011 football season.
Plans include adding 2,400 chair-back seats to the northeast and northwest corners of the lower bowl and improvements near the Howard Schnellenberger Football Complex. On the east side, a 16,000 seat upper deck above 2,000 premium loge seats and 45 new luxury suites each with 18 seats offers the most dramatic construction views. On the south side, a new 60 foot wide terrace connecting the east and west halves of the stadium will offer a social gathering space with concessions and views of the field.
A new imposing face will front Floyd Street with two large brick towers forming a sort of grand entrance to the eastern stadium. The new exterior is similar in appearance to the existing west facade. Design of the original stadium and the addition was handled by Luckett & Farley Architects of Third Street. After the click, you can take a look at a gallery of construction photos and several renderings of what the stadium will look like when its complete. If your a PJCS construction junkie, you may want to check out this gallery that offers very frequent updates of construction at the stadium.
- Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium (UL Sports)
- PJCS Expansion Project (Official Site)
- Frequently updated construction photos (UL Sports)
Click through for a gallery of construction photos and renderings.
Smoketown To Be Transformed By $200 Million Hope VI Development
Conceptual rendering of Hope VI development (courtesy Metro Housing Authority)
Louisville Metro Housing Authority officials recently announced plans to tear down the Sheppard Square housing complex just south of Broadway in the Smoketown-Jackson Park neighborhood. When complete, the new mixed-income development will transform four blocks of Smoketown into a revitalized community embracing the urban fabric of the city.
Tearing down housing projects and replacing them with mixed-income neighborhoods is part of a Federal program called Hope VI and has successfully been used to replace the Cotter Lang Homes with Park DuValle and the Clarksdale Homes with Liberty Green. The Hope VI concept aims to disperse clusters of poverty associated with mid-twentieth-century barracks-style housing projects by building a mix of houses and apartments for a range of income levels. While the Metro Housing Authority maintains its commitment to replace the existing 326 units in Sheppard Square one-for-one, some may be at other locations around the Louisville area such as apartment complexes.
Estimated to cost around $200 million, funding will be sought from a $20 million Federal grant and other public and private sources. Funds for the Hope VI program were initially made available under the Clinton administration, but were scaled back under the Bush administration after the president called for the the program’s removal. Metro Housing Authority Executive Director Tim Barry believes that with Louisville’s successful record at Park DuValle and Liberty Green combined with the smaller scale of the Sheppard Square complex, funding shouldn’t be an issue.
Several years ago, preliminary community meetings were held to determine how the project might proceed. Planning firm Urban Design Associates of Pittsburgh created a series of renderings to describe what it possible in the area around Sheppard Square. While not a definite representation of what will be built, the renderings show a community of mixed-use urban buildings, apartments, and houses surrounding a park. Here’s what UDA says about such a neighborhood:
“UDA plans provide a mixed-income array of housing types and costs that address the changing needs of people at different life stages. Studies have shown that the social capital created in such neighborhoods situated within walking distance of daily services, schools, and churches, is a key factor in community stability, the health of residents, and in providing role models who inspire young people and, thus support the economic and social mobility of the neighborhoods’ citizens. UDA has pioneered this return to traditional neighborhood development and remains at the forefront of these efforts.”
Like Liberty Green, streets long ago removed could be replaced to create smaller scaled blocks. One example in Sheppard Square is Roselane Street which once ran through the center of the housing project (see map after the click). Reintroducing the street would create an area of seven small blocks. Hancock Street, currently closed to through traffic, could be reopened as part of the plan.
Students Propose A Shippingport Renaissance
Proposal for a revitalized Shippingport
Students at the University of Kentucky’s College of Design have redesigned the Shippingport neighborhood incorporating a variety of new paradigms of urban form meant to serve as inspiration for what’s possible when revitalizing the city. The project was formally unveiled at the end of May at the 21C Museum Hotel where students, professors, and Museum Plaza architect Joshua Prince-Ramus held a critique for interested community members.
Now, the grand model of Shippingport incorporating the student’s proposals will be back on display beginning this Friday, August 28 at the Urban Design Studio on Third Street near Muhammad Ali Boulevard. A reception is planned at the UDS where students and faculty will be on hand to discuss the Shippingport proposal and other new student work.
The event marks the 10th anniversary of the Urban Design Studio, a partnership between UK’s College of Design and U of L’s Department of Urban & Public Affairs. The UDS is currently undergoing a rebranding campaign and plans more interaction with the community through events and displays.
The project is the result of a year long study of the Shippingport neighborhood. Here’s some background on the program and the student proposals from the University of Kentucky:
“In fall 2008, students analyzed and made strategic design proposals for the Shippingport area intended to stimulate economic development and bring much-needed jobs. Proposals included developing a complex of business incubators and needed vocational schools, including a culinary school with a restaurant; developing a centralized hospitality complex served by light rail that would tie together the many entertainment “events” hosted by the city; creating a network of pocket parks that connect to the existing Olmstead Park system; and developing a new Green Ford Motor Company Campus where a new line of hybrid and electric products would be designed, developed and built. This past spring, students developed these proposals into design proposals.”
For more information about the proposals from the students, Archinect has an interview with architect and studio professor Julien de Smedt of Copenhagen discussing the approach and influences that formed the proposal. We’ll discuss some of the project’s components in more detail later. After the click, I compiled a gallery of photos taken at the May critique at 21C. Be sure to check out the exhibit at the Urban Design Studio if you missed the first showing.
Click through for more photos of the event & Shippingport model.
Jeffersonville Considers Innovative Canal District
Proposed route of Jeffersonville canal (courtesy City of Jeffersonville)
Mayor Tom Galligan thinks a storm sewer can be beautiful and spur economic development in Jeffersonville. In one of the most ambitious moves in the entire region, Jeffersonville is proposing to build a canal district from the foot of the Big Four Bridge paralleling its historic downtown and anchored by a convention center and hotel.
Plans for the Canal District stem from a practical engineering need. The area around the canal alignment on Mulberry Street has historically faced problems with flooding and rainwater runoff. The problem has attracted the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency who wants the city to deal with its combined sewer overflow problems. Rather than build a conventional stormwater sewer to separate rainwater from raw sewage at a substantial cost, the canal provides an innovative and elegant solution that will provide a focal point for the city.
Three projects fall inside the Jeffersonville Canal District: the pedestrian approach to the Big Four Bridge, the new convention center & hotel, and the canal itself. Each is a separate project but they form a synergy that can create a drastically changed Jeffersonville.
- City of Jeffersonville (Official Site)
- Aliens, Pharoahs, & Mermaids Invade Jeffersonville (Broken Sidewalk)
Click through for more info, photos, and renderings of the Jeffersonville Canal District.
Galt House Plans Parking Garage, Third Street Improvements Near Arena
Rendering of planned parking garage (by Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan, Inc.)
The Galt House Hotel has revealed plans for a new 860-space parking garage and a “pedestrian connector” that will improve the western streetscape of Third Street across from the new arena. Once defined by heaps of electrical equipment and dull concrete and metal facades and loading docks, the new Third Street will feature pedestrian friendly design and even some retail space.
The new structure will be clad in brick and has been designed by Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan, Inc. to evoke the design of the recently demolished LG&E substation tower that once sat on the northern edge of the arena site. This block of Third Street has already seen improvement with the construction of the new electric substation on the corner of Third & River Road, but the new infill structure will finish the job.
Once home to the giant tangle of steel and wires we called the “electric jungle gym,” the new garage will take on the appearance of a six-story building. In total, there are 8 levels of parking in the structure that connects with existing parking garages under the Galt House. The site currently sits empty, ready for construction.
Besides masking the brown metal facade of the Galt House’s Grand Ballroom, artistic touches were incorporated into the design. Atop each support column offset from the facade to give rhythm to the streetscape, a fleir-de-lis and dichroic glass sconce will add to what could have been a mundane gesture. The Galt House has embraces the colorful art glass in other projects including a pedway across Main Street and gestural “tulips” adorning the Conservatory over Fourth Street. In addition, the pedestrian connector will feature a small amount of retail space south of the parking garage.
A pedway was being considered to connect the garage directly to the arena, but has been placed on hold until it’s decided who will pay for it. The pedestrian connector joins the sidewalk, the parking garage, and the Galt House at the Conservatory level. A loading dock near the corner of Main Street will be rebuilt with aesthetic screening to blend in with the new construction.
When the new parking garage and connector are complete along with the new arena, Third Street north of Main Street will take on a completely new character with built up urban edges on both sides. We’ll see how pedestrian access is handled with major construction happening on both sides of Third Street, but the hassle should be worth the wait as the corridor will one day be completely transformed.
- Galt House Hotel & Suites (Official Site)
- Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan, Inc. (Official Site)
- Galt House Installing Colorful Glass “Tulips” (Broken Sidewalk)
- Missing: One Electric Jungle Gym (Broken Sidewalk)
- The Electric Sub-Station That Went “Thud” (Broken Sidewalk)
- Demo Watch: Electric Structures Fading Fast (Broken Sidewalk)
- Demo Watch: Electric Jungle Gym Under Deconstruction (Broken Sidewalk)
Rendering of planned improvements (by Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan, Inc.)
Click through for photos of current conditions on Third Street.
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