Earlier this summer plans were announced that a local nightclub would open in the old McCrory’s building on Fourth Street between Muhammad Ali Blvd. and Chestnut Street. This was excellent news as the local response to 4th Street Live! has been timid to put it mildly.
In August, workers were clearing the interior of the building in what we hoped was a precursor to construction. Broken Sidewalk has now learned plans for the site have fallen through and the property is back on the market. Financing the project seems to be largely to blame.
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Branden founded Broken Sidewalk in 2008 while practicing architecture in Louisville. He continued the site for seven years while living in New York City, returning to Louisville in 2016. Branden is a graduate of the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and has covered architecture, design, and urbanism for The Architect's Newspaper, Designers & Books, Inhabitat, and the American Institute of Architects.
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We have enough terrible clubs that nobody wants to go to…what about putting a grocery store there so that people will have a reason to move downtown…
A nice thought, but there’s already a large grocery store downtown nobody (white) goes to, and Market on Market closed down because of a lack of business.
If a club works, I say go for it! And actually, aesthetically, the odds are that the nightclub might do a better job of designing the space than Kroger would. Either way, I hope someone does something.