Branden Klayko

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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.
A man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run motorist Sunday night at Bardstown Road and Emerson Avenue. Police found the victim Sunday morning around 6:00a.m. and the motorist is still at large. The incident was covered by WDRB (with update), WHAS11,...
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, I went to a community meeting about a building MSD is building in the neighborhood on...
Downtown Louisville's Omni Hotel & Residences—now called the Omni Louisville Hotel—is officially underway. The mega-project held a ceremonial groundbreaking at the corner of Second Street and Liberty Street where crowds packed a tent in the oversized dirt block that's about...
“What you measure is what you get,” the saying goes. That’s certainly true for transportation policy. And for a very long time one metric has reigned supreme on American streets: “Level of Service,” a system that assigns letter grades based...
Speculation is over about what will fill one of Bardstown Road's most beautiful, and historically underutilized, buildings. Metro Louisville announced today that Louisville Sterling will purchase two surplus city-owned buildings at 1300–1306 Bardstown Road for a craft beer operation with a...
When I first wrote about this church in October 2008, its fortunes didn't look all that good. Its buttresses had been hit repeatedly by motorists driving down the alley and bricks were crumbling away. The building's peeling grey paint...
One of the nation's leading vertical indoor farming companies, FarmedHere, today announced it would construct a major project at the West Louisville FoodPort. The Chicago-based company plans to invest $23.5 million in the 60,000-square-foot vertical farm. Developed by nonprofit Seed...
Road space needs to come from somewhere. And with the nation's infrastructure budgets buckling under road maintenance costs, there's growing consensus that ever-wider roads are infeasible. Instead, a large and bipartisan majority of U.S. mayors agree, cities should be taking...
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) will not pursue a plan to widen Chenoweth Lane in St. Matthews with a center turning lane. That option was being studied along with a number of other options that could bring new sidewalks,...