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.
One of the largest urban apartment complexes proposed recently in Louisville is in the Irish Hill neighborhood sites between Lexington Road and Beargrass Creek. The so-called Axis Apartments are being spearheaded by Indianapolis-based developers Cityscape Residential. With 300 units on nine acres, the $45...
On Friday, October 9, an unidentified motorist ran over and killed Donald Ray Benningfield, 68, before fleeing the scene. The driver has remained at large ever since, but investigators at the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) believe they are...
In early January, we saw workers patching up a brick wall on the back of the Grocers' Ice & Cold Storage on the corner of East Main Street and Hancock Street in Butchertown. The building had been purchased by the...
On Sunday, October 25, the Louisville Historical League (LHL) will explore the history of the South Floyd Street corridor near the University of Louisville's Belknap Campus. The 1.5 mile walking tour will begin at 2:00p.m. in parking lot A near...
The first buildings on the site of what will become the Main & Clay Apartments have already fallen. The mixed-use residential building by Nashville's Bristol Development Group will climb seven stories and house 260 apartments. But first, the development...
Protected bike lanes require space on the street, and removing curbside auto parking is one of several ways to find it. But whenever cities propose parking removal, retailers understandably worry. A growing body of evidence suggests that if bike lanes...
Plans for a hotel at the corner of Eighth Street and Market Street have been in the works since 2009, but the new eight-story, 145-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites is now only showing its full volume. Since construction...
Pamela Sutton is a Early Childhood instructional assistant in the Head Start program at Louisville's McFerran Elementary School. Every day she either walks or pedals her bike from her home in Shively to school in the Algonquin neighborhood, a habit...
The fate of the old Water Company Building on Third Street is sealed: It's going to be demolished to make way for the parking garage of the $300 million Omni Hotel & Residences. Metro Louisville, itself investing nearly half...