Branden Klayko
Demolition has begun on the old Louisville Water Company Building, a complex of four buildings that will be removed for the planned Omni Hotel & Residences. Wrecking crews were spotted on site on Monday, tearing away at the back of...
A stately stone-and-brick classroom building has stood watch over East Broadway for 114 years, but when it was built for the Sisters of Mercy in 1901, the structure was a relative newcomer to a proud German neighborhood growing on the outskirts...
There's been a lot of discussion lately about what makes an active or vibrant streetscape, specifically as it related to the new Omni Hotel & Residences now approved on the old Water Company Block. And the suggestions about active...
Louisville is a city of houses. More than any other type of building, houses dominate the built landscape of the city. We're fortunate to have a wide-ranging variety of house styles across the city, from the ubiquitous shotgun house...
The city that brought America the bike lane 48 years ago this summer has done it again.
Davis, California (population 66,000, bike commuting rate 20 percent) finished work last week on a new intersection design ordered up by a city...
Meet John Brasch. You've probably seen his name construction fences around the city as "Brasch Constructors," one of the city's major construction companies. But Brasch is also the president of the Louisville Downtown Residents Association (LDRA). And after living Downtown...
A year ago, the Metro Louisville launched "Lots of Possibility," a competition asking engaged citizens with an eye for redevelopment to re-imagine vacant lots around the city. Shortly after the end of the competition, a project called dyeScape was announced as one of...
So often the news about interactions with people who bike and those who don't are about so-called "bikelash" where one group is mad at the other. It's refreshing to hear a story like this one.
Kroger in Old Louisville installed some bike...
So, what do you think? Was this summer's Bourbon edition of ReSurfaced better? Or did you prefer the beer garden original last fall? Since we rededicated Broken Sidewalk the first time around, we have a certain affinity for sodden...