Branden Klayko
I have to admit that I have always been drawn to the 800 Building. That towering blue mess on the corner of Fourth Street and York Street in SoBro has, for years, been a shadow of its former self, but it's so easy...
Since the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision in late June legalizing gay marriage across the country, some places in Kentucky haven't quite come around to embrace marriage equality—looking at you Rowan County. A new campaign by the Louisville Convention & Visitors...
Theater Square, a grouping of three buildings around a courtyard on Fourth Street, is beginning its disappearing act with the dismantling of Barney Bright's whimsical, 40-foot-tall Louisville Clock at the end of last week.
The plaza and its buildings are being torn down for an...
Louisville entrepreneur Gill Holland has taken issue with the planned Omni Hotel & Residences slated for the former Water Company Block in Downtown Louisville. In an op-ed for the Courier-Journal called "Listen to community on Omni issues" and dated July...
An enormous fortress on Chestnut Street between Sixth Street and Seventh Street has hit the market in Downtown Louisville. AT&T has listed the 200,000-square-foot office building at 601 West Chestnut Street for $11.4 million, opening up a sizeable chunk of real estate...
Mark your calendars! This Wednesday, July 15 at 8:30a.m., the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) will take up the issue of the planned Omni Hotel & Residences (the original July 1 meeting was postponed). This important public meeting is free...
Among Louisville's many quirky distinctions is a maker of the world's disco balls. Hometown company Omega National Products reportedly makes some 90 percent of the mirror-coated orbs. Now, according to Insider Louisville's Melissa Chipman, Louisville could also be home to...
At the end of last week, an investigation into the devastating Whiskey Row Fire that took three hours and 80 firefighters to put out revealed that the fire was caused by construction crews using flammable equipment to cut pipes in...
As protected bike lanes have spread, they've created an exciting new era for American traffic engineers, who are once again getting the chance to solve new and interesting problems on our streets.
But they're also creating a new golden age...