Branden Klayko
It's been 84 days since our last Demo Watch roundup, where we recounted a troubling number of shotgun houses meeting the wrecking ball. Today's Demo Watch is much the same, still dominated by shotgun houses, and properties in general west...
Most areas of the United States could feed between 80 to 100 percent of the local population with food grown or raised within 50 miles, says a study by the University of California, Merced, Ana Ibarra reported for the Merced...
The last several years of local politics in Louisville have seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid to the West End. From the cover story on Louisville Magazine’s March 2013 issue imploring us to “Stop Ignoring the West...
The remains of the Point, a riverfront neighborhood that disappeared after the 1937 flood, lies buried beneath some 20 feet of soil at the old Ohio Street dump. Today located on the corner of River Road and Frankfort Avenue, that 23-acre...
Late last year, we told you about Louisville's planned Bike Share system that was supposed to launch this summer. We were excited about the plan to bring 300 bikes to the core city, from Downtown to the University of...
“So it goes.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
It’s been a rough year for localism in Louisville. March witnessed the final days of Wild & Wooly Video and the selling of Louisville Slugger to Wilson Sporting Goods. Even now, at the time of writing,...
Just steps across the Ninth Street Divide, a cluster of old and really old buildings houses The Healing Place, a nonprofit offering substance abuse recovery programs and housing. The group's men's facility is overcrowded, however, and a new building on...
It's been seven months since Louisville's biggest Tactical Urbanism experiment, Resurfaced on Main, shut its doors. By all accounts, the effort to reclaim a vacant surface level parking lot for public use was an astounding success (including being named 2014's top...
Louisville's ISCO Industries makes high-density polyethylene piping, an alternative to traditional PVC products, and its headquarters is located right in the middle of the Highlands.
The company has been at its current location—926 Baxter Avenue—since its founding by Jim Kirchdorfer, Sr. in...