Branden Klayko
Developer Kevin Cogan and the Cherokee Triangle Association (CTA) have been butting heads for seven years over Jefferson Development Group's proposed Willow Grande condo tower. The structure would replace the three-story circa-1965 Bordeaux Apartments on the corner of Willow Avenue and Barringer Avenue....
On Thursday, January 29, the Louisville Metro Planning Commission voted 8 to 1 to grant waivers exempting a Walmart Supercenter—proposed just a mile outside the traditional bounds of Downtown Louisville—from conforming to the city's long-established land development code, Cornerstone 2020.
The decision comes...
A Walmart is proposed for West Louisville at the corner of Broadway and Dixie Highway at 18th Street. This is a Walmart that could be built on suburban Bardstown Road. It could be built in Mobile, Alabama, El Paso,...
Last year’s reveal of the East Market Street—Nulu Streetscape project designed by CARMAN was an important step in the evolution of Nulu as a neighborhood and a bellwether of the design priorities there. Tomorrow, the neighborhood will strengthen its...
"The urban fabric contains symbols (icons) that tell us something about ourselves and something about those to whom the symbols belong. This aspect of the urban fabric has been called the glue that bonds people to place.” (Hull, Lam...
What Walmart builds at the corner of 18th Street and Broadway should not be about whether individuals like or don’t like the Walmart plan. That should be irrelevant. Metro Louisville has rules in place for all new development to follow....
(Editor's Note: Pat Smith tracks data about cities in order to tell stories about their urbanism. Here, he looks at the latest census data from 2010 that counts residents living in and around Downtown Louisville. This post first appeared...
Butchertown isn't an industrial slaughterhouse along Story Avenue. It's not the gritty refinement of the riverside neighborhood's historic architecture—or the swaths of urban fabric that disappeared during the 1937 flood. It's the connected stories of its inhabitants, past and present....
When a historic building as nice as the old Fetzer Building at 209 East Main Street in Downtown Louisville hits the market, we can't help but wonder what form it might take in its next life. And now's the...