Branden Klayko
An excited tipster wrote in this week about a new infill project in the Highlands. Located at 2068 Douglass Boulevard, the so-called Montgomery Apartments will soon rise on a long-vacant lot near the corner of Dorothy Avenue in the Douglass...
What a difference a year makes.
When we sat down to make the inaugural 2013 edition of this list, we had a few superstars up top: Chicago's transformative Dearborn Street, Indianapolis's spectacular Cultural Trail. But last year also had what...
Lexington Road is due for a road diet that could bring Louisville's first "cycletrack" between Baxter Avenue and Grinstead Drive. Plans under consideration now show two scenarios—one with a traditional bike lane on each side of the road surface...
Last month, we struck a nerve with our criticism for the Waterfront Development Corporation's decision not to clear the Big Four Bridge during winter weather conditions, and instead close it to the public. Many readers engaged in a lively debate over...
In 1958, famed urbanist Jane Jacobs penned an important piece for Fortune magazine called "Downtown is for People." Published three years before her pivotal book Death and Life of Great American Cities, the essay took on an epidemic of mega-projects...
On the triangular block where Baxter Avenue, Lexington Road, Jefferson Street, Liberty Street, and Chestnut Street come together, I propose a contemporary mixed use tower to define the intersection between Downtown, Nulu, Phoenix Hill, and the eastern neighborhoods leading to...
Mellow Mushroom is hard at work building its third Louisville pizza outlet, this time at 1023 Bardstown Road in the Highlands, next door to a building that grew a second story a few years ago.
Developer Andy Blieden, who previously...
A camelback shotgun house burned Friday in the Russell neighborhood in what investigators believe was arson. According to reports on WDRB and WAVE3, the house at 540 South 18th Street had been vacant for the past few months. From television...
The next stretch of the Louisville Loop—a 100 mile bike and pedestrian corridor circling Jefferson County—is being planned between the Big Four Bridge and the City of Prospect and your input is needed. Learn more about the Louisville Loop...