Branden Klayko
A proposal for a new apartment building on Clifton's Vernon Avenue is back with a much-improved plan. When we first wrote about the so-called Conti Apartments in February, proposed by real estate broker Tami Conti of the Brown Conti...
Building a single parking spot can easily cost more than many Americans’ life savings. In the latest issue of Access Magazine, retired UCLA economist Donald Shoup brings this point home to illustrate the huge financial burden imposed by minimum parking requirements, especially for poor...
When a $15 million, faux-historic hotel broke ground in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in mid-July, developers surprised city officials by eliminating 1,200 square feet of corner retail space they had promised as a condition of the project's approval. Nathan Pruitt, Jeffersonville’s Director of...
Shelby Park is about to install the second crowd-funded bus stop in Louisville. The first so-called Beta Bus Stop was installed and dedicated in the SoBro neighborhood last November.
Workers are expected to install the new bus stop on Wednesday,...
By Vince Graham
This month marks the 100th anniversary of two pieces of legislation that revolutionized the way we live. On July 11, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the first Federal Aid Road Bill. Two weeks later, on July 25, 1916, New...
A request for a signage variance at a gas station sandwiched between Old Louisville and Shelby Park raises a few important questions about how we should shape our built environment, especially in the built up, historic parts of the...
The Barrington Place Apartments on the corner of Third and Guthrie streets have seen a lot in the past few years. Back in 2014, the 17-story property went into foreclosure resulting in its sale for $5.87 million to Utah-based...
When Crawford Gymnasium opened on the University of Louisville's Belknap campus in 1964, it was unlike any building in Louisville. "The unusual roof will be the first elliptical paraboloid in this part of the United States," an October 20, 1963,...
The Transit Authority of River City (TARC) has announced service changes to 23 of its routes due to construction activity and traffic delays around the city. Route changes to the ZeroBus (noted below) went into effect on Monday, July 25...