Branden Klayko
The good news keeps pouring in for Old Louisville's Oak Street corridor. We recently surveyed the strengths and challenges of the street as its streetscape improvement project is wrapping up and profiled an amazing adaptive reuse project to create hundreds...
We received word from a tipster today that two mature trees are about to be cut down in Phoenix Hill on the corner of Shelby and Liberty streets. The city is installing a new sidewalk in that location, and,...
Almost five years ago, a pair of abandoned, decaying warehouses on Old Louisville's Garvin Place caught fire. The quiet, forgotten expanse of street sits just north of the Oak Street commercial corridor, but then, prospects for the properties looked...
Louisville loves to eat. That's not just apparent in in the city's great restaurant scene and above-average waistline size—it's also part of a growing trend of food entrepreneurship that's taking shape here. Brian Wallace, founder of the infographic company...
“Could you be mine? Would you be mine? Won’t you be my neighbor?” -Mr. Rogers
Consider a map of Louisville with the major streets and expressways highlighted. It looks a lot like a bicycle wheel: the Watterson and Snyder expressways...
With one regional library now open just off Dixie Highway in Southwest Jefferson County, Mayor Greg Fischer and library officials announced this week that the next major project, the South-Central Regional Library in Okolona, is moving forward.
Construction could start...
This July, officials gathered on Fourth and Oak streets in Old Louisville to launch a streetscape improvement project three years in the making that they hope will signal a turning of the tide of the fledgling commercial corridor. The nearly...
At a recent Urban Land Institute (ULI) meeting in Louisville's Portland neighborhood one of the speakers made a point about infrastructure—namely that, as the owners/ratepayers of our local water and sewer utilities, it was in our economic interest to develop in...
Tucked away in the center of Louisville, a small yellow-brick building at 817 East Jefferson Street has the distinction of being one of a few places where bodies cease to exist. Funeral Director's Vault, the successor of a string...