Branden Klayko
As part of a small project I’m doing in Southern Indiana, I spent two days touring around Clark and Floyd Counties to see what was up. As a guy who grew up in the area, it was great to...
It's hard to miss the brick behemoth on the corner of Goss Avenue and McHenry Street in Schnitzelburg. The three-story building sits ominously with many of its ancient windows blocked up and the others precariously missing glass panes. Once...
I grew up in West Louisville. I dreamed of raising my family in the beautiful homes surrounding Chickasaw Park and Shawnee Park. I admired the African-American doctors, lawyers, and teachers who were the anchors of our community. I played...
Goss Avenue is less than a mile long from its awkward beginning at Shelby Street—the site of the ongoing Three Points initiative—to its terminus at Eastern Parkway where it turns into Poplar Level Road. It serves at the dividing...
Image: A cyclist commutes to work on Louisville's annual Bike to Work Day. (Courtesy Metro Louisville)
Earlier this year, the Census Bureau released a piece on their "Newsroom" page about how biking to work in the United States has increased 60 percent since...
Whiskey Row is coming back to life. Brown-Forman announced today that it will renovate two buildings on Louisville's Whiskey Row section of West Main Street, which was nearly demolished just a few years ago. Two brick and cast-iron former bourbon...
Image: The western half of Tyler park on a summer afternoon. (Amber MacPherson / Flickr)
Several years ago, when I would commute from Downtown to the suburbs in southeastern Jefferson County, I would occasionally try Castlewood Avenue in my effort...
I’ve been enjoying the various “Most Common Language Other Than English” maps for U.S. states or city neighborhoods that folks have posted this summer, and I didn’t want Louisville to be left out of the fun.
Louisville has developed a...
Fifty-plus years ago, the urban core of Louisville was home to a thriving manufacturing economy. From mattresses to soap to pipe organs, local factories provided jobs that encouraged the growth and expansion of neighboring communities.
Attend a community meeting on Thursday, September...