Branden Klayko
Of all the challenges facing Louisville in the 21st century, few are more important than the issue of mass transportation—or, rather, the lack of it. According to the 2012 American Community Survey, 81.7 percent of Metro Louisville’s workforce commuted...
Just after the Civil War, at the intersection of the former Southall Street (later changed to Reservoir Avenue in 1884 and now Mellwood Avenue since 1895) and the Louisville & Shelbyville Turnpike (now Frankfort Avenue) in Louisville, two blocks...
Shelby Street is one of the three main streets that define the Schnitzelburg neighborhood’s triangular boundary. It contains a mixture of homes and businesses—Dairy Del, Oscar’s Hardware, The Cure Lounge, Danny Mac’s Pizza (inside Amvets Post #9), Art Sanctuary, and Knock’s...
Bicycling for Louisville, the city's top bike-advocacy and education nonprofit, is hosting its inaugural Fall Ride Series this year, which kicks off this Sunday, September 21 with the People's Climate March Sustainability Bike Tour. There are four rides in...
Image: An aerial view of the ReSurfaced site under construction. (Courtesy The Overhead Group)
Way back in 2008, four buildings along Louisville’s historic West Main Street were demolished to make way for Museum Plaza, what was then hoped to be...
The sun setting on Sixth Street is sublime. The buildings hold the heat from a day of being beat down by the sun. The solar energy radiates across the asphalt parking lots, up the windowless walls, and makes the...
Well that was fast. Just days after the community came together to paint crosswalks along Fourth Street in SoBro, crews have ripped up the asphalt to replace a manhole right in the middle of the crosswalk. The design at...
With a little bit of elbow grease and a few gallons of paint, the SoBro neighborhood has taken a hopeful first step to spark a cultural renaissance for the underutilized area to the north of Old Louisville and south...
There's something about Louisville that always draws you back. It's got a certain magnetism—the boomerang effect—that feeds a hunger for more. The community here is stronger than in many other cities. It's the type of community that knows itself and its...