Downtown - Central

Downtown - Central

Tweets sent from Louisville. (Courtesy Eric Fischer)

What we can learn from where people in Louisville are using...

That softly glowing green blob up there is Louisville viewed in tweets. Data artist Eric Fischer, whose work we featured as part of our...

Pastry Urbanism: Gingerbread Brown Hotel displays candy density in Downtown

As we enter the Winter holiday season, grocery store aisles are blasting with Christmas tunes, neighborhood houses are being decked with lights, those noisy...

Louisville Downtown Partnership experiments with porous rubber tree wells

In cities like Louisville where much of the urban area is covered in paving, dealing with stormwater runoff can be a major challenge that,...

Brown-Forman announces plans for major Old Forester distillery at Whiskey Row

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,...

An Old Way Forward: The case for a Louisville streetcar loop...

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...

An ode to Sixth Street’s small urban wonders

The sun setting on Sixth Street is sublime. The buildings hold the heat from a day of being beat down by the sun. The...

Demolition on Third Street Could Make Way For New St. Francis...

St. Francis High School, located in the Beaux-Arts former YMCA building Downtown on the corner of Third Street and Broadway, has been dreaming of...

Disappearing Downtown: What the Flood Didn’t Destroy, Progress Did

We've all seen the horrific photos of the 1937 flood which covered nearly the entire city with frigid, polluted water and snow. Here's a...

Michael Graves Dressed as the Humana Building

Growing up in Louisville, I was vaguely aware that the Humana Building on the corner of Fifth and Main streets was an important building,...