Downtown - West

Downtown - West

Main Street Association rebrands with a hat tip to the Columbia...

A century ago, a thriving Downtown Louisville had a number of business groups organized by street all in competition for shoppers and foot traffic. Such...

Bike lanes slated for 12th, 13th, and West Kentucky Streets

It's been a relatively slow year for bike lanes in Louisville. So far this year, the city has opened only 1.2 miles of bike...

While you’re at Resurfaced this October, imagine how the Tenth Street...

Louisville's party-in-a-parking-lot is returning for three days between October 15 and 17. Officially dubbed “ReSurfaced: Three Days at 10th Street,” the event corresponds with Louisville Metro...

The Downtown Residents Association is back, and it hopes to shape...

Meet John Brasch. You've probably seen his name construction fences around the city as "Brasch Constructors," one of the city's major construction companies. But Brasch...

Go west, young developer: West Main Street development pushes up against...

The epicenter of West Main Street is moving a little farther west, and with it Louisville's Ninth Street Divide is slowly becoming less of...

No vacant property is an island: Geographies of vacancy in Louisville...

The last several years of local politics in Louisville have seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid to the West End. From the...

The Healing Place proposes new building on West Market Street, but...

Just steps across the Ninth Street Divide, a cluster of old and really old buildings houses The Healing Place, a nonprofit offering substance abuse...

Making the case for a streetcar line along Market Street

I am a big fan of streetcars and their potential to have transformative effects on neighborhoods and cities as a whole. I am so...

#NabeDerby: The final eight neighborhoods face off in round three voting!

We're through two rounds of voting in the 2015 Broken Sidewalk Neighborhood Derby, and we have now narrowed the field to the final eight teams. The...