Downtown

Downtown

How to beat extreme heat: Strategies for combating the urban heat...

Four years ago, Louisville, Kentucky, awoke to an alarming urban trend. This forward-thinking southern city—recently ranked as America’s most livable by the U.S. Conference...

This eight-story hotel is planned to fill a decades-old parking lot...

Development in Downtown Louisville is now officially very exciting—soon construction crews will be in every corner of the core city with a variety of...

For Sale: What would you like to see fill West Main...

A signature building along West Main Street is on the market. Louisville Forward, the city's economic development department, announced at the end of January...

Best: Louisville made bank with the architecture of today’s Actors Theater

  Built as the Bank of Louisville in 1837, this small but distinguished structure on Main Street has survived 180 years of weathering, and, more...

Worst: Louisville’s original layout didn’t encourage the synergy that could have...

  Centuries ago, Louisville’s Central Business District (CBD) was planned with a “linear” layout, as opposed to a “compact” one. Instead of concentrating development around...

City leaders celebrate ceremonial groundbreaking for the 30-story Omni Louisville Hotel

Downtown Louisville's Omni Hotel & Residences—now called the Omni Louisville Hotel—is officially underway. The mega-project held a ceremonial groundbreaking at the corner of Second...

How not to handle edge conditions: the case of the Nucleus...

Earlier this month, we discussed a parking garage that was approved by the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) committee back in October 2014. The...

These 16 multi-family housing developments are reshaping urban living in Louisville

Louisville is experiencing something of a residential boom as we enter 2016. Hundreds of new apartments are popping up in the city's urban neighborhoods...

At the Fincastle Building, memories of brass banisters, bronze dogs, and...

Branden Klayko’s recent article about the Fincastle Building reminded me of many warm feelings, even though I don’t think I have set foot in...