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Digging into the legendary origins of Hillerich & Bradsby’s Louisville Slugger...

  Colonel Sanders definitely started Kentucky Fried Chicken; George Garvin Brown definitely began bottling bourbon in bottles; and David Jones and Wendell Cherry definitely founded Humana. There...

Community Foundation to transform Hillerich & Bradsby’s old Smoketown factory-turned-parking lot

This week, we detailed the history of Hillerich & Bradsby's old Smoketown home—a block bound by Preston Street, Finzer Street, Jackson Street, and Jacob...

Scope out Downtown’s newest residential options on the 14th annual housing...

Interested in the urban life living Downtown? Fancy yourself a modern flâneur in the city of fleur-de-lis? This Sunday, the Louisville Downtown Partnership is holding...

Smoking out the original site of Hillerich & Bradsby’s Louisville Slugger...

We all know the home of Hillerich & Bradsby on West Main Street by the skyline-punctuating Louisville Slugger baseball bat tilted against its headquarters....

Demo Watch: Here are 50 more buildings that are about to...

It's been 84 days since our last Demo Watch roundup, where we recounted a troubling number of shotgun houses meeting the wrecking ball. Today's Demo...

Demo Watch: Shotgun houses dominate the latest batch of demolitions across...

We don't go into detail here on Broken Sidewalk on the vast majority of demolitions that take place around the city. We stick to...

Before Louisville’s bike share system rolls out next year, suggest station...

Last Tuesday, Metro Louisville's Bike Louisville held a public meeting to unveil details of the city's planned 300-bike-strong bike share system that could roll out as...

A proposal to dress up MSD’s planned Logan Street CSO Basin...

At the Shelby Park Germantown Rail Corridor meeting in July, representatives of the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) introduced the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) solution...

How MSD’s Project WIN aims to eliminate Louisville’s combined sewer overflow...

Waterway Improvements Now—also known as Project WIN—is the slogan-slash-acronym for the Metropolitan Sewer District’s latest initiative to reduce water pollution and overflows from Louisville’s...