Logan Street

Logan Street

Smoketown residents voice concerns over MSD’s Logan Street CSO Basin

The people of Smoketown have been ignored. As one of twelve neighborhoods scheduled to receive a combined sewer overflow (CSO) basin, the Metropolitan Sewer...

It’s time for MSD to reinvest the $4 million it skimmed...

As far as I can tell, Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) owes Smoketown at least four million dollars. Let me tell you why. On November 16,...

An inside tour of Smoketown’s haunting Merchants’ Ice Tower

  In Louisville, Kentucky's Smoketown neighborhood, on the corner of Logan Street and Lampton Street, sits the historic building known best as the Merchants' Ice...

Cold Case: It’s time these buildings in Smoketown got another chance...

A small slice of Louisville beer history is now in the landfill. At the beginning of August, wrecking crews began razing a four-story brick...

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...

February 28: Renovation Expo & Open House will showcase progress in...

For a neighborhood with more nonprofit organizations than private businesses, and a dense concentration of repurposed historic buildings, Shelby Park is a unique, yet...

These six historic sites help explain the architectural legacy of Shelby...

Long before the days of urban sprawl, there was density—not just downtown, but also in Louisville's inner ring suburbs. Neighborhoods that once served 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...