Main Street
Main Street
Major mixed-use development planned in Butchertown spurs questions over preservation
Nearly three-hundred feet of Main Street is in the process of being decked over by an unfortunate interstate highway expansion that is tearing at...
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,...
Time Capsule: Vermont American Building in 1948
Last month, we took a look at the portion of the old Vermont American building at Main and Jackson streets that's being demolished to...
12-Lane Highway Gets Started With Ceremonial Wrecking of Downtown
The destruction of Downtown Louisville by twelve lanes of steel and concrete—about 280 feet wide when massive shoulders are added in—began yesterday with the ceremonial...
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,...
Twin Towers on Main Street To Be Delayed Another Three Years
A long-awaited development first announced in 2007 on the corner of Main and Jackson streets is set to be delayed another three years. Jefferson...
Students From Yale Study Boutique Manufacturing, Bourbon in Louisville
American manufacturing may be on the rocks, but Deborah Berke, principal at Deborah Berke & Partners and designer of the 21c Museum Hotel, believes...
Towering, Naked, Golden, and Heading to Louisville
It looks like Louisville is set to out-Michelangelo Florence, or at least out-facsimile the Italian burgh. Those creative folks over at the 21c Museum...