Rowan Street

Rowan Street

Portland lands a tech startup with ambitious renovation plans

Unless you've gone out of your way to explore what lies steps west of the Ninth Street Divide, you may never have seen it. An...

Demo Watch: 2407 Rowan Street in Portland

(Note: The Demo Watch section of Broken Sidewalk highlights properties eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places that are slated for...

The University of Louisville’s Fine Arts program will anchor Portland’s growing...

Portland will soon be a bona fide arts neighborhood. Today, the University of Louisville announced that it would locate its Master of Fine Arts...

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...

Demo Watch: Shippingport Building Destroyed

Last week, an easily overlooked structure at the corner of Rowan and 11th streets in the shadow of that elevated-highway-monstrosity we call our riverfront...

Unique Shippingport Building Saved From Demolition

You won't find another example like it in Louisville, or likely anywhere else in the world. This two-story commercial building at the intersection of...

Shippingport II: Opportunity In Existing Conditions

At the end of August, we told you about a proposal to revitalize the Shippingport neighborhood directly west of Downtown Louisville along the Ohio...

Students Propose A Shippingport Renaissance

Students at the University of Kentucky's College of Design have redesigned the Shippingport neighborhood incorporating a variety of new paradigms of urban form meant...

Enormous Potential In Shippingport’s Barren Fields

Directly west of Downtown Louisville, acres of land in the Shippingport neighborhood sit barren and unused, trapped between a floodwall and an expressway. You...