Second Street

Second Street

Victorian Phoenix: How a group of neighbors joined forces to save...

The Dillon House on Second Street has been through hell and back. Over the past decade, the century-old house flooded, burned, and is now in...

Live & Let Die: As the Water Company Building tumbles down,...

In three weeks, the old Louisville Water Company Building on Third Street would have celebrated its 110th anniversary. The Georgian-style building opened on December 19,...

Missing Architecture: The case of the missing Galt House portico and...

Last week we revealed a fright of building ghosts distributed throughout the city, their disembodied pieces piled among weeds atop landfills or stacked behind...

For real advances in pedestrian safety, Louisville should rethink its dangerous...

  The intersection of Bardstown Road and Goldsmith Lane is terrifying. Crossing Bardstown Road is no small feat; pedestrians must face down 122 feet of pavement—eight...

Louisville hopes a regimen of education and enforcement can curb a...

Navigating streets in 21st century America can be downright scary for everyone involved—pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists. And it’s too often deadly. We've all felt it before,...

Isn’t it great how Louisville solved this bike parking problem with...

So often the news about interactions with people who bike and those who don't are about so-called "bikelash" where one group is mad at...

Wait, what happened at last week’s DDRO committee meeting? Here’s the...

Public design review in Louisville is, without exaggeration, in serious trouble. Last Wednesday's committee meeting of the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) is the...

Attend Wednesday’s DDRO meeting to help ensure Downtown Louisville gets the...

Please consider attending tomorrow's meeting of the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) committee discussing the Omni Hotel & Residences. This is one of the...

Two-week-old Omni update gets new flashy renderings, still includes its old...

On Wednesday, July 29, the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) committee will again take up discussion around the $289 million (and growing) Omni Hotel...