Adaptive Reuse

Re-imagining SoBro’s Puritan Uniform Rental Building for the 21st Century

This week we've been talking about not just the fate of one century-old building on West Breckinridge Street, but the future of an entire neighborhood....

Traditional Vietnamese street food restaurant, Pho Ba Luu, to anchor East...

When you walk into the completed Pho Ba Luu restaurant later this year, you'll notice a fresh combination of old and new architecture. The...

Ignoring the street for 30 years, this ’80s building will soon...

It's a common refrain that buildings today aren't built to last. Compared to the sturdy masonry of the 19th century of the hulking concrete...

Enormous beer bar on Bardstown Road shapes up, reveals new renderings

Construction is well underway on Bardstown Road's newest bar and pub, HopCat. We last checked in at the site in October when crews were...

Checking in on the transformation of Bardstown Road’s old Studebaker dealership...

In the early 20th century, a simple one-story brick building at 1064 Bardstown Road was filled with Studebaker cars. You're probably more familiar with...

Here’s the ambitious plan to convert Germantown’s enormous Bradford Mills complex...

That other enormous textile mill in Germantown will soon be transformed into 150 loft-style apartments thanks to a partnership of the Marian Development Group, lawyer...

New retail strip mall on Frankfort Avenue gives the old River...

Work is underway at Frankfort Avenue's River City Tire building, which sold for just over $660,000 in November of 2014 after the tire company owner, Ted Waldeyer,...

Historic Shawnee school building being converted to affordable apartments

The Shawnee neighborhood on the western edge of Louisville is among the city's most historic and well preserved, with block after block of well-kept...

The Silo Pitch: Imagining an urban rock climbing wall on Louisville’s...

Louisville is becoming a serious destination for recreational, competitive, and adventure sports. From hosting events like the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2013, to...