Demolition

Three houses on Lyndon Lane to make way for office park...

While looking through the city's wrecking permit requests for our #DemoWatch page recently, three adjacent houses in Lyndon built in 1951 popped up (WR995210,...

Demo Watch: 2718 Fleming Avenue in Clifton Heights

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

Demo Watch: 112 North 26th 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...

Demo Watch: 1307 Hull Street in Irish Hill

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

Demo Watch: 1310 Lexington Road in Irish Hill

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

Spalding can now raze SoBro’s Puritan building for a parking lot

(Note: Spalding has since announced that this demolition is on hold. Read more here.) Today, Friday, August 5, Metro Louisville Codes & Regulations can issue a...

Preservation Louisville’s proposed Portland #SaveOurShotguns house could be demolished

While going through a batch of proposed demolitions recently, I had to give one house a second look. Hadn't I seen that one before?...

Academic building to replace Crawford Gym’s elliptical paraboloid roof at UL’s...

When Crawford Gymnasium opened on the University of Louisville's Belknap campus in 1964, it was unlike any building in Louisville. "The unusual roof will be...

Fatal partially collapsed building in Parkland demolished, had history of violations

Tragedy struck the Parkland neighborhood Friday afternoon when the facade of a historic two-story building collapsed, trapping and killing one person who was working...