Hotels

Better Know Your City: Here’s the full story behind the design...

Downtown Louisville's planned Omni Hotel is a mega-project if the city has ever seen one. This is way more than a 600-room hotel. It's way more...

With help from Whiskey Row, East Main Street is undergoing a...

This past Easter I had the pleasure of spending an extended weekend back in Louisville. In addition to visiting with family and old friends,...

Pastry Urbanism: Gingerbread Brown Hotel displays candy density in Downtown

As we enter the Winter holiday season, grocery store aisles are blasting with Christmas tunes, neighborhood houses are being decked with lights, those noisy...

Boutique Hotel Planned on South Floyd Street

A four-story brick warehouse at 822 South Floyd Street is set to be transformed into a boutique hotel catering to Louisville's gay community. The...

Hyatt Eroding Public Space on Fourth Street

In what's being billed as the first major renovation of Downtown Hyatt since it was built in 1978 is in fact cementing in place...

Museum Plaza Shovel Lives Again in Bentonville

While no one likely wants to reminisce on the the biggest development casualty of 2011 (perhaps the decade?) on what must now be considered...

Lost Louisville: Tyler Hotel On Jefferson Street

At the end of its days, the Tyler Hotel, then known as the Milner, was a seedy joint situated in the heart of Louisville's...

Lost Louisville: Walnut Street’s Watterson Hotel

After writing about the Molee Building last week, I started thinking about a large structure that once sat directly east where the great interfaith...

Evolving City: West Main Street And The Louisville Hotel

It's always nice when a great building replaces a blank spot in the city where a once great building stood. That's the case at...