Louisville Forward

Louisville eliminated from U.S. DOT’s Smart City Challenge as seven finalists...

Louisville's bid for $50 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Smart City Challenge was cut short with the announcement of seven...

For Sale: What would you like to see fill West Main...

A signature building along West Main Street is on the market. Louisville Forward, the city's economic development department, announced at the end of January...

City leaders celebrate ceremonial groundbreaking for the 30-story Omni Louisville Hotel

Downtown Louisville's Omni Hotel & Residences—now called the Omni Louisville Hotel—is officially underway. The mega-project held a ceremonial groundbreaking at the corner of Second...

Brewery will bring historic brand back to this historic Bardstown Road...

Speculation is over about what will fill one of Bardstown Road's most beautiful, and historically underutilized, buildings. Metro Louisville announced today that Louisville Sterling...

Downtown’s Omni Hotel & Residences to break ground on January 29

With the Water Company Block now just a footnote in history, the massive $300 million Omni Hotel & Residences, half publicly funded, is ready to...

Hidden in plain sight: Let’s save Algonquin’s Jones-Dabney Laboratory Building before...

Louisville’s preservation community expressed cautious optimism this month with news of the proposed restoration and reuse of the iconic Schenley (née Bernheim) Distillery Building...

Multi-modal ups and downs: The delayed Move Louisville plan, transit, and...

If you feel sometimes like Louisville is behind the times when it comes to public transit, that's because it is. Cities large and small...

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...

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...