Louisville
Best: Louisville made bank with the architecture of today’s Actors Theater
Built as the Bank of Louisville in 1837, this small but distinguished structure on Main Street has survived 180 years of weathering, and, more...
Worst: Louisville loses when headquarters choose the suburbs over Downtown
In 1964, Lincoln Income Life Insurance built the first major office in the suburbs at Breckenridge Lane and the Watterson Expressway. The resulting skyscraper is...
It’s time for MSD to reinvest the $4 million it skimmed...
As far as I can tell, Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) owes Smoketown at least four million dollars. Let me tell you why.
On November 16,...
Worst: Louisville’s original layout didn’t encourage the synergy that could have...
Centuries ago, Louisville’s Central Business District (CBD) was planned with a “linear” layout, as opposed to a “compact” one. Instead of concentrating development around...
Best: Louisville’s Olmsted parks are the gift that’s been giving back...
May 20, 1891, is a landmark date in Louisville planning history. That was the day when Frederick Law Olmsted—the Father of Landscape Architecture himself—arrived...
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...
Church dating to 1842 to see new life with mixed-use conversion...
When I first wrote about this church in October 2008, its fortunes didn't look all that good. Its buttresses had been hit repeatedly by...
Fresh local produce in January? Vertical indoor farm at the West...
One of the nation's leading vertical indoor farming companies, FarmedHere, today announced it would construct a major project at the West Louisville FoodPort. The...