Vacant Land

Produce Park brings fresh fruit to a vacant lot in the...

A vacant lot in the Russell neighborhood has been transformed into a fruit-filled community orchard. This past Friday, July 15, community leaders and officials...

The evolution of the barren fields at the the ReSurfaced site...

The first weekend of the newest round of the vacant-lot-reclaiming ReSurfaced project has come and gone. (Tell us what you thought of it in the...

Biggest ReSurfaced yet brings a civic heart to barren fields in...

Walk down Shelby Street south from the vibrant main drag of Nulu and it hits you pretty quick: once you're past Nanny Goat Strut...

Making Place: How Louisville is using tactical urbanism to rebuild civic...

"You can have a space, and even though it's vacant at the time, it can still have a life. It's still part of the...

How a vacant lot and a few shipping containers can help...

Louisville's Park Hill neighborhood is a hodge-podge of densely packed residences and less densely packed industrial sites interspersed by large rail lines cutting through...

This flower garden blooming on a once-vacant lot could usher in...

A year ago, the Metro Louisville launched "Lots of Possibility," a competition asking engaged citizens with an eye for redevelopment to re-imagine vacant lots around the...

Demo Watch: Here are 50 more buildings that are about to...

It's been 84 days since our last Demo Watch roundup, where we recounted a troubling number of shotgun houses meeting the wrecking ball. Today's Demo...

No vacant property is an island: Geographies of vacancy in Louisville...

The last several years of local politics in Louisville have seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid to the West End. From the...

ReSurfaced is coming back with a splash of bourbon. But what...

It's been seven months since Louisville's biggest Tactical Urbanism experiment, Resurfaced on Main, shut its doors. By all accounts, the effort to reclaim a vacant...