October 16, 2009 – 2:20 pm
How does a post-industrial community remake itself? Well, it doesn’t hurt to get a bunch of smart people together and force them to compete for the honor. Courtesy of BrokenSidewalk.com:
The Irish Hill Neighborhood Association announced the winners of a design competition intended to generate ideas for an abandoned brownfield sitein the heart of the neighborhood. After a close review of [...]
October 7, 2009 – 4:00 pm
Chandler Keys, a spokesperson for JBS USA/Swift, has contacted LEO to deflate rumors that his company has plans to augment slaughtering facilities in the Butchertown neighborhood.
“We have no plans for expanding our Louisville plant,” he said in a phone interview, adding that the planned Marshalltown, IA, distribution center isn’t reflective of a broader effort to [...]
October 6, 2009 – 11:20 am
JBS/Swift & Company may be augmenting its swine slaughtering empire in Louisville, so suggests an article in the Central Iowa Times-Republican. Regarding its multi-million dollar expansion in Marshalltown, IA:
According to General Manager Troy Mulgrew, the refrigeration warehouse would range up to 150,000 square feet and enlist several employment positions, although he would not speculate on a [...]
August 21, 2009 – 12:47 pm
In this week’s column I wrote that, in the total absence of accountability on Cordish’s Sports & Social Club project at Fourth Street Live, city government should consider adding a provision to contracts using taxpayer funds that would allow for a full auditing of subsequent spending.
Huzzah!: Next week, Democrat Jim King and Republican Kelly Downard [...]
On Wednesday, May 27, 21c is hosting a reception and discussion to accompany their new exhibition “UK College of Design Proposals to Revitalize Shippingport, Louisville” (through June 8). The reception is at 5 p.m. and the discussion, with architects Gary Bates, Julien De Smedt, Jason Scroggin and Josh Prince Ramus, at 6 p.m. Visit www.21cmuseum.org for [...]
So you may have heard about this (fatal and tragic) ammonia leak at the American Cold Storage building. Although we’re eager to know just how it started, the fact that the ACS distribution center, which is essentially one gigantic chemical freezer, is located a heartbeat away from homes, businesses, and the University of Louisville Belknap [...]
When you consume as much news as I do (I watch enough to have developed a romantic complex for MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow… believe me, I know), it can be hard to separate the nourishing wheat from the inane chaff. Not to wax poetic or anything, but if one possesses a certain disenchanted or cynical eye, [...]
The indefatigable crew of 8664 has released a collection of new renderings of downtown Louisville, which in this version of the future appears to become an urban utopia. As the General Assembly begins to again consider the idea of a tolling authority — yep, our little ol’ river burg would have bridges with tolls, like [...]
Sweet lord, this is nasty stuff: A staircase collapsed in a west downtown building this morning, injuring two officials with the Downtown Developmet Corp. (not a city agency, WHAS-11) and the building owner.
Newly minted DDC chief Alan DeLisle, director of project development Patti Clare, and building owner Paul Bariteau are in the hospital now, after [...]
February 16, 2009 – 12:17 pm
No Fairness: State Sen. Gary Tapp, R-Shelbyville (circa 1925), has proposed SB 68, which would limit those who could adopt or provide caregiver services to children in Kentucky to only married couples. Naturally, the legislation is targeted toward prohibiting gays and lesbians from adopting kids — because, you know, Kentucky hasn’t asserted its hate of [...]
