Category Archives: development

A bit about the new DDC head

December 17, 2008 – 6:06 pm

Alan DeLisle was hired earlier this month to head the Downtown Development Corporation, the semi-public agency that helps the mayor’s office keep a handle on major (and minor) downtown projects. DeLisle comes from Durham, NC, where he held a similar position in city development. 
The Independent Weekly, LEO’s sister paper in Durham, has done several stories [...]

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Lunchbox: Shoeless Muntader edition

December 15, 2008 – 12:00 pm

A more responsible mayor?: Three members of the Metro Council have sent a letter to Attorney General Jack Conway, asking for clarification of the extent of Mayor Abramson’s authority in the wake of his unilateral decision to offer certain high-priced (for taxpayers) incentives to Cordish Cos., the Fourth Street Live developer given a sweetheart deal [...]

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Lunchbox: Being broke is so depressing … edition

December 1, 2008 – 12:24 pm

Ridin’ the rails: TARC is going to spend up to $150,000 to study a commuter rail line that would connect Louisville, Fort Knox and Elizabethtown (plus points in between), the C-J reports. You’ll recall that the group of advocates behind the proposal — Kentucky-Indiana Rail Advocates and the Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation [...]

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Ride the center line

October 9, 2008 – 1:43 pm

Yesterday afternoon, as our intrepid team of web designers was putting the last touches on this fancy new website of ours, a few members of the editorial dept. went for a ride downtown. We were hunting for a cover shot of the city for a story coming next week about, well, downtown. Cruising down East [...]

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In the know

September 25, 2008 – 4:08 pm

In cryptic I-know-something-you-don’t-know fashion, Arena Authority Chairman Jim Host tells LEO Weekly that Mayor Jerry Abramson is preparing to announce details about a new development near the downtown arena site.

“The mayor is going to make an announcement Friday about a new development that nobody even knows about that’s going to happen close to the arena,” [...]

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I-64 makes national top teardown list

September 24, 2008 – 6:06 pm

The Congress for the New Urbanism released its list of top-10 prospects for highway teardowns in North America. Among those listed on the “Freeways Without Futures” list: Interstate 64 along the waterfront.
The stretch of I-64 through downtown Louisville ranked seventh on the “Freeways Without Futures” list. CNU says tearing down such outdated sections of interstate [...]

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