Category Archives: development

Some minds thinking similarly

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 [...]

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21c reception and discussion with Shippingport architects

May 26, 2009 – 12:50 pm

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 [...]

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Ammonia Leak Points Out the Obvious

May 13, 2009 – 8:19 pm

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 [...]

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Local School Goes Green

March 4, 2009 – 6:52 pm

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, [...]

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Picture this downtown …

March 4, 2009 – 11:32 am

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 [...]

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Falling stairs

March 3, 2009 – 1:38 pm

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, [...]

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Lunchbox: Do you have ‘Mountain Dew mouth’? edition

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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