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Irish Hill Revitalization Project Selected

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 [...]

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After Hiatus, Broken Sidewalk Returns

July 1, 2009 – 3:54 pm

Our favorite Louisville real estate development news blog, BrokenSidewalk.com, hath returned. The site was put in the cooler for a few weeks while webmaster/founder Brandon Klayko undertook a relocation to New York City — yet it’s up and running again, along with a fresh redesign and a plethora of new contributors.
Although there’s still plenty of [...]

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Filling A Hole

April 29, 2009 – 11:39 am

For all of Louisville’s short-comings and inadequacies (i.e. Derby), at least we’ve survived the fate of nearby Lexington, whose entrenched good old boy network has affected their mayor’s brain like an acute syphilis infection and resulted in a downtown that’s had more trouble finding itself than Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man.”
Like any good story of [...]

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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, after [...]

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