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Louisville suburbs growing at expense of urban core, sayith Census

April 7, 2011 – 11:45 am

The Courier-Journal’s Marcus Green has a fantastic piece out today detailing the demographic trends in Metro Louisville suggested by the 2010 census. In the urban core, that trend is — to borrow a phrase from our former mayor — poorer, older and blacker than the city’s suburbs, which are actually growing robustly. Only a handful of neighborhoods [...]

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Gov. announces HUD loan application for Museum Plaza

June 25, 2010 – 1:32 pm

Standing in front of Museum Plaza’s idle construction site near the Muhammad Ali Center, Gov. Steve Beshear announced the state’s plan to submit an application for a $100 million federal loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to jump start the project. “Tough economic times mean we must be more creative [...]

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Allen campaign teases neighborhood vision

March 31, 2010 – 5:10 pm

Using a presentation technique that he perfected as a grassroots activist, Democratic mayoral candidate Tyler Allen unveiled a campaign video today that conveys his vision for revitalizing Louisville’s debilitated neighborhoods. The abandoned buildings and other eyesores featured in the short teaser were taken from the co-founder of 8664′s recent visit to parts of Southwestern Louisville [...]

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Landmark Rubbertown Study Unveiled, Ignored

March 4, 2010 – 5:46 pm

Last Tuesday night, a forum was held at the Nia Center‘s Economic Opportunity Campus to hash out the current and future state of Metro Louisville’s most polluted neighborhood. Dubbed the “Rubbertown Economic Development Strategy Meeting,” the 90 minute presentation, compiled by Interface Studio, LLC,  brought together some 20 Rubbertown residents whom provided input on a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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