We almost went out to Iroqouis High (my alma mater) last night for the debating over whether or not Colonial Gardens should be protected by the Landmarks Commission. Since we would never have gotten back the three hours we would have been there, though, I’m kind of glad we didn’t make it. Besides, we needed […]

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Four years ago, TARC officials dropped the idea of light rail after spending $2 million on studies. The idea was to construct a line extending from downtown to the Snyder Freeway, basically along Interstate 65. The idea, called T2, generated plenty of excitement, but was doomed when no one could come up with a way […]

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In Irish Hill, the fight for the public swimming pool at Breslin Park may be on its last legs. Or maybe not.
Next week, Jack Trawick and Michael McCoy of the Center for Neighborhoods are the guest speakers at a special Irish Hill neighborhood meeting. They wrote a letter published in the C-J advocating that the […]

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Here’s another little investigation we missed last week. It’s more evidence that the pursuit of government money can be a handsomely rewarding, if illegal, occupation.
WLKY-TV’s Steve Burgin found out that $1.3 million in federal money had been paid to the Shiloh Baptist Revival Community Center in Parkland over a four-year period. The purpose was to […]

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This morning, the president of The Mardrian Group appeared on Francene’s Radio Show. Teresa Bridgewaters had a good complaint — her company is owed nearly $1 million for work it completed more than two years ago as the general contractor on the Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage. She doesn’t know if or when her company […]

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A Lot of Nuts: The state and city pitched in to buy a giant walnut farm out in J-town for about $1 million. $700K comes from the state’s Heritage Land Conservation Board, the rest ($292K) from David and Betty Jones. It protects a section of Floyds Fork from developers, and we like that.  The land […]

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I’m walking with Gill Holland, the man behind the city’s Green Building on Market Street, and am having trouble digesting this flurry of information. We start at his office in Gallery NuLu, where Holland gives me a quick tour of the Ashley Cecil-Sarah Lyon show while flipping lights off. Holland’s office isn’t what you’d expect […]

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Louisville isn’t done with arena football, but team ownership is considering a new home for the AF2 franchise in a new facility at Northern Kentucky University.
General manager Dave Berryman said the team’s ownership group is pursuing an Arena Football League franchise, a huge step up in quality of play and the amount of money involved.
“We’re […]

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Last week, we told you about the plans to develop a shopping center on an old junkyard in Irish Hill, across from Distillery Commons. The Poe Company wants to give the neighborhood a grocery, among other conveniences, on land that’s sitting empty.
The only problem — the Poe plan required moving a creek, and that wasn’t […]

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by Zak Owens 
Louisville Arena Authority chairman Jim Host is “cautiously optimistic” that the downtown arena project will have proper funding in place in the near future.
“There’s too much at stake for this state and this community to walk away from this deal at this point,” Host said at this morning’s Arena Authority meeting.
The Arena Authority […]

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