rainy day demolition work on the former Urban Government Center.... abandoned by Louisville Metro a decade ago

tucking this image of the official "2017 Colonial Gardens Redevelopment Groundbreaking hat with the Dan Johnson embroidery signature" here for safekeeping

they gentrified Bologna sandwiches

continuing the Gatlinburgization of a historic neighborhood in Louisville

When Stephen Starring Grant was laid off, he moved home and spent a year as a rural postal worker. His memoir is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal, Tyler Austin Harper argues.

My latest here. Notable that less than an hour before this group released their report, legislators touted the awarding of a massive $147 million road paving contract... that only had a single bid. Details in story. #kyga25

"It's on the Louisville postcard. You can't get away from it. It's [in] the backdrop of every newscast, every national piece that's done in Louisville, it can't sit empty. It's a natural redevelopment of hospitality, residential, you could even sell condos in it" www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...

oh lord

celebrating over a decade of the Fiesta Bonita dinner special at El Tarasco on Preston

The last Kentucky Senate Democrat not from Louisville or Lexington has switched parties, announcing that she's becoming a Republican. “While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t leave the party — the party left me.” www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

when the spot has options

interesting "Letter from Louisville" in this month's 175th anniversary issue of @harpers.bsky.social connecting the Old National bank mass shooting, West End investment, Quintez Brown, and Kentucky's "powerful Daddies" harpers.org/archive/2025...

"Louisville, Kentucky’s pricing of the I-65 bridges has reduced traffic by half on I-65, and lowered total crossings of the Ohio River by 15 percent. "

bring back the Louisville Falls Fountain www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DtK...

me when the Cards are down any amount of points

ahhh yes private equity... a sector famously known for reinvesting in communities

This move by companies to the suburbs is a direct transfer of wealth away from employees and to employers. It makes commutes more expensive and risky, it reduces agglomeration and the ability to job switch, and it pits cities against each other in a property and sales tax race to the bottom.

"Smoketown is the last existing neighborhood in Louisville that was founded by formerly enslaved African Americans just after the Civil War." great piece from Michael L. Jones – Louisville Business First www.bizjournals.com/louisville/n...

from Ward Jolles at WAVE 3 NEWS - "Demo work is beginning over at the old Urban Government Center. Demo company owner tells me they were just granted the demo permit this morning at 10. "

what if we fixed the Barret & Ellison intersection? 🎥 from @michaelmobility.bsky.social

nice graphic from Cincinnati Enquirer data journalist Elizabeth B. Kim using data from @evictionlab.bsky.social www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

its hard out there for a shareholder

tryna catch a bus in Louisville rn

Courier Journal's architecture critic in 1978... 🥴

Hey everyone! For those who might not be familiar with our work, The Overhead Wire is a daily newsletter that's been sending since 2006. We go through about 1,500 news items on cities each day and pull out the most interesting ones and tag them by topic and city for our link archive. (1/x)

cool graphic of neu health grifters from @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

"Why have a planning commission? Why incur the expense of the planning commission? Why have a staff that's trained to look at development to make sure that they fit with all the codes and (regulations)? Why do that if you're going to overturn their decision?" www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

2005 is also right around when housing production (already low in some of our wealthiest cities) cratered and never recovered to pre-GFC levels

Cities like Atlanta, Denver and Minneapolis provide blueprints for how transit can improve neighborhoods without pushing people out. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/12/11/w...

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♫♫ your own.... personal... speed humps ♪♪ www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

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Louisville mentioned 🏇🏼🥃

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"Nobody's listening. Nobody cares." www.whas11.com/article/news...

love to bop to a headbanger about not bothering women at the club open.spotify.com/track/7iUOxg...

new Louisville flip disaster just dropped

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Louisville street railways through the years

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

"If General Motors and Dan Gilbert can’t secure the public funding they say they need to revamp the struggling Renaissance Center, the automaker says it’s prepared to demolish the five towers" www.freep.com/story/news/l...

holy shit i think we are back

"The governor of Pennsylvania is demanding that his state's Department of Transportation use money originally intended for highways to save the state's largest transit system" usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/27/p...

Dozens of red states sued to stop the release of their state transportation emissions data. A new report gives a glimpse into what they were trying to hide. @keawilson.bsky.social explains: usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/19/m...

A new study found co-living congregate housing could spur conversions of vacant offices, which are much costlier to convert to conventional housing. It could also return Seattle to its affordable single-room occupancy roots. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2024/11/21/t...

Kentucky League of Women Voters puts out new report showing state legislature continues to fast track bills and obstruct public participation. #kyga25

wherein Stephen Reily opines that manufacturing is the way to reverse Louisville's decline www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...