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Louisville’s 20-Year Transportation Plan, Move Louisville, Finally Released
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After more than a year-and-a-half of delays, Metro Louisville has finally released the Move Louisville report detailing the city’s strategic transportation plan for the next two decades. The report was unveiled at a press conference today at 10:00a.m.
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Louisville’s Parking Lots Win National Attention as Country’s Worst “Parking Crater”
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On Friday, Louisville received was awarded the dishonorable distinction as the city with the nation’s worst “parking crater,” a term for a vast area of surface level parking lots that deaden city block after city block. Streetsblog readers voted Louisville the winner of the “Golden Crater” trophy for a collection of parking lots in the SoBro neighborhood
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MSD Pushes to Build a Park-Topped Logan Street CSO Basin at Grade
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Call it a win for the Smoketown neighborhood. Mayor Greg Fischer and Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) Executive Director Tony Parrott have confirmed that the sewer agency will push to redesign the embattled Logan Street CSO Basin as an at-grade facility topped with a community-serving park. Fischer and Parrott met with leaders from the neighborhood including
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Louisville Eliminated From U.S. DOT’s Smart City Challenge
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Louisville’s bid for $50 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Smart City Challenge was cut short with the announcement of seven finalists in the competitive program seeking to assist “the country’s first city to fully integrate innovative technologies—self-driving cars, connected vehicles, and smart sensors—into their transportation network.” That’s two more finalists than
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Leading Pedestrian Intervals Make Crossing the Street a Little Safer in Downtown Louisville
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In an effort to increase street safety in Downtown Louisville, the city is making changes to the timing of traffic lights to promote slower speeds and to give people longer to cross the street. According to a report by WDRB’s Danielle Lama, those changes went live last week at 70 intersections in the core city. The
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High-Tech Trash Cans in Russell Bring Free Wi-Fi to Louisville’s Transit Stops
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When Massachusetts-based smart trash can company BigBelly announced plans last year to convert New York City’s rubbish bins into super-fast Wi-Fi hotspots, the international media took notice. Engadget, CityLab, Gizmag, HuffPo, and Popular Science all ran with the story. But while New York’s trash can proposal appears to have been carted off, Louisville has made
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Interview: Mayor Greg Fischer on What Louisville Does Right
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In late January, we profiled a report by Boston University and the U.S. Conference of Mayors that shows Louisville is often named by mayors of other cities as a source of policy inspiration. Louisville was cited as a source of inspiration at the same rate of high-profile cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland, Ore.
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This Eight-Story Hotel Is Planned to Fill a Decades-Old Parking Lot in Downtown Louisville
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Development in Downtown Louisville is now officially very exciting—soon construction crews will be in every corner of the core city with a variety of new projects. The latest it yet another hotel on the corner of West Market Street and Seventh Street on the site of a large surface level parking lot. Local developer Steve Poe of Poe
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Looking at Louisville’s Apartment Boom With Four Different Maps
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While the news cycle typically talks about individual development projects individually, looking at the bigger picture can reveal larger trends or insights. For instance, since we published our map roundup last week of the 16 biggest multi-family projects taking shape around Louisville, readers have been blown away with just how much development activity is happening around
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How Not to Handle Edge Conditions: The Case of the Nucleus Parking Garage
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Earlier this month, we discussed a parking garage that was approved by the Downtown Development Review Overlay (DDRO) committee back in October 2014. The very officially named J.D. Nichols Campus for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Parking Garage Structure is currently under construction on the corner of Preston Street and Jefferson Street on the eastern edge of Downtown.
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These 16 Multi-Family Housing Developments Are Reshaping Urban Living in Louisville
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Louisville is experiencing something of a residential boom as we enter 2016. Hundreds of new apartments are popping up in the city’s urban neighborhoods seemingly every week, from Germantown to Downtown and Clifton to Butchertown to Nulu, there’s no shortage of privately developed housing just wrapping up or just getting started. We rounded up 16
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Controversy Over Mall St. Matthews Illustrates Need for Real Public Space
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By now, what happened at Mall St. Matthews on Saturday, December 26 is old news. Then, what appears to be a group of foolish teenagers caught up in juvenile pranks was taken to the level of mindless absurdity when put in the hands of click-hungry local media. Labeled “riots” with wildly varying crowd estimates of hundreds up to
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