If you’re a veteran Kentucky Derby visitor, you know that the “fastest two minutes” verbiage doesn’t apply to waiting for a cab to get to Churchill Down. Or waiting to be seated at your restaurant. Or sitting on hold for the reservations person at Jeff Ruby’s, or walking from the shuttle bus to the track [...]
It’s only getting worse. If you’re one who believes the measure of a big city is the hustle and bustle of its downtown office buildings, I recommend that you avert your eyes. The Class A vacancy rate in Louisville’s Central Business District, according to figures supplied to Insider Louisville every quarter by Commercial Kentucky Inc. [...]
The owners of Regalo, the popular gift shop that started on Barret Avenue in the Original Highlands , are slowly building a retail empire. Beginning this weekend, they’re opening a new downtown branch on South Fourth Street, just south of the Seelbach Hilton Hotel between Muhammad Ali and Chestnut. That whole block – right now [...]
The Neil Huffman Auto Group is in the process of expanding its already considerable presence on Dixie Highway. Next month, after a $3 million investment, the company will open its brand new Subaru showroom and service facility, next door to its current Volkswagen/Subaru/Mazda facility at 4926 Dixie Highway. (It’s a parcel where a Long John [...]
So is downtown Louisville really growing? Or not? No less than Forbes says “Yes!” Forbes just posted yet another piece highlighting Louisville, this time as a city with a hot downtown in “Downtowns: What’s Behind America’s Most Surprising Real Estate Boom.” We deal with so much gloom and doom here about our downtown. Insider Louisville brings [...]
We know for a smallish Southern/Mid Western city (take your pick), Louisville is influencing – or being influenced by – a lot of global trends. Culinary trends. Arts with 21C Museum Hotel. Theater with Actors Theatre. Even advertising and marketing with Brown-Forman and Humana here. But is it possible we missed the most unlikely of [...]
Jason Shepherd isn’t blowing smoke – he’s selling smoke, upscale cigars to be exact, at a new events venue alongside a shooting range. Think it’s easy to sell a cigar in today’s world? The short answer is: No. Not like it used to be. Forget those join-us-for-a-smoke lounges you may recall from 1990s-era cigar stores. [...]
The first big problem for Game, the new Lexington Avenue restaurant in the old Cycler’s Café space, will be to turn away all those gamer geeks who come in to spend an afternoon playing Mortal Kombat. It’s not that kind of game! The next big problem for Game will be to resist having itself called [...]
Experts Jay Gulick, John Lenihan and Tre Pryor reveal the suprising numbers behind Louisville’s real estate revival
Residential real estate in Louisville is finally starting to rebound. Prices are up. Mortgages are available. Homes are selling quickly. So quickly that the apocryphal stories are circulating of houses selling in 24 hours for 20 percent above the asking price. At least one real estate expert says they’re true. “Today, homes in certain neighborhoods [...]