• Commission landmarks East Broadway home where Thorntons plans to develop

    By Caitlin Bowling | Posted on June 16, 2017

    Correction appended. The Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission Thursday narrowly voted to landmark a 120-year-old house at 1240 E. Broadway, a property that was set to be demolished as part of a Thorntons gas station development at Broadway and Baxter Avenue. “I am going...

  • Swift Pork implementing more ‘humane’ slaughter method

    By Caitlin Bowling | Posted on April 18, 2016

    The Board of Zoning Adjustment on Monday approved plans allowing the pork processing company JBS/Swift Pork Co. to implement a new slaughtering system at its facilities at 1200 Story Ave. in Butchertown. The new slaughtering process, which uses carbon dioxide, is already used at JBS USA‘s...

  • New $20 million downtown hotel headed toward final approval

    By Caitlin Bowling | Posted on March 25, 2016

    The eight-story, 133-room Homewood Suites downtown only has one more hurdle left before construction can begin. The Land Development and Transportation Committee was expected to hear the case Thursday, but it was continued until April 6. Glenn Price, the attorney with Frost Brown Todd,...

  • Clifton residents tell apartment developer to build it, but build it right

    By Terry Boyd | Posted on February 12, 2014

    The Clifton neighborhood, with its strong restaurant scene and wide variety of retail, is the urban Louisville neighborhood where everyone seems to want to live these days. Which is why an Indianapolis multi-unit residential developer is considering a 100-plus unit complex for the former...