Monday, October 29, 2007

More Housing on Main Street

Downtown continues to show strength as local developers have announced plans to renovate three buildings along West Main Street into housing and restaurants. The buildings, located at the corner of Main and Second, are adjacent to the proposed Iron Quarter retail and office development, as well as across the street from the planned Louisville Arena. Plans call for up to 32 condominium units as well as a locally owned Irish pub.

The structures feature cast iron facades and were constructed in the late 1800's. The facades will be refurbished and brought back to their original states. Bill Weyland, a local developer with tons of experience, has signed on as the principal architect and as a partner. He plans to have the buildings put onto the National Register of Historic Places so he can get federal tax credits for being involved in the project. Weyland has had several major projects in downtown Louisville where he used the federal tax credits to help finance his buildings.

The project will include an interior courtyard as well as maintain entrances on both Main Street and Washington Street in the rear. The buildings will each have a penthouse unit on the top floors, and will feature an industrial/modern look with exposed brick, hard woods, and stone.

After Todd Blue announced his plans for a major retail and office project in several of the buildings adjacent to this project, we knew it would only be a matter of time before the remaining few structures were snatched up for reuse.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like your blog. As a former Louisvillian it is nice to keep abreast of urban development. I checked out the "Iron Quarter" you mentioned and saw some of the other projects Cobalt is working on. It seems like the city will still face problems with the amount of space the downtown covers and the ability of people to efficiently navigate it. The city ought to upgrade TARC and consider lightrail.

Anonymous said...

Wow it looks the project looks great. Good luck to all....Interesting views. Thanks for blogging about this. Wish I saw this post earlier.

-Ella

makati condominiums said...

Hi Do you have some links or images where I can find this buildings? Thanks.

Arrielle P