Downtown (Louisville, KY)
By Jessica Gaines Jarboe, Principal Broker
(Louisville Gaines Real Estate)
Right smack in downtown Louisville is a pedestrian mall that serves office workers during the daytime, attracts a nighttime crowd to its bars and restaurants, and provides another concert venue for the city. Fourth Street Live, marked by a giant guitar, in the part of Fourth St. between Liberty Street and Mohammad Ali Blvd., is the ideal destination for a night on the town for visitors and Louisville residents as well. The location is great - just a short walk from Waterfront Park, Yum! Center, Main Street, downtown hotels, and many other downtown attractions. After you attend another event in Waterfront Park or Yum!, you might sidestep the traffic and extend the fun by hanging out in Fourth Street Live for a bit. The parking in after 6pm weekdays and all weekend is free, which is one m...
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By Jessica Gaines Jarboe, Principal Broker
(Louisville Gaines Real Estate)
Ahoy! All music lovers, art lovers, and activists. This weekend, the maritime-themed Forecastle Festival of Music, Art, Activism® will bring 70 local and national bands, plus artists, and groups that promote environmentalism and healthy outdoor living to Waterfront Park along with tens of thousands of fans from around the world. Held from Friday, July 13 through Sunday, July 15, Forecastle promises non-stop music and plenty to do before, during, and after the festival. As the promoters note on the website, Louisville is located "within a day’s drive of half the U.S. population," so many visitors will be first-time tourists in the city. COS (Consequences of Sound), a website that lists and reviews musical events throughout the country offers a Beginner's Guide to help first timers find t...
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By The Miles & Smith Real Estate Group
(Keller Williams Realty Louisville East)
Investor alert- investment opportunity! Newer Downtown Louisville Condo construction, built in 2005. Condo may be purchased individually or as a package deal $170,000. Established tenants paying $750/month. Deeded Fee Simple, so no condo loan needed. Jefferson County PVA assessed value of $89,930. Condo located in Downtown Louisville- close to colleges, freeways, and the Ohio River to Indiana To view more photos of this Downtown Louisville condo click here To search all homes for sale in the Louisville area visit Louisville Homes For Sale
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By Jessica Gaines Jarboe, Principal Broker
(Louisville Gaines Real Estate)
If you have a sweet tooth and want to support local business in Louisville, you can do both by taking a trip to Muth’s Candy store at 630 E. Market St. A Louisville institution since 1921, the store is family owned and operated, with nieces and nephews of the original owners making the hand-dipped candy. Muth’s Candy was founded in 1921, by Rudy Muth and his wife, Isabelle. The confections were popular in among workers in the manufacturing plants and office along E. Market. The company survived the Depression, the great flood of 1937,and the World War II years when family an d friends donated their sugar rations to keep the store alive. As the neighborhood changed, many other businesses left the area.  Now, with the resurgence of the neighborhood as NuLu, business is booming once again....
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By Jessica Gaines Jarboe, Principal Broker
(Louisville Gaines Real Estate)
I was delighted to open my mail recently to receive an initiation to a wedding reception at the Ice House, at the old Arctic Ice Building at 217 East Main St. in the Gallery District in downtown Louisville.  The old structure was renovated as an event venue, but that is – excuse the pun – just the tip of the iceberg for development in the area. Now an event center, the building will accommodate 800 guests, but individual spaces within the center can host smaller groups: 50-75 in the conference center, 300 in the main hall, 150 on the terrace for a nice al fresco, and even 230 on the roof.  For cocktail parties and the like, where many will be standing, even more guests can comfortably mingle on multiple levels, inside and out.  The space can accommodate overflow between rooms, which are...
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By Dave Halpern, Louisville Short Sale Expert
(Dave Halpern Real Estate Agent, Inc., Louisville, KY (502) 664-7827)
The public is welcome to participate in placing 25,000 flags in Louisville Waterfront Park. The flags are positioned to spell out a giant USA. These pictures show thousands of flags on the Great Lawn at the foot of the Louisville skyline. The organizers are Flags4Vets: The National Flags for Veterans' Graves Program An excerpt from the Flags4Vets website: A VETERAN IS: Someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount of up to and including their life if needed.  That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. One-million-five-hundred-thousand of those checks were cashed for full-value in the last 235 years and the least we can do is put a flag on each of their graves...
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Our current economic times present most of us with a dilemma:  there are so many people in need, yet our own resources can't do enough to help them.  In particular, kids with cancer pull at our heartstrings.  Childhood cancer is the top cause of death among children in the U.S. and Canada, while 160,000 children worldwide are diagnosed each year.  Assuming that you can't write a big check to find a cure for children in Louisville and elsewhere, how can you help? On Sunday, March 13, Louisville will host an event to get to the roots of the problems: the annual St. Baldrick's Shaving Event will take place at Fourth Street Live . Over 100 volunteers will have their heads shaved by volunteer barbers to show their solidarity with children stricken with cancer - and to raise money for the cau...
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