Louisville is the subject of the latest “36 Hours In...” feature in the New York Times. After getting the requisite “Louisville has more than the Kentucky Derby” line out of the way, writer Michael Washburn goes on to praise various parks, museums and restaurants across the city. He even mentions the developed half of Whiskey Row. The harshest criticism is reserved for 4th Street Live, which he calls overwrought, underthought and “frat-tastic.” You can read the full story here.
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April 3, 2011 at 10:25 am
stunoland
Louisville’s ability to market itself for tourism and business will be severely crippled if the city’s incompetent leadership builds one of the world’s ugliest highway interchanges on our image defining waterfront. It is possible to compete at the beginning of 21st century with 1950s style infrastructure defining a city. However, it will not be possible to compete with terribly designed 1950s style infrastructure in the mid 21st and early 22nd century. This epic mistake will doom Louisville to over 100 years of economic mediocrity. Notice how the article does not recommend visiting our central business district’s waterfront, our image defining gateway. People around the world understand that you cannot compete with a flyover expressway defining the River City.
April 4, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Harold Trainer
What was the purpose of the visit? Entertainment. That would not be good for Louisville unless you drink and party a lot and eat a lot of food. What about UPS, GE, Ford, new entrerpreneurial mayor, Metro Louisville, Louisville Peace Action COmmunity which forced Anne Northup out of congress and helped elect John Yarmuth and outstaning congressman to congress and protested strongly against the wars. This was a strange and weak 36 hours.