IT TAKES DECADES TO DESTROY A CITY. GETTING REAL IN LOUISVILLE
Neighborhood Planning and Preservation Inc.
NPP ANNUAL MEETING--SAVE THE DATE!
Saturday May 30, 2015 10a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
"What a Difference a Century, a Decade and Lack of True Vision Can Make"
Recently, a pair of tourists walked north on 4th Street from Broadway, stopped at 4th and Liberty & after looking both ways asked the first Louisvillian that passed " Can you tell us how to get to downtown?"
The response? "Get on I-65 North and drive to Indianapolis."
This true story and the loss of the annual Future Farmers of America convention to Indy confirm what most Louisvillians know. After decades of allowing a clueless elite re-design our city, we have lost a functional and economically sustainable downtown. Many of our neighborhoods have been sacrificed to urban decline or sprawl. The middle class is disappearing in a maze of "under-employment" as the cost of housing and all necessities climb.
The time has come to speak of decades of promises, circumventing the rules and the reality that ad campaigns have never been able to conceal. What is required to make Louisville truly "LIVE" again and a prosperous place for the taxpayers shouldering the many burdens resulting from bad policy? Join us, the Neighborhood Planning & Preservation (NPP) at the Main Library (4th & York) in the Centenniel Room on May 30th, as we celebrate our 12th anniversary and close out Preservation Month....and get real.
(The images show 4th & Liberty before and after the controversial demolition of the Will Sales Building in the 1970s (former home of the Courier Journal). Today, the Meidinger Tower stands in its place, usually half or more empty competing with a wealth of downtown office spaces that also sit empty because there are not enough businesses to fill them.)