Iron Quarter

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Iron Quarter
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Location West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky
Status Planned
Estimated completion 2010 (est.)
Opening 2010 (est.)
Use Residential, commercial
Companies
Architect Jim Walters, Bravura Corporation
Developer Todd Blue

Iron Quarter is a planned $50 million redevelopment of most of the 100 block of West Main Street that will feature extensive office space and the first significant new retail space in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.

Developer Todd Blue plans the Iron Quarter project as an adjunct to the downtown arena, building a glass and steel structure that will tower over the historic West Main Street area.

He will develop the project behind the facades of some century-old buildings and hopes to complete the project in mid-2010.

Blue paid $4.75 million for nine adjoining tracts with eight empty storefronts in the block to a group headed by architect and developer Jim Walters, Bravura Corporation.

Walters announced plans to convert the same property into a mixed-use development called Whisky Row in 2000, but the project never materialized.

Blue said the name Iron Quarter is intended to reflect Main Street’s tradition of storefronts featuring cast iron and also that the Blue family made its fortune in the metals and scrap industry.

'Quarter' is intended to reflect a district, similar to the French Quarter in New Orleans.


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