by Bailey Loosemore, @bloosemore – The ladies of the morning are heading to Butchertown. This week, Leslie Wilson and Annie Harlow – owners of the Hi-Five Doughnuts food truck – announced plans to open a permanent storefront on Main Street near the intersection of Story Avenue by the end of the year. The co-owners have built a strong following…
Hi-Five Doughnuts is opening its first brick-and-mortar location. | Photo by Nerissa Sparkman Hi-Five Doughnuts is the sprinkles on the doughnut for ButcherBlock, a nine property mixed-used development in the heart of Butchertown. The mobile Louisville bakery is opening a brick-and-mortar location at 1011 E. Main St. at the end of this year. Owners Annie Harlow and Leslie…
The new Butchertown development Butcherblock is filling up fast. Insider Louisville broke the news last year that developer Andy Blieden was renovating nine properties in Butchertown, four that he plans to rent as apartments and five that will house new businesses. As of the New Year, Blieden had signed lease agreements with the owners of a home goods…
by Dana McMahan, Special to the Courier-Journal – Two of the most popular street foods in Vietnam – pho and banh mi – are coming to Butchertown this summer, when Pho Ba Luu opens. The fast, casual restaurant is underway at Butcherblock Properties, a nine-building complex from Andy Blieden at 1009–1019 East Main Street. The traditionally…
by BORIS LADWIG – The Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant on Bardstown Road beckons passersby with its sleek, mostly black exterior, lots of windows and sharp angles. The eatery’s interior welcomes patrons with square wooden tables, brick walls and a psychedelic centerpiece above a counter that reveals the shiny, stainless steel of the pizza ovens. The upstairs portion of the…
by Sheldon S. Shafer, @sheldonshafer – (Photo: Google Street View) A development group headed by Andy Blieden intends to develop 10 parcels in Butchertown along Wenzel Street with a combination of residences, commercial uses, studios and a restaurant. Blieden, doing business as Butcher Block Properties LLC, has filed documents with the Metro Department of Planning and…
Andy Blieden, owner of Butchertown Market, was featured as a panelist in Insider Louisville’s August Insiders Meetup. The event was dubbed “The Butchertown Renaissance” and featured a panel of visionaries who were among the first to roll the dice and invest in this pivotal area town. Andy was joined on the panel by Joe Heron…
