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LIBRARY LANE

LOCATION: Louisville, KY
DATE COMPLETED: 2019
CLIENT: Louisville Metro Department of Advanced Planning

HDLA worked with the City of Louisville’s Department of Advanced Planning and Sustainability to activate the underused Library Lane corridor. The Library Lane corridor connects the historic downtown Louisville Library to Spalding University Memorial Park and numerous educational institutions via an alley that currently acts as both pedestrian connection, vehicular drop off and circulation and utility corridor. Included in the scope was the master planning for Memorial Park and the Historic Library connection. Memorial Park an underutilized and unsafe municipal park adjacent to Memorial Auditorium that would act as a new vibrant destination for the surrounding neighborhoods and provide opportunities for events at Memorial Auditorium to happen outside and in conjunction with other surrounding businesses. The Historic Library connection is designed to limit the current pedestrian and vehicular conflicts and to provide new space for spill out events from the library.