Fourth Street Live! is a 350,000 square foot (33,000 m 2 ) entertainment and retail complex located on 4th Street, between Liberty and Muhammad Ali Boulevard, in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Owned and developed by Cordish Company; it was designed by Louisville architects, Bravura Corporation. Fourth Street Live! first opened to the public on June 1, 2004, and all stores were completed for opening on October 30, 2004. City planners are hoping that the district will attract further commercial business development while providing an attractive venue for hotel and business city tourists as well as locals.
Restaurants and entertainment venues in the complex include Gordon Biersch Brewing Company, Hard Rock Cafe, T.G.I. Friday's, Birracibo, The Sports & amp; Social Club (bowling alley and restaurant), Tavern on Fourth, The Fudgery, Bourbon Raw and Guy Fieri's new Smokehouse.
Fourth Street Live! also has a variety of bars and nightclubs including Tavern at Fourth, The Sports & amp; Social Club, Howl at the Moon, and PBR Louisville.
A mall-style food court is also located in a complex with restaurants like Subway, and Philly Station. There are also retail stores including Footlocker and T-Mobile.
Traffic on 4th Street through the complex is usually closed for large public meetings such as music concerts and other events.
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History
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Fourth Street Live! started as a downtown revitalization project to redesign and modernize the former Louisville Galleria, a similar project but failed to open in the early 1980s with the same goal of revitalizing downtown. The Galleria, in turn, has been built on the site of the River City Mall , which opened in 1973, also with a similar purpose revitalizing downtown. Fourth Street itself has long been a major shopping and entertainment destination in Downtown Louisville.
The idea of ​​turning Fourth Street into a pedestrian mall actually dates back to 1943, when mayor Wilson W. Wyatt suggested the idea. The proposal was drafted over the years but funding for the $ 1.5 million River City Mall project was not secured until 1971. The mall initially stretched all the way from Liberty to Broadway, and was initially successful, but over the years the vehicle traffic was slowly reintroduced and the mall scaled back.
Renter changes
On February 16, 2007, the Louisville Convention & amp; The Visitor Bureau opens a new Visitor Information Center at the north entrance to Fourth Street Live. The new center totals nearly 3,000 square feet (280 m 2 ), and includes two permanent exhibits, where visitors can learn about the stories of two of Kentucky's most famous icons: Kentucky Bourbon and Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The center will also provide information to outsiders passing through the walls of high-tech videos that will run videos on various cultural events and attractions.
Expansion
On May 8, 2017, the Cordish Company announced that it would expand the district with the addition of Louisville Spark, a new collaborative workspace to be held in 2018. References
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Events
Some events are held at Fourth Street Live! in the past have included national action in concert, such as Kid Rock, 3 Doors Down, OAR, Sister Hazel, VHS or Beta, Goo Dolls, Tracy Lawrence, Jason Michael Carroll, Jake Owen, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Clay Walker, Three Dog Night, Ã,! Smack Talk !, Phil Vassar, Buddy Jewell, Emerson Drive, Finger Eleven, The Marshall Tucker Band, Little Texas, Blue October, Shiny Toy Guns, Gavin Degraw, Femmes Violence, Gretchen Wilson, Justin Bieber The Big Band Theory-USA and many others.
Louisville University's annual "Run for the L of It" begins and ends at Fourth Street Live. Also, the finish line of the Louisville Ironman Triathlon, which debuted in 2007, is located on Fourth Street Live. The Venue also holds an annual event celebrating Kentucky Derby and is a "Cup Village" when Louisville host the 2008 Ryder Cup and often holds parades and celebrations for the University of Louisville athletics team including for teams that make the 2005 Final Four, the 2007 Orange Bowl and 2007 College World Series. During Summer, Fourth Street Live hosted the Summer Concert Series, which is a series of concerts featuring top national events. The Mardi Gras marches, Halloween trick-or-treating, and New Year's celebrations are another popular annual event in the venue.
The venue will also be part of the annual holiday extravaganza, Holiday in the City.
See also
- Louisville Hour, at Theater Square
- List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area
References
External links
- Fourth Street Live! official website
- The Cordish Company - The company that develops and operates Fourth Street Live!
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