Five months after
[4], the former Café Metro, Pinotti’s Flower Shop, Farah Cleaners and other businesses—plans for the CVS project have been dropped—and efforts to designate the anchoring restaurant a protected landmark are well underway, with probable approval coming this fall.
“The Landmarks Commission did receive a petition to designate the Twig and Leaf a historic landmark,” says Dave Marchal, urban design administrator for the City of Louisville. “Now we have to write a report, take it to the Public Works Commission and have a hearing, and they may designate it.” Approval may come as early as this October.
Despite the area outcry (including
[5] that called upon its members to call the developers to voice their opposition) and the
[6] held on the subject—complete with
artist’s renderings of the proposed CVS
[7]—the development is not moving forward.
“Probably not on that particular location,” says Greg Potts of The Zaremba Group. We’ve pretty much dropped all our interest in it.”
Marchal says, “[Developers] may shop the idea around the neighborhood and try to build support, but that’s not happening.”
For now, Potts isn’t talking. “I don’t know. As soon as you publish [anything we say], people will read it and come after us again.”
CVS and The Zaremba Group never formally applied for the space.
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Photo: Eve Bohakel Lee