Kentucky Towers

Kentucky Towers is an historic apartment building located in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA, at 430 W Muhammad Ali Blvd.[1]

History

The building was first built in 1925 on the corner of Fifth and Walnut streets as the Kentucky Hotel.[1] It was the last hotel built in Downtown Louisville before World War Two.[1] The late 1960s experienced a large growth in new apartment construction throughout the United States.[2] At the same time, some buildings were converted into apartment buildings, and in 1972 the Kentucky Hotel was converted to an apartment building and renamed the Kentucky Towers.[1][2] In 1978, the Louisville Board of Aldermen voted 6–5 to rename Walnut Street to Muhammad Ali Boulevard.[3] In 1997, Kentucky Towers was the largest residential building in Downtown Louisville.[4]

Building

The building is 19 stories and includes 285 apartments.[4] As of 1997, the swimming pool on the roof of the seventh floor was the highest swimming pool in the State of Kentucky.[4]

In 2005, the building was purchased for $7.65 million by a New York City investor Aaron Parnes.[5] In April 2010, PMR Companies, a local management company, began managing the building.[6]

Notable inhabitants
gollark: I also seem to not have blkid or lsblk.
gollark: Oh, correction, every *five* seconds.
gollark: ```03-01 21:54:43.706 492 492 F libc : Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0 in tid 492 (recovery), pid 492 (recovery)03-01 21:54:43.707 494 494 F libc : failed to exec crash_dump helper: No such file or directory03-01 21:54:43.708 492 492 F libc : crash_dump helper failed to exec03-01 21:54:48.709 496 496 W libc : Unable to set property "ro.twrp.boot" to "1": error code: 0xb03-01 21:54:48.710 496 496 W libc : Unable to set property "ro.twrp.version" to "3.4.0-TEST_MRMAZAK_10": error code: 0xb03-01 21:54:48.711 496 496 F libc : Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0 in tid 496 (recovery), pid 496 (recovery)03-01 21:54:48.714 498 498 F libc : failed to exec crash_dump helper: No such file or directory03-01 21:54:48.715 496 496 F libc : crash_dump helper failed to exec03-01 21:54:53.721 499 499 W libc : Unable to set property "ro.twrp.boot" to "1": error code: 0xb03-01 21:54:53.721 499 499 W libc : Unable to set property "ro.twrp.version" to "3.4.0-TEST_MRMAZAK_10": error code: 0xb03-01 21:54:53.722 499 499 F libc : Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0 in tid 499 (recovery), pid 499 (recovery)03-01 21:54:53.724 501 501 F libc : failed to exec crash_dump helper: No such file or directory03-01 21:54:53.725 499 499 F libc : crash_dump helper failed to exec```It seems to log this every few times a second, how amazing!
gollark: If it comes to it I *think* I can reflash it from the "MTK scatter tool" but this would require me to find a windows computer somewhere and such.
gollark: Or fastboot.

References
  1. Findling, John E. (2009). Louisville; Postcard History. Arcadia Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-7385-6788-4.
  2. Kieber, John E. (2001). The Encyclopedia of Louisville , Volume 2000. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-0-8131-2100-0.
  3. Hill, Bob (November 19, 2005). "Ali stirs conflicting emotions in hometown". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved December 22, 2006.
  4. Nold, Chip; Bahr, Bob (1997). Insiders' Guide to Louisville, Kentucky & Southern Indiana, 2nd. Globe Pequot. p. 278. ISBN 978-1-57380-043-3.
  5. Jeffords, Sarah (June 22, 2007). "Kentucky Towers undergoing $3.5 million in renovations; Occupancy is up sharply under new management". Business First of Louisville. Retrieved September 29, 2010.
  6. Elson, Martha (September 7, 2010). "Company transforming Cherokee Triangle site into corporate headquarters". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved January 8, 2016. (subscription required)
  7. Siemionow, Maria (2009). Face to Face: My Quest to Perform the First Full Face Transplant. Kaplan Publishing. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-60714-051-1. kentucky towers.

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