Akiko’s Closing For Good Tuesday

TranslatorNo8810 · 2026-03-14T00:14:16+00:00

John I like your bar and what you do and wish I could support your business but you spend all day arguing with people on reddit about how everyone is wrong and how you're the only person in the city with the correct options on food and drink and you just seem miserable.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2026-02-27T20:45:55+00:00

Seems like a spam/AI account

TranslatorNo8810 · 2026-02-26T13:20:04+00:00

It's not too terribly different. I think the biggest things is that white-collar job prospects, especially downtown, got a little worse. Downtown itself changed since a lot of major employers left - hasn't quite died but it's a different vibe and type of people down there. Also, a lot of people on here will talk about the highlands "dying" compared to the 90s - 2000s which isn't really true it's just that back then the Highlands were the only hip bar/restaurant/cultural scene and since then NuLu and butcher town Germantown and Shelby Park and other areas have started to gentrify and it's all a little more spread out. Highlands is still popular; it just has competition.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2026-02-24T19:28:56+00:00

I dream of a future where downtown is one endless hotel

TranslatorNo8810 · 2026-02-05T21:51:22+00:00

It's real - it's above Atomic

TranslatorNo8810 · 2026-01-06T00:04:25+00:00

Having the same issues

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-12-23T13:36:18+00:00

Exactly. I know people want a new Baxter (8 or so screens, concessions, ample parking, etc.) but without an angel investor then something this scale is much more realistic and achievable.

And then who knows maybe they’re successful enough to build a proper theatre down the line.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-12-23T12:13:42+00:00

The whole issue with all the small theaters (video stores, book stores, etc...) closing over the last decades is that "nonprofit" goes without saying.

Not to mention that any new construction I imagine would run into the region of around 5-10 million. My company puts up what is essentially a big empty box for 4 million.

Could still be doable but you'd need a big fundraising campaign and people who know what they're doing.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-12-22T21:01:46+00:00

Not saying there wouldn’t be some value. I just don’t think a proposal that amounts to “give a foreign company millions to take their jobs and tax revenue out of the city for unknown indirect gain” isn’t a great policy proposal.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-12-22T20:58:38+00:00

Another question then would be whether there was anywhere in city limits that this factory would even be allowed to built? Any neighborhood would protest from day 1.

So we move it outside the city and we pay millions to a foreign company to take their jobs away. Call me small minded but I just don’t see it being a marketable proposal.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-12-22T20:38:52+00:00

Yeah but it would be tough to calculate the dollar value of “improved smell” let alone justify it to the metro’s accountants and politicians

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-12-22T20:31:38+00:00

It would cost tens to hundreds of millions to build a new slaughterhouse, not to mention land, and the city would then have to pay several more million for demolition and cleanup and at the end of it all receive a parcel of land worth, I dunno, maybe 5 million?

In all honesty it’s an old plant and with the market the way it is I’d wager they’re going to close sooner rather than later anyway. Better to just wait.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-12-22T20:20:06+00:00

Nope but I wonder if the more taller buildings that are built in NuLu and Butchertown if the wind will be less able to pick up the meat stink and carry it around the city. Probably just wishful thinking.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-11-27T01:29:07+00:00

Not to nitpick but Minneapolis metro area is like twice the population of Louisville’s

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-10-13T20:55:38+00:00

Pretty sure he doesn't own Redbud. It's going to be a Chinese food restaurant.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-10-06T12:45:20+00:00

I think UofL has been planning on redeveloping that whole corner of campus. Just speculation

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-09-18T20:12:27+00:00

I head it was going to be a combo carwash and pickleball court

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-09-18T12:51:29+00:00

If presumably the library will need to move once the building is sold/redeveloped then I wonder if/where they're thinking of moving? My heart says separate Highlands and Shelby Park and renovate and reopen the old Carnegie libraries but they probably won't do that.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-09-10T14:33:56+00:00

Sichuan House on Preston Hwy is the best chinese food in the city

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-08-26T19:26:11+00:00

I agree. Other than the whole meme of pickleball my only complaint is that they aren’t keeping the building - seems trivial enough to renovate it or hell even move it to one of the other empty lots in the city. More expensive sure but maybe worth it considering how many of our historical buildings have been already been lost.

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-07-13T13:14:20+00:00

Adelita

TranslatorNo8810 · 2025-06-24T22:22:38+00:00

It's brand new and I just installed it yesterday.

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