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16 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 12.15 THE BIT HAIKU REVIEW CITY IN A SENTENCE Colonial Gardens FAKE OR NULU? BUILDING BLOODLINE OVERHEARD "I'm ready to call the Better Business Bureau. I'm ready to call my insurance company. Heck, I'm ready to call (WAVE-3 Troubleshooter) Eric Flack." — A woman at the downtown YMCA who seemed quite peeved with her roof contractor A $70 sustainable-cotton onesie with an embroidered fox and a $700 feather headdress. Answer: NuLu! Available at Scout. 1902 Frederick Carl Senning and his wife Minnie open a beer garden and restaurant as part of Senning's Park, at the corner of New Cut Road and Kenwood Drive. 1920 Louisville's frst zoo opens to keep business strong during Prohibition. Over the years, six Kentucky gubernatorial candidates will accept their nominations here. 1920s-'30s Ted Lewis and other Big Band-era musicians perform. 1939 The park closes. B.A. Watson buys the place and opens a restaurant named Colonial Gardens/Colonial Bar and Grill. 1950s The hub becomes a non-alcoholic teen bar. A fre causes $10,000 in damages. 818 W. Kenwood Drive 1956 Elvis performs. Late '70s Country music instead of rock, with a mechanical bull and line dancing. 2003 The businesses in the main building close. A Little Caesars and other small businesses operate in some of the newer structures on the property. 2008 Investors — David Jones, Rusty Gailor, Tim McDonogh and Charles West — team up as the South End Investment Group and attempt to demolish the building. 2009 With community support, the building receives landmark status, preventing the demolition. 2010 The Facebook page Restore Colonial Gardens is founded. 2013 The city buys the building for $430,000 from the Schmid family, who had owned it for several decades. 2014 Underhill Associates, also responsible for Germantown Mill Lofts and Westport Village, plans to fully renovate the building and build new retail, dining and commercial space. The city contributes $1.2 million to the 16,000-square-foot project. Little Caesars' lease ends in July 2017, pushing back the renovation. 2015 Codes and Regulations gives the city a public-nuisance violation for neglecting the shabby, fenced-up site, which is across from Iroquois Park. October 2015 The city begins demolishing the additions on the building to stabilize the historic section. Underhill Associates is working on the fnal design plan for the redevelopment. Food for Thought Phoenix Hill Tavern redevelopment project must have grocery. Bridge opens, bridge closes.