CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: You know, the new, unsubsidized infill building where the Horseshoe Bar used to be (137 E. Spring).

August 12.

Circa early May. 

Windows and doors have been installed, and bricklaying has started.

Unsubsidized, entrepreneur-driven infill -- in downtown New Albany, without sewer tap-in waivers. Is it only a dream?

May 24: Matt Chalfant's infill construction at 137 E. Spring -- you know, where the Horseshoe Bar used to be.

May 24.

1988.

Matt Chalfant's infill construction at 137 E. Spring -- you know, where the Horseshoe Bar used to be.

It has quickly progressed from nothing to something.

Unsubsidized, entrepreneur-driven infill -- in downtown New Albany, though without sewer tap-in waivers.  Wow.

This lot has remained in a state of gravel since the Horseshoe Bar decided to fall to the ground one night in the 1990s. Here's a view of the bar in 1988, from the online.com/photo/FFC20873-8C67-405A-B18B-002037089514">Indiana History Room Archives.

I'm told this will become an office, not a bar.

Filling the holes in the streetscape? I'm for it, though expect to hear wails of anguish -- dude, we're losing six parking spaces!