Group planning Indiana riverfront park terrified that Gahan will find a way to landscape his face on it.

And if Gahan doesn't get his way, he'll furlough Barksdale and build a wall in Silver Creek.

Group plans ‘world-class’ Indiana riverfront park near Falls of the Ohio, by Marcus Green (WDRB)

At a bend on the Indiana banks of the Ohio River, hardscrabble river camps give way to flood-prone woods. Stacks of crushed cars line a dead-end road. A landfill borders Silver Creek.

But to the nonprofit River Heritage Conservancy, the roughly 400-acre area near the Falls of the Ohio in Clarksville is the ideal spot for a park that would dwarf Louisville’s Waterfront Park and take in more land than Grant Park in Chicago ...

Mike Moore has a Jeff Boat dream ... we have a JeffBot luxury dog park.

River Ridge, the Clark Maritime Center, potential redevelopment at the soon to be vacated Jeff Boat property, and the South Clarksville/Colgate project.

All of it stops at Silver Creek. And what are our Floyd County Democratic Party leaders doing?

That's right. They're attempting to slime a Republican councilman with bogus charges of lying.

Is this really all they have to do with their time on the clock? Isn't it true that if YOU wasted time in this fashion at work, you'd get fired?

Mayor envisions retail, residences for Jeffboat property in lieu of shipyard, by Danielle Grady (Tom May Gazette)

JEFFERSONVILLE — Jeffboat’s location along the Ohio River is ideal for a barge manufacturer, but good for more than that.

Now that the shipyard is closing after 80 years in business, Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore has ambitious dreams for the 65-acre riverfront property.

In a statement Monday, Jeffboat’s parent company, American Commercial Lines, said only that it is reviewing the best alternative for the shipyard, which is expected to close in May. But Moore says that Jeffboat Vice President Mike Poindexter called him to say that the company has already ruled out opening or selling to another shipyard.

Moore had originally hoped that another shipyard could take Jeffboat’s place. Now, he’s thinking of the next best thing: retailers and residences — boosted by the property’s proximity to the river and to Louisville. Moore said he’s already been contacted by business people interested in the idea ...

Eminent domain? Is an Ohio River marina yet another Gahan expenditure on the down low?

The Green Mouse has received this note via the rumorama.

What's with this guy and water? Is it Freudian? First a bricks and mortar water park, then unaddressed storm water flooding taking the place of neighborhood splash pads, and now a marina.

The city has filed an eminent domain lawsuit against the owner of riverfront property near the 10th Street terminus. The city wants the riverfront property on the water side of the flood wall for the new "city marina."

What new city marina?

John Rosenbarger and David Duggins told him they'd already filed 25 such suits, and won them all. "We're very good at this," they threatened.

Bragging about stealing 25 properties from citizens? And what about crippling future property taxes through all the TIF bonds?

Is there a council person reading who'd like to do his or her job and verify these eminent domain lawsuits, as well as plans for a marina?

Because we KNOW you're reading.

Another idea far better than DNA's atrocious Come To City (aren't they all?): It's New Albany as the "Wild West Bank" of Louisville.

Previously I suggested New Albany be known as the "Right Bank" ... of the Ohio, of course, but I like this one better.

We're on the west side of the metroplex, after all, and no one grasps geography any longer, anyway. The Sherman Minton is the westernmost bridge.

A Wild West non-rule of law governs unregulated chaotic streets ... wait, there it is: "New Albany: Louisville's Wild West Bank."

To explain the photo: In Minneapolis, the Green Line light rail generally runs east-west, and so as it crosses the Mississippi, there's the East Bank and West Bank stations.

Puts "More to Explore" to shame, eh?

Coomes on waterside drinking.

There is an "eye of the beholder" aspect to all this, which probably makes sense. What doesn't make sense are the layers upon layers of alcohol regulation -- local, state, federal -- as reflect "thinking" that hasn't changed since Prohibition was repealed.

Booze blues: Liquor-shy Metro Council unwisely delays Waterfront tavern vote, by Steve Coomes (Insider Louisville)

It appears the Louisville Metro Council needs to get out more, as in across the Ohio River, to see what’s happening along the waterfront in New Albany, Jeffersonville and Clarksville. There are restaurants and bars popping up all the time along or near those shores, drawing hoards to the edge of the region’s most significant geographical feature while enjoying food and adult beverages.

Yes, beer, wine and spirits, because they can and have a right to, even if they’re not consumed with food.

A theory of river towns, civic assets and underperformance.

It's remarkable how at various points in their lives, New Albanians glance around them and remark, "well, we're just a dirty ol' river town, and things will never change here."

Seems Aaron Renn has heard it, too. Bluegill recommended this essay, and it's a stimulating read. It may actually be less of "it's in the water" than bad habits learned during two hundred years of practice.

On the Riverfront, by Aaron Renn (Urbanophile)

Thursday I took a look at my “Cincinnati conundrum,” namely how it’s possible for a city that has the greatest collection of civic assets of any city its size in America to underperform demographically and economically. In that piece I called out the sprawl angle. But today I want to take a different look at it by panning back the lens to see Cincinnati as simply one example of the river city.

There are four major cities laid out on an east-west corridor along the Ohio River: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis (which is not on the Ohio River, but close enough. I’ll leave Memphis and New Orleans out of it for now). All of these are richly endowed with civic assets like Cincinnati is, having far more than their fair share of great things, yet they’ve all been stagnant to slow growing for decades.