From Jim's Gun Room to Regalo in just a few (easy) months.

Bricklaying on the corner of Market and Pearl.

The transformation of the building so many of us will always associate with Jim's Gun Room proceeds apace.

The following photos chart the change, beginning last winter when Resch Construction got to work in earnest.

Then in spring.

And at the end of July.

Impressive. The completely remodeled apartment upstairs is gorgeous, and as far as I know, Regalo remains the intended retail occupant at street level.

"Indiana-centric" merchandise coming to downtown, courtesy of Regalo.

Hmm, perhaps that's why Hoosier Daddy didn't sell so well in Louisville?

Construction has resumed at the corner of Pearl and Market, where Steve Resch's continues to deconstruct in order to reconstruct the building we all know as Jim's Gun Room.

Except that Jim's Gun Room wasn't the most recent business to operate there, as suggested by Insider Louisville's correspondent, below.

Let's rewind to February, 2006, right here at NAC.

Sometimes, downtown actually benefits from addition through subtraction, as is the case of the forthcoming shutdown of Von’s Place, the wretched Budweiser & karaoke den located on the southeast corner of Market and Pearl in the 146-year-old (1950’s-era exterior remodeling) Bank of Salem building.

Okay, so this is a minor quibble, but just for the hell of it, here's another:

The store will be on the corner of Pearl and Market streets, right off the Sherman Minton Bridge exit.

Italics are mine. It's actually four or five blocks, depending on how on counts. I'll spare you my rant as to how minor factual inaccuracies can add up to major skewed gists. At any rate, Kaufman's piece still quite helpfully explains the back story of the Regalo gift shop, future occupant of the building being rebuilt by Resch.

Regalo opening two more locations – South Fourth Street and New Albany, by Steve Kaufman (Insider Louisville)

... As for Indiana, he says, that will be for all those Hoosiers who somehow never go across the bridge. “I grew up there,” (owner J.D.) Dotson says. “My mother still lives there. I know hard it is to get people to cross the river.”

For them, he says, the merchandise will be more Indiana-centric. “They don’t care so much about the fleur-de-lis over there.”