Beginnings: Origin Park plans are revealed.

The build-out of Origin Park is beginning in earnest. Last Thursday the plans were revealed.

The presentation by Guillermo (Gil) Penalosa, who began his career designing and developing parks in Bogotá, Colombia, is especially impressive. Watch the video and beware of the CAVE people.

Is it just me, or is a certain locale missing? We're included, but we're not inclusive.

Please don't tell me that our grand old Irritability City isn't playing ball on this laudable project.

Learn more here.

$130 million master plan unveiled for 600-acre Ohio River Park, by Marty Finley (Louisville Business First)

A 600-acre park planned along the Ohio River in Southern Indiana has been named Origin Park.

A new park that would transform part of the Ohio Riverfront in Southern Indiana is slated to cost $130 million and feature a series of high-quality amenities for the Louisville region.

The River Heritage Conservancy on Thursday evening unveiled a detailed plan for Origin Park, a 600-acre project that is expected to be noticeably larger than Louisville's Cherokee Park once completed. The site is near the Falls of the Ohio, where the Ohio River, Silver Creek and the Ohio River Greenway intersect.

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 ...