A single contested block near UK is the visible edge of a much larger transformation — and the fight coming this summer is really about whether Lexington has a plan for any of it.
On a Thursday night in late May, more than 150 people packed into Woodland Christian Church to hear a man from Colorado explain what he wanted to do with their corner.
Stuart Davis of Titan Investments laid out the plan: a seven-story building at Woodland Avenue and East High Street, retail on the ground floor, apartments above, geared toward — though, he was careful to add, not exclusive to — University of Kentucky students. When he reached the parking math — 53 spaces for a building with 260 bedrooms — and offered that residents could earn credits for not bringing a car while the company “worked to obtain” off-site parking, the room, by the Herald-Leader’s account, answered with jeers and eye rolls…