Nestled between the venerable Palace Theatre and the iconic Brown Hotel , Theater Square in downtown Louisville help revitalize the Broadway-Fourth Street corridor in the mid-1980s with storefronts, performances and colorful features.

Theater Square, which debuted a few months after The Brown Hotel reopened to the public in 1985, is known to some for being the site of the quirky clock, a water fountain and a number of cafés and restaurants along Fourth Street. The Broadway-Brown Partnership sought to save the historic integrity of the area through a $45 million project, which also included preservation of the Kentucky and Ohio theaters, and the construction of a new parking garage.

For Louisville residents and tourists, the opening of Theater Square in October 1985 represented an

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