SoFo Development
Creative Places for Urban People    
       
Bycks facade
Bycks before renovation
Bycks before renovation
Bycks before renovation
Bycks before renovation
Bycks before renovation
Bycks before renovation

 

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

Bycks Lofts (see images to left) is the conversion of the historic Bycks department store on Fourth Street in downtown Louisville into stunning live/work lofts. The fifteen live/work lofts include two retail stores on Fourth Street, a spectacular penthouse with a huge skylight, roof decks, floor to ceiling windows fronting Fourth Street, pine tongue and groove floors, exposed brick and private parking. Only four lofts remain, three stunning two bedroom lofts starting at $299,500 and the region's top loft penthouse - $875,000, featuring stunning windows, exposed brick, high ceilings and open floor plan. Secure parking is available directly behind Bycks Lofts at the Seelbach garage and is offered at half price to residents of Bycks Lofts. For more information and a tour of the site please contact David Barhorst.

Ice House Lofts, a moderately priced housing development at a stellar location next to Waterfront Park, Louisville Slugger Field, the proposed Iron Quarter District of Cobalt Ventures and the new Louisville Arena. 217 East Main Street is the largest tract of property that can be developed for housing in the middle of the before-mentioned attractions on East Main Street. Ice House Lofts will be the premiere loft housing location in the Waterfront Park, Main Street, and East Market Street Arts District neighborhood for young professionals with 56 one-bedroom lofts with on-site parking, balconies, and decks. Made of concrete, steel and insulating cork, the Ice House Lofts will also be economically "green" with very low utility costs. Each loft includes a bike locker for riding downtown and Waterfront Park.

       
     
Downtown Louisville

SoFo Development is a creative urban real estate development firm based in downtown Louisville Kentucky. We specialize in historic property redevelopment including the use of Federal Tax Credits in property renovations. We have the vision to find and/or create value in real estate, and are affiliated with some of the nation's leading experts in creative urban development.

If you own or know of a property in your downtown or city in need of an infusion of innovative thinking and capital, please contact me.

 

SoFo Development
David Barhorst, Owner
502-777-6007


536 South Fourth Street
Louisville, KY  40202

     

David BarhorstMANAGEMENT

David Barhorst has successfully owned and renovated historic property in Louisville’s historic neighborhoods including downtown Louisville, Cherokee Triangle, Tyler Park, Original Highlands, Irish Hill, Portland, Old Louisville, Butchertown and Phoenix Hill. As a director of the Bourbon Stockyards, the last inner city stockyards in the U.S., Barhorst successfully sold the 24-acre brownfield site to the Home of the Innocents which received a $7 million grant for Phase II from the State of Kentucky. As the former owner of the land at the corner of Payne Street and Baxter Avenue, Barhorst worked with City government to build an award winning housing development.

Barhorst is the owner of the historic Bycks department store building on Fourth Street in downtown Louisville, with plans to reposition it as a creative mixed-use development with lofts and independent restaurants/entertainment.

Honors:

Owner of SoFo Development, the developer of Bycks Lofts, downtown Louisville's first loft development on historic Fourth Street in over 40 years.

Co-author of Kentucky Senate Bill 41 which qualifies historic properties that are converted to hotels for a state sales tax rebate, 2000

Business First newspaper’s “Forty Under Forty Award” which honors the region’s young business leaders, 1998

Co-author of City of Louisville Resolution 51, Series 98 which created the “Fourth Street Entertainment District’, 1998

TARC’s “T2 Light Rail Award” for contribution to T2.

Louisville Magazine “Best of Louisville Award” for Tewligans, 1990.

Merrill Lynch’s “Top Gun Award”, 1989