"Don't Put Me On The Electrical Side"

Visitors to the east wing of Louisville's Galt House Hotel regularly ask that they not be given rooms that face the Louisville Gas & Electric towers and electrical wires on the east side of the complex.

However, if the Unversity of Louisville's proposed new basketball arena were to be built at Second and Main, near that site, the customers' perspective would likely change.

The $381 million arena -- largely funded by bonds issued by the Louisville Arena Authority -- includes a plan to tear down LG&E's two electrical substations and raze its building at Third Street and River Road, modernizing and enclosing the equipment in a new building across Third Street.