Most people looked at the Louisville Galleria and saw an aging downtown retail complex. The Cordish Company saw the site of a hip, new entertainment mecca, with a Hard Rock Café, Borders Books and upscale places to eat, drink and play . . . bringing locals and visitors downtown.

Stites & Harbison's real estate attorneys--with Fred Joseph front-and-center-- helped Cordish deal with reams of red tape and handled the complicated sale of the 180,000-square-foot space.