Renovating downtown Featured  8:07am EDT June 28, 2006 As a
college student in Italy, C. William Weyland Jr. developed a
passion for the preservation of old building.  Today, that
passion has changed the landscape of downtown Louisville .  When
it was founded in 1993, Weyland’s CITY Properties Group operated
in the suburbs, designing communities and developing real
estate. Then in 1989, Weyland scored his biggest coup to date
with the purchase of the Kentucky Opera Building in downtown
Louisville.  The building was older and had a historical flavor,
but had fallen into disrepair. Following his passion, Weyland
restored the building and transformed it into a mixed-use
commercial and residential property while preserving its
historical integrity.  That was just the first of many such
projects for CITY Properties. It began acquiring historical
buildings and transforming them into mixed-use commercial and
residential properties while preserving their historical
features.  The projects had their critics, and some