Mitchell Hill Road in Fairdale is open to traffic again, more than a year and a half after flooding tore up the roadway north of Top Hill Road. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg announced the reopening on Friday, saying crews had finished stabilizing the hillside and rebuilding the road.
“Mitchell Hill Road is officially open again!” Greenberg wrote in a post on X, crediting the turnaround to the work crews put in over the stretch since the February 2025 flood. According to Mayor Craig Greenberg
, the road north of Top Hill Road was severely damaged by that flooding event and was closed for safety while its ground stability was studied, according to Louisville Metro Council District 13.
The mayor said the repair work went well beyond simple patchwork. Crews stabilized the hillside, improved drainage and rebuilt the roadway, Greenberg said, framing the finished project as a durability upgrade rather than a like-for-like fix.
Mayor Says Road Is Now Built to Last
“It's now safer, and stronger than before,” Greenberg said of the rebuilt stretch, describing it to residents who rely on Mitchell Hill Road. The February 2025 damage came during a broader flooding event across the region; a prolonged stretch of heavy rain brought widespread flooding to Kentucky over the weekend of February 15 and 16 that year, as reported by National Weather Service Louisville, with rainfall totals ranging from 2 to more than 6 inches in places.
The flooding damaged Mitchell Hill Road and raised safety concerns, setting up a repair job that stretched well past a year. Greenberg has previously credited the city's Department of Transportation, which he created, with the broader mission of completing projects meant to improve residents' day-to-day lives — and the Mitchell Hill Road rebuild fits squarely into that mandate.
Details that would typically round out a project like this — the repair's total cost, the contractor involved, a construction timeline or specific engineering changes made to the hillside — have not been made public. Residents who depend on the route have the mayor's word that the road built around Fairdale's Top Hill Road corridor is once again open for travel.
