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A city board was scheduled to hear the hotel company’s demolition request at a meeting on Wednesday that was subsequently cancelled.
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The hotel company applied last week for a demolition permit for the Odd Fellows building as part of a $1.2 million project to add indoor and outdoor courts on Muhammad Ali Boulevard
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled a historic building in downtown Louisville can be torn down.
The vote cleared the way for the building's owner, the Omni Hotel, to move forward with its plans to demolish it.
On Thursday night, the council voted to strip the historic landmark designation from the building, which allows its owner, the Omni Hotel, to move forward with tearing it down.
Omni Hotel, which has the rights to the building's future, requested the city demolish it in 2019.
The Omni Hotel, which contractually has control of the Odd Fellows Building's future, says it is old, has bad pipes, and isn't suitable for retail, so it intended to bulldoze it.
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Council members seek to preserve the building by making it a historic landmark.