Louisville Magazine

MAR 2013

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13 ��� Great Northern Building Products, 901 S. 15th St. Growing manufacturer and distributor of construction products presided over by East Ender Neville Blakemore III. 14 ��� California Neighborhood Farmers��� Market, Victory Park, 22nd and Kentucky streets. 15 ��� St. Stephen Church, 1018 S. 15th St. Kevin Cosby���s ever-growing church, founded in 1926, has more plans for expansion. My Vision ���A hot spot of commerce west of the Ninth Street divide, self-determined by west Louisville residents and interests, would do wonders for the misperception of west Louisville as a no-man���s-land.��� ��� Jonathan Krigger, the CReW, a volunteer group with goals that range from providing access to healthier foods to improving education Muhammad Ali���s childhood home, 3302 Grand Ave. Bought last fall for $70,000 by Las Vegas realtor Jacob Weiss, who says he plans to restore the house to possibly include a museum or boxing club. ���What if we strongly encouraged and actively marketed west Louisville as a new business destination? What if, as a city of parks, we actually had a park in Parkland? What if we strongly encouraged the 19 chemical plants along the Rubbertown corridor to host an annual health fair with FREE health screenings and giveaways of inhalers and other needed medical supplies?��� ��� Attica Scott, District 1 councilwoman 17 ��� ���I���ve got a 100,000-square-foot building (on 15th Street) that we are willing to allow an artist to use as a canvas. Does that count?��� ��� Neville Blakemore, CEO, Great Northern Building Products 18 ��� ���There is a dignity in taking your family out for a meal, relaxing at a table and sharing stories, teaching your children how to order and how to treat waiters and waitresses with respect. I don���t see��restaurants��like that in the West End.��� ��� Mitchell L.H. Douglas, poet, professor, west Louisville native 16 ��� West End School, 3628 Virginia Ave. Free, private, K-8 school for boys who are on free or reduced lunch. In the works is the Darrell Grifmth Athletic Center scheduled to open on the grounds next year. Parkland Family Scholar House campus, 1309 Catalpa St. Ground broke in September for a $10 million renovation of the historic Parkland School, built in 1891, plus new construction to accommodate 48 singleparent families. Family Scholar House provides support for single-parent students to earn college degrees. 19 ��� West Louisville Talent Education Center, 1316 S. 28th St. Founded by classical violinist Keith Cook, who teaches music to kids 3 to 18 from Russell, Parkland, California and Shawnee. 20 ��� Vacant, industry-ready tract of land at the southwest corner of 18th and Broadway. Across from the old Philip Morris site that���ll be home for the new YMCA. ��� 21 Park DuValle. Completed in 1998 with some $180 million of public (HOPE VI grants) and private money as a ���traditional neighborhood development��� in the New Urbanist style, replacing the notorious Cotter public housing units. 22 ��� Accu-Tec International, 1735 W. Burnett Ave. This is the corporate ofmce for the global warehousing and distribution company, which also has ofmces in Frankfort. 23 ��� First Choice Market, 3044 Wilson Ave. The locally owned grocery opened last summer in Park DuValle as the anchor for the new Wilson Crossing retail center. 24 ��� Dream Team Ent, of��ces in west Louisville. An ���urban event��� planner that has brought to town such nationally known rap artists as T.I. and Young Jeezy and the R&B; group Jagged Edge. Business partners include Philip Thomas, Toney Frank Jr., Richard Ballard and former U of L football player Danny Mosby. ���Pick up the trash. The littering here is horrible.��� ��� Tiffany McCrary, student, Shawnee resident ���One of the biggest drawbacks to business is no access. You can get an industrial space in Bluegrass Industrial Park for $65 to $85 a square foot or you can get the same space in the West End for $5 a square foot. Generally, industrial people don���t care where the location is, but they have to be able to get their trucks in and out easily.��� ��� David Glauber, president, American Appraisers Corp. ���There are beautiful two- and three-story houses that would make great family homes. I would like to set up a non-promt designed to save the larger homes and corner stores, especially because some of the homes are among the most beautiful (in the city). I remodeled one myself; it���s Queen Anne-style from 1910.��� ��� Gary Watrous, architect, Portland resident ���Around the country there���s a movement to ���daylight��� historic streams. There used to be a number of streams in west Louisville. What would it take to daylight these, to make them not culverts but streams that could (spur) economic-development activities, like the River Walk in San Antonio?��� ��� Patti Clare, deputy director, Metro Department of Economic Growth and Innovation ���A boardwalk (along the river) mlled with restaurants, shops and boutiques, a visitors center. There could be boat rides, twilight cruises on the Belle and Spirit of Louisville, with the boardwalk as the boarding area. An arcade, kiddie rides, horseback riding and carriage rides along the river, bicycle rentals for rides along the river walk, street performances and a weekly or monthly mreworks show. I envision the Louisville Orchestra performing one of their concerts on the boardwalk.��� ��� Colleen Younger, executive director of administration and public affairs, Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator ���Where housing stock remains intact but badly in need of rehab, would a special housing code that allows cheaper but safe ���modernization��� help?��� ��� Tom Owen, District 8 councilman, historian 3.13 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 5 9

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