Bi-Weekly Update - 12/15/00

eMain Team Meeting and Reports

Bellarmine

Bellarmineís Center for eWorld Education has completed its first executive education seminar Participants received over 60 hours of classroom instruction, which included a thorough analysis of an existing Louisville-based start-up company. Plans are underway for at least five additional seminars that will be delivered during the first half of 2001. These seminars will be shorter -- about 1-2 days each -- and will continue to be conducted at the Humana Waterside building.

Streetscape

Sidewalks between 2^nd and 6^th are undergoing landscaping and other improvements, and will include trees and park benches. The project is expected to be completed by the 2001 Kentucky Derby.

bCatalyst

bCatalyst continues to grow and plans to develop the area around their building as bCatalyst Corner. The company has also signed its first virtual tenant.

100 Main Street Block

Bravura expects to begin renovations of the 100 West Main Street block by the end of the year. The company hopes to complete renovations in 18-months.

ReLated nEWS

Louisville's eMain USA takes off in airline magazine

eMain USA is the focus of a story in Continental Airlines magazine.

http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2000/11/20/daily33.html

Redevelopment of First and Main corner fits Walters' vision for city's downtown

For the past decade, Jim Walters has looked out of his Bravura Corp. offices at First and Washington streets only to see a row of dilapidated Main Street structures falling increasingly into disrepair. The local architect, who has spent much of his professional career working on downtown redevelopment projects, recalls that looking at the "derelict buildings" inspired him to try "to imagine how one could change that and develop them into something that's worthwhile."

http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2000/11/27/story4.html

On the block

We're talking about Butchertown. There's a snazzy new baseball stadium an outfielder's throw away, plus easy access to Waterfront Park. A planned "Extreme Games" park for skater dudes, and the coming "eMain" district for Louisville's burgeoning high-tech industry also adjoin the Butchertown area

http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2000/11/20/story3.html

Water taxi may cruise riverfront in spring, Agency pursues agreement with boating family

As early as next spring, a water taxi may be operating on the Ohio River, making a regular, leisurely circuit up the Kentucky side and then across to Indiana and back.

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2000/0011/17/001117taxi.html

Industry ReLated nEWS

Cyber Sense

Learn new tricks from the old economy

It is different now. The world is changing once again. Just when we thought we could launch new dot-coms, run up the stock price, have a grand party and rejoice in a New Economy, reality has a nasty little way of sneaking in -- like Dr. Seuss' "Grinch Who Stole Christmas" -- and disrupting our pattern. Yes, it is different now for businesses in the New Economy.

http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2000/11/13/smallb2.html

Dot-com startup leaving Denver base for Louisville

A Denver-area startup company that specializes in the online recruiting of information technology workers plans to move its headquarters to Louisville in the next three or four months, a company official said.

http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2000/11/13/story8.html

E-commerce site must include what patrons want

A Web site today is no longer merely a statement of technological sophistication, it must respond to a need or create and respond to a need. Even the most conservative predictions indicate that for most businesses, the Web site will have to be able to transact business. Rather than waste money or lose competitive advantage, the time to refine your Web strategy is now.

http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2000/11/27/smallb6.html

Time has come to e-radicate the e's

The compulsion to create our own e-verbiage has turned being clever into a cottage industry. We can't seem to help ourselves. The problem is that clever becomes hackneyed, and hackneyed becomes silly. Witness: e-culture, e-page, e-vote, e-signature, e-volution, e-yada and e-sex. It's affecting our E-nglish. http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2000/11/20/editorial3.html

Small businesses learn to tap federal grants that help foot the bill for promising research

Many start-up businesses and researchers have promising innovations, but no money to develop their ideas. Federal programs that give money to qualified companies enables them to chase their dreams. The government, in turn, benefits from the innovations

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news/001211entr.html

Entertainment

Swanson Cralle

Presents review and preview: a showcase of gallery artists thru January 13. Call 589-5466 for more information.

Stevie Ray's Blues Bar Calendar of Events for November

Open at 4:00 PM
Happy Hour Specials
ALL NIGHT
$1 off all drinks

Blues Jam
9:00 - 11:30 PM
No Cover

Ron Harris & the Knott Brothers

9:00 PM

Sharon & the Boogie Boys
CHRISTMAS SHOW

9:30 PM

Jimmy Roberts Blues Band
7:30 PM

V-Groove
10:30 PM