Bi-Weekly Update - 3/14/01

Look for our next eMain Neighborhood update on March 28, 2001

 

eMain Neighborhood Team Meeting and Reports

 

Clock Tower

The renderings for the completed Clock Tower Building were presented. There will be a two-story mezzanine lobby at its Washington Street entrance. A technology theme will be seen throughout the building. Bi-weekly photographs of the construction are now being posted to the eMain Neighborhood web site. Anyone interested in the renovation can now follow the progress.

 

Street Scape

The landscape and architecture firm that is working on Main Street will survey Floyd and Preston Streets and the Market-Main Street loop where light rail may be developed. Also the weekend of the 16^th and 17^th the intersection at Main and 2^nd Street at the Clark Memorial Bridge will be closed, Public Works will be designing a giant brick Fleur De Lis in the middle of the intersection at the entrance to the bridge.

 

BCatalyst

The construction of bCatalyst's new building is complete. Tours are to begin in mid April.

 

 

ReLated Local nEWS

 

DSL access in works for 57 cities

In what one information-technology expert called "extremely big news" for Kentucky, BellSouth announced plans to expand high-speed DSL Internet access to 57 communities across the state this year. Gov. Paul Patton and other dignitaries from around the state hailed the hailed the expansion at a press conference in Frankfort yesterday. "It doesn't mean we're going to knock a home run, but it means we're in the game and have a chance for a home run," Patton said.

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/03/01/biz_bell.html

 

EMergINT, U of L coming to MedCenter One

Louisville Mayor David Armstrong announced Thursday that eMergINT Technologies Inc. would move its health data operations to MedCenter One from Norcross, Ga., an Atlanta suburb.

http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/03/05/story3.html

 

Two U of L entities form e-commerce business lab

Two University of Louisville organizations have come together to offer a computer laboratory to startups and existing companies looking to develop their e-commerce presence. The e-Commerce Lab at the Information Technology Resource Center on the university's Shelby Campus features 10 IBM computers, all with sophisticated software that has logistics and data-mining applications. The lab is the brainchild of U of L's Logistics and Distribution Institute (LoDI).

http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/03/05/story1.html

 

Unnamed developer plans to buy old railroad bridge
An undisclosed developer has signed a contract to buy the old Big Four Bridge and plans to convert it into a cross river.

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/03/05/ky_bridge.html

 

 

Industry ReLated nEWS

 

Demand still high for IT workers

Robert Lund of the recruitment management firm eJobs in Chicago noted, ''any type of wireless engineering discipline is really in demand and will continue to be for a significant period of time. The Web really is going wireless, the products are very sophisticated and the demand is just incredible for people. Java programmers are also in real demand."

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/03/05/bu030501s11425.htm

 

Web site will market goods by state's small producers

Kentuckyvirtual.com, a proposed Web site to market Kentucky, has potential to be the best thing to happen to Kentucky arts and crafts -- and individual producers -- since Phyllis George.

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/03/03/biz_virtual.html

 

 

Neighborhood Entertainment

 

Swanson Cralle

Call 589-5466 for more information.

 

Stevie Ray's Blues Bar Calendar of Events for March

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
12 Alligator Records Recording Artist Long John Hunter Showtime 8:00 PM $12	13 Blues Jam 9:00 - 11:30 PM No Cover	14 Roger "Hurricane" Wilson 9:00 PM	15 Kelly Richey Blues Band 9:30 PM	16 Sofa King Deluxe 7:30 PM Big Al & The Heavyweights 10:30 PM	17 Sofa King Deluxe 7:30 PM Big Al & The Heavyweights 10:30 PM
19 Blind Pig Records Recording Artist Debbie Davies Show at 8:00 PM $9	20 Blues Jam 9:00 - 11:30 PM No Cover	21 Susann Ley & Blue Streak 9:00 PM	22 Greg Schaber & High Street 9:30 PM	23 Jimmy Roberts Blues Band 7:30 PM The Beat Daddys  10:30 PM	24 Jimmy Roberts Blues Band 7:30 PM The Beat Daddys  10:30 PM
26 Alligator Records Recording Artist Little Charlie & The Nightcats Showtime 8:00 PM $12	27 CUSTOMER APPRECIATION NIGHT! Lamont Gillispie & 100 Proof Blues 6:00 - 8:00 PM Open House Blues Jam 9:00 - 11:30 PM	28 JSP Records Recording Artist Kris Wiley 9:00 PM	29 The Mudcats 9:30 PM	30 Planet Blues 7:30 PM Lamont Gillispie & 100 Proof Blues 10:30 PM	31 Planet Blues 7:30 PM Lamont Gillispie & 100 Proof Blues 10:30 PM

http://www.stevieraysbluesbar.com/