Bi-Weekly Update - 5/9/01

Look for our next eMain Neighborhood update on May 23, 2001

eMain Neighborhood Team Meeting and Reports

Waterfront Park Place

Development is moving along.  

 

Garage @ 1^st and Main Streets

Approval for the 11,000 sq ft parking garage is expected the week of May 7.

Bellarmine University

Bellarmine's Center for eWorld Education's first executive mini-seminar series is now sold out. It will focus on the challenges of valuing projects and ventures in the new economy. In addition, Bellarmine is also working to set up eWorld classes with Carnegie Mellon.

Cobalt Ventures

The building's renovation is coming along. Finishing touches are in the works including the elevator, which will be finished by May 4, and extensive landscaping. Not only has Cobalt Ventures drawn interest from the medical community to Inc. 500 companies, but has also high-end retail prospects. Greater Louisville Inc. will host an investor's quarterly briefing at Cobalt on May 17.

Related Local News

Spaceage: bCatalyst unveils its new First Street space

Its colors are muted purple, brown, black and gray. It has exposed brickwork and original wood beams combined with tiny halogen lights and Internet access everywhere. Welcome to bCatalyst's renovated new space in the heart of the eMain office district, so named for its intent to be a haven for high-tech businesses.

http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/04/16/story6.html

 

Enterprise Corp., bCatalyst team up on Web project

The Enterprise Corp. and bCatalyst Inc. have teamed up to create a Web site called "b-Link" that seeks to match regional investors with regional entrepreneurs seeking startup funding for their businesses. The goal behind b-Link is to boost the region's deal flow by building a database of qualified interested investors and entrepreneurs with business plans.

http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/04/30/story7.html 

 

Main Street project praised

Work got under way on a six-story office building downtown that one city official said will fill a ''missing tooth'' on Main Street. Mayor Dave Armstrong said the building would enhance the Main Street corridor's status as a center for urban vitality and economic opportunity. ''It's proof that people are coming back to the city.''

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/04/27/ke042701s16830.htm

 

Telemics gets $3 million in funding, leaves bCatalyst

Telemics recently was injected with $3 million in new funding. It has prospective clients waiting to try its product, and the company, which had only three employees 10 months ago, has grown signficantly. The company now has 19 employees and expects to hire 10 more this year. Telemics was the first company to receive a portion of bCatalyst's $10 million seed funding. With the $3 million in second-round funding that it recently received, it is the first to move out of the accelerator and operate on its own.

http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/04/23/story5.html

 

Gift helps Waterfront Park grow

A $4 million donation has pushed fund raising past the midway point for a $40 million expansion of Waterfront Park that would add 30 acres to Louisville's ''new front door.''

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/04/12/ke041201s11068.htm

 

Downtown's medical park will take on wider mission

Two business-development centers -- one devoted to technology, the other to medical and life sciences -- will come together in a joint project in downtown Louisville under a $5 million grant from the Kentucky Innovation Act. The project will double the size of what had been planned solely as the Louisville Medical Center Business Accelerator, which got a separate $5 million grant from the General Assembly last year.

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/04/06/bu040601s9069.htm

 

Industry-Related News

 

Staying on Track

A more rational exuberance toward the new tech-oriented economy marks the post-dot.bomb age. These days you will hear optimism and tough talks about business plans and clear missions from Louisville leaders. In their view, Louisville's slower start and steady pace are advantages -- offering the opportunity to learn from mistakes companies made in such cities as San Jose, Calif., and Austin, Texas, which have been rocked by recent declines in the high-tech arena.

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/04/23/bu042301s15062.htm

 

State puts high school courses online

About 350 students across the state are taking part in 21 online courses this year.

The virtual high school, which is in its first full year, seeks to expand course offerings throughout the state, particularly in small and rural schools where limits on teachers and funding prevent a wide array of course options.

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/04/23/ke042301s15112.htm

 

Web card store uses Kentuckian's art

Painted scenes of Louisville and Lexington are among the works of Versailles artist Missy Fox Trumbore featured on a Web site that sells original greeting cards. Trumbore's Louisville subjects include Locust Grove, the Brown and Seelbach hotels, Churchill Downs, the Louisville Slugger Museum, the city skyline and Farmington.

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/04/19/bu041901s13530.htm

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Neighborhood Entertainment

 

Slugger Field

May	Game Riverbats vs.	Time
Monday, May 7	Rochester	7:15
Wednesday, May 9	Rochester	11:15
Thursday, May 10	Rochester	7:15
Friday, May 11	Scranton/ W-B	7:15
Saturday, May 12	Scranton/W-B	6:15
Sunday, May 13	Scranton/ W-B	1:15
Monday, May 14	Scranton/ W-B	11:15
Thursday, May 24	Syracuse	7:15
Friday, May 25	Syracuse	7:15
Saturday, May 26	Syracuse	6:15
Sunday, May 27	Syracuse	7:15
Monday, May 28	Charlotte	1:15
Tuesday, May 29	Charlotte	7:15
Wednesday, May 30	Charlotte	7:15
Thursday, May 31	Charlotte	7:15

http://www.batsbaseball.com/

 

Swanson Cralle

Call 589-5466 for more information.

 

Stevie Ray's Blues Bar Calendar of Events for May

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	7 Blue Swing Shooz 9:00 - 11:30 PM	8 Blues Jam 9:00 - 11:30 PM No Cover	9 Ruf Records Recording Artist Larry Garner & the Boogaloo Blues Band Showtime 9:00 PM	10 Jony James Band 9:30 PM	11 Jim Diamond & The Blues Syndicate 7:30 PM V-Groove 10:30 PM	12 Jim Diamond & The Blues Syndicate 7:30 PM V-Groove 10:30 PM
13 closed	14 Ruf Records Recording Artist Walter Trout 8:00 PM $12	15 Blues Jam 9:00 - 11:30 PM No Cover	16 The Mudcats 9:00 PM	17 Greg Schaber & High Street 9:30 PM	18 KYANA Blues Society Blues Cruise Saturday MR 2 Blue 7:30 PM Microwave Dave & The Nukes 10:30 PM	19 KYANA Blues Society Blues Cruise Saturday MR 2 Blue 7:30 PM Microwave Dave & The Nukes 10:30 PM
20 Levon Helm & the Barn Burners featuring Bobby Keyes Doors open at 6:30 PM Showtime 8:00 PM $20	21 TBA 9:00 - 11:30 PM No Cover	22 Blues Jam 9:00 - 11:30 PM No Cover	23 Hi-Tone Records Recording Artist James Armstrong 9:00 PM	24 Planet Blues 9:30 PM	25 The Blues Drifters 7:30  PM The Beat Daddys 10:30 PM	26 The Blues Drifters 7:30 PM The Beat Daddys 10:30 PM
27 closed	28 River Bats 1:15 PM Live Blues After the Game Blue Swing Shooz 3:30 - 6:00 PM No Cover 21 and Over	29 Blues Jam 9:00 - 11:30 PM No Cover	30 Blue Swing Shooz 9:00 PM	31 Ron Harris & The Knott Brothers 9:30 PM

http://www.stevieraysbluesbar.com/