eMAIN NEIGHBORHOOD TEAM MEETING AND REPORTS

Community@eMain
Completion of the Community@eMain site is moving along and a ribbon cutting ceremony has been set for December 16 along with the other new Clock Tower tenants, Enterprise Corp. and SBDC. JCPS has scheduled classes for youth and adults to begin in January 2003 and U of L will offer a Masters in Urban Planning class at the Clock Tower in January.

eMain Website
The website is currently undergoing changes. Look for a newly redesigned website next week.

Enterprise Corp. and SBDC
Construction has started at the Clock Tower Building on both the Enterprise Corp.’s and SBDC’s space. The doors to the Enterprise Corp.’s new space will officially open on January 2, 2003. A ribbon cutting has been scheduled for December 16 at 1:30 p.m.

First and Main Parking Garage
A ribbon-cutting is planned for the beginning of December 2002. Construction is moving along with completion expected by November 20, 2002. Spaces will cost $85/month with no reserved spaces. There will also be 12,000 sq. ft. of retail space.

MetaCyte/iTRC incubator
Construction is moving along with completion projected for mid-December, 2002. The ground floor of the building will have conference rooms and business office space, which will house the QuickStart program. The iTRC and an Internet café will be located on the second floor and MetaCyte will be located on the third floor. A tentative ribbon cutting has been scheduled for December 13, 2002.

Preston Point project
Completion on the seven-story Preston Point building with offices, shops and condominiums is expected for mid-May 2003.

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RELATED LOCAL NEWS

Schiller Hardware building to become commercial center
The old Schiller Hardware building on Market Street east of downtown will be reborn next summer as Cobalt Marketplace, a 40,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art merchant center blending offices, retail space and restaurants. Todd Blue, co-director of Cobalt Ventures LLC, which is developing the center, hopes it will reflect the bustling Market Street environment that existed when the building went up in 1880. The interior of the building will be gutted and rebuilt, and the exterior look will change as well, with the addition of new windows. But the goal is to ''keep authenticity and historic character,'' Blue said. The marketplace should ''reflect the other boutique businesses in the neighborhood'' and complement the nearby medical center complex and Louisville Slugger Field. ''Our intention is to accentuate everything that makes this area special.''
http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2002/10/16/bu101602s295944.htm

Business leaders get peek at new research facility
A centerpiece of Louisville's effort to increase biomedical and information-technology businesses had its coming-out party, as local business leaders got a sneak peek at a new building that will house fledgling companies in downtown Louisville. The building will feature a cafe with countertop phone and data ports, bamboo flooring, laboratory space and round conference rooms that fill its turret-like corner at Brook and Jefferson streets. The 201 E. Jefferson Street Building will be home to technology businesses that are still stretching their wings, providing facilities and support they likely couldn't afford on their own. From that standpoint, the building has just the right location -- squarely between the downtown medical center and the eMain USA tech district.
http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2002/10/30/bu103002s304366.htm

Bats still heavy hitters when it comes to fans
Among the sayings of legendary Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray is this one: "You can't beat fun at the old ballpark." Three years since the opening of 13,200-seat Louisville Slugger Field, it's evident that local baseball fans have taken that expression to heart in their support of the Louisville Bats. The hometown team ranks No. 4 in overall fan support among the 30 Triple-A franchises in the country, according to a new study compiled by Buffalo (N.Y.) Business First.
http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2002/10/14/story3.html

Changes in sight along riverfront
Waterfront Park is losing three billboards to improve appearances and is replacing the rock and gravel surface of some traffic islands to increase pedestrian safety. The Waterfront Development Corp.'s decision against renewing leases on the billboards is one ''we have long awaited,'' said Keith Eiken, executive director of Scenic Kentucky, which lobbies for beautification of public ways. ''Waterfront Park is a community gem and deserves to be free of commercial advertising.''
http://www.courierjournal.com/localnews/2002/10/29/ke102902s304003.htm

Grant to aid expansion of Extreme Park
The city has secured a $323,000 federal grant toward construction of the second phase of the Louisville Extreme Park, and Mayor Dave Armstrong has named a task force to raise the rest of the $2.2 million needed for the project. The 22-member task force -- co-chaired by Armstrong and businessman Jack Dulworth -- hopes to raise the money before Armstrong leaves office in early January. The group includes park users, city and Metro Parks representatives, and local convention officials. The park's second phase is to include 20,000 square feet of indoor skating and biking facilities with restrooms, a concession stand, lockers and a climbing wall.
http://www.courierjournal.com/localnews/2002/10/18/ke101802s297156.htm

Riverfront condo work expected to hasten
In what has become a familiar refrain, developer Jim Walters says he is close to finalizing a deal to put in place the last piece of financing on the much-delayed Waterfront Park Place project. Construction of the $42 million, 22-story luxury residential tower on the downtown riverfront has been halted on several occasions as developers sought to secure a large construction loan, but Walters, the project manager, said he now has "a commitment letter" from Compass Bank of Birmingham, Ala., for a $23.8 million loan that will enable work to move forward more quickly.
http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2002/10/21/story1.html

Idea of downtown roof garden to be cultivated at Glassworks
In a downtown area where large buildings instead of trees and green spaces line the street, Louisville officials are trying to transplant an idea from other cities: rooftop gardens. A model for an urban roof garden will be developed atop the nine-story Glassworks, an apartment, office and arts-studio project at Ninth and Market streets.
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2002/10/28/ke102802s303239.htm

INDUSTRY RELATED NEWS

City picked for debut of Web signal not tied to line of sight
US Wireless of Louisville will soon become the first company to offer non-line-of-sight wireless Internet service in a major metropolitan area, CEO L. Douglas Keeney said. In six to seven weeks, the broadband Internet service provider will deploy a system from the Kaden Tower in eastern Louisville ''which, if successful, will lead us down the path to having a metrowide overbuild'' of a wireless network, Keeney said.
http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2002/10/08/bu100802s290707.htm

Win.Net creates telecom unit to offer DSL service
Win.Net Inc. has added another division to its list of services: telecommunications. The company became a competitive local exchange carrier, or CLEC, in Kentucky in May and has filed paperwork in Indiana to do the same there. The designation allows Win.Net to use its own digital subscriber line equipment and lease space on DSL lines from wholesalers such as BellSouth Corp.
http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2002/10/21/story5.html

Autodemo signs national clients for Web demos
Louisville-based Autodemo, a privately held developer of software and Web site demonstrations, has signed separate agreements to develop "siteseer" demos for Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Forbes.com and NYTimes.com, according to a news release. The demos are online communication tools that help e-businesses showcase features and functions of their software applications and Web sites. Under the agreements, Autodemo has and will create a number of Web demonstrations for a variety of services of each Web site.
http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2002/10/07/daily27.html

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NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERTAINMENT

Slugger Field
http://www.batsbaseball.com/  

Swanson Cralle Gallery
Call 589-5466 for more information

Stevie Ray's Blues Bar
http://www.stevieraysbluesbar.com/

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