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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