New 150-acre data center campus aims to attract big tech companies to Louisville

Published in the Louisville Courier Journal – January 17, 2025 by Matthew Glowicki A first-of-its-kind data center in Kentucky is planned for Louisville, expected to draw major technology companies to the area as they face growing demands of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. A 400-megawatt data center campus is in the works on some 150 … Continued

 

633-unit apartment complex breaks ground in Shepherdsville

Business First, January 8,2025 More housing is coming to Shepherdsville. Poe Companies broke ground on a 49.5-acre multi-family development off of Saltwell and Bel Lick Road in Bullitt County in November, Poe President Hank Hillebrand told Business First. The 633-unit Saltwell Springs complex will feature 528 apartments, including 324 one-bedroom, 180 two-bedroom and 24 three-bedroom … Continued

 

Stellar Snacks begins operations at Park Hill facility in Louisville’s West End

Stellar Snacks begins operations at Park Hill facility in Louisville’s West End Killian Baarlaer Louisville Courier Journal, Nov. 15, 2024. Full Story Here.  Stellar Snacks founders, local and state officials and dozens of new employees celebrated the grand opening of a facility in the Park Hill neighborhood that will create hundreds of jobs and attract millions … Continued

 

Stellar Snacks bringing hundreds of jobs to infamous Black Leaf site in west Louisville

The former Black Leaf property in Louisville’s West End, one of Kentucky’s most infamous Superfund sites, will house the operations of Stellar Snacks, Gov. Andy Beshear and other officials announced Tuesday. The Carson City, Nevada-based, woman-owned company plans to invest $137 million as it opens a production facility in a newly built 434,000-square-foot warehouse in the Park … Continued

 

Merry-Kay Poe has film featured at Tribeca

DON’T TELL A SOUL (DTAS) will have its World Premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival running from April 14 -26. DTAS is produced by Merry-Kay Poe (wife of Steve Poe) and Chris Mangano.  The film was shot in Kentucky and features several big Hollywood names like Rainn Wilson, Mena Suvari, Fionn Whitehead and Jack … Continued

 

WHITE LODGING ANNOUNCES GENERAL MANAGER FOR NEW AUSTIN MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN

White Lodging is excited to introduce David Meisner as the general manager for the Austin Marriott Downtown, which is slated to open its doors in summer 2020. David is currently the general manager of White Lodging’s Aloft and Element hotels in downtown Austin and will begin his new role in August 2019. “During his time at … Continued

 

DISTILLING WHISKEY ROW’S RESURGENCE

By Marty Finley – Reporter, Louisville Business First Jul 5, 2019 Eleven years after Julie Lavalle Jones moved back to Louisville from North Carolina to help bring her father’s vision for Whiskey Row alive, most of the work is finally nearing completion. Jones, who goes by Valle, and her brother, Stephen, have been working for … Continued

 

$24 million, 107-unit apartment complex opens along Louisville waterfront

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) –https://www.wdrb.com/news/million–unit-apartment-complex-opens-along-louisville-waterfront/article_cb2f7aa0-7359-11e9-a5b8-c7252c986a27.html The skyline along the Louisville waterfront is changing. A new $24 million luxury apartment complex called Waterside at River Park Place recently opened. Construction on the 107-unit complex started last winter. Developers say 16 of those units are already leased. Units range from studios to three-bedroom apartments with rent ranging from … Continued

 

Louisville’s hotel market is the hottest in the U.S.

The market for hotel rooms in Louisville is the fastest-growing in the nation, according to a new report from CBRE Research. The city had the biggest year-over-year increase in demand in the first quarter of 2019 at 11.4 percent. That tops the growth in demand nationally at 2.4 percent, according to the report. This comes after … Continued

 

Whiskey Row lands two new restaurants

Whiskey Row soon will add two more more restaurants to its growing culinary lineup. The developers of the dual-branded Hotel Distil and Moxy said that two new concepts — Repeal, an oak-fired steakhouse, and Zombie Taco, a food truck-inspired restaurant offering tacos, burritos and other Mexican cuisine — will open inside the hotels once they … Continued