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Business, Culture, Louisville, Non-Profits, Real-Estate August 16, 2018

LouisvilleKY Metro Government, Cities United and Kenan Charitable Trust Launch Russell: A Place of Promise

Louisville, KY., – Louisville Metro Government, Cities United and The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust announced the award of a $5 million grant to launch Russell: A Place of Promise, an initiative co-created with and accountable to Russell residents and stakeholders, and designed to be a national model for equitable community development in African-American communities. The initiative will connect Russell residents and businesses that have been the backbone of the neighborhood with opportunities to build long-term individual and community wealth so that planned and underway new investment creating a renaissance in Russell does not result in their displacement. This initiative…

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Business, Louisville, Real-Estate August 2, 2018

Realignment of Dixie Highway at Broadway in LouisvilleKY begins

Photos from Mayor Fisher’s Facebook page… Louisville, KY., – Mayor Greg Fischer helped break ground Thursday to begin construction of the long-planned realignment of the intersection of Eighteenth Street, Dixie Highway and Broadway. The $1.1 million project will ease traffic conditions at an intersection that is the hub of a major revitalization of the area. The Republic Bank Foundation YMCA and the new corporate headquarters of Passport Health Plan—projects totaling nearly $160 million and bringing over 500 jobs to the area—are both under construction at the intersection. Dixie Highway becomes Eighteenth Street as it moves northbound across Broadway. Navigating that…