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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello. Today, I'll be reading from business sources in Lexington
- 0:04and Louisville, including The Lane Report and others from around
- 0:07the Commonwealth. Your reader today is Julia Shane. As a reminder,
- 0:12RADIOI is a reading service intended for people who are
- 0:15blind or who have other disabilities that make it difficult
- 0:18to read printed material. Our first article comes from the
- 0:21April thirteenth, twenty twenty sixth edition of The Lane Report
- 0:25and is titled Limited Edition. Greater's ice Cream Flavor Released
- 0:30in honor of Kentucky Derby, The race to the most
- 0:33indulgent scoop of ice cream of the season has begun.
- 0:36Greater's ice Cream, America's oldest family owned and operated ice
- 0:40cream maker, famous for its French pot process, is releasing
- 0:45a new limited edition flavor for Derby season, Backstretch Bourbon Cherry.
- 0:51In a collaboration worthy of the Winter's Circle, Graters and
- 0:55Churchill Downs have teamed up to create a bourbon kissed
- 0:58ice cream blended with black cherries and praleens, intentionally crafted
- 1:03to capture the thrill, tradition, and pageantry of the race.
- 1:07This decadent flavor is an officially licensed ice cream of
- 1:10the Kentucky Derby. We long believed a collaboration between Graters
- 1:14and Churchill Downs was a natural fit, said Richard Grater,
- 1:18fourth generation president and CEO of Greater's ice Cream. When
- 1:23the Churchill Downs team visited Cincinnati late last year, they
- 1:27experienced our factory tour and tasted ice cream straight from
- 1:30our French pots, and we introduced them to what is
- 1:33now Backstretch Bourbon Cherry. The flavor and name were developed
- 1:38by Graters with their input, and Churchill Downs approved it
- 1:41on the very first bite. From that moment, we knew
- 1:44we had a winning flavor. Backstretch Bourbon Cherry is available
- 1:49starting today, April thirteenth for nationwide shipping at Greaters dot com,
- 1:54as well as by the pint and by the scoop
- 1:57at all Greater Scoop shops. Pints of Backstretched Bourbon Cherry
- 2:01can also be found starting April fifteenth at select grocery
- 2:05stores including Kroger in Ohio, Kentucky and Indianapolis, Dorothy Lane Markets,
- 2:12Jungle Gyms, and Central Market in Texas. Graters off to
- 2:16the Races collection to help fans celebrate the race weekend
- 2:20properly at home or with friends. Graters is offering three
- 2:24ice cream pack options in its Off to the Races
- 2:27collection for purchase online. The Backstretch six pint pack, two
- 2:33pints of Backstretch Bourbon cherry, one pint each of Madagascar vanilla,
- 2:38black raspberry chocolate chip, mint chocolate chip and salted caramel.
- 2:43The Winners Circle six pint pack featuring Kern's Kitchen Derby Pie.
- 2:49This bundle features two pints of Bourbon ball, one pint
- 2:53each of Madagascar, vanilla, black raspberry chocolate chip, mint chocolate
- 2:58chip and salted caramel, plus one of the iconic Kerns
- 3:02Derby Pies, the official pie of the Kentucky Derby Festival.
- 3:06The Trifecta Chip Wheeli's Pack. Greater's signature ice cream sandwiches
- 3:11offered in three different flavors, four of Backstretched Bourbon Cherry
- 3:17sandwich between two handmade sugar cookies, and four of Vanilla
- 3:22chocolate chip and black raspberry chocolate Chip, both between two
- 3:26handmade chocolate chip cookies. Greater's Backstretch Bourbon giveaway win free
- 3:32ice cream for a year. Greaters is taking Derby celebrations
- 3:36to a whole new level by giving fans the opportunity
- 3:39to win free ice cream for a year, no purchase necessary.
- 3:43One lucky winner will receive a free creat Your owned
- 3:47six pint pack every month for twelve months beginning May
- 3:50of twenty twenty six through April of twenty twenty seven.
- 3:54Five runners up will receive a free Creator owned six
- 3:58pint pack. The next start from the Lane report is
- 4:01titled EKU receives two million dollar investment from Gray Construction.
- 4:07Eastern Kentucky University EKU announced a two million dollar endowed
- 4:12gift from Gray, a nationally recognized construction and engineering firm,
- 4:17to advance eku's construction management program and strengthen one of
- 4:22Kentucky's most in demand workforce pipelines. The gift establishes an
- 4:27endowed professorship, funding a permanent faculty position in eku's construction
- 4:32management program. The endowed professorship will allow EKU to recruit
- 4:37and hire a new faculty member and ensure the role
- 4:41will remain in place in perpetuity, supporting generations of students.
- 4:46We are grateful for Gray's partnership with EKU, which has
- 4:50spanned multiple decades and created meaningful opportunities for our students,
- 4:54said EKU President David McFadden. Our construction management program is
- 5:00vital in shaping the infrastructure of the Commonwealth, and our
- 5:03graduates are helping to build and maintain it. This investment
- 5:07not only strengthens that work, but also marks the beginning
- 5:11of a broader effort to bring together alumni in industry
- 5:14partners and support of our students, expanding opportunities for scholarships,
- 5:19hands on learning, and internships that ensure graduates are workforce ready.
- 5:25We appreciate Gray for taking the lead in this effort.
- 5:29Gray the choice partner for industrial companies seeking design and
- 5:33construction services, employees nearly one hundred and fifty EKU alumni,
- 5:38with about twenty five percent beginning their careers at Gray
- 5:42through internships. We're extremely proud of this partnership and the
- 5:46role EKU has played in shaping so many of the
- 5:49people who make Gray what it is today, said Stephen Gray,
- 5:53President and CEO, Gray Incorporated. As we look ahead, we
- 5:58are excited about what we can continue to build together
- 6:02to create a stronger workforce for the industry and Kentucky.
- 6:06The continued collaboration between EKU and Gray provides valuable real
- 6:11world learning experiences for students while helping meet the needs
- 6:15across the commonwealth. At Gray, as you can imagine, we
- 6:20talk a lot about building, building, facilities, partnerships, and most importantly, people,
- 6:26and that starts long before someone ever steps onto a
- 6:29job site or into our offices, said Rebecca Gray, President
- 6:33and CEO of Gray Construction. For decades, EKU has been
- 6:38a place where that foundation is built, and we have
- 6:41been fortunate to witness it firsthand through internships, career fairs,
- 6:46and the many EKU graduates who have joined our team.
- 6:49Enrollment in eku's construction management program has increased forty one
- 6:53percent over the past two years, reflecting growing student interest
- 6:58and industry demand for skilled professionals. According to the US
- 7:02Bureau of Labor Statistics, the construction management industry is expected
- 7:07to grow by nine percent, much faster than the average
- 7:10for other occupations. Chris Schumacher, an EKU construction management graduate
- 7:16and business unit leader with Gray, so the program is
- 7:19built around real industry experience and preparing students for the future.
- 7:24To see Gray the company I'm proud to be a
- 7:27part of invest in the very program that helped shape
- 7:30my path. It really comes full circle, said Chris Schumacher.
- 7:34Nearly all EKU construction management students secure employment shortly after graduation,
- 7:40with ninety nine percent finding jobs within three months and
- 7:43more than ninety percent earning a median starting salary of
- 7:46sixty five thousand dollars. The next article from the Lane
- 7:50report is titled Kentucky communities can seek state money to
- 7:54boost workforce recruitment. As business continues to grow and expand
- 8:00and across the Commonwealth, the demand for strong and reliable
- 8:03workforce has steadily increased. To support this growth and strengthen
- 8:08local economies, the Kentucky General Assembly has taken steps to
- 8:12implement targeted, community driven programs aimed at attracting new residents
- 8:17to meet workforce needs. House Bill five seven six, sponsored
- 8:22by State Representative Robert duval of Bowling Green, establishes the
- 8:27Kentucky Talent Recruitment Grant Program and corresponding fund to bolster
- 8:32workforce development efforts statewide. A news release from the House
- 8:36Speaker's office says, this legislation has been signed by the
- 8:40Governor and delivered to the Secretary of State. Across Kentucky,
- 8:45we are seeing unprecedented economic momentum, and with that comes
- 8:49a growing demand for skilled workers. Duvall said, this legislation
- 8:54gives our communities the tools they need to actively recruit
- 8:57new residents, strengthen their work, and ensure that businesses have
- 9:02the talent necessary to continue expanding. The program would allow
- 9:07local communities to apply for grants to develop targeted recruitment
- 9:11initiatives designed to bring new workers and their families to Kentucky.
- 9:16The legislation creates a dedicated fund for the program and
- 9:20outlines reporting requirements for participating communities. Communities receiving grants would
- 9:27be performance based and require a twenty percent local match,
- 9:31ensuring local investment in the program. This is about more
- 9:35than just filling jobs. It's about building stronger communities and
- 9:39creating long term opportunities for families across the commonwealth. Duval
- 9:43added By partnering with local leaders and requiring meaningful investment
- 9:48at the community level, we are setting this program up
- 9:51for lasting success. According to the Kentucky Constitution, legislation unless
- 9:57it is a general appropriations bill or contains an emergency
- 10:01or special effective date, will take effect ninety days after
- 10:06the legislature adjourns. HB five seven six will take effect
- 10:10ninety days after the legislature adjourns the next article from
- 10:14the Lane Report is titled second one million dollar gift
- 10:18by Young Foundation aims to improve Kentucky mental health care
- 10:22access beneficiary one Quest Health addressing shortage of providers. One
- 10:29Quest Health, a leader in integrated physical and mental well being,
- 10:33has received a second one million dollar investment from the
- 10:36Young Family Foundation to support its efforts to increase the
- 10:40number of mental health providers. This second consecutive gift reaffirms
- 10:45the foundation's multi year pledge to provide Kentucky families with
- 10:50access to world class behavioral health services. The previous investment
- 10:55focused on infrastructure, digital access, and talent strategy. This latest
- 11:01one million dollar gift will underwrite personnel costs. Specifically, it
- 11:06will support the recruitment and retention of integrated medical care
- 11:10and clinical treatment service providers. The gift will benefit one
- 11:14quest Health's entire service region, which includes the Commonwealth of
- 11:18Kentucky as well as southern Ohio and Indiana. This investment
- 11:23arrives at a particularly critical time for Kentucky. Three point
- 11:28four million Kentuckians live in mental health professional shortage areas.
- 11:32Some Kentucky counties have a ratio of over four thousand
- 11:36citizens for every one mental health care professional. The national
- 11:40average is roughly three hundred fifty to one. These shortages
- 11:45play a role in fifty four point one percent of
- 11:48Kentucky youth with major depression receiving no treatment. The Foundation's
- 11:53second one million dollar investment in one Quest Health and
- 11:57as many years, reflects the Young Foundation's unwavering confidence in
- 12:02what this organization is building, said Derek Hout, Young Foundation Director.
- 12:08When you see a team dedicated to delivering integrated, whole
- 12:12person care to those who need it most, you don't
- 12:15step back, You lean in. This is all the more
- 12:19important when state and federal support is often insufficient or lacking.
- 12:24One Quest Health, previously known as CHNK Behavioral Health, continues
- 12:29to scale services to meet Kentucky's growing mental health crisis.
- 12:34The organization has increased its workforce and clinical capacity by
- 12:38one hundred and fifty percent since twenty twenty two. It
- 12:42established a partnership for workforce development with Northern Kentucky University,
- 12:47and last month announced the opening of a new Louisville
- 12:50outpatient facility. We serve a population that relies overwhelmingly on Medicaid,
- 12:57and we are proud to do so, but we cannot
- 13:00pretend that the current reimbursement landscape makes it easy, said
- 13:04Rick Worth, CEO of one Quest Health. The funding we
- 13:08receive from supporters like the Young Family Foundation is what
- 13:12allows us to retain exceptional clinical talent, expand integrated services,
- 13:18and keep our doors open to the people who need
- 13:21us most. Mister and miss Young, they're family members and
- 13:25the Foundation don't just believe in our mission, they make
- 13:28it financially viable. One Quest Health is dedicated to transforming
- 13:33America's health by championing a proactive, integrative approach to physical
- 13:39and mental well being. Built on the nearly one hundred
- 13:42and fifty year legacy of hn K behavioral health, one
- 13:46Quest empowers individuals and communities to move beyond reactive care,
- 13:51fostering healthier, more resilient lives through a scalable, sustainable, and
- 13:57empathy driven system of care. For fiscal year twenty twenty six,
- 14:02one Quest is on track to perform fifty thousand treatment
- 14:06services representing seven thousand client impacts across Kentucky and parts
- 14:11of Ohio and Indiana. The Young Family Foundation is based
- 14:16in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. Founded in twenty nineteen, it supports
- 14:21a variety of causes across multiple states. Primary funding focus
- 14:26areas include education, healthcare, community health, health and medical initiatives,
- 14:32health and wellness, school health, philanthropy, volunteerism, and grant making.
- 14:39Our next article comes from the latest edition of Business
- 14:42Lexington and is titled Chocomania Expands with housemade Gelato Shop,
- 14:47written by Shannon Clinton. Choc Omania's sister location is just
- 14:53as sweet as its sibling. Maltese, a new concept from
- 14:57sisters and co owners Christine Line Iris and Vonda Suahala,
- 15:03along with their mothers Saw has opened alongside Chocomania at
- 15:07Fayette Mall. Maltese is a new concept we created as
- 15:11an extension of our dessert brand, Chocomania. Shar Line said,
- 15:16after years of working with desserts and seeing the growing
- 15:19interests and high quality frozen desserts, we wanted to introduce
- 15:23something refreshing and different to the Lexington market. At Meltese,
- 15:28premium gelato is made fresh in store using high quality
- 15:32ingredients and offered in a variety of unique flavors. We
- 15:36also wanted to reflect part of our background and creativity,
- 15:40so many of the gelato options include Middle Eastern inspired
- 15:43flavors and twists alongside classic favorites, Sharlene said popular varieties
- 15:50include baclava and banana pudding. Meltese also offers wholesale gelato,
- 15:56meaning it may soon appear on menus at area restaurants
- 15:59and dessert shops. In other local food and beverage news,
- 16:04closures of Lexington area restaurants reached double digits in recent weeks,
- 16:08including Joela's Hot Chicken and Hamburg, Big City Pizza and Hamburg,
- 16:13and two Fazoli's locations at two one nine five Richmond
- 16:17Road in the Idel Hour Shopping Center and two two
- 16:21zero zero Nicholas Vielle Road in the Zandale Shopping Center.
- 16:24Also closing were The Goose at one seventy Jefferson Street
- 16:28in nearby ding Bat's Pizza at four seven one Jefferson Street.
- 16:33Moving into the former ding Bat's Pizza location is Rise
- 16:36Up Pizza, which previously operated at Gray Line Station and
- 16:40as a food truck favor at five seven four North Limestone,
- 16:46announced it would close at the end of April. The
- 16:49space will soon become home to Mulberry Street Bar and Kitchen,
- 16:53an adjacent kitchen for the bar and Arcade Arcadium Rotisserie
- 16:58Chicken restaurant Paula Azoul at five zero three South Upper
- 17:02Street has closed, but the space is expected to house
- 17:05a revived two Keys tavern, which has operated in several
- 17:09Lexington locations over the decades. Sam's Hot Dog Stand at
- 17:14one nine to two Lexington Green Circle closed in mid February,
- 17:18and Walk and Go at four to six Lexington Road
- 17:21and for Sales will close April twenty sixth as its
- 17:24owner retires. According to an announcement, Parisa International Supermarket at
- 17:29two six two six Richmond Road has been renamed Lexington
- 17:33International Market. The store continues to sell many of the
- 17:37same items, including halal meats, produce and specialty groceries, along
- 17:42with some new editions in the space most recently occupied
- 17:46by Bad Wolfburgers. At one four zero one North Forbes Road,
- 17:51a Columbian restaurant has opened Rico and Cicero, serving arapas,
- 17:57oblais and panadas and more. As of early March, Land
- 18:02was being cleared for a new Publix in Georgetown at
- 18:05Elkhorn Village Center at the intersection of Frankfurt Road in
- 18:09McLellan's Circle. Kaffean's Coffee House has opened at three eight
- 18:13zero one Nicholasville Center Drive, with the motto Come for
- 18:17the coffee, Stay for the vibes. The locally owned coffee
- 18:21offers a variety of coffee drinks, other beverages and food items.
- 18:26A new Jagger's location is set to open on April
- 18:29twenty second at three zero two nine Richmond Road. According
- 18:32to an announcement, Modern Pantry has opened a second location
- 18:36at five to one nine West Main Street in Lexington,
- 18:40offering seafood, Boils to Go, Drip and Class Seafood is
- 18:44a new addition to the shared kitchen at Southland Bagel
- 18:47four two eight Southland Drive. The next article comes from
- 18:51the April fourteenth, twenty twenty sixth edition of Louisville Business
- 18:55First and is titled Louisville Eye's Minor League Hockey as
- 18:59stepping Stone owned to NHL Ambitions, written by Stephen Schmidt.
- 19:05On Monday, news broke that Louisville is pursuing a new
- 19:08sports arena near Lynn Family Stadium. Those involved in conversations
- 19:12included John Nice, owner of Niece Ventures and an owner
- 19:16of Louisville's two pro soccer teams, real estate developers, Louisville
- 19:21mayor Craig Greenberg, a minor league hockey ownership group and
- 19:25a professional volleyball organization. On Tuesday, we got more clarity
- 19:30on what the facility may look like and host from
- 19:33Greg Pant, president and CEO of the Louisville Sports Commission.
- 19:38Fant declined to disclose the name of the minor league
- 19:40ownership group, but he did confirm that he has been
- 19:44in discussions with someone with multiple ECHL teams formerly known
- 19:49as the East Coast Hockey League before fully embracing its acronym,
- 19:53who was interested in bringing a team to Louisville. He
- 19:57did say that the ownership group is an out of
- 19:59town organization that is in sports at a very high
- 20:02level in bullish On Louisville. Besides an ECCHL team, said,
- 20:08the multi purpose arena could be home of the University
- 20:11of Louisville's men's and women's club hockey teams, U of
- 20:15L women's volleyball, a women's professional volleyball team, and provide
- 20:20a third ice arena for the metro area as a
- 20:23place for adult hockey leagues, high school teams, curling clubs,
- 20:27and other amateur ice sports. The venue, which is still
- 20:32in the early planning stages, would have two other sheets
- 20:35of ice to go along with the main one, with
- 20:37approximately sixty five hundred seats. There has been no estimated
- 20:42cost for the project. Others who have been in conversations
- 20:45with FANT are a group called Ice to Louisville, an
- 20:48organization that has been trying to get an alternative facility
- 20:52to Iceland Sports Complex for about ten years. It is
- 20:56composed of Clark Apshire, Kevin Metcalfe, and Brian Graham, the
- 21:01latter of whom is the head coach of the U
- 21:03of L men's club hockey team. Abshur, who played for
- 21:07U of L, serves on the board of the Kentucky
- 21:10Hockey Youth Association. We've identified multiple locations that could work,
- 21:15but it does seem that the one that would make
- 21:17the most sense in the preliminary findings is the Butchertown District,
- 21:21metcalf said, added Abshure, We're excited to see the possibility
- 21:26of expanding youth ice sports and the opportunity for the
- 21:30sports to grow using soccer as a framework to hire exposure.
- 21:35So how does Louisville get to the NHL, especially with
- 21:38two markets Nashville one hundred and seventy four miles away
- 21:42and Columbus two hundred six miles away. Within driving distance,
- 21:47there is, of course, the KFC Young Center in downtown Louisville,
- 21:51which seats more than twenty one thousand for basketball. Said
- 21:55that there were initial plans to install an ice plant
- 21:58needed to maintain a sheet of ice under the floor
- 22:00of that arena in two thousand and eight. Plans were
- 22:04scrapped in the eleventh hour when the recession hit the
- 22:06country that year. There are no working ice plants at
- 22:10Broadbent Arena or Freedom Hall. The city had a string
- 22:13of Minor League hockey teams throughout the years, most recently
- 22:16being the Louisville River Frogs from nineteen ninety five to
- 22:19nineteen ninety eight. In the ECHL, the team played at
- 22:24Broadbent Arena on a mobile rink. That team eventually became
- 22:28the Cincinnati Cyclones, which could now form a natural rivalry
- 22:33for a Louisville franchise along with the Indie fuel Up
- 22:37Interstate sixty five. Fant pointed out that this brand of
- 22:41ECHL has evolved from the mid nineties, with each team
- 22:45having minor league affiliations with the NHL, akin to the
- 22:49Double A ranks of Minor League Baseball. Like a good bourbon,
- 22:54there would need to be an aging process of several
- 22:56years of consistent support for a minor league team before
- 23:00attempting to attract an NHL franchise. I wholeheartedly believe there's
- 23:05opportunity in the future, and we have to have proof
- 23:08of concept that the sport will do well in Louisville,
- 23:11Fan said of the ECCHL. Make no mistake, the Young
- 23:15Center would be a fabulous NHL hockey arena at some
- 23:18point in the future, but you're probably not going to
- 23:21get an NHL team to just come straight to Louisville
- 23:25and drop into Louisville. We're going to have to grow
- 23:28it organically, and the president of that organic growth, Fan said,
- 23:33has been set by the story of the Louisville City FC,
- 23:37which was originally a franchise in Orlando, Florida that came
- 23:41to Louisville. Low City is part of the United Soccer League.
- 23:45If all goes as planned, the USL will start up
- 23:48the USL Premiere in twenty twenty eight as the second
- 23:51Division one rated men's soccer league in the United States
- 23:55as determined by US Soccer, along with Major League Soccer.
- 24:00Lou city hopes to be one of those premier teams.
- 24:03All of the things go hand in hand. Fan said,
- 24:06hockey is the exact same way. The next article from
- 24:10Louisville Business First is titled Outlet Shops of the Bluegrass
- 24:13add new retailers, written by Zach Owens. The Outlet Shops
- 24:18of the Bluegrass has added three more names to its
- 24:21tenant roster. The Simpsonville Outlet announced in a news release
- 24:25this week that Fabletics, Clark's, and Lee Wrangler have all
- 24:30opened at the shopping center this month. Fabletics opened April
- 24:34tenth and is scheduled to hold a grand opening celebration
- 24:37and ribbon cutting at ten am on April seventeenth. Clarks
- 24:42opened on April eleventh, followed by Lee Wrangler on April twelfth.
- 24:46According to the outlet center, the Lee Wrangler store is
- 24:49the only combined concept location for the brands in Kentucky.
- 24:53This marks an exciting period of growth for us. Deborah Greisinger,
- 24:57general manager at the Outlet Shops of the bl Grass,
- 25:00set in a news release with new brands, strong momentum,
- 25:04and more reasons to visit, we are continuing to deliver
- 25:07on our promise of more outlets and more savings. The
- 25:11outlet Mall will also add several other news stores this
- 25:14spring in the coming weeks. Outlet shops said Offline by
- 25:19Airy is expected to open April twenty seventh, followed by
- 25:22a Victoria's Secret on May first and five below in June.
- 25:27The newest openings also follow a mix of recent tenant
- 25:30activity at the Simpsonville property. Last August, Louisville based menswear
- 25:35retailer Dapper Pham opened its first brick and mortar store
- 25:39at the center, taking twenty three hundred square feet across
- 25:43from Abercombie and Fitch. Earlier, restaurantier Enrique Roman, founder of
- 25:49the El Nepal chain, opened and Dale Mexican restaurant at
- 25:53the Outlet Mall over Memorial Day weekend twenty twenty five.
- 25:57At the same time, the center has also seen some
- 26:00national retailers pulled back. Earlier this year, Louisville Business First
- 26:04reported that Francesca's was closing all stores, including its Simpson
- 26:08Bille boutique, amid a broader liquidation. Another national brand with
- 26:13local outlet presence, Eddie Bauer, was also tied to bankruptcy
- 26:17related store closure news this year after Catalyst Brands, the
- 26:21operator of its brick and mortar stores, filed for Chapter
- 26:25eleven bankruptcy protection. The Outlet Shops of the Bluegrass, opened
- 26:29in twenty fourteen in is Kentucky's largest outlet shopping destination,
- 26:33with more than eighty stores across roughly three hundred seventy
- 26:36thousand square feet. The property, owned by Horizon Group Properties
- 26:41of Rosemont, Illinois, is located off Interstate sixty four at
- 26:45Exit twenty eight in Simpsonville. The next article from Louisville
- 26:48Business First is titled Contentious Saint Matthew's apartment vote tabled,
- 26:54written by Olivia es Streit. A key vote on a proposed
- 26:58one hundred ninety nine unit apartment development in Saint Matthew's
- 27:02has been delayed following hours of public debate. During a
- 27:06meeting that stretched nearly five hours on April fourteenth, the
- 27:09Saint Matthews City Council did not take action on LDG
- 27:13developments planned Gilman's Point project along Westport Road, instead tabling
- 27:19a resolution as discussions continue. The development has drawn months
- 27:23of pushback from nearby residents, many of whom again voice
- 27:27concerns during Tuesday's meeting neighbors have questioned the project's density,
- 27:32how it fits into the surrounding single family area, and
- 27:35its potential impact on already congested traffic corridors. Some residents
- 27:40also raise concerns about the traffic studies submitted by the developer,
- 27:44arguing it is several years old and may not reflect
- 27:47current conditions along Westport Road. Developers have maintained the project
- 27:51would provide needed market rate housing in a centrally located area.
- 27:56City officials are expected to continue reviewing the plan. This
- 28:00concludes the reading of the most recent business news in Lexington, Louisville,
- 28:05and around the state. Your reader to day has been
- 28:07Julia Shane. If you have any questions or comments about
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