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Join us live: KY Inno's annual Startups to Watch Awards highlights early-stage companies that are poised to make big moves in the coming year. Join us 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27 at the Ice House, 226 E Washington St. Tickets for the event are available here . A plan for the future of the Mid City Mall site seems to be taking shape. But is it good enough?  We talk about it on this week's...

Access Louisville: Heart of the City: Our next live podcast is 4 p.m. Feb. 5. Join us as we talk about development within Louisville's urban core with Lee Weyland, of Core Real Estate, Hank Hillebrand, of the Poe Cos., and Rebecca Fleischaker, of the Louisville Downtown Partnership. Details and registration here . We've unplugged our crystal ball, waited five minutes, then plugged it bac...

Against the Grain wound down its operations at Louisville Slugger Field in late December. This week on the Access Louisville podcast, we chat with Sam Cruz, one of the founders of the brewery, about the closure and what's next for the Louisville beer brand. The company had been at Louisville Slugger Field for 14 years. It announced the closure in a Facebook post recently, saying its lease at...

A deal that would see the Humana Building, at 500 W. Main Street, redeveloped as a large hotel, seems to be cooking behind the scenes. LBF Senior Reporter Joel Stinnett broke the story recently and joins us on the Access Louisville podcast to tell us about what he's learned.  As reported on Dec. 12 , Louisville-based Poe Cos. is in the planning stages to convert the 26-story Humana Building i...

Louisville got a major economic development announcement recently with the news that multinational tech giant Foxconn is opening up a facility here — but it does raise some questions. We talk about what we know — and what we don't know— on this week's Access Louisville podcast. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and other officials announced on Tuesday, Dec. 9, that Foxconn Technology USA Corp....

We've got a classic restaurant news update on this week's Access Louisville podcast. We start things off by talking about Mashup Food Hall, which opened its doors at 750 E. Jefferson St. recently . Part of the $115 million NuLu Yard development from Weyland Ventures, Mashup Food Hall is home to six local vendors, including Dipped & Drizzled and Mable’s Southern Kitchen, Barcelona Bis...

A potential revamp of the Belvedere, along Louisville's waterfront, has been a big priority for Mayor Craig Greenberg. And it's a topic that got a lot of people talking thanks to a bold early design (which has now been abandoned.)  We get an in-depth update on the project this week on the Access Louisville podcast via an interview with Layla George, who's managing the reimagining ef...

We cover several interesting happenings around town this week on the Access Louisville podcast — including a nearly $36 million development that's under way in the Portland neighborhood.  LBF Senior Reporter Joel Stinnett was on hand earlier this week for the ground breaking of Liminal, located at 1416-1426 Lytle Street .  Antecedent Development and its partners are working on the project, wh...

We chat about a few new restaurants to check out around town, plus a few high-profile closures on this week's Access Louisville podcast.  To start off the show, we discuss the long-rumored return of Papalinos, a Highlands pizza joint that closed more than a decade ago but everyone remembers fondly.  As of Nov. 10, it's back, this time at 1022 Clarks Lane, explains LBF Restaurant Reporter...

It'll be hard for anyone in Louisville to forget last Tuesday, Nov. 4, and the crash of UPS Flight 2976. Around 5:15 p.m. that day, on what was shaping up to be a beautiful autumn evening, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 bound for Honolulu crashed during takeoff from Louisville, igniting a massive fire and creating an enormous smoke plume visible across the city. It's been hard to talk about a...

With only a few professional teams across the commonwealth, college athletics are the biggest show in Kentucky.  And we get down to the financials behind it on this week's Access Louisville podcast. Josh Heird, athletic director for the University of Louisville, and Marc Hill, deputy athletic director for the University of Kentucky join the show as special guests, alongside Louisville Busines...

Access Louisville Live: Our next live podcast is 4 p.m. Oct. 29. Join us as we talk money and college sports with University of Louisville AD Josh Heird and University of Kentucky Deputy AD Marc Hill. Details and registration here . What's a city without a robust arts scene? Kim Baker, president and CEO of Kentucky Performing Arts, joins us on the Access Louisville podcast this week.  Kentuck...

Access Louisville Live: Our next live podcast is 4 p.m. Oct. 29. Join us as we talk money and college sports with University of Louisville AD Josh Heird and University of Kentucky Deputy AD Marc Hill. Details and registration here . Soccer is big in Louisville — but is the stadium big enough? LBF Reporter Stephen P. Schmidt is on the Access Louisville podcast this week to talk about his recent int...

Access Louisville Live: Our next live podcast is 4 p.m. Oct. 29. Join us as we talk money and college sports with University of Louisville AD Josh Heird and University of Kentucky Deputy AD Marc Hill. Details and registration here . Will you be at Lynn Family Stadium next year when a new American football team kicks off?  We chat about the newly unveiled Louisville Kings on this week's Access...

Access Louisville Live: Our next live podcast is 4 p.m. Oct. 29. Join us as we talk money and college sports with University of Louisville A.D. Josh Heird and University of Kentucky Deputy A.D. Marc Hill. Details and registration here . We've got a roundup of recent restaurant news on this week's Access Louisville podcast.  We start with Ramen House’s relocation . Reporter Michael L. Jon...

Have you ever talked up the taste of Louisville's water to someone visiting the area? If so you wouldn't be alone. On this week's Access Louisville podcast, Editor-in-Chief Shea Van Hoy speaks with Spencer Bruce about the reasons behind that — including the marketing effort that aims to make Louisvillians feel proud of the water. Bruce shares a story about a time that he overheard a...

Louisville's fall music festivals are bigger than ever — but is that a good thing or not? We discuss that question this week on the Access Louisville podcast.  Danny Wimmer Presents’ two annual festivals at the Kentucky Exposition Center — Bourbon & Beyond (Sept. 11-14) and Louder Than Life (Sept. 18-21) — look a lot different this year . The festivals now have 2.4 million square feet of...

Several Louisville companies are led by CEOs that have chosen not to live in Louisville. But how much that matters seems to be up for debate — and we chat about that on this week's Access Louisville podcast. LBF Senior Reporter Joel Stinnett is on this week's show to talk about an in-depth report that he just finished on CEOs leading Louisville companies from somewhere else . Humana Inc....

A plan to tear down Liberty Hall in Downtown Louisville, also known as the Oddfellows Building, in order to build a new pickleball facility is attracting the ire of preservationists. We talk about the plans and the response on this week's Access Louisville podcast. LBF Senior Reporter Joel Stinnett is on the show to share details of a press conference he attended on Tuesday, Sept. 2 .  Steve...

A building in the heart of Downtown Louisville could be up for a revamp, which we chat about on this week's Access Louisville podcast. LBF Senior Reporter Joel Stinnett is on the show to share his latest reporting on the  Kentucky Home Life Building at 239 S. 5th Street.  He notes that the Mississippi-based Thrash Group — plus an unnamed local partner — are planning to convert the building in...

A couple of major projects that the Louisville area has been watching for years appear to be inching forward — and we chat about them on the latest episode of the Access Louisville podcast. The two projects are the One Park development effort in Louisville and the redevelopment effort around the former Colgate-Palmolive Co. plant in Clarksville, Indiana.  One Park is a massive mixed-use high-rise...

We chat about Louisville's peer cities on the Access Louisville podcast this week. Louisville Business First Reporter Stephen P. Schmidt recently wrapped up a story on the topic. While the list of Louisville's peers definitely varies depending on who's being asked a few things were clear.  First, Cincinnati, Indianapolis or Nashville, Tennessee — who we often like to compare ourselv...

The merger of Jefferson County and Louisville — yes, the one that happened 20+ years ago — is being threatened with a recent lawsuit. We chat about that on this week's Access Louisville podcast. LBF Reporter Michael L. Jones explains that Real estate developer David Nicklies is challenging the constitutionality of merged local governments in Louisville Metro and Lexington-Fayette Urban County...

Louisville Business First and Access Louisville did a poll asking: What is the most important project in Louisville? We talked about the results of the poll all these projects this week's Access Louisville podcast. Here's a look at the top five priorities that Louisville must take action on.  Finding a new use for the Humana building: In early 2024, Humana Inc. announced plans to vacate...

Derby weekend won't be the same next year, following the news that Churchill Downs is pushing the running of the Kentucky Oaks back to 8 p.m. or later. We chat about the impact of that on this week's Access Louisville podcast.  Churchill Downs announced the change on Thursday, July 24 .  Typically post time for the race, which runs the day before the Kentucky Derby, is scheduled shortly...