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The economy is reopening — now is that a good thing or not? We talk about it on this week's episode of the Access Louisville podcast. Reporters Marty Finley and Haley Cawthon are on the show this week. Finley has been closely following government restrictions and reopening plans in Kentucky and in Indiana. Cawthon has been keeping close tabs on our restaurant businesses, which have suffered a...

It's nearly the first Saturday in May, but alas no Kentucky Derby . On this week's episode of the Access Louisville podcast we chat about our favorite Kentucky Derby memories from over the years as well as what appears to be the slow return of sports. Horse racing, sans the spectators, comes back on May 16 . There's also talk about bringing back Major League Baseball and NBA basketb...

So when can Kentucky's economy reopen? We talk about that on this week's Access Louisville podcast. Reporter Marty Finley, who covers government (among other things) for Business First, talks about the benchmarks that have been set and Gov. Andy Beshear's guiding philosophy on reopening. We already know that some health care facilities are going to reopen as soon as April 27 . Stati...

There's still new construction developments being proposed, even as the coronavirus shutdown continues into its second month. We talk about that on this week's Access Louisville podcast. Reporter Marty Finley tells us about one Louisville developer, LDG Development LLC, that has proposed 1,300 new apartments and an industrial building since quarantine really started in March. Finley talk...

The coronavirus outbreak has given us plenty of reasons to drink. But that doesn't mean that it has been kind to local breweries. We talk about that on this week's episode of the Access Louisville podcast. Reporter Haley Cawthon recently penned a story on how breweries have been hurt by the outbreak, primarily as a result of restaurants, bars and tap houses being closed to encourage soci...

News about the coronavirus outbreak is seemingly inescapable but we've stumbled upon a few good distractions over the last few weeks. We talk about those and more during this week's episode of the Access Louisville podcast. Everything from catching up on sports movies, discovering TikTok and playing "Animal Crossings: New Horizon" comes up.  Access Louisville is a weekly podcas...

The new novel coronavirus again dominates our Access Louisville podcast this week. We chat with health care reporter Chris Larson about what is possibly the scariest aspect of this pandemic: Hospital readiness. Larson recently penned a story about how the Louisville area's three largest health care systems are getting ready for the outbreak, which you can read here . On the show he talks abou...

Much has changed during the last week or so as the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has expanded across the U.S. We talk about Kentucky's move to shut down restaurants, bars , movie theaters and other places in order to slow it down. This is obviously taking a huge toll on business with many restaurants having to layoff their entire staff so they could collect unemployment benefits. Restaurant R...

**AUDIO QUALITY WARNING** Like everything during the second week of March 2020, this week's podcast is a weird one. A panel of Louisville Business First employees talks about working remotely and living through the massive coronavirus effort of 2020. The audio quality isn't all here. Because coronavirus has many people working from home we decided to record online instead of in our usual...

We cover everything from Toy Tiger to Topgolf in this week's episode of the Access Louisville podcast. Topgolf has been back in the local news during the last week as a legal appeal appears set to move forward this summer. A group of residents had sued the company over its plans to build one of its signature driving range/bar hybrids at Oxmoor Center. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has assigne...

You could probably call this the bourbon edition of the Access Louisville podcast. On the show we talk about Louisville area bourbon attractions — distilleries, visitors centers and so on. This discussion is timely considering Business First recently published its list of local bourbon attractions . Digital Editor David A. Mann and Design/Multimedia Editor Brooke Timmons talk about the best and wo...

Plans are in the works to add a new 11-story tower at the Seelbach Hotel in Downtown Louisville. Business First reporter Marty Finley tells us all about the project on this week's episode of the Access Louisville podcast. This is a major addition for a historic downtown hotel. While we're talking about hotels, we have a little fun by ranking Downtown Louisville hotel lobbies. No, this is...

A special guest joins the Access Louisville podcast panel this week: Louisville City Football Club President Brad Estes. We cover a lot of different topics with Estes, including favorite sports venues and the team's soon-to-be open stadium in Butchertown. He also chats with us about how he got into his current role and the recent kerfuffle over the team's logo . We've had a lot of n...

We've had a flurry of restaurant news in Louisville during the last week or so, including the closure of an East Louisville Italian eatery . On this week's Access Louisville podcast Reporter Haley Cawthon gives us on update and several comings and goings, including a new concept called Doc's Bourbon Room on Main Street; a new location for Carali's Rotisserie Chicken ; a new con...

As usual we cover a bevy of topics on this week's Access Louisville podcast. Reporter Haley Cawthon gives us an update on a St. Matthews shopping center that has been closed for months following a roof collapse last summer. The latest news is that a contract is pending on the building, meaning it could change hands soon. What happens next is still the subject of speculation. We also talk abou...

This week on the Access Louisville podcast we talk about a couple of different housing developments that have been announced in the last week. The largest is a $100 million mixed housing development planned off Hurstbourne Parkway . This will be a mix of different types of housing — from apartments to single family homes large and small — that's coming in near the Jeffersontown Meijer. We sor...

This could be the travel episode of the Access Louisville podcast. This week we talk about new hotels coming to Bardstown Road in the Highlands . We also talk about a new hotel and a new AirBnb development planned downtown. After that we talk about a new flight coming out of Muhammad Ali Airport in Louisville. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from LouisvilleBusinessFirst.com . This week'...

This week on the Access Louisville podcast we discuss the news that Apellis Pharmaceuticals is leaving town . This was a promising pharmaceuticals company that’s been growing here for the last decade or so. At the beginning of 2020 it moved its operations to Boston — another hit to Louisville’s public company scene.  Reporter Chris Larson tells us about the move and the recent history of local pub...

This week's episode of Access Louisville is all about predictions for 2020. One standout prediction that a few of us make is that the Louisville Topgolf facility, proposed at Oxmoor Center, won't actually get built. We also have predictions on the proposed One Park project at Lexington Road and Grinstead Drive. And we lighten it up a bit to talk about former U of L standout Lamar Jackson...

Since the holidays are here we figured we would take a break from the usual Louisville news script and talk about something a little more festive. Here's how this week's Access Louisville episode breaks down: 1:10 — Our favorite Louisville holiday traditions 5:15 — Our favorite holiday movies 11:05 — Our least favorite holiday movies Access Louisville is a weekly show from LouisvilleBusi...

The Access Louisville podcast is back to talking about the One Park project this week (as if we ever stop talking about it.) The massive mixed use development, planned at the corner of Lexington Road and Grinstead Drive, recently was the subject of a feature in the New York Times (see — we're not the only ones talking about it.) Here's what we cover this week: 0:55 — Louisville City Foot...

We cover a range of topics on Access Louisville this week. First, around the 3:07 mark, we talk about our favorite pieces of local real estate. This is something we asked a handful of real estate experts recently and thought it would be fun to weigh in on the topic ourselves. After that, around the 6:48 mark, we hear Brown-Forman's plans for a new distillery and a new flavor of Jack Daniel&ap...

Several topics get covered on this week's episode of Access Louisville.  Around the 1:04 mark, we talk about the future commuter technology we're excited for including self-driving cars, trains and hover boards. Then around the 5:50 mark, we speak about the One Park development, planned near the intersection of Lexington Road and Grinstead Drive. Reporter Marty Finley, who's been fo...

This episode of Access Louisville is different than most. Instead of the usual script, we talk about stories we're thankful to have told in 2019. We decided talking about some of our favorites from this year was the best way to keep the show thanksgiving focused this week. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. This week's show is hosted by Digital Editor D...

Louisville's NuLu neighborhood has come a long way in the last decade or so. But what does it need now? We talked about that on this week's Access Louisville podcast. Our panel got to thinking about NuLu needs after a nearby structure, the Joe Ley Antiques building, recently got a new owner . We came up with a few different suggestions: Condos, a movie theater, a grocery store and so on....