There&apos;s much to talk about on this week&apos;s Access Louisville. We chat about the new One Park North development being proposed in the Highlands. A restaurant in the area that&apos;s closing if it isn&apos;t sold. And the latest political news. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It&apos;s available on popular podcast services.

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What's being built? And who's running for what?

A  former church in Louisville&apos;s Clifton neighborhood is being redeveloped into office space. We chat about the transition and who&apos;s behind it on this week&apos;s Access Louisville podcast. It&apos;s an interesting project (photos here) and it gets us chatting about the future of office space. Will office towers be less useful post-pandemic as smaller spaces that require less commitment gain in popularity? After that, we chat about a new location for Quill&apos;s coffee in Louisville&apos;s Norton Commons neighborhood. We talk about a distribution center project that Kroger is pulling the plug on and the fate of the Louisville Zoo&apos;s train attraction.We also say farewell to LBF Reporter Chris Larson. Larson has been with LBF for five years and this is likely his last podcast as he&apos;s moving on to another position.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. You can find it on popular podcast services.

A new use for a former Louisville church

There&apos;s plenty going on in Louisville&apos;s restaurant scene of late.On this week&apos;s episode of the Access Louisville podcast, reporter Eleanor Tolbert joins us to talk about several recent stories. Against the Grain, a well-known brewer in Louisville, is opening a sandwich shop. There&apos;s something new moving into the former Pesto&apos;s spot in Downtown Louisville. And Decca is reopening in NuLu, following some changes to its ownership and a Covid-19-related hiatus.Later in the show we talk about a couple of Louisville spots that made Yelp&apos;s national bourbon bar rankings. And lastly we chat about Louisville Business First&apos;s Forty Under 40 program. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. You can find it on popular podcast services. 

Louisville restaurant news roundup

The Kroger Co. is getting a little more competition in Louisville with Publix entering the market. Louisville Business First reported that the Florida-based grocery store chain is moving into East Louisville earlier this week.  LBF reporter Ellie Tolbert joins the Access Louisville podcast to talk about where exactly the store is going and who is bringing it to town.She also tells us about breakfast chain First Watch&apos;s plan to open another location in Louisville. These two news items get us going on a big food tangent. (Sigh. Typical.)After that, reporter Haley Cawthon tells us about a new product covering Kentucky&apos;s startup and technology scene: KY Inno. It&apos;s a new platform from Louisville Business First, which she is overseeing. And lastly, we chat about the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, including some stories from Louisville area executives who were close to the attacks. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It&apos;s available on most popular podcast services. 

Louisville is getting Publix and one more First Watch

In a football, is it usually better to go for it on 4th and short? Or is punting the safer bet?It actually depends on a lot of different factors and the situation, of course. But answering that question, in a specific situation, is one thing that Louisville tech company Edjsports can help a team make. The company provides data and analytics to improve decision making in sports. This week on the Access Louisville podcast, we sit down with Edjsports co-founder Sean O&apos;Leary to talk about a recent move that will put the company more in focus for its founders. We also talk about the market for sports betting, prospects for Louisville entrepreneurial scene and more.  Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. You can find it on most popular podcast services. 

A Louisville company's quest for better decision making in sports

Metro Louisville is growing. But which counties in the area are growing the fastest? We chat about that on this week&apos;s episode of the Access Louisville podcast. It&apos;s undoubtable that the city has seen a lot of people move into the urban core with neighborhoods like Germantown and Butchertown becoming hot places to live during the last 10 years. But new U.S. Census numbers show us that the fastest growth has actually taken place in the suburbs between 2010 and 2020.After the growth talk, we switch gears and talk about Louisville&apos;s brewing scene. There&apos;s a new taproom in Louisville from Ashville, North Carolina-based Hi-Wire Brewing. That gets us talking about how the brewing scene here compares to those in other cities of our size.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. You can find it on popular podcast services like Apple Podcast, Spotify and Stitcher. 

Which parts of Metro Louisville are growing the fastest

We talk about economic development taking place on Louisville&apos;s South End on this week&apos;s Access Louisville podcast. A major piece of this is the recently redeveloped Colonial Gardens, which offers a bit of restaurant variety to the area.  Future development at Jefferson Riverport International is another big piece. After that we talk about some of Louisville&apos;s most overlooked neighborhoods.Following that discussion we catch up on some Humana news, including its recent acquisition of Kindred at Home. We also talk about how it&apos;s mandating vaccines for a significant part of its workforce. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. You can find it on popular podcast services including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. 

Something to celebrate in the South End of Louisville

The pandemic is back on an upswing and so is ire over wearing masks. Sigh. This again, eh?We chat about both on the Access Louisville podcast this week, specifically on the news of a new mask mandate for schools and childcare settings from Gov. Andy Beshear. (That new mandate is being challenged in court by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron.)We switch gears in the second half of the show to talk about restaurants, including the news that Royals Hot Chicken is closing a location in Louisville. We also talk about a new space for Wiltshire Pantry. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It&apos;s available on popular podcast services.

Covid-19's alarming comeback brings renewed ire over masks

Louisville Business First just released its annual Best Places to Work publication, ranking local employers based on employee feedback.This year&apos;s program is especially interesting in light of the fact that expectations about work have changed so much in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. We chat about what makes a great workplace and how our expectations have changed on this week&apos;s Access Louisville podcast.We switch gears in the second half of the show and talk about a new three new projects slated to roll out at Churchill Downs during the next three years.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. You can find it on popular podcast services including Apple Podcast, Google Podcast and Spotify. 

What makes a great workplace?

Fans of hard seltzer in Louisville will have a new place to go as a craft seltzery is in the works in NuLu. We talk about the concept, which is new to this market, on the Access Louisville podcast.Craft beer has been all the rage these last twenty years or so. On the show we talk about whether craft seltzer will have the same success in the market. Later in the show, we talk about a West Louisville restaurant, Sweet Peaches, which has undergone some renovations thanks to a business incubator program for the area.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It&apos;s available on popular podcast services. 

Will a craft seltzery shake up Louisville's bar scene?

We talk about the growing local bourbon scene on this week&apos;s Access Louisville podcast. Angel&apos;s Envy Distillery, located on East Main Street, just released renderings for an $8.5 million expansion project. We also just got a look at Brough Bros. new distillery in the Park Hill neighborhood. This is a small but significant new development, being as it&apos;s Kentucky&apos;s first Black-owned distillery. After the bourbon talk we discuss a new restaurant coming to Middletown: Chicken salad Chick; as well a new Quill&apos;s coffee shop in St. Matthews.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It&apos;s available on popular podcast services. 

Louisville's bourbon scene keeps growing

We chat more about the Louisville mayor&apos;s race on this week&apos;s Access Louisville podcast, particularly in terms of fundraising.Early reports are in and one candidate, former 21C Hotels CEO Craig Greenberg, has surged ahead of others in the Democratic field with the support of some well-known names in the business community.The numbers are interesting, with Greenberg raising 30 times more than the next closest candidate, but it is very early in the race. Voters won&apos;t pick a new mayor until November 2022. After that we talk about the state of college sports, based on the news that a new local sports marketing agency has been formed. And at the end of the show we chat about a new sundae shop in Nulu. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It&apos;s available on popular podcast services. 

Louisville mayoral candidate surges ahead in fundraising

These days it seems a lot of executives are looking for something new.We talk about that on this week&apos;s Access Louisville podcast. Louisville Business First reporter Chris Larson joins the show to talk about several recent executive changes at Louisville area organizations, including Humana Inc., the Humana Foundation, Hosparus and Fund For The Arts.After that we talk about a new flight to Austin from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. And we chat about where airport officials want to go next. Finally, we wrap things up with a little Fourth of July talk.Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It&apos;s available on most popular podcast services. 

A slew of executive changes

There were three big acquisitions in the last week and we talk about them all on this week&apos;s Access Louisville podcast. We don&apos;t know the dollar figures on these deals but it seems likely that national long-term acute care player Kindred Healthcare was the largest.  This last week also saw the sale of Liquor Barn, a popular Kentucky retailer; and LEO Weekly, a small but still a well-known business among the media savvy in Louisville. We go over all three acquisitions with Louisville Business First reporters Haley Cawthon and Chris Larson. After that we lighten things up a bit and talk about a few new places to visit in town, including a new brewery in the Portland neighborhood and a new bourbon bar in Downtown Louisville.And, lastly, we chat about a new report that says Louisvillians are good drivers — surprising right?Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from LouisvilleBusinessFirst.com. It can be found on popular podcast services including Apple Podcast, Spotify and Stitcher. 

Three Louisville companies sell within a week

You&apos;ll get the latest on Louisville&apos;s ever changing restaurant scene on this week&apos;s Access Louisville podcast.Reporter Haley Cawthon joins the show to tell us about recent restaurant changes, including one of several new Cajun seafood restaurants, the return of Wiltshire on Market and a high-profile retirement in the pizza business.After that, we have an update on the Louisville mayor&apos;s race — including the news that Louisville Metro Councilman David James is stepping out of the race and former Councilwoman Barbara Sexton-Smith is teaming up with candidate Craig Greenberg. We&apos;ve got some news on a potential run by former Louisville Forward chief Mary Ellen Wiederwohl too. Lastly, we talk with Reporter Marty Finley, who is leaving Louisville Business First for a new opportunity, about his time in journalism. Access Louisville is a weekly podcast from Louisville Business First. It&apos;s available on popular podcast services including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and Stitcher. 

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