Category: In The News

January 18, 2011 Nearly all the money needed has been raised and all the land procured for the massive Parklands of Floyds Fork project, one of the nation’s largest urban parks development. The sponsors, headed by the nonprofit 21st Century Parks, have assembled about 3,700 acres … Continue reading

The Parklands of Floyds Fork is a planned 4000 acre addition to Louisville’s public park system that reapplies Ferderick Law Olmsted’s brilliant vision of preserving land ahead of development on the edge of a city for large public parks. Click … Continue reading

While many commercial real estate markets have bounced up and down the two major Kentucky markets have stayed pretty level. Marketing efforts in both Louisville and Northern Kentucky, adjoining Cincinnati, are now pushing through new projects and leases. Click here … Continue reading

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September 29, 2011 The Creekside Sprayground will close Sunday for the season. The sprayground, located at 1310 S. Beckley Station Road, is part of The Parklands of Floyds Flork and opened for the first time earlier this summer as the … Continue reading

LORETTO, Ky. (August 23, 2011) – Rob Samuels is proving to be one tough boss. Now that his father, Bill Samuels, Jr., has become Chairman Emeritus of Maker’s Mark, one of Rob’s first assignments for his dad is to sign autographs. … Continue reading

August 24, 2011 When you pull onto Blue Heron Road from Shelbyville Road and make your way up a hill into William F. Miles Park, you’re greeted by red and yellow construction equipment amid deep green fields and tree line … Continue reading

July 26, 2011 A $22,000 federal grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will help remove an obstruction on Floyds Fork underneath the Taylorsville Road bridge. The grant will go to hire … Continue reading

July 25, 2011 Bluegrass music and the great outdoors were the backdrops Sunday as hundreds gathered at Floyd’s Fork Park for a new festival, promoting the area, its history and its agriculture. The inaugural event, Summer Fest in Fisherville, featured … Continue reading