Creative Class? Your New Space is Almost Ready
Downtown Louisville is booming restaurants and galleries and a group of dedicated investors aims to make sure that boom continues and that more and more businesses that are useful and attractive to "the creative class" open up in downtown Louisville.
East Market already has great shops and restaurants (including a brand new bakery that looks divine) so I can't wait to see what other cool stuff all this development brings.The purchase of Wayside Christian Mission's properties will be a catalyst for East Market Street to coalesce into a destination for Louisville's emerging creative class -- a hub for the arts, cuisine, locally produced food, the green building movement, commerce and retail.
That's the quickly evolving vision of the main investors involved in recasting East Market Street's art galleries and restaurants district as a larger zone dubbed "NuLu."
Those investors, in several partnerships, include Los Angeles-based actor and Louisville native William Mapother, contractor Tim Peters and filmmaker Gill Holland and his wife, Augusta BrownHolland.
With the pending purchase of the Wayside property 10 buildings total from 800 E. Market through 820 E. Market all of the pieces of a dramatic redevelopment puzzle are now on the table, waiting to be assembled, Holland said.
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