Possibility City: The Guide to Greater Louisville 2011

The Guide to Greater Louisville A city of ideas Innovation fuels economic growth

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Welcome to Louisville An introduction to the area’s people, places and events

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Athlete’s Paradise

Derby Days

Get ready, sports fans; there’s a lot to experience in Louisville this year. The KFC Yum! Center will host the first- and secondround games of the 2012 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament, while additional University of Louisville athletic events can be enjoyed on the school’s campus.

The 72nd Senior PGA Championship will take place at Valhalla Golf Club, and baseball fans can cheer on the Louisville Bats during games at Slugger Field. The area will also be home to the Ford Ironman Louisville, where spectators can watch competitors as they swim, bike and run their way around the city.

A true Bluegrass State experience, the Kentucky Derby has continued to grow in popularity since it began in 1875. The race, which takes place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, doesn’t only involve horses and jockeys vying for the finish line; it’s become a national spectacle, complete with various traditions.

As competitors race, dressed-to-impress spectators enjoy mint juleps – the event’s signature cocktail – and wait for the winning pair to receive their gold trophy and garland of roses.

In addition to the main event, guests can enjoy the Kentucky Oaks, an event that takes place the Friday before the Derby.

Getting Greener All the Time It’s easy being green in Louisville, as it is among the Top 25 U.S. Cities with the most ENERGY STAR buildings, according to the EPA. And the city’s sustainability doesn’t stop there.

The 2010 Bingham Fellows, a group that comprised various community members, worked with several organizations and launched a grassroots campaign to help the area become a more eco-friendly place. In addition, Louisville’s Green Building, a mixed-use facility located in the arts district, opened in 2008 as the city’s first LEED Platinum project and Kentucky’s first LEED-certified adaptive reuse project. The Louisville Downtown Development Corporation also works to make the area a greener, cleaner place through preservation, land development and business practices. Visit www.louisvilleky.gov/gogreen for more.

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Tasteful Trail Bourbon is the original American spirit – a fact celebrated every day and every night in Louisville. Raise a glass along Louisville’s Urban Bourbon Trail featuring 14 different locations to enjoy the Commonwealth’s most famous flavor: bourbon. More than 95 percent of the world’s bourbon supply is produced in Kentucky, and one-third is produced in Louisville, so what better place to enjoy the experience? Pick up a passport at the Louisville Visitors Center at the corner of Fourth and Jefferson streets to begin a spirited journey through popular Louisville sipping spots, each well-stocked with at least 50 bourbons, and as many as 150. Taste-testing travelers may simply visit each location on the trail and purchase food and/or drinks to get their passports stamped. No matter where you start, you’ll finish on a mellow note. One of the most flavorful and unique experiences of your life awaits in Louisville. Visit www.BourbonCountry.com for more information.

Named the top World Festival & Event City in North America by the International Festivals and Events Association, Louisville is perfect for those seeking extraordinary experiences. Each April, Louisville hosts Kentucky’s largest annual event, the Derby Festival, which comprises nearly 70 events.

Then there’s Forecastle Festival, which was named one of the Top 15 Outdoor Festivals in America by Outside Magazine and features music, art and activism. At the St. James Court Art Show, art lovers can admire works by more than 750 artists. Movie lovers may enjoy Lebowski Fest, which entices fans of the 1998 Coen brothers comedy The Big Lebowski. For even more fun, Louisville hosts a Beatlesinspired music festival, Abbey Road on the River, and the Zombie Attack Walk.

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Founded in 2000, IdeaFestival is a world-class event that attracts leading and highly diverse thinkers from across the U.S. and around the globe to explore and celebrate innovation, imagination and cutting-edge ideas. Based on the realization that answers are everywhere, IdeaFestival promotes the crossfertilization of ideas with a non-linear approach and serves as a springboard for high-speed innovation, product development and creative endeavors. The Festival is designed to appeal to a broad cross-section of people, with presenters selected for their ideas, achievements and ability to communicate to a wide-ranging audience.

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n Cyclists feel at home in Louisville, named one of America’s 25 Bicycle-Friendly Cities by Bicycling magazine.

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome Making diversity a priority, Louisville offers the Greater Louisville International Professionals, or G.L.I.P., a resource for newcomers, professionals and students in the area. The group helps facilitate business connections and showcases Louisville’s welcoming and inclusive nature by serving as a source of information, conversations and connections between international professionals and the region’s business community. G.L.I.P. also offers a valuable forum for the area’s professionals or companies doing business internationally and thinking with a global perspective. For more information, visit www.LouisvilleInternationals.com.

n Louisville is the third Safest City for Kids in the U.S., according to the website ParentDish, and one of FreeBackgroundChecks USA.com’s 100 Safest Cities in America for 2010. n Popular Photography magazine named Louisville the fourth most photo-friendly city in America. n Louisville is among the Most Livable U.S. Cities for Workers, according to WomenCo.com. n Mother Earth News listed Louisville as one of six Great Places You’ve (Maybe) Never Heard Of.

Louisville At A Glance population Jefferson County: 728,091 Metro area: 1.275 million location Louisville is centrally located in the U.S., within a day’s drive of 2/3 of the nation’s population.

beginnings Col. George Rogers Clark made the first Anglo-American settlement in the vicinity of modern-day Louisville in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. The area was later named “Louisville” in honor of King Louis XVI of France,

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owntown Louisville?

Stacey Servo loves it.

Not just because she’s the community relations manager for Louisville Downtown Management District, but because she is a downtown resident and worker herself.

Servo says she’s sure many of the 60,000 people who report to work downtown would like to simply walk the eight blocks to work each day like she does, and more people are making that choice lately as they take notice of the district’s growing vitality.

“Downtown’s revitalization has been occurring for the last 10 years and in earnest for the past three years or so,” she says, explaining that it wasn’t long before that when she and her husband relocated here from Seattle. “We got tired of the rat race, high cost of living and sitting in traffic during every commute. We researched some top urban places to live and moved to downtown Louisville in 2007.”

its first three months, and those people began seeing the positives of the district,” Servo says. “A lot of restaurants have popped up because of the arena, helping Louisville to now be ranked second nationally to New York City in the number of independently owned restaurants.”

Thanks, Yum! A huge influx of activity and movement in downtown Louisville began occurring in October 2010 with the opening of KFC Yum! Center, the new home of University of Louisville basketball and many other entertainment events.

“The new arena brought 750,000 people to downtown Louisville during

Lots of Energy Alan DeLisle, executive director of the Louisville Downtown Development Corporation, also lives in the district and is impressed with the vast amount of experiences that can be had there.

“I’m a baby boomer who lived the suburban life and raised my kids, then my wife and I wanted to downsize by selling our house and moving

See 21c The district is also home to 21c Museum Hotel, which opened in 2006 and was ranked the nation’s No. 1 hotel in 2010 and 2011 by Conde Nast. The award-winning Proof on Main bar/ restaurant is also located in 21c.

Downtown also houses Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Muhammad Ali Center, Frazier International History Museum, Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, as well as Louisville Slugger Field, which hosts semi-pro baseball during the spring and summer months. Servo says the evolution of downtown Louisville is a continuing process.

downtown,” he says. “I now walk to work because my office is right across the street from the Galt House, where I live.”

DeLisle points out that from a worker perspective, vibrant companies today are looking for creative employees who can multitask, and downtown Louisville offers a creative environment.

“Working downtown is more alive compared to a stale research park or office building cluster where you just drive in and drive out,” he says.

“Downtown Louisville at lunchtime has a lot of people on the street and a lot of energy, and energy leads to creativity and productivity.”

Something Different Every Day DeLisle adds that the Greater Louisville Branding Project has introduced a marketing campaign entitled Something Different Every Day – Downtown Louisville, which trumpets the excitement of the district.

“As for living options, they include places like Fleur de Lis on Main, Lofts of Broadway, Mercantile Gallery Lofts and Soho on Main, while interesting attractions include Louisville Glassworks, The Art Underground, Bluegrass Brewing Company and Fourth Street Live entertainment district,” he says. “Work, live and play – that’s what downtown Louisville offers.”

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n Louisville, a city as diverse in its living options as its people, residents find their perfect personal spaces among sleek, modern condominiums and sprawling antebellum mansions, and virtually everything in between. This wide range of living styles blend together seamlessly and beautifully, largely thanks to a park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the Father of American Landscape Architecture and the designer of New York’s Central Park.

Those traveling into the city for work do so with ease, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, which named Louisville among its 10 Best Cities for Commuters. And when it comes to affordability and market stability, Louisville ranks high, as well: Forbes.com named it the second-best housing market in the U.S. in 2010.

Here’s a snapshot of Louisville’s major residential areas and what each has to offer, from the bustling core

of the city to the vibrant districts radiating from it.

East End Louisville’s East End is historic preservation at its finest and the home of Cherokee and Tyler parks. The Highlands, one of the most soughtafter neighborhoods in the city, features turn-of-the-century homes framed by sidewalks shaded by century-old elm, oak and maple trees. The Highlands border a 3-mile strip of Bardstown Road, a Louisville landmark known for its undeniably eclectic mix of locally owned shops, cafés and coffeehouses, restaurants and clubs.

Smaller homes – cottages and bungalows – can be found in the neighboring Clifton and St. Matthews areas, also within walking distance of Bardstown Road and Frankfort Avenue.

St. Matthews is well known as one of the state’s major shopping areas and also provides nightlife options with a diverse mix of bars and restaurants.

A bit closer to downtown, historic homes in Butchertown are being preserved, renovated and converted into condos, making it a perfect place for young professionals. It’s also home to Louisville Extreme Park, a 40,000-square-foot public skatepark.

Historic Frankfort Avenue has a suburb feel with the easy accessibility of independent and local shops and restaurants along the avenue.

Norton Commons is an all-inclusive residential area, featuring classic architectural styles and a town center with retail stores, markets and restaurants within walking distance.

South End Located near the world-famous Churchill Downs, the South End of Louisville is known for its affordability.

It also has bragging rights to Iroquois Park, its 2,400-seat Iroquois Amphitheater and Iroquois Golf Course. Ethnic diversity abounds in the South End’s many communities,

Cherokee Park, part of the Highlands in Louisville’s East End

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including Valley Station, the home of Riverside; the Farnsley-Moremen Landing, a historic house and museum; and Shively, with older, ranch-style homes in established subdivisions with tree-lined streets. Known to Louisvillians as PRP, Pleasure Ridge Park is close to Fort Knox and Dixie Highway, a busy commercial strip.

Three of Louisville’s largest employers – UPS, General Electric and Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant – are in nearby Okolona, which offers both starter and upscale homes.

Clockwise from top: Homes on Birchwood Avenue in Crescent Hill, 4 miles east of downtown; Old Louisville; Waterfront Park Place; A home in Louisville’s West End area

West End Gentrification and active communities comprise Louisville’s West End, which borders the Ohio River. Olmsted’s Shawnee Park is everyone’s backyard, which hosts formal gatherings on the Great Lawn and has a piece of Riverwalk Trail, which extends across the waterfront.

The neighborhood of Shawnee has late 19th-century architecture and large homes on shaded streets, while Kentucky’s waterfront history is featured at the Portland Museum, and the neighborhood of Portland itself has preserved Steamboat Gothic homes.

New construction is getting great buzz in Park DuValle, where single-family town homes and apartments are creating the result of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of development to enrich and bring new energy to this area.

Downtown Louisville’s downtown is a true urban core – a hot spot destination neighborhood for those seeking a progressive urban environment.

Home to the Louisville Slugger Museum, Fourth Street Live and historic hotels, downtown is also enjoying a renaissance as both locals and newcomers grab up new lofts and million-dollar condos overlooking the Ohio River.

Just south of downtown proper, Old Louisville, the third largest historic preservation district in the country, is ripe with Victorian architecture, cast-iron gas lamps and courtyards with grand fountains.

St. James and Belgravia courts host the prestigious St. James Court Art Show annually.

Originally home to some of the city’s wealthiest residents, Old Louisville is now a hipster haven populated with students from both the University of Louisville and Spalding University.

To accommodate the younger generation, apartments like the trendy and eco-conscious SoHo Lofts and upscale Mercantile Lofts are gaining popularity.

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ith a diverse local dining scene that spans the globe in inspiration, it’s no wonder Louisville found a place on Bon Appetit’s Foodiest Small Towns list in recent years. For the city’s inclusion on the list, the magazine cited Louisville’s strong local food traditions, which have been upheld largely by Louisville Originals, a group of chefs and restaurateurs who band together to encourage dining locally to keep the local food scene vibrant and strong.

An Originals Idea Louisville Originals dates back to 2005 when the owners of five local restaurants – De La Torres, Baxter Station, Asiatique, Irish Rover & Cafe Lou Lou – united in an organization designed to support and promote independent restaurants in Louisville. They created a brand, the Louisville Originals, and have been successfully promoting it and the individual member restaurants ever since, says Mayan Cafe General Manager Anne Shadle, a member of the organizations’s board of directors.

The organization’s impact on the city extends far beyond the culinary, reaching outlying communities as the demand for locally grown meats and produce has enhanced the state’s agricultural base.

From Farm to Table During the summer, Mayan Cafe hosts Mayan Market Mondays, during which the

restaurant features a different local farm and offers dishes that showcase that farm’s products.

Mayan Cafe’s owner and chef Bruce Ucan believes in the Louisville Originals’ motto “Globally Flavored, Locally Savored.” The Mexican-born Ucan buys as much fresh, seasonal, locally grown fish and produce as possible for his ancient Mayan-inspired dishes, such as the signature chile relleno, a poblano chile stuffed with seasonal local vegetables, potatoes and mozzarella cheese in a light tomato sauce.

On any given Saturday, you’re likely to find Ucan at the Bardstown Road Farmers’ Market, which hosts some 30 vendors selling seasonal fruits and vegetables, beef, pork, bison and lamb as well as fresh eggs and farmstead cheeses. The Bardstown Road market is just one of two dozen farmers and fresh markets scattered across the city and serving local restaurants.

Local Star Chefs and Restaurants Several Louisville chefs and restaurants have garnered national attention and awards, among them Dean Corbett, executive chef and owner of Corbett’s, An American Place and Equus & Jack’s Lounge. Sullivan University recently recognized Corbett with its first Regional Distinguished Visiting Chef Award. He has been featured by publications such as Southern Living, Wine Spectator, Delta Sky,

Chef and Esquire magazines, the latter honoring Corbett’s as one of America’s best new restaurants in 2008 (according to the magazine’s food correspondent John Mariani). Another Louisville restaurant that has earned a “Best New Restaurant” nod from Esquire is Proof on Main, located in the 21c Museum Hotel downtown.

Two other local chefs, Edward Lee of 610 Magnolia, and Anthony Lamas of Seviche, both of whom have been featured on the Food Network, were semifinalists for the Best Chef: Southeast award in the prestigious 2011 James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards. And yet another award-winner is RIVUE Restaurant and Lounge, an ultra-modern upscale eatery known for its breathtaking views. The restaurant has been locally recognized multiple times, winning awards at the annual Taste of Louisville and Louisville Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award.

Even Louisville’s most famous sandwich has attained legendary status. The Hot Brown dates back to the roaring ‘20s and a chef at The Brown Hotel who sought to wow his customers. He did just that with an open-faced turkey sandwich with bacon and Mornay sauce – soon became the legendry Hot Brown featured in Southern Living, NBC’s Today Show, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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The Louisville restaurant scene is filled with a diverse mix of independently owned restaurants. Here are just a few Louisville Original restaurants. Visit LouisvilleOriginals.com for more info:

Asiatique

Mayan Cafe

August Moon

Meridian Cafe

Baxter Station Bar & Grill

Napa River Grill

Bistro 301

North End Cafe

Bistro Le Relais Bristol Bar & Grille (5 locations)

Palermo Viejo Authentic Argentine Restaurant

Buck’s Restaurant

Rivue Restaurant & Lounge

Cafe Lou Lou (2 locations)

Seviche

Come Back Inn

Sweet Surrender Dessert Cafe

Cumberland Brew

The Irish Rover

De la Torre’s La Bodega

The Irish Rover, Too

Hiko-a-mon

Uptown Cafe

L & N Wine Bar & Bistro

Vincenzo’s

Lilly’s Bistro

Winston’s Restaurant

Limestone Restaurant

Yaching’s East-West Cuisine

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f you can’t find something to do in Louisville, just wait a few minutes.

Chances are something fun will find its way to you.

This is a city with something going on almost every day of the week, morning and evening, year round.

Festivals and concerts abound, and there are enough eating and nightlife options to keep diners and dancers happy for months. In fact, the Southeast Tourism Society has named Louisville events among Top 20 Southeast Tourism Attractions, and in 2010, Louisville earned the prestigious International Events and Festivals Association World Festival Event City award as the top North American City in its population class.

Here’s a rundown of just some of the good times that await in Louisville:

First Friday, F.A.T. Trolley Hops What a way to start and end the month! To get things rolling, take the First Friday Trolley Hop and live it up in the Main and Market corridor. Jump on and off all along the route to visit art galleries, restaurants, shops and clubs, rain or shine.

At month’s end, the F.A.T. Trolley Hop showcases everything wonderful along the Historic Frankfort Avenue corridor. Shops, studios, galleries, pubs and cafes await you!

Waterfront Wednesday, a concert series at Louisville Waterfront Park

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Night Racing Need more to do at night? Mix up your people-watching with some oldfashioned horse sense at Churchill Downs’ new Downs After Dark. The event, which features nighttime racing on select evenings throughout the year, draws huge crowds.

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Shopping, Dining, Nightlife Looking to help “Keep Louisville Weird”? That’s the hope of the Louisville Independent Business Alliance, which launched the

campaign to encourage residents and visitors to spend some time in its unique shopping and dining districts, and help promote local independent businesses.

Get started with Bardstown Road, which features a 3-mile stretch from Market Street south to Taylorsville Road. Here you’ll find unique shopping, especially for antiques, as well as some of the city’s finest restaurants. There are plenty of nightclubs and bistros as well, and like their dining counterparts,

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Clockwise from far left: Molly Malone’s Irish Pub and Restaurant on Baxter Avenue; Outdoor dining at the Bluegrass Brewing Company downtown; Historic Frankfort Avenue corridor; Abbey Road on the River is the world’s largest Beatles-inspired music festival.

they’re influenced by every style, from artsy and punk to organic and yuppie.

You also don’t want to miss the Historic Frankfort Avenue corridor, where the art’s the thing. There are studios, galleries and showrooms all along this stretch, as well as boutiques and shops offering everything from vintage clothing to wine, books, outdoor gear and much more. On the dining and nightlife side, the options are just as varied, with many restaurants and clubs offering outside

patios for optimal people-watching.

And then there is St. Matthews, which has been around since 1779 and offers Louisville’s largest shopping district. In addition to Mall St. Matthews, there are other large-scale shopping centers, as well as an amazing variety of national chain stores and outlets on Shelbyville Road.

Concerts, Outdoor Activities Still looking for even more fun?

Then don’t miss the concerts at the

Iroquois Amphitheater, a 2,407-seat venue that is the state’s official amphitheater. Louisville’s parks also are home to such popular offerings as Shakespeare in Central Park, which marks 50 years in service to the Bard in 2011. And back downtown, Labor Day weekend kicks off right with WorldFest, the city’s international festival that brings together the largest collection of local ethnic restaurants, vendors and exhibits in the state. i m ag e s l o u i s v i l l e . c o m

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ouisville’s creative, clever minds may all think to the beat of different drums, but they all think alike when it comes to supporting and promoting the city’s huge arts scene, which includes dozens of museums, galleries, theaters and festivals.

As impressive as Louisville’s artsy offerings may be, they would never succeed without the sustained energy of arts-minded residents, who not only

get the word out to visitors about all the creative experiences the city has to offer, but strongly support the scene themselves by consistently showing up in droves for events and performances.

Strong and passionate arts organizations, such as Louisville Visual Art Association, founded in 1909, and LOOK, a consortium of approximately 45 fine arts galleries, also help keep the city’s creative vibe going strong.

“Louisville is a great place for the

arts because it has energy and a love of the arts community that is unlike any other city I have ever been to,” says Kirsten Popp, communications manager for the Speed Art Museum.

Museums and Art Galleries Dating to 1927, the Speed Art Museum is the state’s oldest and largest museum, but it offers a collection that reaches much further into human history.

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art experiences, including a world-class collection spanning 6,000 years of human creativity,” Popp says. “We have international exhibitions, a highly acclaimed concert series, the Art Sparks Interactive Family Gallery and the popular late-night event Art After Dark.”

Most of the city’s major museums are conveniently located within a few blocks of each other downtown in an area known as Museum Row on Main.

A ticket stub from one Museum Row attraction is good for an admission discount at any of the others, and most offer reasonably priced annual memberships.

At the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (KMAC), guests may admire works by more than 600 Kentucky and regional artists. At Glassworks, people can not only admire the glass-blown art; they can create it, too. The facility provides walk-in workshops where guests can design their own masterpieces. Museum Row on Main also includes 21c Museum Hotel, Frazier History Museum, Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, Louisville Science Center, Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Muhammad Ali Center and KentuckyShow!

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Clockwise from top left: Works from the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft; Art museum at the 21c Museum Hotel; Humana Festival of New American Plays

Visit www.looklouisvilleart.com for a complete listing of museums and galleries in the area.

Performing Arts Patrons of performing arts are greeted with hundreds of opportunities to experience world-class theater, music and dance here, as well. Louisville is one of only a handful of U.S. cities with resident professional opera, ballet, orchestra, theatre and children’s theatre.

At least 200,000 guests take in the more than 500 performances each year

by Actors Theatre of Louisville, located downtown, which presents about 20 productions annually.

The theater is also responsible for the world-renowned Humana Festival of New American Plays, which brings theatre critics, playwrights and fans from around the world each year to see the newest in American Theatre. The festival, sponsored by The Humana Foundation, includes full-length plays, one-act productions, monologues and other performances.

The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts also features live events, often setting the stage for some of the area’s most popular performers, including the Louisville Orchestra, Kentucky Opera and Louisville Ballet.

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Louisville Waterfront Park is an 85-acre public park located on the Ohio River in downtown Louisville

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Parks & Recreation 15,000 acres of public parks create urban playground

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ouisville has more parkland per capita than any other U.S. city, which is good news for residents looking to enjoy nature, engage in sports and take part in community events and activities. The city’s 124 parks cover some 15,000 acres and offer something for everyone – scenic vistas, walking and biking trails, nature centers, sports leagues, historic homes, swimming pools, golf courses and more.

Olmsted Legacy Louisville is proud to have one of only four park systems designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the Father of American Landscape Architecture. And building upon that groundwork, the multimillion dollar, multiyear City of Parks Initiative, launched in 2005, is adding thousands of acres of parkland and protected green space to Louisville. Olmsted – famous for works such as New York City’s Central Park and the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and Biltmore Estate in North Carolina – made his first visit to Louisville in 1891 to present his vision of a system of parks connected by tree-lined parkways.

The innovative concept, which broke away from separate, freestanding parks common in those days, earned Olmsted a commission to design three major multipurpose parks for the city of Louisville: Cherokee, Iroquois and Shawnee. Ultimately, Olmsted and his successor firm developed plans

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for 18 parks and six parkways that today comprise Louisville’s historic park system. A vital component of the city’s identity and quality of life, the Olmsted parks represent the fullest realization of his social vision – that parks should provide spaces for creating a stronger community and a respite from the stresses of modern city life.

Cherokee Park The 390-acre Cherokee Park features a 2.4-mile loop with separate lanes for vehicle and recreational traffic, set amid the gently rolling slopes of the Beargrass Creek valley. Amenities include ballfields, tennis courts, golf, an archery range and more.

Iroquois Park Iroquois Park features hiking and equestrian trails.

With 725 acres, the park has ample room for a golf course, disc golf, picnic shelters, the 2,400-seat Iroquois Amphitheater and more. A number of clubs make use of Iroquois Park amenities, such as the Iroquois Hill Runners and Louisville Disc Golf Club.

Shawnee Park The riverfront location and expansive Great Lawn of Shawnee Park make it a popular spot for major city gatherings and events. It also features a state-ofthe-art athletic complex and the RiverWalk hiking and

bike path. These three major Olmsted parks represent just a portion of the vast wealth of green space and recreational facilities available to Louisvillians.

Waterfront Park The 85-acre Waterfront Park offers a grand view of the river, space for concerts and festivals, and the 14-acre Great Lawn, along with the promenade along the river and the Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park, which commemorates Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong Kentucky connections.

The “urban park” has hosted crowds of up to 350,000 for events like Thunder Over Louisville, the largest fireworks display in North America. Waterfront Park will be even better soon, as pedestrians and bikers will be able to enjoy their own dedicated connection between Louisville and Southern Indiana, when the multimillion dollar conversion of the Big Four Bridge is complete.

Metro Parks Online The city’s Metro Parks website makes it easy for residents to find exactly what they’re looking for in a park. It lists all metro parks and parkways by name, and also provides a search function by location, amenities or features. Maps of all parks are available online, as well as some informative videos and virtual and downloadable tours. Residents can also visit the website for the latest news about volunteer opportunities, healthy living

initiatives, bike transportation and more.

21st Century Parks Louisville’s distinguished history of park development continues with the 21st Century Parks Initiative, the most comprehensive effort to grow and improve Louisville’s park system since the creation of the Olmsted parks in the 1890s. It calls for the acquisition and development of more than 4,000 additional acres of parkland. The Floyds Fork Greenway Project involves 3,200 acres in southeastern Jefferson County and calls for two major parks with sports and picnic facilities, linked by a multiuse trail, as well as preservation of natural habitat that will help sustain native plant and animal life. Groundbreaking took place in the summer of 2009, and is slated to be complete in 2014.

Another element of the initiative is continuation of the Louisville Loop – a paved, 100-mile, multiuse trail around the community. Portions of the trail, totaling 25 miles, are already built, including the Ohio River Levee Trail and the RiverWalk.

More Recreation Fun The Louisville Science Center is the largest hands-on science center in Kentucky and the Louisville Zoo features more than 1,300 animals living in naturalistic settings designed to mimic their natural habitats.

– Carol Cowan

Ten Toughest 18-Hole Golf Courses (Ranked by USGA Back-Tee Course Rating)

Valhalla Golf Club (Private) Chariot Run Golf Club (Public) Persimmon Ridge Golf Club (Private) Bardstown Country Club @ Maywood (Semi-private) Lake Forest Country Club (Private) Champions Pointe Golf Club (Public) Hunting Creek Country Club (Private) Covered Bridge Golf Club (Public) Big Spring Country Club (Private) Cardinal Club (Private) Source: Business First Book of Lists; March, 2009

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Left to right: Cherokee Park provides a beautiful setting with a dog run and hiking and biking trails. Waterfront Park offers plenty of open space along with a grand view of the river.

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Education city’s excellent, diverse schools among its greatest assets

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he Greater Louisville community is dedicated to education across the board, from strongly supporting its school systems to promoting lifelong learning outside of traditional classroom environments. The area’s educational institutions earn high marks for diversity of programs and academic excellence, from the earliest stages of learning through colleges and universities

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offering the most advanced degrees.

Public Schools The Jefferson County Public School District’s forward-thinking, inventive approach to learning is one of the many characteristics that attract newcomers to Louisville. It’s why the district has earned the “What Parents Want” award for three consecutive years.

And it’s also one of the reasons

more than 80 percent of students in Jefferson County go to a public school. Comprising more than 98,000 students in 155 schools and learning centers, the school district continuously launches new initiatives designed to raise student achievement and further enhance the professional quality of its 6,000-plus teachers.

JCPS elementary schools offer magnet programs on themes such as technology, the environment

and physical fitness. Middle schools help students get ahead by thinking about college and exploring careers. And high schools go beyond the norm by using professional equipment to work on real-world projects supported by Louisville companies, community organizations and highereducation institutions.

In fact, the Southern Regional Educational Board, a nonprofit organization that works with 16 states to improve public and higher education, recently recognized JCPS Professional Career Theme Programs in its

High Schools That Work newsletter. The initiative involves 15 of the system’s 21 high schools in which the learning model has been redesigned into a career theme matching the economic goals of business and industry.

In addition, five JCPS schools have made Newsweek’s annual list of top high schools, and four made a similar list compiled by U.S. News & World Report.

Private and Parochial Schools

The Greater Louisville area is home to 30 colleges and universities, technical schools, seminaries and other postsecondary educational institutions, with a combined total of more than 50,000 students. The following provides information on a selection of options available to students:

University of Louisville Hailed for teaching, research and service to the community, University of Louisville is a statesupported metropolitan university that maintains a commitment to the liberal arts and sciences and to the intellectual, cultural and economic development of the diverse communities and citizens within its purview. U of L is made up of 12 academic colleges and schools and offers graduate, professional, baccalaureate and associate degrees, as well as certificates, in more than 170 fields of study. More than 20,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries attend classes there, and it also has a diverse faculty and staff numbering about 6,000.

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Parents and students also have diverse choices beyond the public school system from an array of private and parochial schools.

Louisville’s Christian Academy School System serves nearly 3,000 students from preschool through 12th grade on four campuses. The CASS prides itself on exceptional academics, award-winning fine arts offerings, championship athletic programs and a Biblical faith.

The Archdiocese of Louisville also offers several Catholic schools in the area, including 39 elementary schools enrolling more than 14,000 students and nine high schools with more than 6,000 students combined.

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Bellarmine University

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Bellarmine University consistently ranks among the nation’s best colleges and universities and has a diverse student body from 30 states and 17 foreign countries. Total enrollment is approximately 2,600, of which 1,800 are fulltime undergraduate students.

Fifty-one percent of students ranked in the top 25 percent of their class. Student/faculty ratio is 12 to 1, and average class size is 19.

Sullivan University provides career-focused and studentcentered curricula and offers associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree-level programs.

The main campus is easily accessible from both downtown and the east end business areas.

Spalding University Located within a few blocks of Louisville’s downtown area, Spalding University offers undergraduate, graduate and doctorate programs.

The university is known for meeting current needs of the workforce, with a long tradition of offering extensive study programs for part-time students.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST As one of eight Indiana University campuses, IU Southeast offers all the excitement of a Big Ten university and more than 50 graduate, undergraduate and associate degree programs. The school’s 6,800 students create small class sizes for individualized learning. With a campus recognized as one of the most beautiful in the state, IU Southeast is located in New Albany, Ind., just off I-265 and about 15 minutes from downtown Louisville.

Jefferson Community and Technical College Students enrolled at Jefferson Community and Technical College may earn associate degrees, prebaccalaureate education, diploma and certificate programs in occupational fields; adult, continuing and developmental education; customized training for business and industry; and distance learning. JCTC is the largest two-year college in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and the state’s largest provider of online courses.

– Jessica Mozo

What’s Online Read a full list of regional school systems by going online to imageslouisville.com and clicking on “education.”

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Endless Possibilities Louisville Companies Thrive in Possibility City

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ouisville has the infrastructure of a major metropolitan city with the supportive nature of a tightknit small town, making it a hospitable environment for businesses big and small. Known as Possibility City, Louisville's benefits include a low cost of doing business (labor, office rent, etc.) and low taxes.

Headquarter for Headquarters With a workforce that draws from a 24-county bi-state area, Louisville has attracted a large and diverse roster of companies choosing to make the city their home base.

GE Appliance Park, for example, serves as the global headquarters for GE Appliance & Lighting. The 900-acre complex, which houses senior management, research and development, sales and marketing as well as manufacturing distribution and administration services, employs approximately 5,000 and contributes an estimated $425 million annually to the city's economy.

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components, creating more than 800 new jobs. The new hybrid technology will allow GE to be the first U.S. manufacturer to introduce a water heater that meets the new U.S. Department of Energy's 2014 ENERGY STAR requirements.

Louisville also is headquarters for Fortune 500 business hubs such as Kindred Healthcare and Humana, Inc., one of the country's largest publicly traded health and supplemental benefits companies.

It's hard to say whether tax incentives, low relative business costs or location attracted such huge names in the international food industry to Louisville.

Fortune 500 company Yum! Brands is the owner of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC. More than 37,000 of Yum! Brands' quick-service restaurants serve 110 countries, amassing $11 billion of revenue in 2009.

With a mantra of "Better Ingredients.

Better Pizza," Papa John's has managed to grow from a pizza joint in the back of a tavern to more than 3,400 restaurants worldwide, with revenue in the billions.

The University of Michigan business school ranked it the No. 1 pizza chain on the American Customer Satisfaction Index for nine consecutive years.

Texas Roadhouse runs a national empire of 360 locations in 46 states from Louisville, reaching sales of more than $880 million in 2008.

Economic Drivers With 1 million vehicles produced, Kentucky ranks third in U.S. manufacturing. Ford, a fixture in Kentucky since 1912, has two assembly operations in the Louisville area. The automaker invested $600 million to redevelop the Louisville Assembly Plant - where the company will produce the next generation Ford Escape - making it Ford's most flexible high-capacity plant.

The investment was named one of Site Selection magazine's Top 10 Deals of 2010 because of the unique public/private partnership approach to business attraction between Ford, the City of Louisville and the State of Kentucky.

The University of Louisville partnered with the University of Kentucky, the Commonwealth and Argonne - the country's leading transportation research facility - to establish the KentuckyArgonne Battery Manufacturing Research and Development Center that will facilitate the development of advanced lithium-ion batteries and advanced manufacturing technologies to reduce battery production costs.

Location, Location, Location When Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens was looking for a place to locate his Geek Squad City, a selfcontained hub where hundreds of agents work to repair computers within 24 hours of receiving them, the head of the computer service company says Louisville was a natural choice primarily because of UPS Worldport.

United Parcel Service, Inc. started in Louisville in 1982 with 150 employees and a mere 200,000 square feet. In April 2010, the shipping giant completed a $1 billion expansion that grew the facility to 5.2 million square feet, increased sorting capacity by 37 percent and added some $600 million to Louisville's economy.

"We looked at a lot of locations," says Tom Volta, UPS vice president of human resources in Louisville. "Louisville provides us with the best opportunity.

Most locations in the U.S. are within three days. It is the farthest western portion of the Eastern time zone."

Top: The UPS international air hub is located in Louisville. Bottom: The Humana Tower in downtown Louisville

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Louisville fuels its economic growth by supporting innovation clusters

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ouisville is on the brink of an entrepreneurial explosion.

Named one of North America’s Small Cities of the Future by Foreign Direct Investment magazine, Possibility City is building on the success of hometown giants such as UPS, Humana, Brown-Forman, Ford Motor Company and Yum! Brands, fertilizing its entrepreneurial spirit with creative programs through such entities as the University of Louisville and its award-winning integrated Entrepreneurship MBA program, the International Center for Long Term Care Innovation and Mayor Greg

Fischer’s newly created Office of Innovation.

Office of Innovation “Over the next four years, I want to significantly increase the amount of capital and investment dollars in our city,” says Mayor Fischer, a first-year mayor whose background is as a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist. “I am creating the Office of Innovation so that our city government has a team dedicated to breakthrough thinking, thus fueling economic growth in key areas of Louisville’s unique business strengths by supporting

innovation clusters in areas such as Lifelong Wellness and Aging Care.”

The city is poised to create thousands of new jobs by focusing on and nurturing the aging care sector, he says – an economic springboard made more flexible by recent expansions and locations in the Louisville region of companies such as Kindred Healthcare Inc. and Signature HealthCARE, both of which maintain corporate headquarters in Louisville.

With its recent acquisition of RehabCare Group, Kindred is now the largest U.S. provider of post-acute care services and claims $6 billion in annual

Top left: Kindred is the largest U.S. provider of post-acute care services. Top right: Antwan Robinson, Senior Bench Technician at Genscape, works on a microchip built to monitor power.

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revenue with operations in 46 states.

It has been named one of the Most Admired Health Care Companies in the World for three years running by Fortune magazine. Signature, which located in Louisville in 2010, is bringing its significant long-term health-care resources to the International Center for Long Term Care Innovation, an incubator that moves ideas for the aging from concept to marketplace.

World-Class Excellence and Innovation Between the intellectual and research power at U of L and the University of Kentucky – and clusters ranging from health care to logistics, to automotive, to military – the Louisville area is placing itself on the global map as a leading region, Mayor Fischer says.

“We have numerous examples of world-class excellence and innovation occurring right now in Louisville, with Fortune 1000 firms and dozens and dozens of fast-growth, small- and mid-sized companies that include ZirMed, which has a new downtown headquarters and is helping revolutionize medical billings through technology, or The Learning House, which works with educators to develop online courses and online degree programs,” Fischer says.

Enhancing this welcoming and nimble business environment are strategies that remove impediments that may slow down new business development.

“I want our planning and design department to be the best in the country, balancing growth with sustainability, thinking and working with responsible builders to grow jobs and world-class projects,” he says.

To be relevant in the 21st century, Louisville must be a place of ideas, maintains the mayor. “I want our city to be recognized as a great entrepreneurial and idea capital where people are eager to take risks,” Fischer says.

Genscape, founded in 2000 in Louisville, is a leading global provider of energy information for commodity and financial markets.

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Spurring Innovation in Senior Care Center supports creative approaches to lIFELONG WELLNESS

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ith more aging-care companies than any city in the country, Louisville is creating a wealth of opportunity for entrepreneurs who have ideas that will improve the care and comfort of an aging population.

At that forefront is the International Center for Long Term Care Innovation, an incubator/accelerator funded

through a partnership of Signature HealthCARE, the University of Louisville’s NUCLEUS and an investment fund that will provide money for start-up companies in the areas of lifelong wellness and aging care.

“Our goal is to serve as a catalyst for innovation in aging,” says John Reinhart, center president and CEO. “We have

received more than 95 ideas to date.”

One such idea is the multisensory room, designed to identify comfort and agitation triggers in people with dementia and Alzheimer’s. To determine what affects the patients, they are observed in a room that has sound, touch and light effects.

“Providers can then build daily activities around what reduces the stimuli that cause agitation and create a feeling of safety and comfort,” Reinhart says.

Giving a boost to entrepreneurs like Reinhart is ENTERPRISECORP, the enterprise development arm of Greater Louisville Inc. - The Metro Chamber of Commerce. The organization cultivates the city’s entrepreneurial vitality by providing more than 250 client companies with voice, outreach, assistance and education to gain what they need most to succeed, from connecting them with investment groups to providing basic business consultation from expert sources. Visit EnterpriseCorp.com for more information.

– Betsy Williams

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Economic profile business climate With its pro-business attitude, low cost of doing business and low taxes, Greater Louisville offers a supportive and progressive climate for business. The region’s dynamic, diversified economy has outperformed the U.S. in job and income growth on a per capita basis throughout the last decade.

cost of living US Average = 100

I-65, I-64 or I-71

Overall, 87.7

Public Transportation:

Grocery, 80.8

Transit Authority of River City (TARC) (502) 585-1234 www.ridetarc.org

Housing, 76.9 Utilities, 101.7

top private sector companies

Transportation, 98.2 Health Care, 87.3 Miscellaneous, 92

United Parcel Service 20,125 employees Humana Inc. 9,400 employees Norton Healthcare 8,698 employees Jewish Hospital Healthcare 5,782 employees Kroger Co. 5,692 employees Ford Motor Co. 5,397 employees

Interstates:

transportation Air: Louisville International Airport (SDF) 600 Terminal Dr. Louisville, KY 40209 (502) 367-4636 www.flylouisville.com

ECONOMIC RESOURCES Greater Louisville Inc. – The Metro Chamber of Commerce 614 W. Main St. Louisville, KY 40202 (502) 625-0000 www.greaterlouisville.com Sources: Onboard Informatics, www.greaterlouisville.com

GE Appliances 4,100 employees Baptist Healthcare System Inc. 3,889 employees University of Louisville Hospital 2,645 employees Kindred Healthcare Inc. 2,224 employees

Income

$26,110 Per Capita Income

$61,313 Average Annual Household Expenditure

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Jewish Hospital was the site of the world’s first and second implants of the ABioCor Implantable Replacement Heart.

Health & Wellness Hospitals share tradition of innovation and excellence

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ouisville has a long tradition of health-care innovation and a national reputation for excellence. Louisville was one of the first cities in the nation to guarantee health care for the homeless, for instance, and, next to tourism, health care is the top employer sector. Cutting-edge care is available at a number of state-of-the-art facilities including the following:

Jewish Hospital and St. Mary’s HealthCare Jewish Hospital is a 442bed regional referral center in operation since 1903 and the site of numerous medical firsts, including the world’s first and

second implants of the ABioCor Implantable Replacement Heart.

The Transplant Center – a program shared with the University of Louisville School of Medicine – is one of a few hospitals in the country performing all five solid organ transplants. In 2005, Jewish Hospital merged with St. Mary’s HealthCare, which expanded the network to now include more than 71 health-care facilities.

Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center In conjunction with Jewish Hospital and the University of Louisville School of Medicine,

Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center made headlines in 1999 when doctors there performed the first hand transplant in the United States.

Other achievements include the world’s first reported repair of a digital artery and a national award for research in blood flow to the nerves in the hand.

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system, Kosair Children’s Hospital ranks as one of the top children’s hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s 2010-11 edition of Best Children’s Hospitals, for the second consecutive year. Kosair is one of 62 children’s facilities to rank in at least one of 10 specialty areas.

Center is a thriving community of oncology physicians and cancer researchers devoted to care and cures. Perhaps most notably, Drs. Alfred Bennett “Ben” Jenson and Shin-je Ghim are part of the original team that created the world’s first preventative cancer vaccine, which prevents cervical cancer.

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Norton Healthcare Norton Healthcare’s reach spans Kentucky and southern Indiana. Its services encompass six hospitals and specialty centers for everything from breast health and pediatric care to poison and pulmonary rehabilitation.

KOSAIR CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Part of the Norton Healthcare

Part of the Baptist Healthcare System, which has five acute-care hospitals in Kentucky, Baptist Hospital East is Louisville’s premier East End medical center.

Its Baby Steps program focuses on maternity classes and questions from conception to birth and beyond; the Center for Behavioral Health helps patients with emotional problems and addictions; the Neuroscience Services helps patients who have

had strokes and aneurysms; and the Bariatric Center helps seriously overweight patients with long-term weight loss.

Clark Memorial Hospital Founded in 1922 in Jefferson, Ind., Clark Memorial Hospital has grown to include 241 beds and developed a reputation as a specialist in orthopedics. Other specialties include cancer, geriatrics, kidney disorders and neurology. The hospital also has a number of outpatient services, such as weight control programs, home health services and substance-abuse programs.

Regular health screenings and health fairs are also held in the community.

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community profile Snapshot Louisville offers big-city amenities like world-class performing arts, sports and dining while maintaining hospitality, warmth and smaller-city advantages such as a lower cost of living.

Household Information Age:

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27% 19 and Under

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55% Single

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resources Driver’s License: www.louisvilleky.gov/ Residents/drivers_license.htm Vehicle Registration: Jefferson County Clerk’s Office 527 W. Jefferson St. Louisville, KY 40202 (502) 574.5700 www.jeffersoncountyclerk.org Voter Registration: elections.jeffersoncounty clerk.org Report a Problem: MetroCall www.louisvilleky.gov/ MetroCall/default.htm Water: Louisville Water Company John L. Huber Building 550 S. Third St. Louisville, KY 40202 (502) 583-6610 www.louisvilleky.gov/LWC Utilities: Louisville Gas & Electric www.lge-ku.com/lge Sewer: Metropolitan Sewer District 700 W. Liberty St. (502) 587-0603 www.msdlouky.org Community Links: www.possibilitycity.com www.liveinlou.com

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$665 Median Rent for a Two-Bedroom Apartment

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Get the Story Behind the Photo Now that you’ve experienced Louisville through our photos, see it through the eyes of our photographers. Visit imageslouisville.com to view our exclusive photographers’ blog documenting what all went in to capturing those perfect moments.

From Our Photo Blog: Louisville Abbey Road On The River is the biggest Beatles-inspired music festival in the world. This was the 10th year for the event with an estimated 40,000 people attending. Dozens of bands played each day, for five days straight, from noon until midnight.

Beatles cover bands played on multiple stages set up around Belvedere Festival Park and The Galt House Hotel in downtown Louisville. Abbey Road on the River also happens in Washington D.C. on Labor Day weekend at the Gaylord National Harbor.

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