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ONE OF A KIND: BLACKACRE CONSERVANCY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DALE JOSEY LOOKS BACK ON A UNIQUE CAREER

Since 2013 Dale Josey, Executive Director for the Blackacre State Nature Preserve, has run his command from a mostly austere, yet remarkably cozy office alcove attached to the original one-room house of the family that lived on the land in the mid-18th century. A multitude of windows supply him with a view of the surrounding land, a constant vista of the beautiful preserve he’s responsible for overseeing. Several framed magazine interviews and articles about the man hang from the walls, a testament to his success and accomplishments. It’s clear that being the executive director at Blackacre is a large feather in Josey’s cap, but it’s certainly far from his only one.

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and a tremendous amount of snow. From there, he went on to the University of Michigan to study law. “That was a great experience,” Josey says. “The thing I discovered when I was there was that they were teaching the ‘essence’ of law. They were teaching you how to be proficient as an advocate. But they weren’t teaching you at that time how to market your practice. So, rather than getting a degree and practicing law, I went a different way. The idea, by divine inspiration, I submit, came to me: how do you market a lawyer? Nobody was teaching that, no one knew how to do that. So that, eventually, launched me on a 15-year career.” Although there were dues to pay first. Not long after college, he found himself with a wife and young daughter and in need of a job. “I had a family to feed,” he says. “So I go into this retail store one day and find the JULY 2018

manager and ask him for a job. I started my spiel: University of Michigan graduate, top of my class, I can do this, I can do that. He says, ‘come here, I want to show you something. You see these windows over here? What you need to do is get a bucket and a squeegee and then you just wipe it clean.’ I said, ok, maybe you didn’t hear me. I’m coming out of one of the premier universities of the world. Gerald Ford, the president of the United States, was one my lecturers and I actually engaged with him in one of my classes. ‘Ok,’ he says and he looks at me. ‘So you take this squeegee, you take this sponge…’ He didn’t care!’” Fortunately, not long after Josey’s adventures in window cleaning began he realized he needed to do some good oldfashioned soul-searching. “I was mad at myself, mad at the world. I had to get it together,” he says. He asked himself what he wanted to do, where he

wanted to go. Television was the answer and he soon found himself outside a Lexington KET station, clueless as to his next step but brave enough to take the leap anyway.

nebulous promise, to join Tandy’s mayoral campaign team. And even though Tandy lost to Greg Fischer, Josey has zero regrets about sticking to his word. “It was the best, most intense 18 months of my life,” he says.

“I walked into the studio and I said to the guy, ‘hey, I want to work here,’” he recalls. “I couldn’t lie though. I had no experience.”

“But in politics, you come in second, you’re unemployed,” Josey says of this first-hand, hard-earned knowledge. “On Monday, before election night, people

Via a merciless tenacity, Josey secured an opportunity to demonstrate his skills with a studio camera, ultimately saved by the proverbial bell when the interviewer was called away. “I had a minute and a half with that camera, and I prayed to God to show me how to use this thing.” He laughs, warmly reliving the skin of his teeth gamble. “I looked at the buttons and figured it can’t be too hard. I got this.” The quick-thinking Josey passed the station manager’s interview, landed the gig, and started that very night. His foot was now firmly in the door, exactly where he’d planned for it to be. After eight years at KET, Josey migrated jobs once again, this time utilizing his marketing skills at a Louisville law firm. It was there that he met and befriended, David Tandy, a 4th District Metro Councilman and man who would set Josey on his path Blackacre. “Have you ever had any buddies in your life that say things like: ‘one day we’re gonna scale the Great Wall of China, do you wanna do it?’” Joey says, grinning. “You say sure because it’s never gonna happen. Sure, because it’s your buddy. So, two, three years later [after meeting Tandy], there’s a knock on my door and it’s David. He says: ‘Dale, today’s the day.’ For what, I asked him. He said: ‘I’m going to run for mayor and you said you’d be with me three years ago.’ And I’m thinking, ‘yeah, I said that but are you really going to do it?’” After talking to his wife and praying about it, Josey did indeed decide to follow through on his earlier, if somewhat

were saying ‘Dale, you’re a great guy, I’d love to have you come work for me if this doesn’t work out. I want a guy like you.’ And, I believed them. But we lost. So on Wednesday, I called. It was like crickets. No one was talking to me. I was pushed back and absolutely about to fall, but it’s that fundamental belief in your god, in your destiny, belief in yourself. You push back and apply yourself. You don’t give up.

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Which brings us to the present, back to the cozy alcove of his office. Josey came to his executive director role after years of topsyturvy management at Blackacre, a position he admits can be quite tricky to maneuver through with the regulatory restrictions attached to the management and upkeep of a state-run facility. Still, things needed fixing. “One day, at a board meeting, someone said, ‘we need someone who can fix this. We need a Dale Josey. He’s a fixer,’” Josey says. The remark still tickles him. “So I asked the board: what’s a Dale Josey? Because, apparently, in the industrial classification of jobs there’s plumbers, electricians, carpenters and Dale Josey.” The wind of change Josey has brought to Blackacre for the past five years has been quite impressive. Numbers are up across the board in visitors, events and fundraising thanks to his savvy marketing strategies. To name just some of Josey’s endeavors at Blackacre there’s the new butterfly garden and greenhouse. He began a writer in residency program in partnership with Sarabande Books, secured filming for several national television shows and four major films (one with Jon Voight). He started a summer camp program, founded Country Christmas and opened the preserve’s doors to the very lucrative business of the wedding industry. It’s all a much-needed breath of fresh air for Blackacre. While some have expressed concern over the past few years that Josey’s management style has possibly put some negative environmental pressure on Blackacre, Josey vehemently disagrees, his optimistic pragmatism rivaled only by his love for conservationism and environmentalism. “I am a passionate environmentalist and conservationist,” he says. “I understand trees have to be taken down but I’m the kind of guy if you take down one tree you plant two trees back. Teddy Roosevelt said, ‘plant a tree today so someone else can enjoy the shade tomorrow.’And I adhere to that, I believe that.” JULY 2018

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Taking the scenic route can be the most exhilarating, rewarding way to arrive at a destination. For Kevin Grangier, founder and CEO of Belle Noble Entertainment Group, the scenic route led him to a wildly successful entrepreneurship in Louisville. Grangier graduated from Western Kentucky University with a degree in public relations and journalism and an associates degree in health administration. After working locally in healthcare for years, he began his agency, Carry On Communication, Inc., in Los Angeles, California. He ran it for 12 years before selling it and returning to Louisville.

offices in Chicago, Washington D.C. and New York City within 12 years. Next, he sold the agency and returned to Louisville to relax for a while. His “break” in Louisville didn’t last long, either. He quickly opened his first restaurant, The Village Anchor, in the Anchorage community. With its wild success, Grangier opened multiple restaurants: Le Moo, on Lexington Rd., PICNIC, in Anchorage and Grassa Gramma, coming soon to Holiday Manor.

“It started when friends were visiting me from out of town,” Grangier says. “I picked them up at the airport, and we were looking for a place to have a drink near my house in Anchorage. We wound up at the Applebee’s bar. That’s when I thought, ‘This is kind of “I was on a corporate path,” Grangier says. “Being an crazy that there’s not a privately owned restaurant on the east end.’ entrepreneur was never my intention. I decided I wanted to take a That’s how The Village Anchor started.” break. I’d worked my tail off in the corporate world, and I moved to LA to enjoy it a while. That lasted about a month before I Grangier says people often question how he was able to build a began my agency.” restaurant having no prior restaurant experience. To that, he says that he applied the same principles as he would in the agency world: it’s a People began calling Grangier to do freelance work in consumer product. communications, public relations and branding. “It’s no different than toilet paper, mascara or gasoline,” Grangier says. “The minute I took the first client, it led to the agency,” Grangier “We have a product. We have to get the marketing message out and says. “It wasn’t at all part of my plan”. get clients in. The only difference is: first, the dining experience offers many more touchpoints than other products. With most consumer His agency was largely healthcare-focused, beginning as public products, you use the product many times before you really form an relations, then marketing and then brand development. He opened opinion of the product. With food, you have a total of two hours to JULY 2018

execute 200 touchpoints. The client very quickly forms an opinion to define how that experience was. So it’s the same, but you have to execute the product and define the experience so quickly with great margin for error if you don’t do it right.” Grangier says that’s where his expertise came in. Most restaurateurs don’t have that, and it’s what made The Village Anchor successful, upfront. “I knew how to get the customer to buy into the product, whether I knew anything about food or not,” Grangier says. “I approached the concept from a different perspective. We are an experience-driven restaurant, and I say that all the time. It’s the differentiator that defines a customer’s experience.” Grangier hasn’t encountered many places in Louisville where you have colorful experiences. Most restaurants in Louisville offer great food and great service, he says, but you’re sure to get that, along with a colorful experience, in his restaurants. According to Grangier, Louisville has been the perfect home for his restaurant concepts. “I think my concepts could be successful anywhere because they are very unique, but they’re very unique to Louisville, and this is where I live,” Grangier says. “I get to focus on these things where I live. Working where you call home is special. Not having to be on the road or on an airplane has been a fantastic change in my life.” Grangier is often asked to open restaurants in other cities. He has a “been there, done that” kind of attitude about the idea. “I like opening restaurants in this city, Louisville,” Grangier says. “When the company can withstand that in other cities without me having to be there, then we may do that.”

different places. For example, The Village Anchor is frequently compared to restaurants in Europe. “That’s exactly what I designed it to be,” Grangier says. “Le Moo is also supposed to be very European, and it is also compared to areas there. It is very reminiscent of old European styles. They’re unique experiences that are supposed to take you somewhere else. People say, ‘We love your restaurants because they make us feel like we’re on vacation.’ I think they give you an opportunity to show a special nuance of the city.” Grangier loves that the community has embraced his restaurants. He loves that the message they get from his restaurants is the exact message he says he wanted to send from day one. “The community has given 100 percent pure validation that they’re open to new experiences and to trying things that perhaps are non-traditional,” Grangier says. “They are open to new types of people, cultures and cuisines. They validate that because year after year, my restaurants grow in sales. The community is open to opportunities brought to them that really are different, and I like that. There are a lot of cities you could open restaurants in where that validation is not there.” At the end of the day, creating is what Grangier enjoys most in his work. He admits he has fantastic people who run his restaurants. They take his vision and run with it. He relies on their expertise to execute his vision, which allows him to create. “Ultimately, follow your heart, but know that it doesn’t come easy,” Grangier says. “It’s not free. Don’t rely on the experiences of others to make yours better. Don’t make stupid decisions, use common

Grangier says he’s been a multi-tasker ever since grade school. He doesn’t see juggling multiple opportunities as difficult, because it’s what he’s done his entire life. “It’s just what I know,” Grangier says. “If I only have one thing going on, I have to start on other things, or else I’d jump off a bridge. I’m a creative person and need to be creating. It was paper planes and art in grade school, and now I’m on to bigger things.” Grangier’s projects have progressively improved upon themselves, he says. Grassa Gramma, his latest venture, opening soon in Holiday Manor, is going to define how he wants the experience to be from top to bottom. “It’s the first one I’ve built from the ground up,” Grangier says. “Built-in experiences are inherent from top to bottom. I get to define it from the time we pour the concrete. For example, the concrete is on four different levels, meant to look like a piazza with a cobblestone piazza and 20-foot bronze fountain in it.” People often tell Grangier that his restaurants transport them to JULY 2018

sense and don’t follow ideas to the point where they’re dumb.” If there’s advice Grangier would offer other future entrepreneurs, it revolves around knowing your audience. “I find myself talking to people who aren’t necessarily interested in restaurants but are interested in starting businesses,” Grangier says. “I think it’s really important to know your environment, audience, limits, expectations and build your product around that. Define your product based on those things. Don’t take a product and throw it in somewhere saying, ‘how do we make this work?’ Where there’s a hole, there’s opportunity. Where there’s not a hole, there’s a struggle. Focus on and build around that.” Like the present, the future is busy for Grangier. “I’ve always said I want to own seven restaurants in the city,” Grangier says. “I’m completing number four now, so there you go. I have a sushi concept I want to do. I have a southern experience I want to do. I have a burger concept that I want to execute, and I have a really fine dining concept that I want to do.” The scenic route through Grangier’s career led him back to Louisville. His customers can be thrilled about what that means for the future of Louisville’s dining scene.

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Each year, the Honors Program at the University of Louisville schedules two travel seminars, one international and one domestic. This year, they invited me to submit a class for the domestic seminar, and I was honored to teach “The Park and the City,” a class looking at what makes a great urban park system and the ways in which great parks shape great cities. While almost every class during our time in Louisville was in a park, over spring break we traveled to New York City to experience the beginnings of the modern urban park movement — in Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s Central Park and Prospect Park— as well as more contemporary park innovations, such as Paley Park, the Seagram’s Plaza, the High Line and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Louisville, it turns out, is a great place to teach such a course. We have one of only four complete original systems designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.—Cherokee, Iroquois, Shawnee and connecting parkways — illustrating the mature artistry and urban vision of the founder of landscape architecture. We also have Waterfront Park, where George Hargreaves made his reputation, which is widely regarded as one of the early, successful uses of a large park to revive the urban core, and finally, The Parklands of Floyds Fork, the largest new, fully-funded metropolitan parks project in the nation. The class centers on the close relationship between great cities and their parks, beginning with the concept of parks as “city-shaping infrastructure.” One of Olmsted’s great insights was that park planning — often the gift of European noblesse oblige in the Old

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World — should be made intentional and that any modern city would not be livable without high-quality, maintained public parks accessible to all. Beginning with Central Park, but soon expanding all over the U.S. (similar movements were occurring in places like Paris with Baron Haussmann’s overhaul of the Parisian urban core), Olmsted created a movement, and New York and Louisville, along with many other cities, were its beneficiaries. The remarkable thing about Central and Prospect Parks, which formed the core of our trip, is that, like Louisville’s Olmsted Parks, they were designed ahead of the growth of the city, giving the designers the room, and freedom, to design large parks with many amenities. When Central Park was laid out, it was far north of the densely settled edge of Manhattan, yet they had the temerity to name it “central” park. When Olmsted came to Louisville in the early 1890s, his parks were laid out far beyond the edge of the city. Today, The Parklands offers this same opportunity for Louisville to shape both the geography of our urban edge in new ways around green infrastructure and also to shape our community’s future around health, education, environmental sustainability and quality of life, while accommodating the future growth of our city. In New York, we also looked at parks that were intended to shape already developed parts of the city. The modernist jewel of Paley

Park, located on 53rd Street between Madison and 5th Avenue, is often described as one of the “finest urban spaces in the U.S.,” despite being only 4,200 square feet in area. Designed as a quiet space in the madness of midtown, my students were amazed, as I’ve been ever since I first went there as a child, at the power of such a small space. The High Line and Brooklyn Bridge parks both take old industrial ruins — one an elevated train line to the old Meatpacking District in Manhattan, the other the remnant docks of Brooklyn’s waterfront — and create great architectural spaces that have revolutionized the neglected and disused neighborhoods around them, both of which are now flourishing again. The message of the class is that the benefits of urban parks are widespread, and often impact far beyond their borders. We like to talk about the “6 pillars” of a great urban park system: community,

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Students in Jeffersontown High School’s Computer-Aided Design and Drafting program (CADD) are challenged to find innovative solutions to real-life challenges, and senior Adam Puckett and junior Reece Sistrunk have teamed up on a project that will benefit the JHS community for years to come. The pair are heading up an entirely student-led project to transform the underutilized stage area in the school’s large gymnasium. In addition to being CADD students, Puckett and Sistrunk are part of the exclusive Architecture Construction Engineering (ACE)

mentoring program that helps high school students discover career opportunities in the building design and construction industry while connecting them to professionals in those fields. “This project started my sophomore year when the vice principal at the time came to the ACE program to ask us if we could take the stage area and allow it to be used for something else,” Puckett says. “The stage had not been used for over 15 years, and it was a wasted space. He wanted us to repurpose it and make it into something Jeffersontown could be proud of.” With no further instruction from the school administration, the students began

brainstorming options for the space. They finally settled on developing a two-level area with a mezzanine. “We really tried to go for something modern and fresh looking, because Jeffersontown High School is getting a little older now,” Puckett says. The new design essentially doubles the amount of usable space in the area, providing an extra space for classes to use, plenty of storage space and a clear path to the concession stand during basketball games. “People were walking through the cheerleading area during games to reach the concession stand, and it became an

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issue,” Puckett says. “The concession stand idea came later, but was a deciding factor in what we were going to do. We wanted the concession stand to come into the gym, which opens up the whole mezzanine area to another space.” Although the original group of students behind the project has fallen apart since the original brainstorming session, Puckett and Sistrunk have remained committed to the multi-year reconstruction. “Usually in Ace we would just create something and then move onto the next project pretty quickly, Puckett says. “But when this came around, we really wanted to stick with it.” After the initial idea came about, it took a few months for the students to build a model for their design. The students spent countless afternoons after school developing renderings for the space using the SketchUp computer program and even produced a 3D model to showcase their idea. “We used AutoCAD and drew out the actual dimensions to make puzzle pieces that would snap in together using a laser cutter and foam board,” Sistrunk says.

FORD and the leadership of UAW VP Jimmy Settles with the help of the Jeffersontown Alumni Association. JHS is sponsored by Ford, and representatives were impressed by the carefully designed and well thought out project. The newly-designed space is just one of the benefits of the stage reconstruction for students.

out of mostly aluminum and steel and will allow students in the welding department to get a certification in aluminum welding. “The welding teacher is certified in aluminum welding, and this will allow students to have something to practice on,” says Puckett, noting that high costs of metal have been a prohibiting factor for students seeking the resource in the past. The project is slated for construction and should be completed sometime during the summer. After the project is complete, Puckett and Sistrunk both plan to continue using the skills they have learned in other projects, as well as their future careers.

Along with creating the design for the project, Puckett and Sistrunk also worked with their mentors through ACE to develop a feasible budget. With a budget in hand, they got to work raising money for the project, which will need just shy of $100,000 for completion. The 3D model helped possible funders of the project get a better look at what the students had created and eventually resulted in a large donation from UAW-

“When the stage is taken out, the wood will be given to the art department and the metal and steel will be given to the welding department,” Puckett says. Art students plan to make reclaimed sculptures out of the wood and also plan to honor those who donated to the project with an etching on one of the walls. The metal frame underneath the stage that was used as a sliding chair holder is made

Puckett, who graduates this spring, will continue a pharmaceutical software programming position in Seattle. He became hooked on the ACE program after being accepted his freshman year, even though he did not initially know what to expect. “After my first year in ACE we made a hockey rink, and I really saw all the potential I could get out of this program,” he says. “We did 3D models for it, and I learned how an ice rink works and how there are 10 miles of cooling with frozen glycol tubes wrapped under the ice. Once I joined ACE, I knew it

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was something I was going to be involved with all four years.” Sistrunk, who especially enjoyed the architecture and design portions of the project, learned a lot from an engineering standpoint, including how the mechanical side of a reconstruction project works taking into account HVAC, plumbing and other factors. Jeffersontown is one of 11 high schools in JCPS participating in the Academies of Louisville, an educational experience that shifts from traditional techniques and environments to deeper learning and transition readiness for college, career and life. The stage reconstruction project has been a great example of what Jeffersontown is trying to achieve with its engineering and CADD programs. Jason Stepp, CADD Instructor for JHS who is in his sixth year teaching at the

school, is proud of what the students have accomplished and appreciates the opportunity it gave them.

contributed to a project that will be enjoyed by the school community after their graduation.

“This is an ideal project for the students to put the knowledge they’ve learned in the classroom to a real-world application and get to see it become a reality,” Stepp says.

“We wanted to build something Jeffersontown could be proud of,” Puckett adds. “Sometimes we get a bad reputation from other schools, but the engineering program here is amazing. We’ve learned a ton from it.”

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