Living in Louisville, Kentucky, is certainly living in an exciting and thriving area. The city, once ignoring its prominent place on the Ohio River is certainly celebrating the beauty of being a river town and the energy that comes with having a vision, making good plans to achieve that vision and implementing them and enjoying the fruits of that labor.

Tonight a public hearing on the design of our new arena was held at Glassworks where we heard and viewed presentations on successful arena projects from Rick Fuson, General Manager of Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Keith Myers, Principal in MSI Design the landscape architect for the Nationwide Arena District in Columbus and Ellen McCarthy, the Director of the Office of Planning for the Verizon Center in DC. The moderator was Harvard’s Alex Krieger.

The group will be in Louisville all day tomorrow for several open meetings at the Muhammad Ali Center where citizen input is being sought. The panel is staying at our newest hotel 21C and had wonderful things to say about the architecture and the “anchors” to the Main Street arena site: Louisville Slugger at the west side of Main and the new baseball stadium for the Louisville Bats on the East side.

This new arena, plus the addition of Museum Plaza Hotel which is breaking ground soon, are major additions to an already revitalizing downtown area that is bristling with art galleries, restaurants and activities. Being a creative company in a creative and exciting town just feels like this is the right place at the right time.