March 27, 2026 Business First Steve Poe CEO, Poe Cos. Steve Poe’s company is leading one of the biggest and most important projects in Louisville: Transforming the Humana Building into a 1,000-room hotel. LBF broke the news in December that Poe Cos. was eyeing the former Humana headquarters for that convention-style hotel project. It’s one of several massive … Continued
The recently vacated Humana Building will undergo a sweeping transformation into a dual-tower, 1,000-room hotel, marking a first-of-its-kind conversion of one of downtown Louisville’s signature office towers. The 525,000-square-foot Humana Building, 500 W. Main St., a custom-built stronghold of the Louisville-grown health insurance giant, will be converted into a convention-oriented hotel with multiple ballrooms, over 100,000-square-feet of meeting space and multiple … Continued
Published in the Louisville Courier Journal – January 17, 2025 by Matthew Glowicki A first-of-its-kind data center in Kentucky is planned for Louisville, expected to draw major technology companies to the area as they face growing demands of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. A 400-megawatt data center campus is in the works on some 150 … Continued
Business First, January 8,2025 More housing is coming to Shepherdsville. Poe Companies broke ground on a 49.5-acre multi-family development off of Saltwell and Bel Lick Road in Bullitt County in November, Poe President Hank Hillebrand told Business First. The 633-unit Saltwell Springs complex will feature 528 apartments, including 324 one-bedroom, 180 two-bedroom and 24 three-bedroom … Continued
Stellar Snacks begins operations at Park Hill facility in Louisville’s West End Killian Baarlaer Louisville Courier Journal, Nov. 15, 2024. Full Story Here. Stellar Snacks founders, local and state officials and dozens of new employees celebrated the grand opening of a facility in the Park Hill neighborhood that will create hundreds of jobs and attract millions … Continued
The former Black Leaf property in Louisville’s West End, one of Kentucky’s most infamous Superfund sites, will house the operations of Stellar Snacks, Gov. Andy Beshear and other officials announced Tuesday. The Carson City, Nevada-based, woman-owned company plans to invest $137 million as it opens a production facility in a newly built 434,000-square-foot warehouse in the Park … Continued
Mayor Craig Greenberg and Gov. Andy Beshear joined state and local officials and leaders from pretzel manufacturer Stellar Snacks to announce the company’s commitment to invest $137 million and create 350 full-time Kentucky jobs over the next 10 years in west Louisville, the single largest economic development project the state has on record for the … Continued
DON’T TELL A SOUL (DTAS) will have its World Premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival running from April 14 -26. DTAS is produced by Merry-Kay Poe (wife of Steve Poe) and Chris Mangano. The film was shot in Kentucky and features several big Hollywood names like Rainn Wilson, Mena Suvari, Fionn Whitehead and Jack … Continued
White Lodging is excited to introduce David Meisner as the general manager for the Austin Marriott Downtown, which is slated to open its doors in summer 2020. David is currently the general manager of White Lodging’s Aloft and Element hotels in downtown Austin and will begin his new role in August 2019. “During his time at … Continued
By Marty Finley – Reporter, Louisville Business First Jul 5, 2019 Eleven years after Julie Lavalle Jones moved back to Louisville from North Carolina to help bring her father’s vision for Whiskey Row alive, most of the work is finally nearing completion. Jones, who goes by Valle, and her brother, Stephen, have been working for … Continued
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) –https://www.wdrb.com/news/million–unit-apartment-complex-opens-along-louisville-waterfront/article_cb2f7aa0-7359-11e9-a5b8-c7252c986a27.html The skyline along the Louisville waterfront is changing. A new $24 million luxury apartment complex called Waterside at River Park Place recently opened. Construction on the 107-unit complex started last winter. Developers say 16 of those units are already leased. Units range from studios to three-bedroom apartments with rent ranging from … Continued