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The proposed Farmers Market development plan for Lexington’s Cheapside Park would give John C. Breckinridge a new view of the world, so to speak.
A statue of Breckinridge, who served as vice president and U.S. senator before joining the Confederacy during the Civil War, has stood along Cheapside for about a century.
The statue faces the old [...]

Caller Enterprises just bought 60 percent of Chevy Chase Plaza, but the changes Steve and Bret Caller are planning might make a 100 percent difference in the business climate at East High Street and Euclid Avenue.
The Callers paid $3.2 million for the first, second and third floors of the five-story building, plus the 200-space parking [...]

“Iraq is open for business,” says Maurey Bond.
He should know. He’s been working in Baghdad since February.
The 31-year-old Lexington native and University of Kentucky graduate is general manager of the Iraqi Airways International Business Center near the Baghdad International Airport.
The center is in an economic zone that also has a convention center, a 100-room hotel, [...]

Thanks to his friend Bill Ambrose, Barry McNees is now the proud owner of a fifth of 100 proof James E. Pepper Bourbon that came out of the barrel in 1945.
A 63-year-old bourbon calls for a very special occasion and McNees, who is developing the $190 million Distillery District arts and entertainment area in Lexington, [...]

Commerce Lexington members were in Washington, D.C., recently for briefings on urban issues by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Lots of brochures and other materials were handed out.
On the front of one brochure was a photo of a familiar place: A row of colorfully painted buildings in downtown Danville.
“Don’t know where or how the Chamber picked [...]

AAA Blue Grass/Kentucky is on the move.
The auto club plans to relocate its headquarters to a new building in Hamburg that should be ready early next year, says spokesman Christopher Oakford.
The club is currently based downtown in a building it owns at 155 North Martin Luther King Boulevard.
With the additional space, AAA also plans to [...]

Members of local government tree boards from around the state met recently at the Holiday Inn North in Lexington to hear experts extol the benefits of planting trees along city streets, in parking lots and in other urban locations.
After the conference, the local government’s forester, Tim Queary, was leaving the hotel on Newtown Pike at [...]

Nestled between travelogues on rush weaving in England and the Italian island of Ischia, The New York Times Sunday Style Magazine served up the headline, “Salvation Army: How artists came to the rescue of an ailing Kentucky town.”
It’s the story of Paducah and its success in turning 20 blocks of urban decay known as Lowertown [...]

Nestled between travelogues on rush weaving in England and the Italian island of Ischia, The New York Times Sunday Style Magazine served up the headline, “Salvation Army: How artists came to the rescue of an ailing Kentucky town.”
It’s the story of Paducah and its success in turning 20 blocks of urban decay known as Lowertown [...]