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Three years ago, a massive industrial site in West Louisville’s Russell neighborhood was bleak and looking bleaker. Wrecking crews were ripping out a complex of 19th century warehouses at 30th Street between Market Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard that once housed the National Tobacco Company. The plan back then was to build an uninspiring industrial park anchored by a concrete company and walled off from the neighborhood by a berm. After those plans fell through, the empty 24-acre site languished as an eyesore in a neighborhood burdened by more than its fair share of blight.

Where that cement factory was planned, however, the concrete is being peeled back and the site will soon be reborn as the West Louisville Food Hub, thanks to a partnership between Seed Capital Kentucky—a non-profit dedicated to growing Louisville’s local food economy—and Metro Louisville......Continue Reading

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